Changes in the expression of Heat Shock Proteins in ovaries from bovines with cystic ovarian disease induced by ACTH.

Cystic ovarian disease (COD), which is considered one of the most important causes of reproductive failure in dairy cattle, induces intraovarian changes in the expression of numerous genes. The purpose of this study was to analyze the changes in the expression of Heat Shock Proteins (HSPs) in ovaries from bovines with cystic ovarian disease induced by ACTH. Immunoreactivity for Heat Shock Proteins (HSPs) in ovaries of cows with induced COD showed differential expression patterns in growing follicles from the control group.

Levels of heat shock protein transcripts in normal follicles and ovarian follicular cysts.

In the study, the gene expression of several heat shock proteins (HSPs) was determined in normal follicles and cystic follicles from cattle. A lower expression of HSP10 and HSP40 was observed in granulosa and theca cells of cysts compared to normal follicles. HSP27 was significantly less expressed in granulosa cells in cystic and large antral follicles than in other follicular categories.

Steroid receptor mRNA expression in the ovarian follicles of cows with cystic ovarian disease.

Steroid receptors have been demonstrated to be important intra-ovarian regulators of follicular development and ovulatory processes. The aim of the present study was to determine the expression of steroid receptor mRNA in ovarian follicular structures from cows with cystic ovarian disease (COD) compared with ovarian structures from regularly cycling cows using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The cystic follicles showed a higher estrogen receptor α (ESR1) mRNA expression in the theca and granulosa and a lower estrogen receptor β (ESR2) expression.

Developmental programming: effect of prenatal steroid excess on intraovarian components of insulin signaling pathway and related proteins in sheep.

Prenatal testosterone (T) excess increases ovarian follicular recruitment, follicular persistence, insulin resistance, and compensatory hyperinsulinemia. Considering the importance of insulin in ovarian physiology, in this study, using prenatal T- and dihydrotestosterone (DHT, a nonaromatizable androgen)-treated female sheep, we tested the hypothesis that prenatal androgen excess alters the intraovarian insulin signaling cascade and metabolic mediators that have an impact on insulin signaling. Changes in ovarian insulin receptor (INSRB), insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS1), mammalian target of rapamycin (MTOR), phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PIK3), peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPARG), and adiponectin proteins were determined at fetal (Days 90 and 140), postpubertal (10 mo), and adult (21 mo) ages by immunohistochemistry.

Heat shock protein patterns in the bovine ovary and relation with cystic ovarian disease.

The present study was performed to determine how the development of cystic ovarian disease (COD) affecting the ovarian expression of heat shock proteins (HSP) in cows were expressing extrous cycles. HSP27, HSP60, HSP70 and HSP90 were evaluated in different ovarian components by Western blot and semiquantitative immunohistochemical analysis. Greater expression of the HSP27 gene was detected in the granulosa and theca cells of primary, secondary, tertiary and cystic follicles, with decreasing amount in atretic follicles.

Disruption in the expression and immunolocalisation of steroid receptors and steroidogenic enzymes in letrozole-induced polycystic ovaries in rat.

The objective of the present study was to characterise the expression and tissue distribution of steroid receptors (oestrogen receptor-alpha and -beta (ERalpha, ERbeta), androgen receptor (AR) and progesterone receptor (PR)) and steroidogenic enzymes (P450 aromatase (P450arom), 3beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (3beta-HSD) and steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR)) in letrozole-induced polycystic ovaries of rats. Changes in serum hormone levels, protein expression in whole ovaries by western blot analysis and protein localisation by immunohistochemistry were determined in female rats treated with the aromatase inhibitor letrozole and compared with controls in proestrous and diestrous rats. Increases in the serum LH, FSH and testosterone concentrations were observed in letrozole-treated rats whereas serum oestradiol and progesterone levels were reduced.