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Senthilkumaran M, Koch C, Herselman MF, Bobrovskaya L. Role of the Adrenal Medulla in Hypoglycaemia-Associated Autonomic Failure-A Diabetic Perspective. Metabolites 2024; 14:100. [PMID: 38392992 PMCID: PMC10890365 DOI: 10.3390/metabo14020100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2023] [Revised: 01/27/2024] [Accepted: 01/29/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024] Open
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Hypoglycaemia-associated autonomic failure (HAAF) is characterised by an impairment in adrenal medullary and neurogenic symptom responses following episodes of recurrent hypoglycaemia. Here, we review the status quo of research related to the regulatory mechanisms of the adrenal medulla in its response to single and recurrent hypoglycaemia in both diabetic and non-diabetic subjects with particular focus given to catecholamine synthesis, enzymatic activity, and the impact of adrenal medullary peptides. Short-term post-transcriptional modifications, particularly phosphorylation at specific residues of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), play a key role in the regulation of catecholamine synthesis. While the effects of recurrent hypoglycaemia on catecholamine synthetic enzymes remain inconsistent, long-term changes in TH protein expression suggest species-specific responses. Adrenomedullary peptides such as neuropeptide Y (NPY), galanin, and proenkephalin exhibit altered gene and protein expression in response to hypoglycaemia, suggesting a potential role in the modulation of catecholamine secretion. Of note is NPY, since its antagonism has been shown to prevent reductions in TH protein expression. This review highlights the need for further investigation into the molecular mechanisms involved in the adrenal medullary response to hypoglycaemia. Despite advancements in our understanding of HAAF in non-diabetic rodents, a reliable diabetic rodent model of HAAF remains a challenge.
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- Manjula Senthilkumaran
- Health and Biomedical Innovation, Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
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- Health and Biomedical Innovation, Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
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- Health and Biomedical Innovation, Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
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- Health and Biomedical Innovation, Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
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Tsuchida H, Takizawa M, Nonogaki M, Inoue N, Uenoyama Y, Tsukamura H. Enkephalin-δ opioid receptor signaling partly mediates suppression of LH release during early lactation in rats. J Reprod Dev 2023; 69:192-197. [PMID: 37331801 PMCID: PMC10435526 DOI: 10.1262/jrd.2023-006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Accepted: 05/12/2023] [Indexed: 06/20/2023] Open
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Gonadal function is often suppressed during lactation in mammals including rodents, ruminants, and primates. This suppression is thought to be mostly due to the inhibition of the tonic (pulsatile) release of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and consequent gonadotropin. Accumulating evidence suggests that kisspeptin neurons in the arcuate nucleus (ARC) play a critical role in the regulation of pulsatile GnRH/gonadotropin release, and kisspeptin mRNA (Kiss1) and/or kisspeptin expression in the ARC are strongly suppressed by the suckling stimuli in lactating rats. This study aimed to examine whether the central enkephalin-δ-opioid receptor (DOR) signaling mediates the suckling-induced suppression of luteinizing hormone (LH) release in lactating rats. Central administration of a selective DOR antagonist increased the mean plasma LH levels and baseline of LH pulses in ovariectomized lactating mother rats compared to vehicle-injected control dams on day 8 of lactation without affecting the number of Kiss1-expressing cells and the intensity of Kiss1 mRNA signals in the ARC. Furthermore, the suckling stimuli significantly increased the number of enkephalin mRNA (Penk)-expressing cells and the intensity of Penk mRNA signals in the ARC compared to non-lactating control rats. Collectively, these results suggest that central DOR signaling, at least in part, mediates the suppression of LH release induced by suckling stimuli in lactating rats via indirect and/or direct inhibition of ARC kisspeptin neurons.
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- Hitomi Tsuchida
- Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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Tapia GP, Agostinelli LJ, Chenausky SD, Padilla JVS, Navarro VI, Alagh A, Si G, Thompson RH, Balivada S, Khan AM. Glycemic Challenge Is Associated with the Rapid Cellular Activation of the Locus Ceruleus and Nucleus of Solitary Tract: Circumscribed Spatial Analysis of Phosphorylated MAP Kinase Immunoreactivity. J Clin Med 2023; 12:2483. [PMID: 37048567 PMCID: PMC10095283 DOI: 10.3390/jcm12072483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2023] [Revised: 02/24/2023] [Accepted: 03/02/2023] [Indexed: 03/31/2023] Open
Abstract
Rodent studies indicate that impaired glucose utilization or hypoglycemia is associated with the cellular activation of neurons in the medulla (Winslow, 1733) (MY), believed to control feeding behavior and glucose counterregulation. However, such activation has been tracked primarily within hours of the challenge, rather than sooner, and has been poorly mapped within standardized brain atlases. Here, we report that, within 15 min of receiving 2-deoxy-d-glucose (2-DG; 250 mg/kg, i.v.), which can trigger glucoprivic feeding behavior, marked elevations were observed in the numbers of rhombic brain (His, 1893) (RB) neuronal cell profiles immunoreactive for the cellular activation marker(s), phosphorylated p44/42 MAP kinases (phospho-ERK1/2), and that some of these profiles were also catecholaminergic. We mapped their distributions within an open-access rat brain atlas and found that 2-DG-treated rats (compared to their saline-treated controls) displayed greater numbers of phospho-ERK1/2+ neurons in the locus ceruleus (Wenzel and Wenzel, 1812) (LC) and the nucleus of solitary tract (>1840) (NTS). Thus, the 2-DG-activation of certain RB neurons is more rapid than perhaps previously realized, engaging neurons that serve multiple functional systems and which are of varying cellular phenotypes. Mapping these populations within standardized brain atlas maps streamlines their targeting and/or comparable mapping in preclinical rodent models of disease.
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- Geronimo P. Tapia
- UTEP Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA
- Ph.D. Program in Bioscience, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- UTEP Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA
- M.S. Program in Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA
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- UTEP Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA
- M.S. Program in Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA
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- UTEP Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA
- Ph.D. Program in Bioscience, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
- School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78701, USA
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- UTEP Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA
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- UTEP Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
- Border Biomedical Research Center, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA
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Tsuchida H, Nonogaki M, Takizawa M, Inoue N, Uenoyama Y, Tsukamura H. Enkephalin-δ Opioid Receptor Signaling Mediates Glucoprivic Suppression of LH Pulse and Gluconeogenesis in Female Rats. Endocrinology 2023; 164:6967063. [PMID: 36592113 DOI: 10.1210/endocr/bqac216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2022] [Revised: 12/23/2022] [Accepted: 12/28/2022] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Energy availability is an important regulator of reproductive function at various reproductive phases in mammals. Glucoprivation induced by 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2DG), an inhibitor of glucose utilization, as an experimental model of malnutrition suppresses the pulsatile release of GnRH/LH and induces gluconeogenesis. The present study was performed with the aim of examining whether enkephalin-δ-opioid receptor (DOR) signaling mediates the suppression of pulsatile GnRH/LH release and gluconeogenesis during malnutrition. The administration of naltrindole hydrochloride (NTI), a selective DOR antagonist, into the third ventricle blocked the suppression of LH pulses and part of gluconeogenesis induced by IV 2DG administration in ovariectomized rats treated with a negative feedback level of estradiol-17 β (OVX + low E2). The IV 2DG administration significantly increased the number of Penk (enkephalin gene)-positive cells coexpressing fos (neuronal activation marker gene) in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN), but not in the arcuate nucleus (ARC) in OVX + low E2 rats. Furthermore, double in situ hybridization for Penk/Pdyn (dynorphin gene) in the PVN revealed that approximately 35% of the PVN Penk-expressing cells coexpressed Pdyn. Double in situ hybridization for Penk/Crh (corticotropin-releasing hormone gene) in the PVN and Penk/Kiss1 (kisspeptin gene) in the ARC revealed that few Penk-expressing cells coexpressed Crh and Kiss1. Taken together, these results suggest that central enkephalin-DOR signaling mediates the suppression of pulsatile LH release during malnutrition. Moreover, the current study suggests that central enkephalin-DOR signaling is also involved in gluconeogenesis during malnutrition in female rats.
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- Hitomi Tsuchida
- Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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Hasan MM, Mimi MA, Mamun MA, Islam A, Waliullah ASM, Nabi MM, Tamannaa Z, Kahyo T, Setou M. Mass Spectrometry Imaging for Glycome in the Brain. Front Neuroanat 2021; 15:711955. [PMID: 34393728 PMCID: PMC8358800 DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2021.711955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2021] [Accepted: 07/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Glycans are diverse structured biomolecules that play crucial roles in various biological processes. Glycosylation, an enzymatic system through which various glycans are bound to proteins and lipids, is the most common and functionally crucial post-translational modification process. It is known to be associated with brain development, signal transduction, molecular trafficking, neurodegenerative disorders, psychopathologies, and brain cancers. Glycans in glycoproteins and glycolipids expressed in brain cells are involved in neuronal development, biological processes, and central nervous system maintenance. The composition and expression of glycans are known to change during those physiological processes. Therefore, imaging of glycans and the glycoconjugates in the brain regions has become a “hot” topic nowadays. Imaging techniques using lectins, antibodies, and chemical reporters are traditionally used for glycan detection. However, those techniques offer limited glycome detection. Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is an evolving field that combines mass spectrometry with histology allowing spatial and label-free visualization of molecules in the brain. In the last decades, several studies have employed MSI for glycome imaging in brain tissues. The current state of MSI uses on-tissue enzymatic digestion or chemical reaction to facilitate successful glycome imaging. Here, we reviewed the available literature that applied MSI techniques for glycome visualization and characterization in the brain. We also described the general methodologies for glycome MSI and discussed its potential use in the three-dimensional MSI in the brain.
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- Md Mahmudul Hasan
- Department of Cellular & Molecular Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
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- Department of Cellular & Molecular Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
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- Department of Cellular & Molecular Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
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- Department of Cellular & Molecular Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
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- Department of Cellular & Molecular Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
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- Department of Cellular & Molecular Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
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- Department of Cellular & Molecular Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
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- Department of Cellular & Molecular Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.,International Mass Imaging Center, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
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- Department of Cellular & Molecular Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.,International Mass Imaging Center, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.,Department of Systems Molecular Anatomy, Institute for Medical Photonics Research, Preeminent Medical Photonics Education & Research Center, Hamamatsu, Japan
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Ramlan H, Damanhuri HA. Effects of age on feeding response: Focus on the rostral C1 neuron and its glucoregulatory proteins. Exp Gerontol 2019; 129:110779. [PMID: 31705967 DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2019.110779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2019] [Revised: 10/15/2019] [Accepted: 11/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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BACKGROUND Older people are likely to develop anorexia of aging. Rostral C1 (rC1) catecholaminergic neurons in rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) are recently discovered its role in food intake control. It is well established that these neurons regulate cardiovascular function. OBJECTIVE This study aims to determine the effect of age on the function of rostral C1 (rC1) neurons in mediating feeding response. METHOD Male Sprague Dawley rats at 3-months (n = 22) and 24-months (n = 22) old were used and further divided into two subgroups; 1) treatment group with 2-deoxy-d-glucose (2DG) and 2) vehicle group. Feeding hormones such as cholecystokinin (CCK), ghrelin and leptin were analysed using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Rat brain was carefully dissected to obtain the brainstem RVLM region. Further analysis was carried out to determine the level of proteins and genes in RVLM that were associated with feeding pathway. Protein expression of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), phosphorylated TH at Serine40 (pSer40TH), AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), phosphorylated AMPK (phospho AMPK) and neuropeptide Y Y5 receptor (NPY5R) were determined by western blot. Expression of TH, AMPK and NPY genes were determined by real-time PCR. RESULTS This study showed that blood glucose level was elevated in young and old rats following 2DG administration. Plasma CCK-8 concentration was higher in the aged rats at basal and increased with 2DG administration in young rats, but the leptin and ghrelin showed no changes. Old rats showed higher TH and lower AMPK mRNA levels. Glucoprivation decreased AMPK mRNA level in young rats and decreased TH mRNA in old rats. Aged rC1 neurons showed higher NPY5R protein level. Following glucoprivation, rC1 neurons produced distinct molecular changes across age in which, in young rats, AMPK phosphorylation level was increased and in old rats, TH phosphorylation level was increased. CONCLUSION These findings suggest that glucose-counterregulatory responses by rC1 neurons at least, contribute to the ability of young and old rats in coping glucoprivation. Age-induced molecular changes within rC1 neurons may attenuate the glucoprivic responses. This situation may explain the impairment of feeding response in the elderly.
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- Hajira Ramlan
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Jalan Yaacob Latif, Bandar Tun Razak, 56000, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Jalan Yaacob Latif, Bandar Tun Razak, 56000, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Saleeba C, Dempsey B, Le S, Goodchild A, McMullan S. A Student's Guide to Neural Circuit Tracing. Front Neurosci 2019; 13:897. [PMID: 31507369 PMCID: PMC6718611 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2019] [Accepted: 08/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
Abstract
The mammalian nervous system is comprised of a seemingly infinitely complex network of specialized synaptic connections that coordinate the flow of information through it. The field of connectomics seeks to map the structure that underlies brain function at resolutions that range from the ultrastructural, which examines the organization of individual synapses that impinge upon a neuron, to the macroscopic, which examines gross connectivity between large brain regions. At the mesoscopic level, distant and local connections between neuronal populations are identified, providing insights into circuit-level architecture. Although neural tract tracing techniques have been available to experimental neuroscientists for many decades, considerable methodological advances have been made in the last 20 years due to synergies between the fields of molecular biology, virology, microscopy, computer science and genetics. As a consequence, investigators now enjoy an unprecedented toolbox of reagents that can be directed against selected subpopulations of neurons to identify their efferent and afferent connectomes. Unfortunately, the intersectional nature of this progress presents newcomers to the field with a daunting array of technologies that have emerged from disciplines they may not be familiar with. This review outlines the current state of mesoscale connectomic approaches, from data collection to analysis, written for the novice to this field. A brief history of neuroanatomy is followed by an assessment of the techniques used by contemporary neuroscientists to resolve mesoscale organization, such as conventional and viral tracers, and methods of selecting for sub-populations of neurons. We consider some weaknesses and bottlenecks of the most widely used approaches for the analysis and dissemination of tracing data and explore the trajectories that rapidly developing neuroanatomy technologies are likely to take.
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- Christine Saleeba
- Neurobiology of Vital Systems Node, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- The School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- CNRS, Hindbrain Integrative Neurobiology Laboratory, Neuroscience Paris-Saclay Institute (Neuro-PSI), Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Neurobiology of Vital Systems Node, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Neurobiology of Vital Systems Node, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Neurobiology of Vital Systems Node, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Kakall ZM, Kavurma MM, Cohen EM, Howe PR, Nedoboy PE, Pilowsky PM. Repetitive hypoglycemia reduces activation of glucose-responsive neurons in C1 and C3 medullary brain regions to subsequent hypoglycemia. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2019; 317:E388-E398. [PMID: 31013147 PMCID: PMC6732467 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00051.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2019] [Revised: 04/16/2019] [Accepted: 04/16/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
The impaired ability of the autonomic nervous system to respond to hypoglycemia is termed "hypoglycemia-associated autonomic failure" (HAAF). This life-threatening phenomenon results from at least two recent episodes of hypoglycemia, but the pathology underpinning HAAF remains largely unknown. Although naloxone appears to improve hypoglycemia counterregulation under controlled conditions, hypoglycemia prevention remains the current mainstay therapy for HAAF. Epinephrine-synthesizing neurons in the rostroventrolateral (C1) and dorsomedial (C3) medulla project to the subset of sympathetic preganglionic neurons that regulate peripheral epinephrine release. Here we determined whether or not C1 and C3 neuronal activation is impaired in HAAF and whether or not 1 wk of hypoglycemia prevention or treatment with naloxone could restore C1 and C3 neuronal activation and improve HAAF. Twenty male Sprague-Dawley rats (250-300 g) were used. Plasma epinephrine levels were significantly increased after a single episode of hypoglycemia (n = 4; 5,438 ± 783 pg/ml vs. control 193 ± 27 pg/ml, P < 0.05). Repeated hypoglycemia significantly reduced the plasma epinephrine response to subsequent hypoglycemia (n = 4; 2,179 ± 220 pg/ml vs. 5,438 ± 783 pg/ml, P < 0.05). Activation of medullary C1 (n = 4; 50 ± 5% vs. control 3 ± 1%, P < 0.05) and C3 (n = 4; 45 ± 5% vs. control 4 ± 1%, P < 0.05) neurons was significantly increased after a single episode of hypoglycemia. Activation of C1 (n = 4; 12 ± 3%, P < 0.05) and C3 (n = 4; 19 ± 5%, P < 0.05) neurons was significantly reduced in the HAAF groups. Hypoglycemia prevention or treatment with naloxone did not restore the plasma epinephrine response or C1 and C3 neuronal activation. Thus repeated hypoglycemia reduced the activation of C1 and C3 neurons mediating adrenal medullary responses to subsequent bouts of hypoglycemia.
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- Zohra M Kakall
- The Heart Research Institute, Newtown, New South Wales, Australia
- Department of Physiology, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- The Heart Research Institute, Newtown, New South Wales, Australia
- Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- The Heart Research Institute, Newtown, New South Wales, Australia
- Department of Physiology, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle and Institute for Resilient Regions, University of Southern Queensland, Springfield, Queensland, Australia
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- The Heart Research Institute, Newtown, New South Wales, Australia
- Department of Physiology, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Physiology, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Hypoglycemia-activated Hypothalamic Microglia Impairs Glucose Counterregulatory Responses. Sci Rep 2019; 9:6224. [PMID: 30996341 PMCID: PMC6470310 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-42728-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2018] [Accepted: 04/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Glucose is a major fuel for the central nervous system and hypoglycemia is a significant homeostatic stressor, which elicits counterregulatory reactions. Hypothalamic metabolic- and stress-related neurons initiate these actions, however recruitment of glia in control such adaptive circuit remain unknown. Groups of fed- and fasted-, vehicle-injected, and fasted + insulin-injected male mice were compared in this study. Bolus insulin administration to fasted mice resulted in hypoglycemia, which increased hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis- and sympathetic activity, increased transcription of neuropeptide Y (Npy) and agouti-related peptide (Agrp) in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus and activated IBA1+ microglia in the hypothalamus. Activated microglia were found in close apposition to hypoglycemia-responsive NPY neurons. Inhibition of microglia by minocycline increased counterregulatory sympathetic response to hypoglycemia. Fractalkine-CX3CR1 signaling plays a role in control of microglia during hypoglycemia, because density and solidity of IBA1-ir profiles was attenuated in fasted, insulin-treated, CX3CR1 KO mice, which was parallel with exaggerated neuropeptide responses and higher blood glucose levels following insulin administration. Hypoglycemia increased Il-1b expression in the arcuate nucleus, while IL-1a/b knockout mice display improved glycemic control to insulin administration. In conclusion, activated microglia in the arcuate nucleus interferes with central counterregulatory responses to hypoglycemia. These results underscore involvement of microglia in hypothalamic regulation of glucose homeostasis.
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Parker LM, Sayyadi N, Staikopoulos V, Shrestha A, Hutchinson MR, Packer NH. Visualizing neuroinflammation with fluorescence and luminescent lanthanide-based in situ hybridization. J Neuroinflammation 2019; 16:65. [PMID: 30898121 PMCID: PMC6427895 DOI: 10.1186/s12974-019-1451-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2018] [Accepted: 03/11/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Neurokine signaling via the release of neurally active cytokines arises from glial reactivity and is mechanistically implicated in central nervous system (CNS) pathologies such as chronic pain, trauma, neurodegenerative diseases, and complex psychiatric illnesses. Despite significant advancements in the methodologies used to conjugate, incorporate, and visualize fluorescent molecules, imaging of rare yet high potency events within the CNS is restricted by the low signal to noise ratio experienced within the CNS. The brain and spinal cord have high cellular autofluorescence, making the imaging of critical neurokine signaling and permissive transcriptional cellular events unreliable and difficult in many cases. METHODS In this manuscript, we developed a method for background-free imaging of the transcriptional events that precede neurokine signaling using targeted mRNA transcripts labeled with luminescent lanthanide chelates and imaged via time-gated microscopy. To provide examples of the usefulness this method can offer to the field, the mRNA expression of toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) was visualized with traditional fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) or luminescent lanthanide chelate-based in situ hybridization (LISH) in mouse BV2 microglia or J774 macrophage phenotype cells following lipopolysaccharide stimulation. TLR4 mRNA staining using LISH- and FISH-based methods was also visualized in fixed spinal cord tissues from BALB/c mice with a chronic constriction model of neuropathic pain or a surgical sham model in order to demonstrate the application of this new methodology in CNS tissue samples. RESULTS Significant increases in TLR4 mRNA expression and autofluorescence were visualized over time in mouse BV2 microglia or mouse J774 macrophage phenotype cells following lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulation. When imaged in a background-free environment with LISH-based detection and time-gated microscopy, increased TLR4 mRNA was observed in BV2 microglia cells 4 h following LPS stimulation, which returned to near baseline levels by 24 h. Background-free imaging of mouse spinal cord tissues with LISH-based detection and time-gated microscopy demonstrated a high degree of regional TLR4 mRNA expression in BALB/c mice with a chronic constriction model of neuropathic pain compared to the surgical sham model. CONCLUSIONS Advantages offered by adopting this novel methodology for visualizing neurokine signaling with time-gated microscopy compared to traditional fluorescent microscopy are provided.
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- Lindsay M Parker
- Department of Molecular Sciences and ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale Biophotonics, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, 2109, Australia.
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- Department of Molecular Sciences and ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale Biophotonics, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, 2109, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale Biophotonics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.,School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Molecular Sciences and ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale Biophotonics, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, 2109, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale Biophotonics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.,School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Molecular Sciences and ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale Biophotonics, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, 2109, Australia.,Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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Lai CC, Yuan ZF, Chu LY, Chuang KT, Lin HH. Roles of cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript peptide in the rostral ventrolateral medulla in cardiovascular regulation in rats. Brain Res 2019; 1710:117-124. [PMID: 30610873 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2019.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2018] [Revised: 12/22/2018] [Accepted: 01/01/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript peptide (CARTp) is present in neurons and varicose fibers in the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) that is crucial in the control of cardiovascular function. Prior research indicated that intracisternal administration of CARTp evokes hypertension and accumulation of Fos in the RVLM. Despite the interaction among CARTp, cardiovascular effect, and the RVLM, no studies have directly examined whether CARTp participates in cardiovascular regulation in the RVLM. The current study directly examined the modulation of blood pressure and baroreflex sensitivity by CARTp in the RVLM in the different strain of rats. Immunohistochemical study showed that CARTp immunoreactive (CART-IR) cell bodies and varicose CART-IR fibers were observed throughout the RVLM in the SD, WKY, and SHRs. Varicose CART-IR nerve fibers were particularly abundant in the WKY and SHRs. Bilateral microinjection of CARTp (30 pmol) into the RVLM caused a significant increase in mean arterial pressure (MAP) in WKY and SHRs. Bilateral microinjection of CARTp antibody (1:5000) into the RVLM displayed a fall in the basal level of the MAP in SHRs but had no effects in WKY rats. In SD rats, bilateral microinjection of CARTp (6, 30 or 60 pmol) into the RVLM did not change the MAP but attenuated phenylephrine-induced bradycardia in a dose-dependent manner. We propose that CARTp acting in the RVLM may involvement in the cardiovascular regulation either by increases in the blood pressure or by decreases in the baroreflex sensitivity in rats. Moreover, endogenous CARTp in the RVLM is associated with the maintenance of basal blood pressure of SHRs.
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- Chih-Chia Lai
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien 970, Taiwan
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien 970, Taiwan; Master Program in Medical Physiology, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien 970, Taiwan
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- Master Program in Medical Physiology, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien 970, Taiwan
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- Master Program in Medical Physiology, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien 970, Taiwan
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien 970, Taiwan; Master Program in Medical Physiology, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien 970, Taiwan.
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Understanding cellular glycan surfaces in the central nervous system. Biochem Soc Trans 2018; 47:89-100. [PMID: 30559272 DOI: 10.1042/bst20180330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2018] [Revised: 10/21/2018] [Accepted: 11/06/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Glycosylation, the enzymatic process by which glycans are attached to proteins and lipids, is the most abundant and functionally important type of post-translational modification associated with brain development, neurodegenerative disorders, psychopathologies and brain cancers. Glycan structures are diverse and complex; however, they have been detected and targeted in the central nervous system (CNS) by various immunohistochemical detection methods using glycan-binding proteins such as anti-glycan antibodies or lectins and/or characterized with analytical techniques such as chromatography and mass spectrometry. The glycan structures on glycoproteins and glycolipids expressed in neural stem cells play key roles in neural development, biological processes and CNS maintenance, such as cell adhesion, signal transduction, molecular trafficking and differentiation. This brief review will highlight some of the important findings on differential glycan expression across stages of CNS cell differentiation and in pathological disorders and diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, schizophrenia and brain cancer.
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Senthilkumaran M, Bobrovskaya L, Verberne AJM, Llewellyn-Smith IJ. Insulin-responsive autonomic neurons in rat medulla oblongata. J Comp Neurol 2018; 526:2665-2682. [PMID: 30136719 DOI: 10.1002/cne.24523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2017] [Revised: 08/12/2018] [Accepted: 08/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Low blood glucose activates brainstem adrenergic and cholinergic neurons, driving adrenaline secretion from the adrenal medulla and glucagon release from the pancreas. Despite their roles in maintaining glucose homeostasis, the distributions of insulin-responsive adrenergic and cholinergic neurons in the medulla are unknown. We fasted rats overnight and gave them insulin (10 U/kg i.p.) or saline after 2 weeks of handling. Blood samples were collected before injection and before perfusion at 90 min. We immunoperoxidase-stained transverse sections of perfused medulla to show Fos plus either phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase (PNMT) or choline acetyltransferase (ChAT). Insulin injection lowered blood glucose from 4.9 ± 0.3 mmol/L to 1.7 ± 0.2 mmol/L (mean ± SEM; n = 6); saline injection had no effect. In insulin-treated rats, many PNMT-immunoreactive C1 neurons had Fos-immunoreactive nuclei, with the proportion of activated neurons being highest in the caudal part of the C1 column. In the rostral ventrolateral medulla, 33.3% ± 1.4% (n = 8) of C1 neurons were Fos-positive. Insulin also induced Fos in 47.2% ± 2.0% (n = 5) of dorsal medullary C3 neurons and in some C2 neurons. In the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus (DMV), insulin evoked Fos in many ChAT-positive neurons. Activated neurons were concentrated in the medial and middle regions of the DMV beneath and just rostral to the area postrema. In control rats, very few C1, C2, or C3 neurons and no DMV neurons were Fos-positive. The high numbers of PNMT-immunoreactive and ChAT-immunoreactive neurons that express Fos after insulin treatment reinforce the importance of these neurons in the central response to a decrease in glucose bioavailability.
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- M Senthilkumaran
- Cardiovascular Medicine, Human Physiology and Centre for Neuroscience, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia.,School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Unit, Department of Medicine-Austin Health, University of Melbourne, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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- Cardiovascular Medicine, Human Physiology and Centre for Neuroscience, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia
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The effects of recurrent hypoglycaemia and opioid antagonists on the adrenal catecholamine synthetic capacity in a rat model of HAAF. Auton Neurosci 2018; 210:76-80. [DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2017.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2017] [Revised: 12/15/2017] [Accepted: 12/15/2017] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Li AJ, Wang Q, Ritter S. Selective Pharmacogenetic Activation of Catecholamine Subgroups in the Ventrolateral Medulla Elicits Key Glucoregulatory Responses. Endocrinology 2018; 159:341-355. [PMID: 29077837 PMCID: PMC5761588 DOI: 10.1210/en.2017-00630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2017] [Accepted: 10/18/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Catecholamine (CA) neurons in the ventrolateral medulla (VLM) contribute importantly to glucoregulation during glucose deficit. However, it is not known which CA neurons elicit different glucoregulatory responses or whether selective activation of CA neurons is sufficient to elicit these responses. Therefore, to selectively activate CA subpopulations, we injected male or female Th-Cre+ transgenic rats with the Cre-dependent DREADD construct, AAV2-DIO-hSyn-hM3D(Gq)-mCherry, at one of four rostrocaudal levels of the VLM: rostral C1 (C1r), middle C1 (C1m), the area of A1 and C1 overlap (A1/C1), and A1. Transfection was highly selective for CA neurons at each site. Systemic injection of the Designer Receptor Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs (DREADD) receptor agonist, clozapine-N-oxide (CNO), stimulated feeding in rats transfected at C1r, C1m, or A1/C1 but not A1. CNO increased corticosterone secretion in rats transfected at C1m or A1/C1 but not A1. In contrast, CNO did not increase blood glucose or induce c-Fos expression in the spinal cord or adrenal medulla after transfection of any single VLM site but required dual transfection of both C1m and C1r, possibly indicating that CA neurons mediating blood glucose responses are more sparsely distributed in C1r and C1m than those mediating feeding and corticosterone secretion. These results show that selective activation of C1 CA neurons is sufficient to increase feeding, blood glucose levels, and corticosterone secretion and suggest that each of these responses is mediated by CA neurons concentrated at different levels of the C1 cell group.
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- Ai-Jun Li
- Programs in Neuroscience, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-7620
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- Programs in Neuroscience, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-7620
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- Programs in Neuroscience, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-7620
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Parker LM, Le S, Wearne TA, Hardwick K, Kumar NN, Robinson KJ, McMullan S, Goodchild AK. Neurochemistry of neurons in the ventrolateral medulla activated by hypotension: Are the same neurons activated by glucoprivation? J Comp Neurol 2017; 525:2249-2264. [PMID: 28295336 DOI: 10.1002/cne.24203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2016] [Revised: 03/02/2017] [Accepted: 03/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Previous studies have demonstrated that a range of stimuli activate neurons, including catecholaminergic neurons, in the ventrolateral medulla. Not all catecholaminergic neurons are activated and other neurochemical content is largely unknown hence whether stimulus specific populations exist is unclear. Here we determine the neurochemistry (using in situ hybridization) of catecholaminergic and noncatecholaminergic neurons which express c-Fos immunoreactivity throughout the rostrocaudal extent of the ventrolateral medulla, in Sprague Dawley rats treated with hydralazine or saline. Distinct neuronal populations containing PPCART, PPPACAP, and PPNPY mRNAs, which were largely catecholaminergic, were activated by hydralazine but not saline. Both catecholaminergic and noncatecholaminergic neurons containing preprotachykinin and prepro-enkephalin (PPE) mRNAs were also activated, with the noncatecholaminergic population located in the rostral C1 region. Few GlyT2 neurons were activated. A subset of these data was then used to compare the neuronal populations activated by 2-deoxyglucose evoked glucoprivation (Brain Structure and Function (2015) 220:117). Hydralazine activated more neurons than 2-deoxyglucose but similar numbers of catecholaminergic neurons. Commonly activated populations expressing PPNPY and PPE mRNAs were defined. These likely include PPNPY expressing catecholaminergic neurons projecting to vasopressinergic and corticotrophin releasing factor neurons in the paraventricular nucleus, which when activated result in elevated plasma vasopressin and corticosterone. Stimulus specific neurons included noncatecholaminergic neurons and a few PPE positive catecholaminergic neuron but neurochemical codes were largely unidentified. Reasons for the lack of identification of stimulus specific neurons, readily detectable using electrophysiology in anaesthetized preparations and for which neural circuits can be defined, are discussed.
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- Lindsay M Parker
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, 2109, Australia.,ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale Biophotonics, Macquarie University, NSW, 2109, Australia
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, 2109, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, 2109, Australia
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, 2109, Australia
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, 2109, Australia.,Department of Pharmacology, School of Medical Science, University of New South Wales, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, 2109, Australia
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, 2109, Australia
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, 2109, Australia
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This paper is the thirty-eighth consecutive installment of the annual review of research concerning the endogenous opioid system. It summarizes papers published during 2015 that studied the behavioral effects of molecular, pharmacological and genetic manipulation of opioid peptides, opioid receptors, opioid agonists and opioid antagonists. The particular topics that continue to be covered include the molecular-biochemical effects and neurochemical localization studies of endogenous opioids and their receptors related to behavior, and the roles of these opioid peptides and receptors in pain and analgesia, stress and social status, tolerance and dependence, learning and memory, eating and drinking, drug abuse and alcohol, sexual activity and hormones, pregnancy, development and endocrinology, mental illness and mood, seizures and neurologic disorders, electrical-related activity and neurophysiology, general activity and locomotion, gastrointestinal, renal and hepatic functions, cardiovascular responses, respiration and thermoregulation, and immunological responses.
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- Richard J Bodnar
- Department of Psychology and Neuropsychology Doctoral Sub-Program, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, United States.
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Novel imaging tools for investigating the role of immune signalling in the brain. Brain Behav Immun 2016; 58:40-47. [PMID: 27129634 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2016.04.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2015] [Revised: 04/05/2016] [Accepted: 04/25/2016] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The importance of neuro-immune interactions in both physiological and pathophysiological states cannot be overstated. As our appreciation for the neuroimmune nature of the brain and spinal cord grows, so does our need to extend the spatial and temporal resolution of our molecular analysis techniques. Current imaging technologies applied to investigate the actions of the neuroimmune system in both health and disease states have been adapted from the fields of immunology and neuroscience. While these classical techniques have provided immense insight into the function of the CNS, they are however, inherently limited. Thus, the development of innovative methods which overcome these limitations are crucial for imaging and quantifying acute and chronic neuroimmune responses. Therefore, this review aims to convey emerging novel and complementary imaging technologies in a form accessible to medical scientists engaging in neuroimmune research.
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Northoff G, Duncan NW. How do abnormalities in the brain's spontaneous activity translate into symptoms in schizophrenia? From an overview of resting state activity findings to a proposed spatiotemporal psychopathology. Prog Neurobiol 2016; 145-146:26-45. [PMID: 27531135 DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2016.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2015] [Revised: 07/15/2016] [Accepted: 08/08/2016] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Schizophrenia is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder with a variety of symptoms that include sensorimotor, affective, cognitive, and social changes. The exact neuronal mechanisms underlying these symptoms remain unclear though. Neuroimaging has focused mainly on the brain's extrinsic activity, specifically task-evoked or stimulus-induced activity, as related to the sensorimotor, affective, cognitive, and social functions. Recently, the focus has shifted to the brain's spontaneous activity, otherwise known as its resting state activity. While various spatial and temporal abnormalities have been observed in spontaneous activity in schizophrenia, their meaning and significance for the different psychopathological symptoms in schizophrenia, are yet to be defined. The first aim in this paper is to provide an overview of recent findings concerning changes in the spatial (e.g., functional connectivity) and temporal (e.g., couplings between different frequency fluctuations) properties of spontaneous activity in schizophrenia. The second aim is to link these spatiotemporal changes to the various psychopathological symptoms of schizophrenia, with a specific focus on basic symptoms, formal thought disorder, and ego-disturbances. Based on the various findings described, we postulate that the spatiotemporal changes on the neuronal level of the brain's spontaneous activity transform into corresponding spatiotemporal changes on the psychological level which, in turn, leads to the different kinds of psychopathological symptoms. We consequently suggest a spatiotemporal rather than cognitive or sensory approach to the condition, amounting to what we describe as "Spatiotemporal Psychopathology".
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- Georg Northoff
- Mental Health Centre, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China; University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research and University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada; Centre for Cognition and Brain Disorders, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China; Brain and Consciousness Research Centre, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Humanities in Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
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- Centre for Cognition and Brain Disorders, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China; Brain and Consciousness Research Centre, Shuang Ho Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Humanities in Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Qiu B, Bell RL, Cao Y, Zhang L, Stewart RB, Graves T, Lumeng L, Yong W, Liang T. Npy deletion in an alcohol non-preferring rat model elicits differential effects on alcohol consumption and body weight. J Genet Genomics 2016; 43:421-30. [PMID: 27461754 PMCID: PMC5055068 DOI: 10.1016/j.jgg.2016.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2015] [Revised: 04/21/2016] [Accepted: 04/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is widely expressed in the central nervous system and influences many physiological processes. It is located within the rat quantitative trait locus (QTL) for alcohol preference on chromosome 4. Alcohol-nonpreferring (NP) rats consume very little alcohol, but have significantly higher NPY expression in the brain than alcohol-preferring (P) rats. We capitalized on this phenotypic difference by creating an Npy knockout (KO) rat using the inbred NP background to evaluate NPY effects on alcohol consumption. Zinc finger nuclease (ZNF) technology was applied, resulting in a 26-bp deletion in the Npy gene. RT-PCR, Western blotting and immunohistochemistry confirmed the absence of Npy mRNA and protein in KO rats. Alcohol consumption was increased in Npy(+/-) but not Npy(-/-) rats, while Npy(-/-) rats displayed significantly lower body weight when compared to Npy(+/+) rats. In whole brain tissue, expression levels of Npy-related and other alcohol-associated genes, Npy1r, Npy2r, Npy5r, Agrp, Mc3r, Mc4r, Crh and Crh1r, were significantly greater in Npy(-/-) rats, whereas Pomc and Crhr2 expressions were highest in Npy(+/-) rats. These findings suggest that the NPY-system works in close coordination with the melanocortin (MC) and corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) systems to modulate alcohol intake and body weight.
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- Bin Qiu
- Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, China; Experimental Medicine Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sichuan Medical University, Luzhou 646000, China
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- Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, China
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- Department of Psychology, Purdue School of Science, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, China.
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
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The Effects of Insulin-Induced Hypoglycaemia on Tyrosine Hydroxylase Phosphorylation in Rat Brain and Adrenal Gland. Neurochem Res 2016; 41:1612-24. [PMID: 26935743 DOI: 10.1007/s11064-016-1875-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2015] [Accepted: 02/18/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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In this study we investigated the effects of insulin-induced hypoglycaemia on tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) protein and TH phosphorylation in the adrenal gland, C1 cell group, locus coeruleus (LC) and midbrain dopaminergic cell groups that are thought to play a role in response to hypoglycaemia and compared the effects of different concentrations of insulin in rats. Insulin (1 and 10 U/kg) treatment caused similar reductions in blood glucose concentration (from 7.5-9 to 2-3 mmol/L); however, plasma adrenaline concentration was increased 20-30 fold in response to 10 U/kg insulin and only 14 fold following 1 U/kg. Time course studies (at 10 U/kg insulin) revealed that in the adrenal gland, Ser31 phosphorylation was increased between 30 and 90 min (4-5 fold), implying that TH was activated to increase catecholamine synthesis in adrenal medulla to replenish the stores. In the brain, Ser19 phosphorylation was limited to certain dopaminergic groups in the midbrain, while Ser31 phosphorylation was increased in most catecholaminergic regions at 60 min (1.3-2 fold), suggesting that Ser31 phosphorylation may be an important mechanism to maintain catecholamine synthesis in the brain. Comparing the effects of 1 and 10 U/kg insulin revealed that Ser31 phosphorylation was increased to similar extent in the adrenal gland and C1 cell group in response to both doses whereas Ser31 and Ser19 phosphorylation were only increased in response to 1 U/kg insulin in LC and in response to 10 U/kg insulin in most midbrain regions. Thus, the adrenal gland and some catecholaminergic brain regions become activated in response to insulin administration and brain catecholamines may be important for initiation of physiological defences against insulin-induced hypoglycaemia.
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pSer40 tyrosine hydroxylase immunohistochemistry identifies the anatomical location of C1 neurons in rat RVLM that are activated by hypotension. Neuroscience 2016; 317:162-72. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.01.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2015] [Revised: 01/04/2016] [Accepted: 01/05/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Brainstem catecholaminergic neurons play key roles in the autonomic, neuroendocrine, and behavioral responses to glucoprivation, yet the functions of the individual groups are not fully understood. Adrenergic C3 neurons project widely throughout the brain, including densely to sympathetic preganglionic neurons in the spinal cord, yet their function is completely unknown. Here we demonstrate in rats that optogenetic stimulation of C3 neurons induces sympathoexcitatory, cardiovasomotor functions. These neurons are activated by glucoprivation, but unlike the C1 cell group, not by hypotension. The cardiovascular activation induced by C3 neurons is less than that induced by optogenetic stimulation of C1 neurons; however, combined stimulation produces additive sympathoexcitatory and cardiovascular effects. The varicose axons of C3 neurons largely overlap with those of C1 neurons in the region of sympathetic preganglionic neurons in the spinal cord; however, regional differences point to effects on different sympathetic outflows. These studies definitively demonstrate the first known function of C3 neurons as unique cardiovasomotor stimulatory cells, embedded in the brainstem networks regulating cardiorespiratory activity and the response to glucoprivation.
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