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Depaepe V, Cuvelier L, Thöny B, Résibois A. Pterin-4alpha-carbinolamine dehydratase in rat brain. I. Patterns of co-localization with tyrosine hydroxylase. BRAIN RESEARCH. MOLECULAR BRAIN RESEARCH 2000; 75:76-88. [PMID: 10648890 DOI: 10.1016/s0169-328x(99)00297-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The bifunctional protein, PCD/DCoH, is both a pterin-4alpha-carbinolamine dehydratase (PCD) and a dimerization cofactor of the hepatic nuclear factor 1alpha (DCoH). In association with brain tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), which is required for dopamine synthesis, PCD catalyses dehydration and thus recycling of the cofactor tetrahydrobiopterin (BH(4)). PCD immunoreactivity in the catecholaminergic system of the rat brain was studied using a rabbit polyclonal antibody. Double immunofluorescence was performed to establish intracellular co-localization with TH. PCD immunoreactivity was found to be high and consistently present in all the neuron groups expressing TH. More than 90% of the TH+ cells were also expressing PCD. The highest co-expression (99-100% of TH+ cells) was observed in pontine catecholaminergic cell groups including locus coeruleus. Lower co-expression was observed in substantia nigra (17% of TH+ cells without PCD) and particularly in arcuate nucleus (41% of TH+ cells without PCD). Our results argue in favor of a generalized recycling of BH(4) in catecholaminergic neurons except when the neuron terminal field is located outside the blood-brain barrier. The respective roles of synthesis and recycling of BH(4) in the control of TH activity are discussed.
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- V Depaepe
- Laboratoire d' Histologie, Faculté de Médecine CP620, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 808 route de Lennik, Brussels, Belgium
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Bäckman C, Perlmann T, Wallén A, Hoffer BJ, Morales M. A selective group of dopaminergic neurons express Nurr1 in the adult mouse brain. Brain Res 1999; 851:125-32. [PMID: 10642835 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(99)02149-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Nurr1, an orphan receptor of the nuclear receptor superfamily, is widely expressed in the central nervous system (CNS) including brain regions where dopaminergic neurons are abundant. Recent analyses of Nurr1 null mutant mice have shown that Nurr1 is essential for the development and survival of midbrain dopaminergic neurons. However, other dopaminergic neuronal populations do not seem to be affected by ablation of the Nurr1 gene. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the degree of co-existence of Nurr1 mRNA and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) immunoreactivity in the brain of adult mice to better characterize the selective effects of Nurr1 on catecholaminergic neurons. Our results indicate that the majority of TH-immunoreactive neurons in the substantia nigra (SN; 96%), ventral tegmental area (VTA; 95%), retrorubral field (91%), olfactory bulb (85%), linear nucleus raphe (91%) and central grey (61%) express Nurr1. In contrast, dopaminergic cells of the paraventricular and periventricular hypothalamic nucleus showed only a few Nurr1/TH double labeled neurons, while TH-immunoreactive neurons in the arcuate nucleus and zona incerta did not express Nurr1 mRNA. Nurr1 expression was also excluded from (nor)adrenergic neurons of the brainstem. In conclusion, Nurr1 transcripts were not found in all CNS catecholaminergic neurons. Nurr1 expression was confined to periglomerular and midbrain dopaminergic neurons. These results suggest that within the adult mouse brain, Nurr1 may participate in dopaminergic functions of the olfactory bulb and midbrain.
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- C Bäckman
- Cellular Neurobiology Department, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
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T�TH ZE, Gallatz K, Fodor M, Palkovits M. Decussations of the descending paraventricular pathways to the brainstem and spinal cord autonomic centers. J Comp Neurol 1999. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9861(19991115)414:2<255::aid-cne8>3.0.co;2-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Palkovits M. Interconnections between the neuroendocrine hypothalamus and the central autonomic system. Geoffrey Harris Memorial Lecture, Kitakyushu, Japan, October 1998. Front Neuroendocrinol 1999; 20:270-95. [PMID: 10569279 DOI: 10.1006/frne.1999.0186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Tract-tracing techniques in combination with immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization were used in intact and operated rats (hypothalamic lesions, transections of neuronal pathways) to localize and characterize neuronal connections between the hypothalamus and autonomic centers. Viscerosensory and somatosensory signals which relay in the spinal cord and the medulla oblongata reach the hypothalamus through various catecholaminergic and noncatecholaminergic neuronal pathways. Vice versa, the hypothalamus influences autonomic activities through humoral and neurohumoral pathways. Descending hypothalamic efferents carry feedback signals to viscerosensory and brainstem catecholaminergic neurons and regulatory inputs to parasympathetic (dorsal vagal nucleus) and sympathetic (thoracolumbar intermediolateral cell column) preganglionic neurons. These fibers arise mainly from neurons of the paraventricular, arcuate, perifornical, and dorsomedial nuclei and the lateral hypothalamus. The major neuroanatomical observations are the following: (1) pathways between the hypothalamus and autonomic centers are bidirectional: the ascending and descending fibers may use the same avenues; (2) the descending axons are mainly peptidergic (CRF, vasopressin, oxytocin, somatostatin, enkephalin, POMC, and cANP), while the ascending fibers are both peptidergic (enkephalin, NPY, neurotensin, dynorphins) and catecholaminergic; (3) descending hypothalamic axons terminate directly on the sensory, preganglionic, and catecholaminergic neurons in the medulla and the spinal cord; (4) hypothalamic projections to the autonomic centers are always bilateral; (5) while medullary autonomic and catecholaminergic fibers innervate hypothalamic neurons directly, spinohypothalamic axons are relayed on neurons in the lateral hypothalamus.
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- M Palkovits
- Department of Anatomy, Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary.
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Baffi JS, Palkovits M, Castillo SO, Mezey E, Nikodem VM. Differential expression of tyrosine hydroxylase in catecholaminergic neurons of neonatal wild-type and Nurr1-deficient mice. Neuroscience 1999; 93:631-42. [PMID: 10465447 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4522(99)00124-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The orphan nuclear receptor Nurr1 is a transcription factor that belongs to the steroid/thyroid hormone receptor superfamily and is expressed in many regions of the brain. To determine the physiological role of Nurr1, we previously generated mice with a null mutation in the Nurr1 gene. Nurr1-null mice appear to develop normally but die within 12 h after birth. Subsequent analysis revealed the absence of neurotransmitter dopamine and tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity in the central dopaminergic area of newborn pups. Herein, using in situ hybridization histochemistry, we show that Nurr1 is expressed only in subset of catecholamine producing neurons (A2 partly, A8-A10 and A11 catecholaminergic cell groups), and is excluded from the norepinephrine producing neurons (A1, A2, A5-A6 catecholaminergic cell groups). Nurr1 was not expressed in the dopamine synthesizing cell groups (A12-A16 catecholaminergic cell groups) of the diencephalon and the olfactory bulb. As previously shown and confirmed in this study, tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity was absent in the substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area of Nurr1-deficient mice. However, the loss of Nurr1 expression in A2 and A11 dopaminergic neurons did not affect their tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity. This study begins to dissect cues necessary for understanding the complex regulation of the catecholaminergic biosynthetic pathway with regard to local, chemical and developmental changes in the brain.
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- J S Baffi
- National Institutes of Health, Clinical Neuroscience Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Haywood SA, Simonian SX, van der Beek EM, Bicknell RJ, Herbison AE. Fluctuating estrogen and progesterone receptor expression in brainstem norepinephrine neurons through the rat estrous cycle. Endocrinology 1999; 140:3255-63. [PMID: 10385422 DOI: 10.1210/endo.140.7.6869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Norepinephrine (NE) neurons within the nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS; A2 neurons) and ventrolateral medulla (A1 neurons) represent gonadal steroid-dependent components of several neural networks regulating reproduction. Previous studies have shown that both A1 and A2 neurons express estrogen receptors (ERs). Using double labeling immunocytochemistry we report here that substantial numbers of NE neurons located within the NTS express progesterone receptor (PR) immunoreactivity, whereas few PRs are found in ventrolateral medulla. The evaluation of ERa and PR immunoreactivity in NE neurons through the estrous cycle revealed a fluctuating pattern of expression for both receptors within the NTS. The percentage of A2 neurons expressing PR immunoreactivity was low on metestrus and diestrus (3-7%), but increased significantly to approximately 24% on proestrous morning and remained at intermediate levels until estrus. The pattern of ERalpha immunoreactivity in A2 neurons was more variable, but a similar increment from 11% to 40% of NE neurons expressing ERa was found from diestrus to proestrus. Experiments in ovariectomized, estrogen-treated and estrogen-plus progesterone-treated rats revealed that PR immunoreactivity in A2 neurons was induced strongly by estrogen treatment, whereas progesterone had no significant effect. The numbers of ERalpha-positive NE neurons were not influenced by steroid treatment. These observations provide direct evidence for PRs in NE neurons of the brainstem and show that cyclical patterns of gonadal steroid receptor expression exist in A2, but not A1, neurons through the rat estrous cycle. The expression of PR in A2 neurons appears to be driven principally by circulating estrogen concentrations. The fluctuating levels of ERalpha and PR expression in these brainstem NE neurons may help generate cyclical patterns of biosynthetic and electrical activity within reproductive neural networks.
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- S A Haywood
- Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Chen C, Dun SL, Dun NJ, Chang JK. Prolactin-releasing peptide-immunoreactivity in A1 and A2 noradrenergic neurons of the rat medulla. Brain Res 1999; 822:276-9. [PMID: 10082910 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(99)01153-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Distribution of prolactin-releasing peptide-like immunoreactivity (PrRP-LI) was investigated in the rat medulla with the use of a rabbit polyclonal antiserum against the human PrRP-31 peptide. PrRP-positive neurons were noted mainly in two areas of the caudal medulla: ventrolateral reticular formation and commissural nucleus of the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS), corresponding to the A1 and A2 areas. PrRP-LI neurons were absent in the medulla rostral to the area postrema. Double-labeling the sections with PrRP antisera and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) monoclonal antibodies revealed extensive colocalization of PrRP- and TH-like immunoreactivity (TH-LI) in neurons of the A1 and A2 areas. Our results show that PrRP-LI is expressed in a population of A1 and A2 noradrenergic neurons of the rat caudal medulla.
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- C Chen
- Department of Pharmacology, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, P.O. Box 70577, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA
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Viltart O, Sequeira H. Induction of c-Fos-like protein in bulbar catecholaminergic neurones by electrical stimulation of the sensorimotor cortex in the rat. Neurosci Lett 1999; 260:65-8. [PMID: 10027701 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3940(98)00907-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The sensorimotor cortex (SMC) establishes a functional connectivity with the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) and the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM). These bulbar nuclei are known to contain catecholaminergic neurones involved in the cardiovascular control. The aim of the present study was to establish the proportion of catecholaminergic neurones activated by electrical stimulation of SMC. For this purpose, double immunocytochemical procedures were used to reveal the distribution of Fos protein and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH). The results showed that, in the NTS, 7% of the neurones immunoreactive for TH expressed Fos-protein, versus 34% in the RVLM. These data provide evidence that the SMC activated preferentially catecholaminergic neurones of the RVLM which are known to be involved in cardiovascular control via spinal preganglionic neurones.
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- O Viltart
- Laboratoire de Neurosciences du Comportement, Universite de Lille I, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
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Peskind ER, Jensen CF, Pascualy M, Tsuang D, Cowley D, Martin DC, Wilkinson CW, Raskind MA. Sodium lactate and hypertonic sodium chloride induce equivalent panic incidence, panic symptoms, and hypernatremia in panic disorder. Biol Psychiatry 1998; 44:1007-16. [PMID: 9821565 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3223(98)00053-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND Although experimental induction of panic by infusion of 0.5 mol/L sodium lactate in persons with panic disorder was described three decades ago, the mechanism underlying this observation remains unclear. Here we asked if the rapid administration of the large sodium load contained in the 0.5-mol/L sodium lactate infusion might be involved in panic induction. METHODS We compared in panic disorder and healthy subjects behavioral, electrolyte, endocrine, and acid-base responses to three double-blind randomly ordered equal volume 20-min infusions: 0.5 mol/L sodium lactate, hypertonic saline (3% sodium chloride), and normal saline placebo. RESULTS Sodium lactate (0.5 mol/L) and hypertonic saline produced the same high incidence of panic and equivalent increases in panic symptoms, serum sodium, and plasma vasopressin in the panic disorder subjects. Neither hypertonic infusion increased cortisol or adrenocorticotropin. No normal subject experienced panic in any condition. The 0.5-mol/L sodium lactate infusion induced alkalosis, whereas hypertonic saline and normal saline induced a mild acidosis. CONCLUSIONS Hypertonic sodium solution containing either chloride or lactate anion induces panic in panic disorder. The large sodium loads delivered by hypertonic saline and 0.5 mol/L sodium lactate may be involved in the mechanism of panic induction.
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- E R Peskind
- Mental Health Service, Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA
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Ritter S, Llewellyn-Smith I, Dinh TT. Subgroups of hindbrain catecholamine neurons are selectively activated by 2-deoxy-D-glucose induced metabolic challenge. Brain Res 1998; 805:41-54. [PMID: 9733914 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(98)00655-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Glucose is a major fuel for body energy metabolism and an essential metabolic fuel for the brain. Consequently, glucose deficit (glucoprivation) elicits a variety of physiological and behavioral responses crucial for survival. Previous work indicates an important role for brain catecholamine neurons in mediation of responses to glucoprivation. This experiment was conducted to identify the specific catecholamine neurons that are activated by glucoprivation. Activation of hindbrain catecholamine neurons by the antimetabolic glucose analogue, 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2DG; 50, 100, 200 or 400 mg/kg, s.c.) was evaluated using double label immunohistochemistry. Fos protein was used as the marker for neuronal activation and the enzymes tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) and phenethanolamine-N-methyl transferase (PNMT) were used as the markers for norepinephrine (NE) and epinephrine (E) neurons. 2-Deoxy-D-glucose (200 and 400 mg/kg) produced selective activation of distinct hindbrain catecholamine cell groups. In the ventrolateral medulla, doubly labeled neurons were concentrated in the area of A1/C1 and were predominantly adrenergic in phenotype. In the dorsal medulla, doubly labeled neurons were limited to C2 and C3 cell groups. In the pons, some A6 neurons were Fos-positive. Neurons in rostral C1, ventral C3, A2, A5 and A7 did not express Fos-ir in response to 2DG. Our results identify specific subpopulations of catecholamine neurons that are selectively activated by 2DG. Previously demonstrated connections of these subpopulations are consistent with their participation in the feeding and hyperglycemic response to glucoprivation. Finally, the predominant and seemingly preferential activation of epinephrine neurons suggests that they may play a unique role in the brain's response to glucose deficit.
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- S Ritter
- Department of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology and Physiology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6520, USA.
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Ness TJ, Follett KA, Piper J, Dirks BA. Characterization of neurons in the area of the medullary lateral reticular nucleus responsive to noxious visceral and cutaneous stimuli. Brain Res 1998; 802:163-74. [PMID: 9748555 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(98)00608-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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In halothane-anesthetized rats, 283 caudal medullary neurons responsive to colorectal distension (CRD) were characterized using extracellular electrodes. Neurons inhibited by CRD (n = 82) were in the area dorsal to the lateral reticular nucleus (LRN). Most neurons excited by CRD (n = 130) were located within or immediately adjacent to the LRN, were excited by noxious heat and/or noxious pinch of at least half the body surface and were called bilateral nociceptive specific (bNS) neurons. bNS neurons had accelerating responses to graded CRD (threshold: 20 +/- 2 mmHg). Ten of twelve bNS neurons tested could be antidromically activated by electrical stimulation of the midline cerebellum. Other neurons excited by CRD (n = 71) had mixed responses to cutaneous stimuli and were generally located in the area dorsal to the LRN. Increases in blood pressure due to intravenous phenylephrine did not significantly alter the spontaneous activity of neurons excited by CRD, but altered spontaneous activity (12 excited, four inhibited) in all neurons tested which were inhibited by CRD. Decreases in blood pressure produced by intravenous nitroprusside produced a reciprocal response in most neurons inhibited by CRD and had a delayed onset (20-30 s after bolus administration) excitatory effect on 21 of 27 units excited by CRD. Combined with other studies, these data suggest a role for neurons within and adjacent to the LRN in the modulation of visceral nociception. They also implicate a role for the cerebellum in visceral nociceptive processing.
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- T J Ness
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham School of Medicine 35233-6810, USA.
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Lee HY, Whiteside MB, Herkenham M. Area postrema removal abolishes stimulatory effects of intravenous interleukin-1beta on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity and c-fos mRNA in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus. Brain Res Bull 1998; 46:495-503. [PMID: 9744286 DOI: 10.1016/s0361-9230(98)00045-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This study examined the role of the area postrema (AP) in transducing peripheral immune signals, represented by intravenous (i.v.) interleukin-1beta (IL-1), into neuroendocrine responses. The AP, a circumventricular organ with a leaky blood-brain barrier, lies adjacent to the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS) in the medulla. The AP was removed by aspiration, and 2 weeks later, AP-lesioned or sham-lesioned rats were injected i.v. with 0.5 microg/kg IL-1 or sterile saline. After 30 min, brains were removed and analyzed for c-fos mRNA levels in various structures implicated in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis response to peripheral cytokine challenge. The sham-lesioned animals responded to IL-1 with large elevations in adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and corticosterone levels in the plasma and c-fos mRNA levels in cells of the AP, NTS, central nucleus of the amygdala, bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN), and meninges. Prior AP removal abolished the IL-1 -induced increases in ACTH and corticosterone in the plasma and c-fos mRNA levels in the NTS and PVN. However, AP removal had no effect on IL-1-induced increases in c-fos mRNA levels in the other areas examined. The selective AP lesion effects suggest that the AP and adjacent NTS play a pivotal role in transducing a circulating IL-1 signal into hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activation by a pathway that may be comprised of known anatomical links between the AP, NTS, and corticotropin-releasing hormone neurons of the PVN.
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- H Y Lee
- Section on Functional Neuroanatomy, NIMH, Bethesda, MD 20892-4070, USA
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Piguet P, Schlichter R. Lability of the pacemaker activity in the rat rostro-ventrolateral medulla: effects of noradrenaline. Brain Res 1998; 796:1-12. [PMID: 9689448 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(98)00171-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Cardiovascular neurons in the Rostro-Ventrolateral Medulla (RVLM) have been shown to display a regular action potential discharge activity in vitro which has been proposed to result either from pacemaker conductances or from the activity of an oscillating network. Using intracellularly recordings in vitro from regularly-discharging RVLM neurons, we observed in young adult rats (> 19 days) that the regular discharge activity in RVLM is labile, as many neurons were or spontaneously became quiescent during the recording. A regular discharge could be induced or restored in quiescent neurons by superfusing an external concentration of K+ ions ([K+]ext) of 6 mM. In order to elucidate how neurotransmitters might influence this discharge activity, we studied the effects of a catecholamine, noradrenaline (present in this brain region). Noradrenaline depolarized or increased the spiking frequency of regularly-discharging neurons. This excitatory effect was sensitive to prazosin and propranolol. In the presence of these two blockers, noradrenaline induced a hyperpolarization sensitive to idazoxan and mimicked by alpha 2-adrenergic agonists. These effects persisted in the presence of tetrodotoxin. In spontaneously active neurons, prazosin plus propranolol abolished the discharge activity. At hyperpolarized potentials, the adrenoceptor blockers reduced the baseline synaptic/oscillatory activity. Our results demonstrate that the regular discharge activity of RVLM neurons is labile and depends on external ionic conditions, such as [K+]ext. This discharge activity can be modulated by catecholamines, acting at the 3 subtypes of adrenoceptors which co-exist on the same neuron. We propose that an endogenous release of catecholamines may condition the discharge activity of RVLM neurons.
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- P Piguet
- Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie Cellulaire et Intégrée, UMR 7519 CNRS, Strasbourg, France.
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Lee A, Wissekerke AE, Rosin DL, Lynch KR. Localization of alpha2C-adrenergic receptor immunoreactivity in catecholaminergic neurons in the rat central nervous system. Neuroscience 1998; 84:1085-96. [PMID: 9578397 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4522(97)00578-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Given the importance of alpha2-adrenergic receptors in the regulation of catecholaminergic transmission, we analysed the distribution of immunoreactivity corresponding to the C-subtype of alpha2-adrenergic receptor in central catecholaminergic neurons using double-label immunohistochemistry with antibodies directed against alpha2C-adrenergic receptors and tyrosine hydroxylase. Cells exhibiting both alpha2C-adrenergic receptor and tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity were found in most areas containing catecholaminergic cell groups. However, the percentage of double-labelled cells varied in a region-specific manner. In the medulla, alpha2C-adrenergic receptor immunoreactivity was characteristic of only a minority of cells exhibiting tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity (40-43% in area A1/C1, 27-36% in area A2/C2, 35% in area C3) while a larger percentage of double-labelled cells was observed in the pons (65% in A5, 92% in locus coeruleus, 68% in A7). In the midbrain, alpha2C-adrenergic receptor immunoreactivity was detected in most tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive cells in dopaminergic regions (63% in the retrorubral field, 77-83% in substantia nigra, 67% in ventral tegmental area). These results suggest that alpha2C-adrenergic receptors may act as autoreceptors on some central adrenergic and noradrenergic neurons. In addition, the colocalization of alpha2C-adrenergic receptor and tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity in dopaminergic cell groups suggests that reported effects of alpha2-adrenergic receptor agonists in these areas may be mediated by the C-subtype.
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- A Lee
- Neuroscience Graduate Program and Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville 22908, USA
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Davis BJ. Synaptic relationships between the chorda tympani and tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive dendritic processes in the gustatory zone of the nucleus of the solitary tract in the hamster. J Comp Neurol 1998; 392:78-91. [PMID: 9482234 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9861(19980302)392:1<78::aid-cne6>3.0.co;2-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The toxic lectin ricin was applied to the hamster chorda tympani (CT), producing anterograde degeneration of its terminal boutons within the gustatory zone of the nucleus of the solitary tract (NST). Immunocytochemistry was subsequently performed with antiserum against tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), and the synaptic relationships between degenerating CT terminal boutons and either TH-immunoreactive or unlabeled dendritic processes were examined at the electron microscopic level. Degenerating CT terminal boutons formed asymmetric axodendritic synapses and contained small, clear, spherical synaptic vesicles that were densely packed and evenly distributed throughout the ending, with no accumulation at the active synaptic. The degenerating CT terminated on the dendrites of TH-immunoreactive neurons in 36% (35/97) of the cases. The most frequent termination pattern involved the CT and two or three other inputs in synaptic contact with a single immunoreactive dendrite, resulting in a glomerular-like structure that was enclosed by glial processes. In 64% (62/97) of the cases, the degenerating CT was in synaptic contact with unlabeled dendrites, often forming a calyx-like synaptic profile that surrounded much of the perimeter of a single unlabeled dendrite. These results indicate that the TH-immunoreactive neurons of the gustatory NST receive direct input from the CT and taste receptors of the anterior tongue and that the termination patterns of the CT vary with its target neuron in the gustatory NST. The glomerular-like structure that characterizes many of the terminations of the CT provides an opportunity for the convergence of several functionally distinct inputs (both gustatory and somatosensory) onto putative dopaminergic neurons that may shape their responsiveness to the stimulation of the oral cavity.
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- B J Davis
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201-1509, USA.
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Wu YP, Ling EA. Induction of Fos-like immunoreactivity in the hypothalamic, medullary and thoracic spinal cord neurons following middle cerebral artery occlusion in rats. Neurosci Res 1998; 30:145-53. [PMID: 9579648 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-0102(97)00116-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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This study is a sequel of our previous work which demonstrated the expression of Fos-like immunoreactivity (Fos-LI) in the spinal cord motoneurons of rat following permanent occlusion of the middle cerebral artery (MCA). We report here Fos-LI in the hypothalamic, medullary and thoracic spinal cord neurons some of them are believed to be involved in cardiovascular regulation after the cerebral ischaemic insult. At 1 and 2 h, especially in the latter after right sided MCA occlusion, Fos-LI confined to the cell nucleus, was detected bilaterally in cells of the supraoptic nucleus (SON) and the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus, the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS), the area postrema and ventrolateral medulla (VLM). A few Fos-like immunoreactive neurons were observed in the nucleus raphe pallidus and obscurus, and in the intermediolateral nucleus of the thoracic spinal cord. In the corresponding areas in sham-operated animals, Fos-like immunoreactive neurons were sparsely distributed or absent. Colocalization study showed that a variable number of the Fos-like immunoreactive neurons in NTS and VLM coexpressed tyrosine-hydroxylase (TH) immunoreactivity. Such double labelled neurons appeared to be more common in the latter. It is suggested that the induction of Fos-LI in neurons of the hypothalamus, medulla and thoracic spinal cord was linked to cardiovascular regulation following the middle cerebral artery occlusion.
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- Y P Wu
- Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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GUAN JL, WANG QP, NAKAI Y. Synaptic Relationships between GABAergic Neurons and Different Catecholaminergic Neurons in the Rat Area Postrema Analyzed by Double Immunostaining. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1998. [DOI: 10.15369/sujms1989.10.187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Dassesse D, Hemmens B, Cuvelier L, Résibois A. GTP-cyclohydrolase-I like immunoreactivity in rat brain. Brain Res 1997; 777:187-201. [PMID: 9449428 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(97)01111-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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GTPCH-I immunoreactive structures in the rat brain were studied using a polyclonal antibody raised in the chick. General mapping was made using the avidin-biotin-peroxidase technique and compared with the distribution of tyrosine hydroxylase and serotonin immunoreactivities. Double immunofluorescence was performed in order to establish real intracellular colocalization. GTPCH-I immunoreactivity was generally found to be low. Immunostained neurons were present in all the serotonin cell groups. In catecholaminergic neurons, although tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity was always very high, GTPCH-I immunoreactivity was extremely variable, from relatively strong (substantia nigra, ventral tegmental area) to low (locus coeruleus, caudal part of the hypothalamus), extremely low (rostral hypothalamus, ventral brainstem) or almost absent (dorsal brainstem, some hypothalamic nuclei). When feasible, double immunolabeling revealed that all the serotonin cells and most of the tyrosine hydroxylase cells were also expressing GTPCH-I. Our results argue in favor of a regulation of tyrosine hydroxylase activity by the intracellular synthesis of BH4.
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- D Dassesse
- Laboratoire d'Histologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
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Teppema LJ, Veening JG, Kranenburg A, Dahan A, Berkenbosch A, Olievier C. Expression of c-fos in the rat brainstem after exposure to hypoxia and to normoxic and hyperoxic hypercapnia. J Comp Neurol 1997; 388:169-90. [PMID: 9368836 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9861(19971117)388:2<169::aid-cne1>3.0.co;2-#] [Citation(s) in RCA: 253] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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In this study, Fos immunohistochemistry was used to map brainstem neuronal pathways activated during hypercapnia and hypoxia. Conscious rats were exposed to six different gas mixtures: (a) air; (b) 8% CO2 in air; (c) 10% CO2 in air; (d) 15% CO2 in air; (e) 15% CO2 + 60% O2, balance N2; (f) 9% O2, balance N2. Double-staining was performed to show the presence of tyrosine hydroxylase. Hypercapnia, in a dose-dependent way caused Fos expression in the following areas: caudal nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS), with few labeled A2 noradrenergic neurons; noradrenergic A1 cells and noncatecholaminergic neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla; raphe magnus and gigantocellular nucleus pars alpha (GiA); many noncatecholaminergic (and relatively few C1) neurons in the lateral paragigantocellular nucleus (PGCl), and in the retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN); locus coeruleus (LC), external lateral parabrachial and Kölliker-Fuse nuclei, and A5 noradrenergic neurons at pontine level; and in caudal mesencephalon, the ventrolateral column of the periaqueductal gray (vlPAG). In most of these nuclei, hypoxia also induced Fos expression, albeit generally less than after hypercapnia. However, hypoxia did not cause labeling in RTN, juxtafacial PGCl, GiA, LC, or vlPAG. After normoxic hypercapnia, more labeled cells were present in NTS and PGCl than after hyperoxic hypercapnia. Part of the observed labeling could be caused by stress- or cardiovascular-related sequelae of hypoxia and hypercapnia. Possible implications for the neural control of breathing are also discussed, particularly with regard to the finding that several nuclei, not belonging to the classical brainstem respiratory centres, contained labeled cells.
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- L J Teppema
- Department of Physiology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
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Teppema LJ, Veening JG, Kranenburg A, Dahan A, Berkenbosch A, Olievier C. Expression of
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- Luc J. Teppema
- Department of Physiology, Leiden University, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Catholic University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Physiology, Leiden University, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Leiden, Leiden ,The Netherlands
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- Department of Physiology, Leiden University, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Physiology, Leiden University, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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Yang SN, Lippoldt A, Jansson A, Phillips MI, Ganten D, Fuxe K. Localization of angiotensin II AT1 receptor-like immunoreactivity in catecholaminergic neurons of the rat medulla oblongata. Neuroscience 1997; 81:503-15. [PMID: 9300437 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4522(97)00057-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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There exist at least two distinct subtypes of angiotensin II receptors in the brain, namely the AT1 and AT2 subtypes. The high density of angiotensin II AT1 receptors is present in the medulla oblongata. The AT1 subtype of angiotensin II receptors mainly mediates central cardiovascular events. In the present study a polyclonal antibody against the angiotensin II AT1 receptor and a monoclonal antibody against tyrosine hydroxylase were employed to evaluate the possible presence of angiotensin II AT1 receptor-like immunoreactivity in the catecholaminergic neurons of the rat medulla oblongata by means of the double colour immunofluorescence technique. A weak, diffuse cytoplasmic angiotensin II AT1 receptor-like immunoreactivity was observed in almost all the catecholaminergic cell bodies of the A2, C1, C2 and C3 cell groups, except those of the A1 cell group containing moderately intense, diffuse cytoplasmic angiotensin II AT1 receptor-like immunoreactivity, occasionally found in the noradrenergic dendrites of the A1 cell group. There was a higher density of the angiotensin II AT1 receptor-like immunoreactive profiles in the A2 cell group area than in other catecholaminergic cell group areas. In addition, the angiotensin II AT1 receptor-like immunoreactivity was seen in non-catecholaminergic neurons. The present results provide evidence for the existence of the specific angiotensin II AT1 receptor-like immunoreactivity in the noradrenergic and adrenergic neurons of the rat medulla oblongata known to have a cardiovascular role. Thus, the findings support the view that angiotensin II AT1 receptors in the medulla oblongata participate in cardiovascular control and indicate a cellular substrate for the documented interaction between the angiotensin II and adrenergic transmission lines in cardiovascular function at the level of the nucleus tractus solitarii.
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- S N Yang
- Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Tavares I, Lima D, Coimbra A. The pontine A5 noradrenergic cells which project to the spinal cord dorsal horn are reciprocally connected with the caudal ventrolateral medulla in the rat. Eur J Neurosci 1997; 9:2452-61. [PMID: 9464939 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1997.tb01662.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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A disynaptic pathway linking the caudal ventrolateral medulla (VLM) to the spinal cord via the A5 noradrenergic cell group of the pons has recently been described in the rat. In the present work, the projections of the A5 to the VLM and to the spinal dorsal horn were studied with double-tracing techniques combined with immunostaining of the noradrenaline-synthesizing enzyme dopamine-beta-hydroxylase. Cholera toxin subunit B (CTb) injected into the VLM and fluoro-gold injected into the spinal dorsal horn produced double retrograde labelling of A5 neurons immunoreactive for dopamine-beta-hydroxylase, which received appositions of fibre varicosities labelled anterogradely with CTb injected into the VLM. After injecting CTb into the A5, retrogradely labelled neurons occurred in the VLM. These neurons were contacted by anterogradely labelled fibres from the A5 group. These observations indicate that the VLM cells acting upon the A5 spinally projecting neurons, which are likely to exert an alpha2-adrenoreceptor-mediated inhibition on the spinal cord, are targeted by collaterals of the A5 spinal cord-bound axons. The A5-VLM pathway may be the anatomical substrate of a negative feedback circuit whereby the modulatory action of the VLM on the spinal cord is self-inhibited through activation of the A5.
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- I Tavares
- Institute of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine and IBMC of the University of Oporto, Porto, Portugal
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Pau KY, Ma YJ, Yu JH, Yang SP, Airhart N, Spies HG. Topographic comparison of the expression of norepinephrine transporter, tyrosine hydroxylase and neuropeptide Y mRNA in association with dopamine beta-hydroxylase neurons in the rabbit brainstem. BRAIN RESEARCH. MOLECULAR BRAIN RESEARCH 1997; 48:367-81. [PMID: 9332734 DOI: 10.1016/s0169-328x(97)00113-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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In mammalian species, ovulation occurs following a massive release of hypothalamic gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH). Several chemicals, including norepinephrine (NE) and neuropeptide Y (NPY), are responsible for the initiation and/or magnitude and duration of this pre-ovulatory GnRH surge. In the central nervous system, NE neural cell bodies are located in the brainstem; some are co-localized with NPY neurons and/or co-express the NE transporter (NET) gene which dictates NET protein production. The activity of NET at NE terminals is critical for synaptic NE function. In the rabbit, coitus induces a hypothalamic NE release which precedes the GnRH surge. We hypothesize that the coital stimulus is transmitted to the brainstem and transformed and integrated into GnRH-stimulating signals via NE, NET and/or NPY. However, very little is known about the distribution of cells expressing NET, NPY and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH, the rate-limiting enzyme of NE synthesis) in this species. Therefore, we utilized the sensitive in situ hybridization technique to identify the presence of these messages in conjunction with the location of NE cells, the latter being marked by dopamine beta-hydroxylase (DBH), the specific enzyme for NE synthesis. Three non-mated New Zealand White does were perfused with 4% paraformaldehyde and their brainstems were sectioned at 20-micron thick between 2 mm caudal to the obex and the rostral pons. Serial sections were immunohistochemically stained for DBH and hybridized with rabbit-specific TH and NET cRNAs and a human NPY probe. The data suggest that several DBH-positive areas in the medulla expressed one or more messages, i.e. the lateral tegmentum (A1) and the nucleus of the solitary tract (A2) expressed all three mRNAs, the area postrema (AP) contained NET and TH mRNAs but not NPY cells. In the pons, the locus coeruleus (LC), subnucleus of coeruleus (LCs) and lateral tegmental nuclei (A5) expressed NET and TH mRNAs but contained little or no NPY message. The distribution patterns of TH and NET appeared to be similar in the LC, LCs, A2 and AP.
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- K Y Pau
- Division of Reproductive Sciences, Oregon Regional Primate Research Center, Beaverton 97006, USA
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Comer AM, Yip S, Lipski J. Detection of weakly expressed genes in the rostral ventrolateral medulla of the rat using micropunch and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction techniques. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 1997; 24:755-9. [PMID: 9315384 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.1997.tb02127.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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1. The present study describes the use of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) to detect weakly expressed neurotransmitter receptor mRNA in tissue micropunched from the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) and other discrete areas of the medulla oblongata of the rat. 2. Micropunches were made from 240 microns transverse medullary sections. Punched regions included the RVLM, hypoglossal nucleus (XIIn), ventrolateral subnucleus of the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) and spinal trigeminal nucleus (STN). RNA was extracted and reverse transcribed into cDNA, which was probed for the presence of seven genes: glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), neuron-specific enolase (NSE), tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase (PNMT), glucocorticoid receptor (GCR), mineralocorticoid receptor (MCR) and the adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) receptor subunit P2X2-1. Each transcript was detected using a semi-nested PCR protocol, which used three primers. 3. Tyrosine hydroxylase was detected in the RVLM and NTS and PNMT was also detected in the RVLM, which agrees with the distribution of catecholamine neurons in the medulla. Expression of GCR mRNA was detected in the RVLM and the XIIn but not in the NTS (it was not probed for in the STN punches). The P2X2-1 receptor message was detected in all areas. Expression of MCR mRNA was detected in the RVLM only. 4. This method offers a simple way to detect the presence of low-abundance receptor mRNA in discrete brain regions.
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- A M Comer
- Department of Physiology, University of Auckland, New Zealand
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Matta SG, Valentine JD, Sharp BM. Nicotine activates NPY and catecholaminergic neurons in brainstem regions involved in ACTH secretion. Brain Res 1997; 759:259-69. [PMID: 9221946 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(97)00266-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Nicotine rapidly and potently stimulates ACTH secretion via a centrally mediated mechanism. The purpose of the current study was to identify the phenotype of nicotine-sensitive neurons in brainstem catecholaminergic regions previously shown to be responsive to nicotine. Immunocytochemical double-labeling was used to detect c-Fos expression in neurons positive for activin, galanin, or neuropeptide Y (NPY), in comparison to those containing tyrosine hydroxylase (TH, catecholaminergic biosynthetic enzyme). These neuropeptides were chosen because (1) each is located in nicotine-sensitive brainstem regions, (2) neurons containing each of these peptides project to the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus, and (3) each has been shown to affect ACTH secretion. Freely moving, adult, male rats received an intravenous (i.v.) infusion of saline or nicotine (0.045 mg/kg over 30 s or 0.135 mg/kg over 90 s) and were cardiac perfused 60 min thereafter. Nicotine significantly increased c-Fos expression in a dose-dependent manner in the brainstem regions examined. In nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS)-A2 and NTS-C2, both NPY+ and TH+ neurons responded to the lower dose of nicotine, whereas the activin and galanin neurons in these regions were unresponsive to either dose of nicotine. In contrast, the higher dose of nicotine was required to activate NPY+ neurons in the A1 region and both NPY+ and galanin+ neurons in the locus coeruleus; the C1 region was unresponsive to nicotine. Since plasma ACTH is elevated by the low dose of nicotine and only NTS neurons are activated by this dose, NPY projections from the NTS are likely to contribute to nicotine-stimulated ACTH secretion, in addition to the previously described catecholaminergic neurons.
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- S G Matta
- Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Department of Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center and University of Minnesota, 55404, USA.
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Pan B, Castro-Lopes JM, Coimbra A. Chemical sensory deafferentation abolishes hypothalamic pituitary activation induced by noxious stimulation or electroacupuncture but only decreases that caused by immobilization stress. A c-fos study. Neuroscience 1997; 78:1059-68. [PMID: 9174074 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4522(96)00661-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We have shown in previous c-fos studies that noxious stimulation or electroacupuncture in deeply anaesthetized rats activate the hypothalamic pituitary corticotrope axis in a specific way. C-fos expression was more pronounced in the arcuate than the paraventricular hypothalamic nuclei, and none occurred in the pituitary intermediate lobe. The absence of the usual autonomic responses to psychological stress, such as tachycardia or blood pressure elevation, suggested a specific action of the somatosensory input on the hypothalamic pituitary axis. To prove this hypothesis, c-fos expression was examined in the paraventricular, arcuate and other hypothalamic nuclei, the pituitary gland, and the A1 and A2 medullary catecholaminergic cell groups of animals deprived of nociceptive primary afferent input by neonatal capsaicin. After noxious stimulation or electroacupuncture, no c-fos enhancement occurred in any of those sites in capsaicin-treated animals, and there was no increased plasma release of adrenocorticotropic hormone. In contrast, the hypothalamic pituitary c-fos activation provoked by immobilization stress though markedly decreased, was not abolished by capsaicin, whereas plasma release of adrenocorticotropic hormone remained undiminished. These findings suggest that noxious stimulation or electroacupuncture act on the hypothalamic pituitary corticotrope axis through an exclusively physical effect depending on the noxious signal elicited in the somatosensory pathway. They also demonstrate the occurrence of a minor somatosensory physical component after forced immobilization, acting on the hypothalamic pituitary axis probably together with the prevalent component of emotional arousal elicited by this form of stress.
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- B Pan
- Institute of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, IBMC of Oporto University, Porto, Portugal
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Yang SN, Fior DR, Hansson AC, Cintra A, Castellano M, Ganten U, Ganten D, Agnati LF, Fuxe K. Increased potency of neuropeptide Y to antagonize alpha2-adrenoceptor function in the nucleus tractus solitarii of the spontaneously hypertensive rat. Neuroscience 1997; 78:803-13. [PMID: 9153659 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4522(96)00487-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The regulation by neuropeptide Y of alpha2-adrenoceptors in the nucleus tractus solitarii was evaluated in the adult normotensive Wistar Kyoto rat and the adult spontaneously hypertensive rat. The microinjection of a submaximal dose of l-noradrenaline (800 pmol in 50 nl) alone into the nucleus tractus solitarii produced a significant reduction in the mean arterial blood pressure in either strain. The threshold dose (1 pmol in 50 nl) of neuropeptide Y(1-36) for the vasodepressor response in the Wistar Kyoto rat was five times higher than that (0.2 pmol in 50 nl) in the spontaneously hypertensive rat. Furthermore, neuropeptide Y(1-36) at 0.2 pmol in 50 nl could significantly counteract the vasodepressor response to l-noradrenaline (800 pmol in 50 nl) in the spontaneously hypertensive rat, but not in the Wistar Kyoto rat, in which 1 pmol in 50 nl of neuropeptide Y(1-36) must be employed to counteract the vasodepressor response to l-noradrenaline (800 pmol in 50 nl), although the vasodepressor responses are of a similar magnitude. The in situ hybridization and quantitative receptor autoradiographical experiments showed that the alpha2A-adrenoceptor messenger RNA levels and the B(max) value of the alpha2-adrenoceptor agonist [3H]p-aminoclonidine binding sites measured in the nucleus tractus solitarii of the spontaneously hypertensive rat were substantially lower than those in the Wistar Kyoto rat. The quantitative receptor autoradiographical results were consistent with the cardiovascular results and showed that in the spontaneously hypertensive rat, neuropeptide Y(1-36) at 1 nM led to a significant increase in the K(d) value of [3H]p-aminoclonidine binding sites. In the Wistar Kyoto rat, neuropeptide Y(1-36) produced this effect only at 10 nM. The present study provides evidence for an increase of the potency of neuropeptide Y(1-36) to antagonistically modulate alpha2-adrenoceptors in the nucleus tractus solitarii of the spontaneously hypertensive rat. This enhanced antagonistic action may partly be related to a reduction in the number of alpha2A-adrenoceptors in the nucleus tractus solitarii of the spontaneously hypertensive rat, since a decrease has been observed in the alpha2A-adrenoceptor messenger RNA levels and the alpha2-adrenoceptor binding sites in the spontaneously hypertensive rat. This increased potency of neuropeptide Y(1-36) to antagonize alpha2-adrenoceptor function in the nucleus tractus solitarii of the spontaneously hypertensive rat may contribute to the development of high blood pressure in this hypertensive strain.
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- S N Yang
- Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Jia HG, Rao ZR, Shi JW. Evidence of gamma-aminobutyric acidergic control over the catecholaminergic projection from the medulla oblongata to the central nucleus of the amygdala. J Comp Neurol 1997; 381:262-81. [PMID: 9133568 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9861(19970512)381:3<262::aid-cne2>3.0.co;2-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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It is known that the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS) and the ventrolateral medulla (VLM) project to the central nucleus of the amygdala (Ce), conveying visceral information. Conversely, the Ce sends projections to the NTS and the VLM. To understand better the role of catecholamine and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in these reciprocal connections, experiments were performed by combining lectin-conjugated horseradish peroxidase (WGA-HRP) anterograde and retrograde transport with preembedding immunocytochemistry to detect tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), and postembedding immunocytochemistry to detect GABA. The light microscopic study suggested that the majority of neurons in the NTS and the VLM projecting to the Ce were TH immunoreactive (TH-IR). Most of them were located at the level of the obex. Under the electron microscope, the GABAergic and non-GABAergic terminals were found to form synaptic contacts with the TH-(IR) or Ce-projecting or TH-IR/Ce-projecting double-labelled neurons of the NTS and VLM. The GABAergic terminals mostly formed symmetrical synaptic contacts with the postsynaptic structure in which perikarya (14-19%), dendrites (79-84%), and spines (2%) were observed. Approximately 94% of the axon terminals in the NTS and 90% of those in the VLM arising from the Ce were GABAergic and appeared not to form synaptic contacts with the TH-IR or Ce-projecting neurons in these regions. The present results demonstrated that the catecholaminergic neurons of the NTS and VLM projecting to the Ce receive an extensive GABAergic innervation and that the amygdala projection to the medulla is mostly GABAergic.
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- H G Jia
- Department of Anatomy, Fourth Military Medical University, People's Republic of China
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Hayakawa T, Zheng JQ, Yajima Y. Direct synaptic projections to esophageal motoneurons in the nucleus ambiguus from the nucleus of the solitary tract of the rat. J Comp Neurol 1997; 381:18-30. [PMID: 9087416 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9861(19970428)381:1<18::aid-cne2>3.0.co;2-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Neurons of the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS) serve as interneurons in swallowing. We investigated the synaptology of the terminals of these neurons and whether they project directly to the esophageal motoneurons in the compact formation of the nucleus ambiguus (AmC). Following wheat germ agglutinin conjugated horseradish peroxidase (WGA-HRP) injection into the NTS, many anterogradely labeled axodendritic terminals were found in the neuropil of the AmC. The majority of labeled axodendritic terminals (89%) contained round vesicles and made asymmetric synaptic contacts (Gray's type I), but a few (11%) contained pleomorphic vesicles and made symmetric synaptic contacts (Gray's type II). More than half of the labeled terminals contacted intermediate dendrites (1-2 microm diameter). There were no retrogradely labeled medium-sized motoneurons, but there were many retrogradely labeled small neurons having anterogradely labeled axosomatic terminals. A combined retrograde and anterograde transport technique was developed to verify the direct projection from the NTS to the esophageal motoneurons. After the esophageal motoneurons were retrogradely labeled by cholera toxin subunit B conjugated HRP, the injection of WGA-HRP into the NTS permitted ultrastructural recognition of anterogradely labeled axosomatic terminals contacting directly labeled esophageal motoneurons. Serial sections showed that less than 20% of the axosomatic terminals were labeled in the esophageal motoneurons. They were mostly Gray's type I, but a few were Gray's type II. In the small neurons, more than 30% of axosomatic terminals were labeled, which were exclusively Gray's type I. These results indicate that NTS neurons project directly not only to the esophageal motoneurons, but also to the small neurons which have bidirectional connections with the NTS.
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- T Hayakawa
- Department of Anatomy, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan
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Ferini-Strambi L, Smirne S. Cardiac autonomic function during sleep in several neuropsychiatric disorders. J Neurol 1997; 244:S29-36. [PMID: 9112587 DOI: 10.1007/bf03160569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Cardiac autonomic activity during sleep is only very slightly influenced by the emotional state of the patient and, unlike some of the traditional tests of autonomic function, may be studied in all patients. In an attempt to evaluate autonomic function in patients with different neuropsychiatric disorders, two different methods of quantifying the changes in sympathetic and parasympathetic cardiac control during sleep were used: (1) the ratios of consecutive R-wave (R-R) intervals before and after spontaneous body movements; (2) spectral analysis of R-R intervals. It was found that more than one third of patients with presenile Alzheimer's disease had defective cardiac sympathetic control. Untreated parkinsonian patients showed predominantly defective parasympathetic, and to a lesser extent sympathetic, function during sleep. In these patients, as well as in patients with multiple sclerosis, autonomic evaluation during sleep led to earlier detection of impairment than the traditional tests during wakefulness. Narcoleptic patients and patients with panic disorder showed normal autonomic function during sleep, but had altered control levels during the wakeful period before sleep. The findings in these narcoleptic patients were probably related to the impairment of their sleep-wake cycle. The sympathetic overactivity found in patients with panic disorder was probably a result of cognitive activity, as the nocturnal data excluded an intrinsic defect in autonomic regulation.
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Ye S, Nosrati S, Campese VM. Nitric oxide (NO) modulates the neurogenic control of blood pressure in rats with chronic renal failure (CRF). J Clin Invest 1997; 99:540-8. [PMID: 9022090 PMCID: PMC507830 DOI: 10.1172/jci119191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Increased sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity plays a role in the genesis of hypertension in rats with chronic renal failure (CRF). Because nitric oxide (NO) modulates the activity of the SNS, a deficit of NO synthesis could be responsible for the increased SNS activity in these animals. In the present study, we evaluated the effects of L-arginine and L-NAME on blood pressure and SNS activity-in Sprague Dawley 5/6 nephrectomized or sham-operated rats. SNS activity was determined by measuring norepinephrine turnover rate in several brain nuclei involved in the regulation of blood pressure. In the same brain nuclei, we measured NO content and nitric oxide synthase (NOS) gene expression by semiquantitative measurements of NOS mRNA reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. In CRF rats, norepinephrine turnover rate was increased in the posterior hypothalamic nuclei, locus coeruleus, paraventricular nuclei, and the rostral ventral medulla, whereas NOS mRNA gene expression and NO2/NO3 content were increased in all brain nuclei tested. L-NAME increased blood pressure and NE turnover rate in several brain nuclei of both control and 5/6 nephrectomized rats. In CRF rats, a significant relationship was present between the percent increment in NOS mRNA gene expression related to the renal failure, and the percent increase in norepinephrine turnover rate caused by L-NAME. This suggests that endogenous NO may partially inhibit the activity of the SNS in brain nuclei involved in the neurogenic regulation of blood pressure, and this inhibition is enhanced in CRF rats. In summary, the increase in SNS activity in the posterior hypothalamic nuclei and in the locus coeruleus of CRF rats is partially mitigated by increased local expression of NOS m-RNA.
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- S Ye
- Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90033, USA
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The expression pattern of the transcription factor Phox2 delineates synaptic pathways of the autonomic nervous system. J Neurosci 1997. [PMID: 8922421 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-23-07649.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 206] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Many transcription factors, and most prominently among them, homeodomain proteins, are expressed in specific groups of cells in the developing nervous system in patterns that suggest their involvement in neural fate determination. How various aspects of neural identity are controlled by such transcription factors, or sets of them, is still mostly unknown. It has been shown previously that Phox2 is such a homeodomain protein, expressed exclusively in differentiated groups of neurons or their precursors, and that its expression correlated with that of the noradrenaline synthesis enzyme dopamine-beta-hydroxylase. Here we confirm this striking correlation at the single-cell level with the use of an anti-Phox2 antibody. Moreover, we uncover a second, nonmutually exclusive correlative clue to the Phox2 expression pattern: a high proportion of Phox2-expressing cells are involved in, or located in areas involved in, synaptic circuits, i.e., that of the medullary control reflexes of autonomic functions. This suggests that Phox2 could be involved in the establishment of these circuits.
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Carr JA. Beta-endorphin inhibition of endogenous norepinephrine release from the A2 noradrenergic nucleus in vitro: role of mu opiate receptors and Na+ ion permeability. Brain Res Bull 1997; 44:19-23. [PMID: 9288827 DOI: 10.1016/s0361-9230(97)00399-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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An in vitro approach was used to determine the opioid receptor subtype mediating beta-endorphin inhibition of endogenous norepinephrine release from the A2 nucleus in the caudal dorsomedial medulla of rats. The voltage-sensitive Na+ channel blocker tetrodotoxin was used to investigate the role of Na+-dependent action potentials in beta-endorphin inhibition of K+-evoked norepinephrine release. Human beta-endorphin(1-31) inhibited K+-evoked norepinephrine release in a concentration-dependent fashion. Activation of delta- and kappa-opioid receptors had no effect on endogenous norepinephrine release. The inhibitory effect of beta-endorphin was blocked in a concentration-dependent manner by the mu-opioid receptor antagonist CTOP (Cys2, Tyr3, Orn5, Pen7 amide). Tetrodotoxin (TTX) inhibited norepinephrine release evoked by 25 mM K+ in a concentration-dependent manner and blocked the inhibitory effects of beta-endorphin. These results indicate that beta-endorphin acts on mu-opioid receptors to inhibit K+-evoked norepinephrine release from A2 neurons and suggest that the receptors involved are not located on noradrenergic nerve terminals.
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- J A Carr
- Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock 79409-3131, USA
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Simonian SX, Herbison AE. Differential expression of estrogen receptor and neuropeptide Y by brainstem A1 and A2 noradrenaline neurons. Neuroscience 1997; 76:517-29. [PMID: 9015335 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4522(96)00406-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The release of noradrenaline and neuropeptide Y appears to be regulated by estrogen in a co-ordinated fashion within specific brain regions. The present study has used double and triple-labelling immunocytochemical procedures to determine the patterns of nuclear estrogen receptor and neuropeptide Y expression by brainstem A1 and A2 noradrenergic neurons in the female rat. Estrogen receptor-immunoreactive cells were detected within the ventrolateral medulla, nucleus tractus solitarius, area postrema and, in the very caudal medulla, the reticular nuclei and spinal nucleus of the trigeminal nerve. Cells double labelled for the estrogen receptor and dopamine-beta-hydroxylase were identified in largest numbers (up to seven double-labelled cells per 30-microm-thick coronal section) in the caudal-most medulla, where approximately 30% of A1 and 60% of A2 neurons were immunoreactive for the estrogen receptor. These percentages reduced in a linear fashion in more rostral sections and at the level of the area postrema, no co-expression was evident in the ventrolateral medulla and only 10% of A2 neurons displayed estrogen receptor immunoreactivity. Fluorescence double-labelling studies undertaken in colchicine-treated rats revealed that 50% and 90-100% of tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive cells were positive for neuropeptide Y in the rostral ventrolateral medulla and nucleus tractus solitarius (up to 15 double-labelled cells per section), respectively. This pattern of co-expression also showed a rostrocaudal bias, but in the opposite direction, such that none of the caudal-most A1 and only 10% of caudal A2 neurons were immunoreactive for neuropeptide Y. Triple-labelling experiments revealed the presence of a total of only three triple-labelled cells in the ventrolateral medulla and none in the nucleus tractus solitarius of four rats. Double-labelling studies examining estrogen receptor and neuropeptide Y co-expression similarly found only three double-labelled cells in the ventrolateral medulla. These findings provide immunocytochemical evidence for a clear rostrocaudal topography in nuclear estrogen receptor synthesis by A1 and A2 neurons and show a reverse rostrocaudal bias in neuropeptide Y expression by these cells. The absence of any substantial neuropeptide Y and estrogen receptor co-expression in A1 and A2 neurons indicates that these two proteins are very likely to be differentially expressed by brainstem noradrenergic neurons. Such observations provide further evidence for the biosynthetic and functional heterogeneity of brainstem noradrenergic cells and suggest that A1 and A2 neurons transmitting information on estrogen status within the brain are unlikely to utilize neuropeptide Y as a co-transmitter.
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- S X Simonian
- Department of Neurobiology, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
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Wrenn CC, Picklo MJ, Lappi DA, Robertson D, Wiley RG. Central noradrenergic lesioning using anti-DBH-saporin: anatomical findings. Brain Res 1996; 740:175-84. [PMID: 8973812 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(96)00855-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The ability to create lesions of discrete neuronal populations is an important strategy for clarifying the function of these populations. The power of this approach is critically dependent upon the selectivity of the experimental lesioning technique. Anti-neuronal immunotoxins offer an efficient way to produce highly specific neural lesions. Two previous immunotoxins have been shown to be effective in both the CNS and PNS. They are OX7-saporin, which is targeted at Thy1, and 192-saporin, which is targeted at the low affinity neurotrophin receptor, p75NTR. In the present study, we sought to determine if an immunotoxin targeted at the neurotransmitter synthesizing enzyme, dopamine beta-hydroxylase (DBH), could selectively destroy central noradrenergic neurons after intraventricular administration. This immunotoxin, which consists of a monoclonal antibody to DBH coupled by a disulfide bond to saporin (a ribosome inactivating protein), has been shown to be selectively toxic to peripheral noradrenergic sympathetic neurons in rats after systemic injection. In the present study, immunohistochemical and Cresyl violet staining showed that the noradrenergic neurons of the locus coeruleus are destroyed bilaterally after intraventricular (i.c.v.) injection of 5, 10, and 20 micrograms of anti-DBH-saporin (alpha-DBH-sap) into rats. Complete bilateral lesioning of the A5 and A7 cell groups occurred at the two higher doses. Lesions of the A1/C1 and A2/C2/C3 cell groups were incomplete at all three doses. Dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area and serotonergic neurons of the raphé, all monoaminergic neurons that do not express DBH, survived all alpha-DBH-sap doses. The cholinergic neurons of the basal forebrain, which are selectively killed by i.c.v. injection of 192-saporin, and cerebellar Purkinje cells which are killed by OX7-saporin, were not killed by alpha-DBH-sap. These results show that alpha-DBH-sap efficiently and selectively destroys CNS noradrenergic neurons after i.c.v. injection. The preferential destruction of locus coeruleus, A5, and A7 over A1/C1 and A2/C2/C3 may be due to more efficient access of the immunotoxin to these neurons and their terminals after i.c.v. injection.
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- C C Wrenn
- Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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Sergeev VG, Akmaev IG. Sex-dependent peculiarities in the brain stem-regulated corticosterone secretion in rats. Bull Exp Biol Med 1996. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02447667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Tavares I, Lima D, Coimbra A. The ventrolateral medulla of the rat is connected with the spinal cord dorsal horn by an indirect descending pathway relayed in the A5 noradrenergic cell group. J Comp Neurol 1996; 374:84-95. [PMID: 8891948 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9861(19961007)374:1<84::aid-cne6>3.0.co;2-j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The pathway conveying the descending inhibitory noradrenergic input elicited from the caudal ventrolateral medulla (VLM) onto the spinal cord dorsal horn was studied in the rat. Retrograde labeling with cholera toxin subunit B (CTb) injected into the dorsal horn was combined with immunostaining for dopamine-beta-hydroxylase (DBH) in the VLM and other brainstem nuclei containing noradrenergic cells. CTb-labeled neurons occurred in the lateral part of the VLM (VLMlat), located ventrolaterally to the DBH-immunoreactive cells of the A1 noradrenergic cell group. Neuronal profiles stained for CTb and DBH (double labeled) occurred in the A5 (31%), A6 (57%), and A7 (12%) noradrenergic cell groups. To ascertain whether noradrenergic cells targeting the spinal cord in those groups received projections from the VLMlat, this area was injected with the anterograde tracer biotinylated dextran amine (BDA). Labeled terminal fibers with boutons en passant were apposed to numerous double-stained neurons in the A5 cell group. Similar appositions occurred in small amounts in the ventral subcoerulear component of the A6. Correlated light and electron microscopic analyses of the labeled appositions revealed that the BDA-labeled axonal boutons contained spherical vesicles and were presynaptic at asymmetrical contacts to somata and dendritic profiles of the double-stained A5 neurons. These data indicate the occurrence of an indirect dysynaptic pathway connecting the VLM to the spinal cord, with a relay in the A5 cells. This pathway may convey the antinociceptive effects mediated by alpha 2-adrenoreceptors, which have been previously observed in the spinal cord following VLM stimulation.
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- I Tavares
- Institute of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Porto, Portugal
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Simonian SX, Herbison AE. Localization of neuronal nitric oxide synthase-immunoreactivity within sub-populations of noradrenergic A1 and A2 neurons in the rat. Brain Res 1996; 732:247-52. [PMID: 8891292 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00687-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The noradrenergic cells of the ventrolateral medulla (VLM) and the nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS) are implicated in the control of a variety of cardiovascular, respiratory and neuroendocrine functions. The present study has used antibodies raised against rat neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) to determine whether nNOS is expressed by A1 and A2 noradrenergic neurons. Double-labelling immunofluorescence experiments revealed that approximately 10% of TH-immunoreactive cells in the rostral NTS and 6% in the caudal NTS, were immunoreactive for nNOS. In the rostral VLM, only 1% of cells were double-labelled while approximately 9% of the TH-immunoreactive cells in the caudal VLM were immunoreactive for nNOS. These findings indicate that sub-populations of the A1 and A2 noradrenergic neurons are capable of generating nitric oxide and suggest a direct role for this neuronal messenger in the regulation of noradrenergic activity within the brain.
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- S X Simonian
- Department of Neurobiology, Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
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Dumas S, Pequignot JM, Ghilini G, Mallet J, Denavit-Saubié M. Plasticity of tyrosine hydroxylase gene expression in the rat nucleus tractus solitarius after ventilatory acclimatization to hypoxia. BRAIN RESEARCH. MOLECULAR BRAIN RESEARCH 1996; 40:188-94. [PMID: 8872302 DOI: 10.1016/0169-328x(96)00050-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The aim of this study was to define the influence of long-term hypoxia on gene expression of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) in the rat nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS). Animals were exposed to normobaric hypoxia (10% O2 in nitrogen) for 2 weeks. At this time, the hypoxia-induced hyperventilation reached a plateau, indicating ventilatory acclimatization. In horizontal brainstem sections, hypoxia-induced changes in TH protein and TH mRNA were assessed by immunocytochemistry and in-situ hybridization, respectively. Long-term hypoxia increased TH mRNA levels seen as both an increase in the number of grains per cell and an extension of the labeled area. The highest degree of labeling was found selectively located in caudal NTS. Hypoxia also enhanced TH immunoreactivity in the caudal NTS but this labeling extended more rostrally than that of TH mRNA. The data suggest that there is an hypoxia-induced plasticity of gene expression at the gene level in the NTS, which is associated with ventilatory acclimatization. The hypoxia model described in this study may serve as a framework for future regulatory studies.
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- S Dumas
- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire de la Neurotransmission et Processus Neurodégénératifs, UMR 9923 CNRS, Hôpital de La Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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Garcia C, Denoroy L, Le Cavorsin M, Pujol JF, Weissmann D. Pharmacological modulations of adrenergic phenotype in medullary C2 and C3 cell groups of adult rat. J Chem Neuroanat 1996; 11:131-42. [PMID: 8877600 DOI: 10.1016/0891-0618(96)00152-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The adrenergic phenotype was analysed in the rat's rostral dorsomedial medulla under normal conditions and 3 days after a single intraperitoneal injection of an eburnamine derivative, RU 24722, which increases tyrosine hydroxylase protein expression in the rostral portion of the nucleus tractus solitarius. This approach was investigated by a double immunofluorescence labelling of tyrosine hydroxylase and phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase proteins. Under normal conditions, most adrenergic cell bodies are anatomically distributed in the dorsal and rostral medulla oblongata between the rostral part of the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus nerve and the medial longitudinal fasciculus. Adrenergic neurons detected in this medullar region were distributed between both cell groups. Three days after the pharmacological RU 24722 treatment, an upregulation in tyrosine hydroxylase and phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase protein expression was detected in both cell groups characterized by a highly increased number of tyrosine hydroxylase- and phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase-containing cell bodies. The number of TH-mRNA containing neurons was also increased, indicating the transcriptional level of this regulation. These results demonstrated a particular neuronal plasticity of adrenergic phenotype in the medullary cell groups of adult rat.
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- C Garcia
- Laboratoire de Neuropharmacologie Moléculaire, C.N.R.S.-U.M.R. 5542, Faculté de Médecine, Lyon, France
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Yang SN, Bunnemann B, Cintra A, Fuxe K. Localization of neuropeptide Y Y1 receptor-like immunoreactivity in catecholaminergic neurons of the rat medulla oblongata. Neuroscience 1996; 73:519-30. [PMID: 8783267 DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(96)00072-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Neuropeptide Y receptors in the medulla oblongata participate in central cardiovascular control. The neuropeptide Y1 receptor subtype gene and amino acid sequence have been identified by molecular cloning studies. In this study, a C-terminal peptide representing amino acids 355-382 of the neuropeptide Y1 receptor was synthesized and cross-linked to thyroglobulin to produce an antibody against a partial sequence of the neuropeptide Y1 receptor, used to localize neuropeptide Y1 receptor-like immunoreactivity in the catecholaminergic neurons of the medulla oblongata. The double colour immunofluorescence technique with a polyclonal antibody against the neuropeptide Y1 receptor and a monoclonal antibody against tyrosine hydroxylase revealed that in the rat medulla oblongata, a weak (the C3 cell group) to moderately intense (the A1, A2, C1 and C2 cell groups), diffuse cytoplasmic neuropeptide Y1 receptor-like immunoreactivity was distributed primarily in the noradrenergic and adrenergic cell bodies and occasionally seen in the noradrenergic and adrenergic cell processes. Almost all tyrosine hydroxylase-like immunoreactive cell bodies in the A1, A2, C1, C2 and C3 cell groups showed neuropeptide Y1 receptor-like immunoreactivity. The neuropeptide Y1 receptor-like immunoreactivity in the A2 cell group was somewhat stronger. The present findings show localization of specific neuropeptide Y1 receptor-like immunoreactivity in the vast majority of the noradrenergic and adrenergic cell bodies of the A1, A2, C1, C2 and C3 cell groups, which are putative cardiovascular regions. The results support the view that neuropeptide Y1 receptors in the medulla oblongata are involved in central cardiovascular control and may coexist with another important receptor, the alpha 2A-adrenoceptor, also involved in central, cardiovascular regulation, since the alpha 2A-adrenoceptor-like immunoreactivity has been shown to exist in almost all noradrenergic and adrenergic cell bodies in the brainstem. In conclusion, centrally administered neuropeptide Y may act in part via neuropeptide Y1 receptors located on the soma and dendrites of noradrenergic and adrenergic neurons, where it may interact with alpha 2-adrenoceptors at least in the noradrenergic A2 neurons. This noradrenaline system may be involved in at least part of the vasodepressor actions of neuropeptide Y, noradrenaline and adrenaline in the nucleus tractus solitarii in view of the present findings.
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- S N Yang
- Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Lynn RB, Hyde TM, Cooperman RR, Miselis RR. Distribution of bombesin-like immunoreactivity in the nucleus of the solitary tract and dorsal motor nucleus of the rat and human: colocalization with tyrosine hydroxylase. J Comp Neurol 1996; 369:552-70. [PMID: 8761928 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9861(19960610)369:4<552::aid-cne6>3.0.co;2-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Bombesin is a peptide neurotransmitter/neuromodulator with important autonomic and behavioral effects that are mediated, at least in part, by bombesin-containing neurons and nerve terminals in the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS) and the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus (DMV). The distribution of bombesin-like immunoreactive nerve terminals/fibers and cell bodies in relation to a viscerotopically relevant subnuclear map of this region was studied by using an immunoperoxidase technique. In the rat, bombesin fiber/terminal staining was heavy in an area that included the medial subnucleus of the NTS and the DMV over their full rostral-caudal extent. Distinctly void of staining were the gelatinous, central, and rostral commissural subnuclei and the periventricular area of the NTS, regions to which gastric, esophageal, cecal, and colonic primary afferents preferentially project. The caudal commissural and dorsal subnuclei had light bombesin fiber/terminal staining, as did the intermediate, interstitial, ventral, and ventrolateral subnuclei. With colchicine pretreatment, numerous cell bodies were stained in the medial and dorsal subnuclei, with fewer neurons in the caudal commissural, intermediate, interstitial, ventral, and ventrolateral subnuclei. Bombesin-like immunoreactive neurons were found in numerous other areas of the brain, including the ventrolateral medulla, the parabrachial nucleus, and the medial geniculate body. In the human NTS/DMV complex, the distribution of bombesin fiber/terminal staining was very similar to the rat. In addition, occasional bombesin-like immunoreactive neurons were labeled in a number of subnuclei, with clusters of neurons labeled in the dorsal and ventrolateral subnuclei. Double immunofluorescence studies in rat demonstrated that bombesin colocalizes with tyrosine hydroxylase in neurons in the dorsal subnucleus of the NTS. Bombesin does not colocalize with tyrosine hydroxylase in any other location in the brain. In conclusion, the distribution of bombesin in the NTS adheres to a viscerotopically relevant map. This is the anatomical substrate for the effects of bombesin on gastrointestinal function and satiety and its likely role in concluding a meal. The anatomic similarities between human and rat suggest that bombesin has similar functions in the visceral neuraxis of these two species. Bombesin coexists with catecholamines in neurons in the dorsal subnucleus, which likely mediate, in part, the cardiovascular effects of bombesin.
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- R B Lynn
- Department of Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA
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Aldes LD, Bartley K, Royal K, Dixon A, Chronister RB. Pre- and postnatal development of the catecholamine innervation of the hypoglossal nucleus in the rat: an immunocytochemical study. BRAIN RESEARCH. DEVELOPMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH 1996; 91:83-92. [PMID: 8821480 DOI: 10.1016/0165-3806(95)00162-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The pre- and postnatal development of the catecholamine (CA) innervation to the hypoglossal nucleus (nXII) in the rat was investigated immunocytochemically with antisera to tyrosine hydroxylase (TH). Immunoreactive profiles positive for TH were first identified in nXII on gestational day (GD) 16. By GD 18, the adult-like distribution pattern was evident, characterized by the preferential targeting of the ventromedial region of nXII, but this pattern was not consistently found in all fetuses until GD 19. From GD 19 to postnatal day (PD) 180, the overall density of TH immunoreactivity, particularly in the ventromedial region, increased with further growth and maturation of nXII. These results establish the early prenatal CA innervation of nXII and support the hypothesis that CA are important in regulating motor tongue behavior in the newborn. Moreover, because the ventral compartment of nXII contains motoneurons that innervate protrusor muscles of the tongue, and tongue protrusor mechanisms play an essential role in suckling, deglutition, and respiratory (maintaining a patent upper airway) behaviors, it is further proposed that the CA innervation of nXII is critical to the survival of the newborn.
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- L D Aldes
- Department of Structural and Cellular Biology, University of South Alabama, Mobile 36688, USA.
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Guan JL, Wang QP, Nakai Y. Synaptic innervation of enkephalinergic neurons by axon terminals immunoreactive to dopamine-beta-hydroxylase in the rat area postrema. Peptides 1996; 17:1203-6. [PMID: 8959757 DOI: 10.1016/s0196-9781(96)00186-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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A preembedding double immunostaining technique was used to study synaptic relations between enkephalin-like immunoreactive and dopamine-beta-hydroxylase-like immunoreactive neurons in the rat area postrema. Enkephalin-like immunoreactive neuronal perikarya and dendrites were found to receive synapses from dopamine-beta-hydroxylase-like immunoreactive axon terminals. Synapses were also found between the same dopamine-beta-hydroxylase-like immunoreactive neurons. Compared with our previous study, the present results provide morphological evidence that dopaminergic and noradrenergic neurons have different synaptic relations with enkephalinergic neurons, suggesting that physiological functions, especially those related to enkephalinergic neurons, may be different from each other in the area postrema.
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- J L Guan
- Department of Anatomy, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Hopkins DA, Bieger D, deVente J, Steinbusch WM. Vagal efferent projections: viscerotopy, neurochemistry and effects of vagotomy. PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH 1996; 107:79-96. [PMID: 8782514 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(08)61859-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- D A Hopkins
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Palkovits M, Baffi JS, Dvori S. Neuronal organization of stress response. Pain-induced c-fos expression in brain stem catecholaminergic cell groups. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1995; 771:313-26. [PMID: 8597410 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1995.tb44691.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- M Palkovits
- Laboratory of Neuromorphology, Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary
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Petrov T, Krukoff TL, Jhamandas JH. Convergent influence of the central nucleus of the amygdala and the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus upon brainstem autonomic neurons as revealed by c-fos expression and anatomical tracing. J Neurosci Res 1995; 42:835-45. [PMID: 8847745 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.490420612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Combinations of anatomical tracing with detection of Fos (the protein product of the immediate early gene c-fos) consequent to the stimulation of the central nucleus of the amygdala were used to explore the possibility that the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus participates in the activation of brainstem neurons in the nucleus of the solitary tract and ventrolateral medulla. After injections of the anterograde tracer Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin in the paraventricular nucleus, labeled fibers and varicosities were found to impinge on catecholaminergic and non-catecholaminergic Fos-positive neurons in the brainstem. After injections of a retrograde tracer in the nucleus of the solitary tract or ventrolateral medulla, we observed that some of the Fos-positive neurons within the parvocellular paraventricular nucleus that project to the brainstem were catecholaminergic or oxytocinergic. The results indicate that direct and indirect inputs from the amygdala may influence the activity of autonomic neurons in the brainstem. The paraventricular nucleus, via its direct projections onto catecholaminergic and non-catecholaminergic neurons, may participate in activation of brainstem neurons. Activated catecholaminergic and oxytocinergic parvocellular neurons in the paraventricular nucleus may be involved in the transmission of autonomic signals from the amygdala toward the brainstem.
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- T Petrov
- Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Pickel VM, van Bockstaele EJ, Chan J, Cestari DM. Amygdala efferents form inhibitory-type synapses with a subpopulation of catecholaminergic neurons in the rat Nucleus tractus solitarius. J Comp Neurol 1995; 362:510-23. [PMID: 8636464 DOI: 10.1002/cne.903620406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The central nucleus of the amygdala (CNA) integrates visceral responses to stress partially through efferent projections to portions of the medial nuclei of the solitary tracts (mNTS) containing catecholaminergic neurons. To determine anatomical sites for CNA modulation of these neurons, immunoperoxidase detection of anterogradely transported Phaseolus vulgaris-leucoagglutinin (PHA-L) or biotinylated dextran amine (BDA) was combined with immunogold-silver labeling of the catecholamine-synthesizing enzyme, tyrosine hydroxylase, in adult rat mNTS. From 350 anterogradely labeled terminals identified within the intermediate mNTS, 30% formed symmetric, inhibitory-type synapses and the remainder lacked recognized junctions as seen within a single plane of section. Of the terminals forming symmetric synapses, 16% were presynaptic to tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactive dendrites and the remainder to unlabeled dendrites. The level of tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity as assessed by density of gold-silver particles was significantly lower in dendrites receiving synaptic input from CNA efferents as compared with dendrites of the same sizes (2.0 microns 2 in mean area) which received synapses from unlabeled terminals or lacked recognizable synaptic inputs. When separately examined without regard to afferent input, the medium- and larger-sized dendrites having mean cross-sectional areas of 1-3 microns 2 also contained significantly less tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity than small (< 1 micron 2) dendrites. These results suggest that CNA efferents to the mNTS inhibit non-catecholamine-containing neurons and a subpopulation of catecholaminergic neurons distinguished by their low levels of tyrosine hydroxylase. The findings also indicate that small, presumably more distal, dendrites in the intermediate mNTS may synthesize and/or release catecholamines.
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- V M Pickel
- Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York 10021, USA
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Moons L, D'Hondt E, Pijcke K, Vandesande F. Noradrenergic system in the chicken brain: immunocytochemical study with antibodies to noradrenaline and dopamine-beta-hydroxylase. J Comp Neurol 1995; 360:331-48. [PMID: 8522651 DOI: 10.1002/cne.903600210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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A light microscopic immunocytochemical study, using antisera against noradrenaline (NA) and dopamine-beta-hydroxylase (DBH), revealed the noradrenergic system in the brain of the chicken (Gallus domesticus). NA- and DBH-immunoreactive (ir) elements showed a similar distribution throughout the whole brain. The neurons immunoreactive for the monoamine were confined to the lower brainstem, the pons, and the medulla. In the pons, a rather dense group of cells was found in the dorsal, most posterior part of the locus coeruleus and in the caudal nucleus subcoeruleus ventralis. A few labeled cells appeared in and around the nucleus olivaris superior in the most caudal part of the metencephalic tegmentum. In the medulla oblongata, noradrenergic cells could be visualized at the level of the nucleus of the solitary tract and in a ventrolateral complex. Virtually all regions of the brain contained a rather dense innervation by NA- and DBH-immunopositive varicose fibers. Noradrenergic fibers and terminals were especially abundant in the ventral forebrain and in the periventricular hypothalamic regions. DBH-ir and NA-ir fibers, varicosities, and punctate structures could be observed in close association with immunonegative perikarya in several brain regions, more specifically in the ventral telencephalon, in the mid- and tuberal hypothalamic region, and in the dorsal rostral pons. Some perikarya in these brain areas were completely surrounded by noradrenergic structures that formed pericellular arrangements around the cells. The present study on the distribution of the noradrenergic system in the brain of the chicken combined with the results of a previous report on the distribution of L-Dopa and dopamine in the same species (L. Moons, J. van Gils, E. Ghijsels, and F. Vandesande, 1994, J. Comp. Neurol. 346:97-118) offers the opportunity to differentiate between the various catecholamines in the brain of this vertebrate. The results are discussed in relation to catecholaminergic systems previously reported in avian species and in the mammalian brain.
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- L Moons
- Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Zoological Institute, Leuven, Belgium
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We have explored probable neurotransmitter roles of L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA) in baroreceptor reflex and blood pressure regulation in depressor sites of the nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS) and the caudal ventrolateral medulla (CVLM), and in pressor sites of the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) in anesthetized rats. During microdialysis of these three areas, the basal L-DOPA release is in part tetrodotoxin (TTX)-sensitive and Ca2(+)-dependent, high K+ Ca2(+)-dependently releases dL-DOPA. L-DOPA microinjected (10-300 ng) dose-dependently produces postsynaptic depressor responses in the NTS and CVLM and pressor responses in the RVLM, and a recognition site for L-DOPA functions tonically to activate depressor neurons in the NTS and CVLM and pressor neurons in the RVLM. It is highly probable that L-DOPA is a neurotransmitter of the baroreceptor afferents terminating in the NTS, which is based on further findings such as (1) antagonism by a competitive L-DOPA antagonist against depressor responses to aortic nerve stimulation, (2) TTX-sensitive L-DOPA release by aortic nerve stimulation, (3) abolition of baroreceptor-stimulated L-DOPA release by bilateral sino-aortic denervation and (4) decreases in tyrosine hydroxylase (TH)- and L-DOPA-immunoreactivities without modifications of dopamine- and DBH-immunoreactivities in the left NTS and ganglion nodosum 7 days after ipsilateral aortic nerve denervation peripheral to the ganglion. In the NTS, GABA tonically functions to inhibit via GABAA receptors L-DOPA release and depressor responses to L-DOPA, whereas L-DOPA induces GABA release. Impaired TTX-sensitive neuronal activity to release L-DOPA in the NTS and enhanced TTX-sensitive neuronal activity including a decrease in decarboxylation of L-DOPA to dopamine and an increase in sensitivity of the recognition site to L-DOPA in the RVLM are relevant to the maintenance of hypertension in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Decreases in the contents of L-DOPA in the right CVLM 10 days after electrical lesion of the ipsilateral NTS suggest a 'L-DOPAergic' and monosynaptic relay from the NTS to the CVLM. L-DOPA seems to play major roles as a neurotransmitter for baroreceptor reflex and blood pressure regulation in the lower brainstem of rats.
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- Y Misu
- Department of Pharmacology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan
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