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Matsuyama M, Horiuchi J. A descending pathway from the lateral/ventrolateral PAG to the rostroventral medulla mediating the vasomotor response evoked by social defeat stress in rats. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2024; 327:R66-R78. [PMID: 38708545 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00295.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2023] [Revised: 04/15/2024] [Accepted: 04/25/2024] [Indexed: 05/07/2024]
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The stress-induced cardiovascular response is based on the defensive reaction in mammals. It has been shown that the sympathetic vasomotor pathway of acute psychological stress is indirectly mediated via neurons in the rostroventral medulla (RVM) from the hypothalamic stress center. In this study, direct projections to the RVM and distribution of neuroexcitatory marker c-Fos-expressed neurons were investigated during social defeat stress (SDS) in conscious rats. The experimental rat that was injected with a neural tracer, FluoroGold (FG) into the unilateral RVM, was exposed to the SDS. Double-positive neurons of both c-Fos and FG were locally distributed in the lateral/ventrolateral periaqueductal gray matter (l/vl PAG) in the midbrain. These results suggest that the neurons in the l/vl PAG contribute to the defensive reaction evoked by acute psychological stress, such as the SDS. During the SDS period, arterial pressure (AP) and heart rate (HR) showed sustained increases in the rat. Therefore, we performed chemical stimulation by excitatory amino acid microinjection within the l/vl PAG and measured cardiovascular response and sympathetic nerve activity in some anesthetized rats. The chemical stimulation of neurons in the l/vl PAG caused significant increases in arterial pressure and renal sympathetic nerve activity. Taken together, our results suggest that neurons in the l/vl PAG are a possible candidate for the cardiovascular descending pathway that modulates sympathetic vascular resistance evoked by acute psychological stress, like the SDS.NEW & NOTEWORTHY The sympathetic vasomotor pathway of an acute psychological stress-induced cardiovascular response is mediated via neurons in the RVM indirectly from the hypothalamus. In this study, we showed the relaying area of the efferent sympathetic vasomotor pathway from the hypothalamus to the RVM. The results suggested that the pressor response during psychological stress is mediated via neurons in the lateral/ventrolateral PAG to the RVM.
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- Mio Matsuyama
- Department of Biomedical EngineeringToyo UniversityKawagoeJapan
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- Department of Biomedical EngineeringToyo UniversityKawagoeJapan
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Braun J, Patel M, Kameneva T, Keatch C, Lambert G, Lambert E. Central stress pathways in the development of cardiovascular disease. Clin Auton Res 2024; 34:99-116. [PMID: 38104300 DOI: 10.1007/s10286-023-01008-x] [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: 08/30/2023] [Accepted: 12/02/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
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PURPOSE Mental stress is of essential consideration when assessing cardiovascular pathophysiology in all patient populations. Substantial evidence indicates associations among stress, cardiovascular disease and aberrant brain-body communication. However, our understanding of the flow of stress information in humans, is limited, despite the crucial insights this area may offer into future therapeutic targets for clinical intervention. METHODS Key terms including mental stress, cardiovascular disease and central control, were searched in PubMed, ScienceDirect and Scopus databases. Articles indicative of heart rate and blood pressure regulation, or central control of cardiovascular disease through direct neural innervation of the cardiac, splanchnic and vascular regions were included. Focus on human neuroimaging research and the flow of stress information is described, before brain-body connectivity, via pre-motor brainstem intermediates is discussed. Lastly, we review current understandings of pathophysiological stress and cardiovascular disease aetiology. RESULTS Structural and functional changes to corticolimbic circuitry encode stress information, integrated by the hypothalamus and amygdala. Pre-autonomic brain-body relays to brainstem and spinal cord nuclei establish dysautonomia and lead to alterations in baroreflex functioning, firing of the sympathetic fibres, cellular reuptake of norepinephrine and withdrawal of the parasympathetic reflex. The combined result is profoundly adrenergic and increases the likelihood of cardiac myopathy, arrhythmogenesis, coronary ischaemia, hypertension and the overall risk of future sudden stress-induced heart failure. CONCLUSIONS There is undeniable support that mental stress contributes to the development of cardiovascular disease. The emerging accumulation of large-scale multimodal neuroimaging data analytics to assess this relationship promises exciting novel therapeutic targets for future cardiovascular disease detection and prevention.
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- Joe Braun
- School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Melbourne, VIC, 3122, Australia.
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- School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Melbourne, VIC, 3122, Australia
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- Iverson Health Innovation Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- School of Science, Computing and Engineering Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
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- School of Science, Computing and Engineering Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
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- School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Melbourne, VIC, 3122, Australia
- Iverson Health Innovation Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
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- School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Melbourne, VIC, 3122, Australia
- Iverson Health Innovation Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
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Li S, Robert Keene J, Harris BN, Carr JA. Do categorically distinct stressors alter the attention to visual food cues? Gen Comp Endocrinol 2023; 337:114246. [PMID: 36878394 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2023.114246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2022] [Revised: 02/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/22/2023] [Indexed: 03/07/2023]
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Stressor exposure affects food intake as well as the preference for high or low palatability foods, but little is known about how stressor types impact the visual attention to food images. We used eye tracking methodology in humans to determine if activation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and sympathetic nervous system is associated with changes in attention to food images as determined by measuring changes in oculomotor activity. Specifically, we tested two questions: 1) Do categorically distinct stressors alter aspects of visual attention to food images as determined by oculomotor activity (i.e., saccade latency, gaze duration, and saccade bouts)? 2) Do categorically distinct stressors differentially affect visual attention to food images of high or low palatability? A total of sixty participants were randomly divided into one of three test groups: controls, an anticipatory stressor group, or a reactive stressor group. We measured salivary cortisol and salivary alpha-amylase (sAA) before and after stressor exposure to confirm activation of the HPA axis and sympathetic nervous system, respectively. Following stressor exposure participants performed an eye-tracking test using a standardized food picture database (Food-pics). We analyzed saccade latency, gaze duration, and saccade bouts in balanced pairs of food and non-food images. Salivary cortisol was elevated by both stressors, although the elevation in salivary cortisol to the reactive stressor was driven by women only. sAA was elevated only by the anticipatory stressor. There were main effects of image type for all three eye-tracking variables, with initial saccades of shorter latency to food images and longer gaze duration and more saccade bouts with food images. Participants exposed to the reactive stressor reduced gaze duration on food images relative to controls, and this affect was not linked to palatability or salivary cortisol levels. We conclude that the reactive stressor decreased time spent looking at food, but not non-food, images. These data are partly consistent with the idea that reactive stressors reduce attention to non-critical visual signals.
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- Songhe Li
- Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-3131, USA; Department of Ophthalmology, the First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- College of Media and Communication, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-3131, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-3131, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-3131, USA.
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Lynch E, Dempsey B, Saleeba C, Monteiro E, Turner A, Burke PGR, Allen AM, Dampney RAL, Hildreth CM, Cornish JL, Goodchild AK, McMullan S. Descending pathways from the superior colliculus mediating autonomic and respiratory effects associated with orienting behaviour. J Physiol 2022; 600:5311-5332. [PMID: 36271640 PMCID: PMC10107157 DOI: 10.1113/jp283789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2022] [Accepted: 10/14/2022] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The ability to discriminate competing external stimuli and initiate contextually appropriate behaviours is a key brain function. Neurons in the deep superior colliculus (dSC) integrate multisensory inputs and activate descending projections to premotor pathways responsible for orienting, attention and defence, behaviours which involve adjustments to respiratory and cardiovascular parameters. However, the neural pathways that subserve the physiological components of orienting are poorly understood. We report that orienting responses to optogenetic dSC stimulation are accompanied by short-latency autonomic, respiratory and electroencephalographic effects in awake rats, closely mimicking those evoked by naturalistic alerting stimuli. Physiological responses were not accompanied by detectable aversion or fear, and persisted under urethane anaesthesia, indicating independence from emotional stress. Anterograde and trans-synaptic viral tracing identified a monosynaptic pathway that links the dSC to spinally projecting neurons in the medullary gigantocellular reticular nucleus (GiA), a key hub for the coordination of orienting and locomotor behaviours. In urethane-anaesthetized animals, sympathoexcitatory and cardiovascular, but not respiratory, responses to dSC stimulation were replicated by optogenetic stimulation of the dSC-GiA terminals, suggesting a likely role for this pathway in mediating the autonomic components of dSC-mediated responses. Similarly, extracellular recordings from putative GiA sympathetic premotor neurons confirmed short-latency excitatory inputs from the dSC. This pathway represents a likely substrate for autonomic components of orienting responses that are mediated by dSC neurons and suggests a mechanism through which physiological and motor components of orienting behaviours may be integrated without the involvement of higher centres that mediate affective components of defensive responses. KEY POINTS: Neurons in the deep superior colliculus (dSC) integrate multimodal sensory signals to elicit context-dependent innate behaviours that are accompanied by stereotypical cardiovascular and respiratory activities. The pathways responsible for mediating the physiological components of colliculus-mediated orienting behaviours are unknown. We show that optogenetic dSC stimulation evokes transient orienting, respiratory and autonomic effects in awake rats which persist under urethane anaesthesia. Anterograde tracing from the dSC identified projections to spinally projecting neurons in the medullary gigantocellular reticular nucleus (GiA). Stimulation of this pathway recapitulated autonomic effects evoked by stimulation of dSC neurons. Electrophysiological recordings from putative GiA sympathetic premotor neurons confirmed short latency excitatory input from dSC neurons. This disynaptic dSC-GiA-spinal sympathoexcitatory pathway may underlie autonomic adjustments to salient environmental cues independent of input from higher centres.
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- Erin Lynch
- Macquarie Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Health & Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Macquarie Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Health & Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Macquarie Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Health & Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Macquarie Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Health & Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Macquarie Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Health & Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Macquarie Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Health & Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Medical Sciences (Physiology), University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Macquarie Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Health & Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Macquarie Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Health & Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Macquarie Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Health & Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Macquarie Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Health & Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Aikins AO, Little JT, Rybalchenko N, Cunningham JT. Norepinephrine innervation of the supraoptic nucleus contributes to increased copeptin and dilutional hyponatremia in male rats. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2022; 323:R797-R809. [PMID: 36189988 PMCID: PMC9639772 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00086.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2022] [Revised: 09/23/2022] [Accepted: 09/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Dilutional hyponatremia associated with liver cirrhosis is due to inappropriate release of arginine vasopressin (AVP). Elevated plasma AVP causes water retention resulting in a decrease in plasma osmolality. Cirrhosis, in this study caused by ligation of the common bile duct (BDL), leads to a decrease in central vascular blood volume and hypotension, stimuli for nonosmotic AVP release. The A1/A2 neurons stimulate the release of AVP from the supraoptic nucleus (SON) in response to nonosmotic stimuli. We hypothesize that the A1/A2 noradrenergic neurons support chronic release of AVP in cirrhosis leading to dilutional hyponatremia. Adult, male rats were anesthetized with 2-3% isoflurane (mixed with 95% O2/5% CO2) and injected in the SON with anti-dopamine β-hydroxylase (DBH) saporin (DSAP) or vehicle followed by either BDL or sham surgery. Plasma copeptin, osmolality, and hematocrit were measured. Brains were processed for ΔFosB, dopamine β-hydroxylase (DBH), and AVP immunohistochemistry. DSAP injection: 1) significantly reduced the number of DBH immunoreactive A1/A2 neurons (A1, P < 0.0001; A2, P = 0.0014), 2) significantly reduced the number of A1/A2 neurons immunoreactive to both DBH and ΔFosB positive neurons (A1, P = 0.0015; A2, P < 0.0001), 3) reduced the number of SON neurons immunoreactive to both AVP and ΔFosB (P < 0.0001), 4) prevented the increase in plasma copeptin observed in vehicle-injected BDL rats (P = 0.0011), and 5) normalized plasma osmolality and hematocrit (plasma osmolality, P = 0.0475; hematocrit, P = 0.0051) as compared with vehicle injection. Our data suggest that A1/A2 neurons contribute to increased plasma copeptin and hypoosmolality in male BDL rats.
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- Ato O Aikins
- Department of Physiology and Anatomy, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
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- Department of Physiology and Anatomy, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
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- Department of Physiology and Anatomy, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
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- Department of Physiology and Anatomy, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
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Schottelkotte KM, Crone SA. Forebrain control of breathing: Anatomy and potential functions. Front Neurol 2022; 13:1041887. [PMID: 36388186 PMCID: PMC9663927 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2022.1041887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2022] [Accepted: 10/11/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The forebrain plays important roles in many critical functions, including the control of breathing. We propose that the forebrain is important for ensuring that breathing matches current and anticipated behavioral, emotional, and physiological needs. This review will summarize anatomical and functional evidence implicating forebrain regions in the control of breathing. These regions include the cerebral cortex, extended amygdala, hippocampus, hypothalamus, and thalamus. We will also point out areas where additional research is needed to better understand the specific roles of forebrain regions in the control of breathing.
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- Karl M. Schottelkotte
- Department of Pharmacology and Systems Physiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States,Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States,Department of Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States,*Correspondence: Steven A. Crone
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Yamanaka K, Waki H. Conditional Regulation of Blood Pressure in Response to Emotional Stimuli by the Central Nucleus of the Amygdala in Rats. Front Physiol 2022; 13:820112. [PMID: 35721563 PMCID: PMC9198497 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.820112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2021] [Accepted: 04/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Humans and animals can determine whether a situation is favorable to them and act accordingly. For this, the autonomic tuning of the cardiovascular system to supply energy to active skeletal muscles through the circulatory system is as important as motor control. However, how the autonomic cardiovascular responses are regulated in dynamically changing environments and the neuronal mechanisms underlying these responses remain unclear. To resolve these issues, we recorded the blood pressure and heart rate of head-restrained rats during dynamically changing appetitive and aversive classical conditioning tasks. The rats displayed various associations between conditioned stimuli and unconditioned stimuli in appetitive (sucrose water), neutral (no outcome), and aversive (air puff) blocks. The blood pressure and heart rate in the appetitive block gradually increased in response to the reward-predicting cue and the response to the actual reward vigorously increased. The reward-predictive response was significantly higher than the responses obtained in the neutral and aversive condition blocks. To investigate whether the reward-predictive pressor response was caused by orofacial movements such as anticipatory licking behavior, we separately analyzed high- and low-licking trials. The conditioned pressor response was observed even in trials with low-licking behaviors. Blood pressure and heart rate responses to the air puff-predicting cue in the aversive block were not significantly different from the responses in the neutral block. The conditioned blood pressure response rapidly changed with condition block switching. Furthermore, to examine the contribution of the amygdala as an emotion center to these conditioned responses, we bilaterally microinjected a GABAA receptor agonist, muscimol, into the central nucleus of the amygdala. Pharmacological inactivation of the central nucleus of the amygdala significantly decreased the reward-predictive pressor responses. These results suggest that the blood pressure is adaptively and rapidly regulated by emotional conditioned stimuli and that the central nucleus of the amygdala participates in regulating the pressor response in dynamically changing situations.
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- Ko Yamanaka
- Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Health and Sports Science, Juntendo University, Inzai, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Health and Sports Science, Juntendo University, Inzai, Japan.,Institute of Health and Sports Science and Medicine, Juntendo University, Inzai, Japan
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Thrivikraman KV, Kinkead B, Owens MJ, Rapaport MH, Plotsky PM. Locus Coeruleus Noradrenergic Modulation of Diurnal Corticosterone, Stress Reactivity, and Cardiovascular Homeostasis in Male Rats. Neuroendocrinology 2022; 112:763-776. [PMID: 34649254 PMCID: PMC9037608 DOI: 10.1159/000520192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2021] [Accepted: 10/13/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Activation of the locus coeruleus-noradrenergic (LC-NA) system during awakening is associated with an increase in plasma corticosterone and cardiovascular tone. These studies evaluate the role of the LC in this corticosterone and cardiovascular response. METHODS Male rats, on day 0, were treated intraperitoneally with either DSP4 (50 mg/kg body weight) (DSP), an LC-NA specific neurotoxin, or normal saline (SAL). On day 10, animals were surgically prepared with jugular vein (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal [HPA] axis) or carotid artery (hemodynamics) catheters and experiments performed on day 14. HPA axis activity, diurnally (circadian) and after stress (transient hemorrhage [14 mL/kg body weight] or air puff-startle), and basal and post-hemorrhage hemodynamics were evaluated. On day 16, brain regions from a subset of rats were dissected for norepinephrine and corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) assay. RESULTS In DSP rats compared to SAL rats, (1) regional brain norepinephrine was decreased, but there was no change in median eminence or olfactory bulb CRF content; (2) during HPA axis acrophase, the plasma corticosterone response was blunted; (3) after hemorrhage and air puff-startle, the plasma adrenocorticotropic hormone response was attenuated, whereas the corticosterone response was dependent on stressor category; (4) under basal conditions, hemodynamic measures exhibited altered blood flow dynamics and systemic vasodilation; and (5) after hemorrhage, hemodynamics exhibited asynchronous responses. CONCLUSION LC-NA modulation of diurnal and stress-induced HPA axis reactivity occurs via distinct neurocircuits. The integrity of the LC-NA system is important to maintain blood flow dynamics. The importance of increases in plasma corticosterone at acrophase to maintain short- and long-term cardiovascular homeostasis is discussed.
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- K. V. Thrivikraman
- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Huntsman Mental Health Institute, Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Huntsman Mental Health Institute, Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Nakamura K, Morrison SF. Central sympathetic network for thermoregulatory responses to psychological stress. Auton Neurosci 2021; 237:102918. [PMID: 34823147 DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2021.102918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2021] [Revised: 11/05/2021] [Accepted: 11/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In mammals, many types of psychological stressors elicit a variety of sympathoexcitatory responses paralleling the classic fight-or-flight response to a threat to survival, including increased body temperature via brown adipose tissue thermogenesis and cutaneous vasoconstriction, and increased skeletal muscle blood flow via tachycardia and visceral vasoconstriction. Although these responses are usually supportive for stress coping, aberrant sympathetic responses to stress can lead to clinical issues in psychosomatic medicine. Sympathetic stress responses are mediated mostly by sympathetic premotor drives from the rostral medullary raphe region (rMR) and partly by those from the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM). Hypothalamomedullary descending pathways from the dorsomedial hypothalamus (DMH) to the rMR and RVLM mediate important, stress-driven sympathoexcitatory transmission to the premotor neurons to drive the thermal and cardiovascular responses. The DMH also likely sends an excitatory input to the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus to stimulate stress hormone release. Neurons in the DMH receive a stress-related excitation from the dorsal peduncular cortex and dorsal tenia tecta (DP/DTT) in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. By connecting the corticolimbic emotion circuit to the central sympathetic and somatic motor systems, the DP/DTT → DMH pathway plays as the primary mediator of the psychosomatic signaling that drives a variety of sympathetic and behavioral stress responses. These brain regions together with other stress-related regions constitute a central neural network for physiological stress responses. This network model is relevant to understanding the central mechanisms by which stress and emotions affect autonomic regulations of homeostasis and to developing new therapeutic strategies for various stress-related disorders.
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- Kazuhiro Nakamura
- Department of Integrative Physiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan.
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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A hypothalamomedullary network for physiological responses to environmental stresses. Nat Rev Neurosci 2021; 23:35-52. [PMID: 34728833 DOI: 10.1038/s41583-021-00532-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Various environmental stressors, such as extreme temperatures (hot and cold), pathogens, predators and insufficient food, can threaten life. Remarkable progress has recently been made in understanding the central circuit mechanisms of physiological responses to such stressors. A hypothalamomedullary neural pathway from the dorsomedial hypothalamus (DMH) to the rostral medullary raphe region (rMR) regulates sympathetic outflows to effector organs for homeostasis. Thermal and infection stress inputs to the preoptic area dynamically alter the DMH → rMR transmission to elicit thermoregulatory, febrile and cardiovascular responses. Psychological stress signalling from a ventromedial prefrontal cortical area to the DMH drives sympathetic and behavioural responses for stress coping, representing a psychosomatic connection from the corticolimbic emotion circuit to the autonomic and somatic motor systems. Under starvation stress, medullary reticular neurons activated by hunger signalling from the hypothalamus suppress thermogenic drive from the rMR for energy saving and prime mastication to promote food intake. This Perspective presents a combined neural network for environmental stress responses, providing insights into the central circuit mechanism for the integrative regulation of systemic organs.
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Cano G, Hernan SL, Sved AF. Centrally Projecting Edinger-Westphal Nucleus in the Control of Sympathetic Outflow and Energy Homeostasis. Brain Sci 2021; 11:1005. [PMID: 34439626 PMCID: PMC8392615 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11081005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2021] [Revised: 07/13/2021] [Accepted: 07/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The centrally projecting Edinger-Westphal nucleus (EWcp) is a midbrain neuronal group, adjacent but segregated from the preganglionic Edinger-Westphal nucleus that projects to the ciliary ganglion. The EWcp plays a crucial role in stress responses and in maintaining energy homeostasis under conditions that require an adjustment of energy expenditure, by virtue of modulating heart rate and blood pressure, thermogenesis, food intake, and fat and glucose metabolism. This modulation is ultimately mediated by changes in the sympathetic outflow to several effector organs, including the adrenal gland, heart, kidneys, brown and white adipose tissues and pancreas, in response to environmental conditions and the animal's energy state, providing for appropriate energy utilization. Classic neuroanatomical studies have shown that the EWcp receives inputs from forebrain regions involved in these functions and projects to presympathetic neuronal populations in the brainstem. Transneuronal tracing with pseudorabies virus has demonstrated that the EWcp is connected polysynaptically with central circuits that provide sympathetic innervation to all these effector organs that are critical for stress responses and energy homeostasis. We propose that EWcp integrates multimodal signals (stress, thermal, metabolic, endocrine, etc.) and modulates the sympathetic output simultaneously to multiple effector organs to maintain energy homeostasis under different conditions that require adjustments of energy demands.
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- Georgina Cano
- Department of Neuroscience, A210 Langley Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA; (S.L.H.); (A.F.S.)
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Tenorio-Lopes L, Kinkead R. Sex-Specific Effects of Stress on Respiratory Control: Plasticity, Adaptation, and Dysfunction. Compr Physiol 2021; 11:2097-2134. [PMID: 34107062 DOI: 10.1002/cphy.c200022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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As our understanding of respiratory control evolves, we appreciate how the basic neurobiological principles of plasticity discovered in other systems shape the development and function of the respiratory control system. While breathing is a robust homeostatic function, there is growing evidence that stress disrupts respiratory control in ways that predispose to disease. Neonatal stress (in the form of maternal separation) affects "classical" respiratory control structures such as the peripheral O2 sensors (carotid bodies) and the medulla (e.g., nucleus of the solitary tract). Furthermore, early life stress disrupts the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVH), a structure that has emerged as a primary determinant of the intensity of the ventilatory response to hypoxia. Although underestimated, the PVH's influence on respiratory function is a logical extension of the hypothalamic control of metabolic demand and supply. In this article, we review the functional and anatomical links between the stress neuroendocrine axis and the medullary network regulating breathing. We then present the persistent and sex-specific effects of neonatal stress on respiratory control in adult rats. The similarities between the respiratory phenotype of stressed rats and clinical manifestations of respiratory control disorders such as sleep-disordered breathing and panic attacks are remarkable. These observations are in line with the scientific consensus that the origins of adult disease are often found among developmental and biological disruptions occurring during early life. These observations bring a different perspective on the structural hierarchy of respiratory homeostasis and point to new directions in our understanding of the etiology of respiratory control disorders. © 2021 American Physiological Society. Compr Physiol 11:1-38, 2021.
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- Luana Tenorio-Lopes
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Département de Pédiatrie, Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
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Holt MK, Rinaman L. The role of nucleus of the solitary tract glucagon-like peptide-1 and prolactin-releasing peptide neurons in stress: anatomy, physiology and cellular interactions. Br J Pharmacol 2021; 179:642-658. [PMID: 34050926 PMCID: PMC8820208 DOI: 10.1111/bph.15576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2021] [Revised: 05/04/2021] [Accepted: 05/17/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Neuroendocrine, behavioural and autonomic responses to stressful stimuli are orchestrated by complex neural circuits. The caudal nucleus of the solitary tract (cNTS) in the dorsomedial hindbrain is uniquely positioned to integrate signals of both interoceptive and psychogenic stress. Within the cNTS, glucagon‐like peptide‐1 (GLP‐1) and prolactin‐releasing peptide (PrRP) neurons play crucial roles in organising neural responses to a broad range of stressors. In this review we discuss the anatomical and functional overlap between PrRP and GLP‐1 neurons. We outline their co‐activation in response to stressful stimuli and their importance as mediators of behavioural and physiological stress responses. Finally, we review evidence that PrRP neurons are downstream of GLP‐1 neurons and outline unexplored areas of the research field. Based on the current state‐of‐knowledge, PrRP and GLP‐1 neurons may be compelling targets in the treatment of stress‐related disorders.
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- Marie K Holt
- Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
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Marchi-Coelho C, Costa-Ferreira W, Reis-Silva LL, Crestani CC. Angiotensinergic Neurotransmissions in the Medial Amygdala Nucleus Modulate Behavioral Changes in the Forced Swimming Test Evoked by Acute Restraint Stress in Rats. Cells 2021; 10:1217. [PMID: 34067508 PMCID: PMC8156471 DOI: 10.3390/cells10051217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2021] [Revised: 05/07/2021] [Accepted: 05/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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We investigated the role of angiotensin II type 1 (AT1 receptor) and type 2 (AT2 receptor) and MAS receptors present in the medial amygdaloid nucleus (MeA) in behavioral changes in the forced swimming test (FST) evoked by acute restraint stress in male rats. For this, rats received bilateral microinjection of either the selective AT1 receptor antagonist losartan, the selective AT2 receptor antagonist PD123319, the selective MAS receptor antagonist A-779, or vehicle 10 min before a 60 min restraint session. Then, behavior in the FST was evaluated immediately after the restraint (15 min session) and 24 h later (5 min session). The behavior in the FST of a non-stressed group was also evaluated. We observed that acute restraint stress decreased immobility during both sessions of the FST in animals treated with vehicle in the MeA. The decreased immobility during the first session was inhibited by intra-MeA administration of PD123319, whereas the effect during the second session was not identified in animals treated with A-779 into the MeA. Microinjection of PD123319 into the MeA also affected the pattern of active behaviors (i.e., swimming and climbing) during the second session of the FST. Taken together, these results indicate an involvement of angiotensinergic neurotransmissions within the MeA in behavioral changes in the FST evoked by stress.
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MESH Headings
- Angiotensin Receptor Antagonists/pharmacology
- Angiotensins/metabolism
- Animals
- Behavior, Animal/drug effects
- Corticomedial Nuclear Complex/drug effects
- Corticomedial Nuclear Complex/metabolism
- Corticomedial Nuclear Complex/physiopathology
- Disease Models, Animal
- Male
- Motor Activity/drug effects
- Proto-Oncogene Mas
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/metabolism
- Rats, Wistar
- Reaction Time
- Receptor, Angiotensin, Type 1/metabolism
- Receptor, Angiotensin, Type 2/metabolism
- Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled/antagonists & inhibitors
- Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled/metabolism
- Renin-Angiotensin System/drug effects
- Restraint, Physical
- Signal Transduction
- Stress, Psychological/etiology
- Stress, Psychological/metabolism
- Stress, Psychological/physiopathology
- Stress, Psychological/psychology
- Swimming
- Time Factors
- Rats
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- Camila Marchi-Coelho
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, SP 14800-903, Brazil; (C.M.-C.); (W.C.-F.); (L.L.R.-S.)
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, SP 14800-903, Brazil; (C.M.-C.); (W.C.-F.); (L.L.R.-S.)
- Joint UFSCar-UNESP Graduate Program in Physiological Sciences, São Carlos, SP 13565-905, Brazil
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, SP 14800-903, Brazil; (C.M.-C.); (W.C.-F.); (L.L.R.-S.)
- Joint UFSCar-UNESP Graduate Program in Physiological Sciences, São Carlos, SP 13565-905, Brazil
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, SP 14800-903, Brazil; (C.M.-C.); (W.C.-F.); (L.L.R.-S.)
- Joint UFSCar-UNESP Graduate Program in Physiological Sciences, São Carlos, SP 13565-905, Brazil
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Suarez-Roca H, Mamoun N, Sigurdson MI, Maixner W. Baroreceptor Modulation of the Cardiovascular System, Pain, Consciousness, and Cognition. Compr Physiol 2021; 11:1373-1423. [PMID: 33577130 DOI: 10.1002/cphy.c190038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Baroreceptors are mechanosensitive elements of the peripheral nervous system that maintain cardiovascular homeostasis by coordinating the responses to external and internal environmental stressors. While it is well known that carotid and cardiopulmonary baroreceptors modulate sympathetic vasomotor and parasympathetic cardiac neural autonomic drive, to avoid excessive fluctuations in vascular tone and maintain intravascular volume, there is increasing recognition that baroreceptors also modulate a wide range of non-cardiovascular physiological responses via projections from the nucleus of the solitary tract to regions of the central nervous system, including the spinal cord. These projections regulate pain perception, sleep, consciousness, and cognition. In this article, we summarize the physiology of baroreceptor pathways and responses to baroreceptor activation with an emphasis on the mechanisms influencing cardiovascular function, pain perception, consciousness, and cognition. Understanding baroreceptor-mediated effects on cardiac and extra-cardiac autonomic activities will further our understanding of the pathophysiology of multiple common clinical conditions, such as chronic pain, disorders of consciousness (e.g., abnormalities in sleep-wake), and cognitive impairment, which may result in the identification and implementation of novel treatment modalities. © 2021 American Physiological Society. Compr Physiol 11:1373-1423, 2021.
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- Heberto Suarez-Roca
- Department of Anesthesiology, Center for Translational Pain Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Landspitali, University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Center for Translational Pain Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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Costa-Ferreira W, Gomes-de-Souza L, Crestani CC. Role of angiotensin receptors in the medial amygdaloid nucleus in autonomic, baroreflex and cardiovascular changes evoked by chronic stress in rats. Eur J Neurosci 2021; 53:763-777. [PMID: 33372338 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.15094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2020] [Revised: 12/09/2020] [Accepted: 12/22/2020] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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This study investigated the role of AT1 , AT2 and Mas angiotensinergic receptors within the MeA in autonomic, cardiovascular and baroreflex changes evoked by a 10-day (1 hr daily) repeated restraint stress (RRS) protocol. Analysis of cardiovascular function after the end of the RRS protocol indicated increased values of arterial pressure, without heart rate changes. Arterial pressure increase was not affected by acute MeA treatment after the RRS with either the selective AT1 receptor antagonist losartan, the selective AT2 receptor antagonist PD123319 or the selective Mas receptor antagonist A-779. Analysis of heart rate variability indicated that RRS increased the sympathetic tone to the heart, which was inhibited by MeA treatment with either losartan, PD123319 or A-779. Baroreflex function assessed using the pharmacological approach via intravenous infusion of vasoactive agents revealed a facilitation of tachycardia evoked by blood pressure decrease in chronically stressed animals, which was inhibited by MeA treatment with losartan. Conversely, baroreflex responses during spontaneous fluctuations of blood pressure were impaired by RRS, and this effect was not affected by injection of the angiotensinergic receptor antagonists into the MeA. Altogether, the data reported in the present study suggest an involvement of both angiotensinergic receptors present in the MeA in autonomic imbalance evoked by RRS, as well as an involvement of MeA AT1 receptor in the enhanced baroreflex responses during full range of blood pressure changes. Results also indicate that RRS-evoked increase in arterial pressure and impairment of baroreflex responses during spontaneous variations of arterial pressure are independent of MeA angiotensinergic receptors.
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- Willian Costa-Ferreira
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, Brazil.,Joint UFSCar-UNESP Graduate Program in Physiological Sciences, São Carlos, Brazil
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, Brazil.,Joint UFSCar-UNESP Graduate Program in Physiological Sciences, São Carlos, Brazil
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, Brazil.,Joint UFSCar-UNESP Graduate Program in Physiological Sciences, São Carlos, Brazil
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Henderson LA, Macefield VG. The role of the dorsomedial and ventromedial hypothalamus in regulating behaviorally coupled and resting autonomic drive. HANDBOOK OF CLINICAL NEUROLOGY 2021; 180:187-200. [PMID: 34225929 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-820107-7.00012-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Nearly a century ago it was reported that stimulation of the hypothalamus could evoke profound behavioral state changes coupled with altered autonomic function. Since these initial observations, further studies in animals have revealed that two hypothalamic regions-the dorsomedial and ventromedial hypothalamic nuclei-are critical for numerous behaviors, including those in response to psychological stressors. These behaviors are coupled with changes in autonomic functions, such as altered blood pressure, heart rate, sympathetic nerve activity, resetting of the baroreflex and changes in pituitary function. There is also growing evidence that these two hypothalamic regions play a critical role in thermogenesis, and suggestions they could also be responsible for the hypertension associated with obesity. The aim of this chapter is to review the anatomy, projection patterns, and function of the dorsomedial and ventromedial hypothalamus with a particular focus on their role in autonomic regulation. While most of what is known about these two hypothalamic regions is derived from laboratory animal experiments, recent human studies will also be explored. Finally, we will describe recent human brain imaging studies that provide evidence of a role for these hypothalamic regions in setting resting sympathetic drive and their potential role in conditions such as hypertension.
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- Luke A Henderson
- Department of Anatomy & Histology, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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- Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Department of Anatomy and Physiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Barretto-de-Souza L, Benini R, Reis-Silva LL, Crestani CC. Corticotropin-releasing factor neurotransmission in the lateral hypothalamus modulates the tachycardiac response during acute emotional stress in rats. Brain Res Bull 2020; 166:102-109. [PMID: 33227387 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2020.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2020] [Revised: 10/25/2020] [Accepted: 11/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The lateral hypothalamus (LH) is implicated in the physiological and behavioral responses during stressful events. However, the local neurochemical mechanisms related to control of stress responses by this hypothalamic area are not completely understood. Therefore, in this study we evaluated the involvement of CRFergic neurotransmission acting through the CRF1 receptor within the LH in cardiovascular responses evoked by an acute session of restraint stress in rats. For this, we investigated the effect of bilateral microinjection of different doses (0.01, 0.1 and 1 nmol/100 nL) of the selective CRF1 receptor antagonist CP376395 into the LH on arterial pressure and heart rate increases and decrease in tail skin temperature evoked by acute restraint stress. We found that all doses of the CRF1 receptor antagonist microinjected into the LH decreased the restraint-evoked tachycardia, but without affecting the arterial pressure and tail skin temperature responses. Additionally, treatment of the LH with CP376395 at the doses of 0.1 and 1 nmol/100 nL increased the basal values of both heart rate and arterial pressure, whereas the dose of 0.1 nmol/100 nL decreased the skin temperature. Taken together, these findings indicate that CRFergic neurotransmission in the LH, acting through activation of local CRF1 receptors, plays a facilitatory role in the tachycardia observed during aversive threats, but without affecting the pressor and tail skin temperature responses. Our results also provide evidence that LH CRFergic neurotransmission in involved in tonic maintenance of cardiovascular function.
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- Lucas Barretto-de-Souza
- Laboratory of Pharmacology, São Paulo State University (UNESP), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Araraquara, SP, Brazil; Joint UFSCar-UNESP Graduate Program in Physiological Sciences, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Pharmacology, São Paulo State University (UNESP), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Araraquara, SP, Brazil; Joint UFSCar-UNESP Graduate Program in Physiological Sciences, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Pharmacology, São Paulo State University (UNESP), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Araraquara, SP, Brazil; Joint UFSCar-UNESP Graduate Program in Physiological Sciences, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Pharmacology, São Paulo State University (UNESP), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Araraquara, SP, Brazil; Joint UFSCar-UNESP Graduate Program in Physiological Sciences, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
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Gauda EB, Conde S, Bassi M, Zoccal DB, Almeida Colombari DS, Colombari E, Despotovic N. Leptin: Master Regulator of Biological Functions that Affects Breathing. Compr Physiol 2020; 10:1047-1083. [PMID: 32941688 DOI: 10.1002/cphy.c190031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Obesity is a global epidemic in developed countries accounting for many of the metabolic and cardiorespiratory morbidities that occur in adults. These morbidities include type 2 diabetes, sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), obstructive sleep apnea, chronic intermittent hypoxia, and hypertension. Leptin, produced by adipocytes, is a master regulator of metabolism and of many other biological functions including central and peripheral circuits that control breathing. By binding to receptors on cells and neurons in the brainstem, hypothalamus, and carotid body, leptin links energy and metabolism to breathing. In this comprehensive article, we review the central and peripheral locations of leptin's actions that affect cardiorespiratory responses during health and disease, with a particular focus on obesity, SDB, and its effects during early development. Obesity-induced hyperleptinemia is associated with centrally mediated hypoventilation with decrease CO2 sensitivity. On the other hand, hyperleptinemia augments peripheral chemoreflexes to hypoxia and induces sympathoexcitation. Thus, "leptin resistance" in obesity is relative. We delineate the circuits responsible for these divergent effects, including signaling pathways. We review the unique effects of leptin during development on organogenesis, feeding behavior, and cardiorespiratory responses, and how undernutrition and overnutrition during critical periods of development can lead to cardiorespiratory comorbidities in adulthood. We conclude with suggestions for future directions to improve our understanding of leptin dysregulation and associated clinical diseases and possible therapeutic targets. Lastly, we briefly discuss the yin and the yang, specifically the contribution of relative adiponectin deficiency in adults with hyperleptinemia to the development of metabolic and cardiovascular disease. © 2020 American Physiological Society. Compr Physiol 10:1047-1083, 2020.
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- Estelle B Gauda
- Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- CEDOC, NOVA Medical School, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Pathology, School of Dentistry, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Maric V, Ramanathan D, Mishra J. Respiratory regulation & interactions with neuro-cognitive circuitry. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2020; 112:95-106. [PMID: 32027875 PMCID: PMC10092293 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2019] [Revised: 01/17/2020] [Accepted: 02/02/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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It is increasingly being recognized that active control of breathing - a key aspect of ancient Vedic meditative practices, can relieve stress and anxiety and improve cognition. However, the underlying mechanisms of respiratory modulation of neurophysiology are just beginning to be elucidated. Research shows that brainstem circuits involved in the motor control of respiration receive input from and can directly modulate activity in subcortical circuits, affecting emotion and arousal. Meanwhile, brain regions involved in the sensory aspects of respiration, such as the olfactory bulb, are like-wise linked with wide-spread brain oscillations; and perturbing olfactory bulb activity can significantly affect both mood and cognition. Thus, via both motor and sensory pathways, there are clear mechanisms by which brain activity is entrained to the respiratory cycle. Here, we review evidence gathered across multiple species demonstrating the links between respiration, entrainment of brain activity and functional relevance for affecting mood and cognition. We also discuss further linkages with cardiac rhythms, and the potential translational implications for biorhythm monitoring and regulation in neuropsychiatric disorders.
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- Vojislav Maric
- Neural Engineering and Translation Labs, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Neural Engineering and Translation Labs, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; Department of Mental Health, VA San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Neural Engineering and Translation Labs, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
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Synaptic Inputs to the Mouse Dorsal Vagal Complex and Its Resident Preproglucagon Neurons. J Neurosci 2019; 39:9767-9781. [PMID: 31666353 PMCID: PMC6891065 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2145-19.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2019] [Revised: 10/07/2019] [Accepted: 10/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Stress responses are coordinated by widespread neural circuits. Homeostatic and psychogenic stressors activate preproglucagon (PPG) neurons in the caudal nucleus of the solitary tract (cNTS) that produce glucagon-like peptide-1; published work in rodents indicates that these neurons play a crucial role in stress responses. While the axonal targets of PPG neurons are well established, their afferent inputs are unknown. Stress responses are coordinated by widespread neural circuits. Homeostatic and psychogenic stressors activate preproglucagon (PPG) neurons in the caudal nucleus of the solitary tract (cNTS) that produce glucagon-like peptide-1; published work in rodents indicates that these neurons play a crucial role in stress responses. While the axonal targets of PPG neurons are well established, their afferent inputs are unknown. Here we use retrograde tracing with cholera toxin subunit b to show that the cNTS in male and female mice receives axonal inputs similar to those reported in rats. Monosynaptic and polysynaptic inputs specific to cNTS PPG neurons were revealed using Cre-conditional pseudorabies and rabies viruses. The most prominent sources of PPG monosynaptic input include the lateral (LH) and paraventricular (PVN) nuclei of the hypothalamus, parasubthalamic nucleus, lateral division of the central amygdala, and Barrington's nucleus (Bar). Additionally, PPG neurons receive monosynaptic vagal sensory input from the nodose ganglia and spinal sensory input from the dorsal horn. Sources of polysynaptic input to cNTS PPG neurons include the hippocampal formation, paraventricular thalamus, and prefrontal cortex. Finally, cNTS-projecting neurons within PVN, LH, and Bar express the activation marker cFOS in mice after restraint stress, identifying them as potential sources of neurogenic stress-induced recruitment of PPG neurons. In summary, cNTS PPG neurons in mice receive widespread monosynaptic and polysynaptic input from brain regions implicated in coordinating behavioral and physiological stress responses, as well as from vagal and spinal sensory neurons. Thus, PPG neurons are optimally positioned to integrate signals of homeostatic and psychogenic stress. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Recent research has indicated a crucial role for glucagon-like peptide-1-producing preproglucagon (PPG) neurons in regulating both appetite and behavioral and autonomic responses to acute stress. Intriguingly, the central glucagon-like peptide-1 system defined in rodents is conserved in humans, highlighting the translational importance of understanding its anatomical organization. Findings reported here indicate that PPG neurons receive significant monosynaptic and polysynaptic input from brain regions implicated in autonomic and behavioral responses to stress, as well as direct input from vagal and spinal sensory neurons. Improved understanding of the neural pathways underlying the recruitment of PPG neurons may facilitate the development of novel therapies for the treatment of stress-related disorders.
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Lakstygal AM, de Abreu MS, Lifanov DA, Wappler-Guzzetta EA, Serikuly N, Alpsyshov ET, Wang D, Wang M, Tang Z, Yan D, Demin KA, Volgin AD, Amstislavskaya TG, Wang J, Song C, Alekseeva P, Kalueff AV. Zebrafish models of diabetes-related CNS pathogenesis. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2019; 92:48-58. [PMID: 30476525 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2018.11.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2018] [Revised: 11/18/2018] [Accepted: 11/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a common metabolic disorder that affects multiple organ systems. DM also affects brain processes, contributing to various CNS disorders, including depression, anxiety and Alzheimer's disease. Despite active research in humans, rodent models and in-vitro systems, the pathogenetic link between DM and brain disorders remains poorly understood. Novel translational models and new model organisms are therefore essential to more fully study the impact of DM on CNS. The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a powerful novel model species to study metabolic and CNS disorders. Here, we discuss how DM alters brain functions and behavior in zebrafish, and summarize their translational relevance to studying DM-related CNS pathogenesis in humans. We recognize the growing utility of zebrafish models in translational DM research, as they continue to improve our understanding of different brain pathologies associated with DM, and may foster the discovery of drugs that prevent or treat these diseases.
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- Anton M Lakstygal
- Institute of Translational Biomedicine, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia; Laboratory of Preclinical Bioscreening, Granov Russian Research Center of Radiology and Surgical Technologies, Ministry of Healthcare of Russian Federation, Pesochny, Russia
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- Bioscience Institute, University of Passo Fundo (UPF), Passo Fundo, RS, Brazil; The International Zebrafish Neuroscience Research Consortium (ZNRC), Slidell, LA, USA
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- Institute of Translational Biomedicine, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia; Laboratory of Preclinical Bioscreening, Granov Russian Research Center of Radiology and Surgical Technologies, Ministry of Healthcare of Russian Federation, Pesochny, Russia; School of Pharmacy, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Institute of Experimental Medicine, Almazov National Medical Research Centre, Ministry of Healthcare of Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, Russia; Laboratory of Biological Psychiatry, Institute of Translational Biomedicine, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Scientific Research Institute of Physiology and Basic Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute for Marine Drugs and Nutrition, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China; Marine Medicine Development Center, Shenzhen Institute, Guangdong Ocean University, Shenzhen, China
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- Institute for Marine Drugs and Nutrition, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China; Marine Medicine Development Center, Shenzhen Institute, Guangdong Ocean University, Shenzhen, China
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- Institute of Experimental Medicine, Almazov National Medical Research Centre, Ministry of Healthcare of Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- School of Pharmacy, Southwest University, Chongqing, China; Institute of Experimental Medicine, Almazov National Medical Research Centre, Ministry of Healthcare of Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, Russia; Laboratory of Biological Psychiatry, Institute of Translational Biomedicine, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia; Scientific Research Institute of Physiology and Basic Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia; Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia; Russian Scientific Center of Radiology and Surgical Technologies, Ministry of Healthcare of Russian Federation, Pesochny, Russia; ZENEREI Research Center, Slidell, LA, USA.
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Gomes-de-Souza L, Benini R, Costa-Ferreira W, Crestani CC. GABA A but not GABA B receptors in the lateral hypothalamus modulate the tachycardic response to emotional stress in rats. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 2019; 29:672-680. [PMID: 30878320 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2019.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2018] [Revised: 02/05/2019] [Accepted: 03/02/2019] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The lateral hypothalamus (LH) has been described as one of the hypothalamic areas involved in the behavioral and physiological responses triggered by aversive stimuli. Previous studies indicated involvement of the LH in cardiovascular responses to stress. Despite this evidence, the local neurochemical mechanisms involved in LH control of stress responses is still poorly understood. Therefore, in the present study, we investigated the role of GABAergic neurotransmission within the LH in cardiovascular responses induced by an acute session of restraint stress in rats. For this, we evaluated the effect of bilateral microinjection of selective antagonists of either GABAA or GABAB receptors into the LH on arterial pressure increase, heart rate (HR) increase and reduction in tail skin temperature induced by restraint stress. We found that microinjection of the selective GABAA receptor antagonist SR95531 into the LH decreased the increase in HR caused by restraint stress, but without affecting the increase in arterial pressure increase or the reduction in tail skin temperature. Conversely, LH treatment with the selective GABAB receptor antagonist CGP35348 did not affect the restraint-evoked cardiovascular changes. These findings indicate that GABAergic neurotransmission in the LH, acting through activation of local GABAA receptors, plays a facilitatory role in the tachycardic response observed during aversive threats.
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- Lucas Gomes-de-Souza
- Laboratory of Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Rodovia Araraquara-Jau Km 01 (Campus Universitário), Campus Ville, 14800-903 Araraquara, SP, Brazil; Joint UFSCar-UNESP Graduate Program in Physiological Sciences, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Rodovia Araraquara-Jau Km 01 (Campus Universitário), Campus Ville, 14800-903 Araraquara, SP, Brazil; Joint UFSCar-UNESP Graduate Program in Physiological Sciences, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Rodovia Araraquara-Jau Km 01 (Campus Universitário), Campus Ville, 14800-903 Araraquara, SP, Brazil; Joint UFSCar-UNESP Graduate Program in Physiological Sciences, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Rodovia Araraquara-Jau Km 01 (Campus Universitário), Campus Ville, 14800-903 Araraquara, SP, Brazil; Joint UFSCar-UNESP Graduate Program in Physiological Sciences, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
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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: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [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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Dampney RA, Michelini LC, Li DP, Pan HL. Regulation of sympathetic vasomotor activity by the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus in normotensive and hypertensive states. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2018; 315:H1200-H1214. [PMID: 30095973 PMCID: PMC6297824 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00216.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2018] [Revised: 07/13/2018] [Accepted: 07/25/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) is a unique and important brain region involved in the control of cardiovascular, neuroendocrine, and other physiological functions pertinent to homeostasis. The PVN is a major source of excitatory drive to the spinal sympathetic outflow via both direct and indirect projections. In this review, we discuss the role of the PVN in the regulation of sympathetic output in normal physiological conditions and in hypertension. In normal healthy animals, the PVN presympathetic neurons do not appear to have a major role in sustaining resting sympathetic vasomotor activity or in regulating sympathetic responses to short-term homeostatic challenges such as acute hypotension or hypoxia. Their role is, however, much more significant during longer-term challenges, such as sustained water deprivation, chronic intermittent hypoxia, and pregnancy. The PVN also appears to have a major role in generating the increased sympathetic vasomotor activity that is characteristic of multiple forms of hypertension. Recent studies in the spontaneously hypertensive rat model have shown that impaired inhibitory and enhanced excitatory synaptic inputs to PVN presympathetic neurons are the basis for the heightened sympathetic outflow in hypertension. We discuss the molecular mechanisms underlying the presynaptic and postsynaptic alterations in GABAergic and glutamatergic inputs to PVN presympathetic neurons in hypertension. In addition, we discuss the ability of exercise training to correct sympathetic hyperactivity by restoring blood-brain barrier integrity, reducing angiotensin II availability, and decreasing oxidative stress and inflammation in the PVN.
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- Roger A Dampney
- Department of Physiology, University of Sydney , Sydney, New South Wales , Australia
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo , São Paulo , Brazil
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center , Houston, Texas
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center , Houston, Texas
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Altered Neuronal Activity in the Central Nucleus of the Amygdala Induced by Restraint Water-Immersion Stress in Rats. Neurosci Bull 2018; 34:1067-1076. [PMID: 30171524 PMCID: PMC6246852 DOI: 10.1007/s12264-018-0282-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2018] [Accepted: 05/16/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Restraint water-immersion stress (RWIS), a compound stress model, has been widely used to induce acute gastric ulceration in rats. A wealth of evidence suggests that the central nucleus of the amygdala (CEA) is a focal region for mediating the biological response to stress. Different stressors induce distinct alterations of neuronal activity in the CEA; however, few studies have reported the characteristics of CEA neuronal activity induced by RWIS. Therefore, we explored this issue using immunohistochemistry and in vivo extracellular single-unit recording. Our results showed that RWIS and restraint stress (RS) differentially changed the c-Fos expression and firing properties of neurons in the medial CEA. In addition, RWIS, but not RS, induced the activation of corticotropin-releasing hormone neurons in the CEA. These findings suggested that specific neuronal activation in the CEA is involved in the formation of RWIS-induced gastric ulcers. This study also provides a possible theoretical explanation for the different gastric dysfunctions induced by different stressors.
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Koba S, Hanai E, Kumada N, Kataoka N, Nakamura K, Watanabe T. Sympathoexcitation by hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus neurons projecting to the rostral ventrolateral medulla. J Physiol 2018; 596:4581-4595. [PMID: 30019338 DOI: 10.1113/jp276223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2018] [Accepted: 07/02/2018] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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KEY POINTS Causal relationships between central cardiovascular pathways and sympathetic vasomotor tone have not been evidenced. This study aimed to verify the sympathoexcitatory role of hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus neurons that project to the rostral ventrolateral medulla (PVN-RVLM neurons). By using optogenetic techniques, we demonstrated that stimulation of PVN-RVLM glutamatergic neurons increased renal sympathetic nerve activity and arterial pressure via, at least in part, stimulation of RVLM C1 neurons in rats. This monosynaptic pathway may function in acute sympathetic adjustments to stressors and/or be a component of chronic sympathetic hyperactivity in pathological conditions such as heart failure. ABSTRACT The rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM), which is known to play an important role in regulating sympathetic vasomotor tone, receives axonal projections from the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN). However, no studies have proved that excitation of the PVN neurons that send axonal projections to the RVLM (PVN-RVLM neurons) causes sympathoexcitation. This study aimed to directly examine the sympathoexcitatory role of PVN-RVLM neurons. Male rats received microinjections into the PVN with an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector that encoded a hybrid of channelrhodopsin-2/1 with the reporter tdTomato (ChIEF-tdTomato), or into the RVLM with a retrograde AAV vector that encoded a channelrhodopsin with green fluorescent protein (ChR2-GFPretro ). Under anaesthesia with urethane and α-chloralose, photostimulation (473 nm wavelength) of PVN-RVLM neurons, achieved by laser illumination of either RVLM of ChIEF-tdTomato rats (n = 8) or PVN of ChR2-GFPretro rats (n = 4), elicited significant renal sympathoexcitation. Immunofluorescence confocal microscopy showed that RVLM adrenergic C1 neurons of ChIEF-tdTomato rats were closely associated with tdTomato-labelled, PVN-derived axons that contained vesicular glutamate transporter 2. In another subset of anaesthetized ChIEF-tdTomato rats (n = 6), the renal sympathoexcitation elicited by photostimulation of the PVN was suppressed by administering ionotropic glutamate receptor blockers into the RVLM. These results demonstrate that excitation of PVN-RVLM glutamatergic neurons leads to sympathoexcitation via, at least in part, stimulation of RVLM C1 neurons.
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- Satoshi Koba
- Division of Integrative Physiology, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, 86 Nishi-cho, Yonago, Tottori, 683-8503, Japan
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- Division of Integrative Physiology, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, 86 Nishi-cho, Yonago, Tottori, 683-8503, Japan
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- Division of Integrative Physiology, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, 86 Nishi-cho, Yonago, Tottori, 683-8503, Japan
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- Department of Integrative Physiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8550, Japan
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- Department of Integrative Physiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8550, Japan.,PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan
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- Division of Integrative Physiology, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, 86 Nishi-cho, Yonago, Tottori, 683-8503, Japan
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Fukushi I, Yokota S, Okada Y. The role of the hypothalamus in modulation of respiration. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2018; 265:172-179. [PMID: 30009993 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2018.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2018] [Revised: 06/17/2018] [Accepted: 07/10/2018] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The hypothalamus is a higher center of the autonomic nervous system and maintains essential body homeostasis including respiration. The paraventricular nucleus, perifornical area, dorsomedial hypothalamus, and lateral and posterior hypothalamus are the primary nuclei of the hypothalamus critically involved in respiratory control. These hypothalamic nuclei are interconnected with respiratory nuclei located in the midbrain, pons, medulla and spinal cord. We provide an extensive review of the role of the above hypothalamic nuclei in the maintenance of basal ventilation, and modulation of respiration in hypoxic and hypercapnic conditions, during dynamic exercise, in awake and sleep states, and under stress. Dysfunction of the hypothalamus causes abnormal breathing and hypoventilation. However, the cellular and molecular mechanisms how the hypothalamus integrates and modulates autonomic and respiratory functions remain to be elucidated.
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- Isato Fukushi
- Clinical Research Center, Murayama Medical Center, 2-37-1 Gakuen, Musashimurayama, Tokyo 208-0011, Japan.
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- Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, Shimane University School of Medicine, 89-1 Enya-cho, Izumo 693-8501, Japan
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- Clinical Research Center, Murayama Medical Center, 2-37-1 Gakuen, Musashimurayama, Tokyo 208-0011, Japan
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Schaich CL, Wellman TL, Einwag Z, Dutko RA, Erdos B. Inhibition of BDNF signaling in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus lowers acute stress-induced pressor responses. J Neurophysiol 2018; 120:633-643. [PMID: 29694277 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00459.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) expression increases in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN) during stress, and our recent studies indicate that BDNF induces sympathoexcitatory and hypertensive responses when injected acutely or overexpressed chronically in the PVN. However, it remained to be investigated whether BDNF is involved in the mediation of stress-induced cardiovascular responses. Here we tested the hypothesis that inhibition of the high-affinity BDNF receptor TrkB in the PVN diminishes acute stress-induced cardiovascular responses. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were equipped with radiotelemetric transmitters for blood pressure measurement. BDNF-TrkB signaling was selectively inhibited by viral vector-mediated bilateral PVN overexpression of a dominant-negative truncated TrkB receptor (TrkB.T1, n = 7), while control animals ( n = 7) received green fluorescent protein (GFP)-expressing vector injections. Rats were subjected to acute water and restraint stress 3-4 wk after vector injections. We found that body weight, food intake, baseline mean arterial pressure (MAP), and heart rate were unaffected by TrkB.T1 overexpression. However, peak MAP increases were significantly reduced in the TrkB.T1 group compared with GFP both during water stress (GFP: 39 ± 2 mmHg, TrkB.T1: 27 ± 4 mmHg; P < 0.05) and restraint stress (GFP: 41 ± 3 mmHg, TrkB.T1: 34 ± 2 mmHg; P < 0.05). Average MAP elevations during the poststress period were also significantly reduced after both water and restraint stress in the TrkB.T1 group compared with GFP. In contrast, heart rate elevations to both stressors remained unaffected by TrkB.T1 overexpression. Our results demonstrate that activation of BDNF high-affinity TrkB receptors within the PVN is a major contributor to acute stress-induced blood pressure elevations. NEW & NOTEWORTHY We have shown that inhibition of the high-affinity brain-derived neurotrophic factor receptor TrkB in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus significantly reduces blood pressure elevations to acute stress without having a significant impact on resting blood pressure, body weight, and food intake.
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- Chris L Schaich
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Vermont , Burlington, Vermont
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Vermont , Burlington, Vermont
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Vermont , Burlington, Vermont
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Vermont , Burlington, Vermont
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Vermont , Burlington, Vermont
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Prestipino L, Polson JW, Brolin E, Ritchie HE. Long-term programming effects on blood pressure following gestational exposure to the I Kr blocker Dofetilide. Physiol Rep 2018; 6:e13621. [PMID: 29504284 PMCID: PMC5835481 DOI: 10.14814/phy2.13621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2017] [Revised: 01/02/2018] [Accepted: 01/03/2018] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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A slow embryonic heart rate in early-mid gestation is associated with increased risk of embryonic death and malformation, however, the long-term consequences remain unknown. We administered Dofetilide (Dof, 2.5 mg/kg), a drug that produces embryo-specific bradycardia, to pregnant rats from gestational days 11-14. Embryonic heart rate and rhythm were determined using embryo culture. Cardiovascular function was assessed in surviving adult offspring at rest, during acute psychological stress (air jet stress, AJS), and after 7 days of repeated AJS. Dof reduced embryonic HR by 40% for ~8 h on each of the treatment days. On postnatal day 3, Dof offspring were ~10% smaller. Blood pressure was elevated in adult Dof rats (systolic blood pressure, night: 103.8 ± 3.9 vs. 111.2 ± 3.0 mmHg, P = 0.01). While the pressor response to AJS was similar in both groups (control 17.7 ± 3.4; Dof 18.9 ± 0.9 mmHg, P = 0.74), after 7 days repeated AJS, clear habituation was present in control (P = 0.0001) but not Dof offspring (P = 0.48). Only Dof offspring showed a small increase in resting blood pressure after 7 days repeated stress (+3.9 ± 1.7 mmHg, P = 0.05). The results indicate that embryonic bradycardia programs hypertension and impaired stress adaptation, and have implications for the maternal use of cardioactive drugs during pregnancy.
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- Louise Prestipino
- School of Medical Sciences and Bosch InstituteSydney Medical SchoolThe University of SydneySydneyNSWAustralia
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- School of Medical Sciences and Bosch InstituteSydney Medical SchoolThe University of SydneySydneyNSWAustralia
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- School of Medical Sciences and Bosch InstituteSydney Medical SchoolThe University of SydneySydneyNSWAustralia
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- School of Medical Sciences and Bosch InstituteSydney Medical SchoolThe University of SydneySydneyNSWAustralia
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Zhu P, Zhang Z, Huang X, Liang S, Khandekar N, Song Z, Lin S. RANKL Reduces Body Weight and Food Intake via the Modulation of Hypothalamic NPY/CART Expression. Int J Med Sci 2018; 15:969-977. [PMID: 30013437 PMCID: PMC6036154 DOI: 10.7150/ijms.24373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2017] [Accepted: 05/31/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The receptor activator of nuclear factor-κB ligand (RANKL) modulates energy metabolism. However, how RANKL regulates energy homeostasis is still not clear. This study aims to investigate the central mechanisms by which central administration of RANKL inhibits food intake and causes weight loss in mice. We carried out a systematic and in-depth analysis of the neuronal pathways by which RANKL mediates catabolic effects. After intracerebroventricle (i.c.v.) injection of RANKL, the expression of neuropeptide Y (NPY) mRNA in the Arc was significantly decreased, while the CART mRNA expression dramatically increased in the Arc and DMH. However, the agouti-related protein (AgRP) and pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) mRNA had no significant changes compared with control groups. Together, the results suggest that central administration of RANKL reduces food intake and causes weight loss via modulating the hypothalamic NPY/CART pathways.
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- Ping Zhu
- Department of Cardiology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University (Army Medical University), China
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- Department of Cardiology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University (Army Medical University), China
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- School of Medicine, University of Wollongong and Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, NSW 2522, Australia
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- Department of Cardiology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University (Army Medical University), China
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- Neurological Diseases Division, Research Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, 384 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
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- Department of Cardiology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University (Army Medical University), China
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- Department of Cardiology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University (Army Medical University), China.,School of Medicine, University of Wollongong and Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, NSW 2522, Australia
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Kumada N, Koba S, Hanai E, Watanabe T. Distribution of Fos-immunoreactive cells in the ventral part of rat medulla following voluntary treadmill exercise. Auton Neurosci 2017; 208:80-87. [PMID: 28967579 DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2017.09.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2017] [Revised: 09/09/2017] [Accepted: 09/19/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The ventral part of the medulla, which contains important cardiovascular regions, is reportedly activated during exercise. Nevertheless, it was uncertain which region(s) in the ventral medulla are specifically activated by exercise. The present study aimed to demonstrate a general pattern of exercise-specific distribution of excited neuronal cells in the rat ventral medulla. Via immunohistochemical experiments, we mapped tyrosine hydroxylase- and Fos-immunoreactive cells (TH-IR and Fos-IR cells, respectively) on rat medullary coronal sections following a bout of voluntary treadmill exercise, a comparative control period, or after pharmacologically induced-hypotension under anesthesia. In the ventral medulla at the rostrocaudal level adjacent, but not rostral or caudal, to the caudal edge of the facial nucleus, voluntary treadmill exercise induced significant (P<0.05) increases in Fos expression, similar to hypotension. The rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM), as compared with the rostral ventromedial medulla (RVMM), displayed a greater number of Fos-IR cells due to either exercise or hypotension. In the RVLM, either exercise or hypotension induced significant expression of Fos in both TH-IR and TH non-immunoreactive cells. In the caudal ventrolateral medulla (CVLM), hypotension, but not exercise, increased the ratio of Fos-IR cells in the TH-IR population. These findings demonstrate that RVLM adrenergic and non-adrenergic neurons are specifically excited by voluntary exercise in rats, while RVMM or CVLM neurons are not. We suggest that RVLM C1/non-C1 neurons are a major part of central circuitries underlying sympathetic adjustments to exercise.
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- Nao Kumada
- Division of Integrative Physiology, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, 86 Nishi-cho, Yonago, Tottori 683-8503, Japan.; Division of Integrative Bioscience, Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biofunction, Tottori University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 86 Nishi-cho, Yonago, Tottori 683-8503, Japan
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- Division of Integrative Physiology, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, 86 Nishi-cho, Yonago, Tottori 683-8503, Japan..
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- Division of Integrative Physiology, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, 86 Nishi-cho, Yonago, Tottori 683-8503, Japan.; Division of Integrative Bioscience, Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biofunction, Tottori University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 86 Nishi-cho, Yonago, Tottori 683-8503, Japan
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- Division of Integrative Physiology, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, 86 Nishi-cho, Yonago, Tottori 683-8503, Japan
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Sheth C, Furlong TM, Keefe KA, Taha SA. The lateral hypothalamus to lateral habenula projection, but not the ventral pallidum to lateral habenula projection, regulates voluntary ethanol consumption. Behav Brain Res 2017; 328:195-208. [PMID: 28432009 PMCID: PMC5500222 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2017.04.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2016] [Revised: 03/23/2017] [Accepted: 04/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The lateral habenula (LHb) is an epithalamic brain region implicated in aversive processing via negative modulation of midbrain dopamine (DA) and serotonin (5-HT) systems. Given the role of the LHb in inhibiting DA and 5-HT systems, it is thought to be involved in various psychiatric pathologies, including drug addiction. In support, it has been shown that LHb plays a critical role in cocaine- and ethanol-related behaviors, most likely by mediating drug-induced aversive conditioning. In our previous work, we showed that LHb lesions increased voluntary ethanol consumption and operant ethanol self-administration and blocked yohimbine-induced reinstatement of ethanol self-administration. LHb lesions also attenuated ethanol-induced conditioned taste aversion suggesting that a mechanism for the increased intake of ethanol may be reduced aversion learning. However, whether afferents to the LHb are required for mediating effects of the LHb on these behaviors remained to be investigated. Our present results show that lesioning the fiber bundle carrying afferent inputs to the LHb, the stria medullaris (SM), increases voluntary ethanol consumption, suggesting that afferent structures projecting to the LHb are important for mediating ethanol-directed behaviors. We then chose two afferent structures as the focus of our investigation. We specifically studied the role of the inputs from the lateral hypothalamus (LH) and ventral pallidum (VP) to the LHb in ethanol-directed behaviors. Our results show that the LH-LHb projection is necessary for regulating voluntary ethanol consumption. These results are an important first step towards understanding the functional role of afferents to LHb with regard to ethanol consumption.
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- Chandni Sheth
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, 30 South 2000 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5820, USA.
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, 30 South 2000 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5820, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, 30 South 2000 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5820, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, 30 South 2000 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5820, USA
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Dempsey B, Le S, Turner A, Bokiniec P, Ramadas R, Bjaalie JG, Menuet C, Neve R, Allen AM, Goodchild AK, McMullan S. Mapping and Analysis of the Connectome of Sympathetic Premotor Neurons in the Rostral Ventrolateral Medulla of the Rat Using a Volumetric Brain Atlas. Front Neural Circuits 2017; 11:9. [PMID: 28298886 PMCID: PMC5331070 DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2017.00009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2016] [Accepted: 02/06/2017] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Spinally projecting neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) play a critical role in the generation of vasomotor sympathetic tone and are thought to receive convergent input from neurons at every level of the neuraxis; the factors that determine their ongoing activity remain unresolved. In this study we use a genetically restricted viral tracing strategy to definitively map their spatially diffuse connectome. We infected bulbospinal RVLM neurons with a recombinant rabies variant that drives reporter expression in monosynaptically connected input neurons and mapped their distribution using an MRI-based volumetric atlas and a novel image alignment and visualization tool that efficiently translates the positions of neurons captured in conventional photomicrographs to Cartesian coordinates. We identified prominent inputs from well-established neurohumoral and viscero-sympathetic sensory actuators, medullary autonomic and respiratory subnuclei, and supramedullary autonomic nuclei. The majority of inputs lay within the brainstem (88–94%), and included putative respiratory neurons in the pre-Bötzinger Complex and post-inspiratory complex that are therefore likely to underlie respiratory-sympathetic coupling. We also discovered a substantial and previously unrecognized input from the region immediately ventral to nucleus prepositus hypoglossi. In contrast, RVLM sympathetic premotor neurons were only sparsely innervated by suprapontine structures including the paraventricular nucleus, lateral hypothalamus, periaqueductal gray, and superior colliculus, and we found almost no evidence of direct inputs from the cortex or amygdala. Our approach can be used to quantify, standardize and share complete neuroanatomical datasets, and therefore provides researchers with a platform for presentation, analysis and independent reanalysis of connectomic data.
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- Bowen Dempsey
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Neurobiology of Vital Systems, Macquarie University Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Neurobiology of Vital Systems, Macquarie University Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Neurobiology of Vital Systems, Macquarie University Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Neurobiology of Vital Systems, Macquarie University Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Neurobiology of Vital Systems, Macquarie University Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Anatomy, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Viral Core Facility, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Neurobiology of Vital Systems, Macquarie University Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Neurobiology of Vital Systems, Macquarie University Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Interactions between astrocytes and neurons in the brainstem involved in restraint water immersion stress-induced gastric mucosal damage. Neuroreport 2016; 27:151-9. [PMID: 26720891 DOI: 10.1097/wnr.0000000000000515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Restraint water-immersion stress (RWIS) is considered a compound stress model as it includes both psychological and physical stimulation. Studies have shown that neurons are involved in RWIS, but the role of astrocytes in RWIS has not been reported as yet. Here, we tested our hypothesis that astrocytes are involved in RWIS and interact with neurons in the brainstem to regulate gastric mucosal damage induced by RWIS. RWIS of different durations (0.5, 1, 2, 3, and 5 h) induced significant gastric mucosal damage and activated astrocytes by increasing the expression of glial fibrillary acidic protein and neurons, as indicated by the Fos expression in the nucleus of solitary tract and the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus. Intracerebroventricular administration of both astroglial toxin L-α-aminoadipate and c-fos antisense oligodeoxy nucleotides reduced RWIS-induced gastric mucosal damage. Immunohistochemistry results showed that L-α-aminoadipate decreased the activation of both astrocytes and neurons by RWIS. Similarly, antisense oligodeoxy nucleotides significantly suppressed activation of both neurons and astrocytes induced by RWIS. Our data showed that astrocytic and neuronal activations may be closely related to the gastric mucosal damage induced by RWIS through reciprocal 'crosstalk'. This study suggests that an intervention targeting this interaction may offer some novel therapeutic strategies for gastric ulcers.
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Sun H, Li R, Xu S, Liu Z, Ma X. Hypothalamic Astrocytes Respond to Gastric Mucosal Damage Induced by Restraint Water-Immersion Stress in Rat. Front Behav Neurosci 2016; 10:210. [PMID: 27847472 PMCID: PMC5088369 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2016] [Accepted: 10/17/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Restraint water-immersion stress (RWIS), a compound stress model, includes both psychological and physical stimulation. Studies have shown that neurons in the hypothalamus are involved in RWIS, but the role of astrocytes and the interactions between astrocytes and neurons in RWIS are not clear. Here, we tested our hypothesis that hypothalamus astrocytes are involved in RWIS and interact with neurons to regulate gastric mucosal damage induced by RWIS. The expression of Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and c-Fos in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) and supraoptic nucleus (SON) significantly increased following the RWIS. GFAP and c-Fos expression are similar in the temporal pattern, peaked at 1 h after the RWIS, then reduced gradually, and reached a maximal level again at 5 h which show “double-peak” characteristics. Intracerebroventricular administration of astroglial toxin L-a-aminoadipate (L-AA) and c-Fos antisense oligodeoxy nucleotides (ASO) both decreased RWIS-induced gastric mucosal damage. Results of immunohistochemistry assay revealed that both L-AA and ASO decreased the activation of astrocytes and neurons in the hypothalamus by RWIS. These results showed that hypothalamus neuron-astrocyte “network” involved in gastric mucosal damage induced by RWIS. This study may offer theoretical basis for some novel therapeutic strategies for RWIS-induced gastric ulcers.
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- Haiji Sun
- College of Life Science, Shandong Normal University Jinan, China
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- Research Center for Clinical and Translational Medicine, 302 Hospital of PLA Beijing, China
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- College of Life Science, Shandong Normal University Jinan, China
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- College of Life Science, Shandong Normal University Jinan, China
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- Central Laboratory, Jinan Central Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University Jinan, China
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Lim K, Burke SL, Moretti JL, Head GA. Differential activation of renal sympathetic burst amplitude and frequency during hypoxia, stress and baroreflexes with chronic angiotensin treatment. Exp Physiol 2016; 100:1132-44. [PMID: 26442604 DOI: 10.1113/ep085312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2015] [Accepted: 08/20/2015] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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NEW FINDINGS What is the central question of this study? Is the elevated tonic renal nerve activity induced by chronic angiotensin administration mediated by recruitment or increased firing frequency and does this occur via stress, chemoreflex or baroreflex pathways? What is the main finding and its importance? Long-term angiotensin treatment in rabbits elevates renal sympathetic nerve activity by recruitment of previously silent fibres. This was similar to the effect of chemoreflex stimulation, but not to stress or baroreceptor activation, suggesting that presympathetic pathways activated by angiotensin may be common to those activated by chemoreceptors. Modulation of sympathetic nerve activity involves control by the CNS of the amplitude of neural discharges, reflecting recruitment of neurons and their firing frequency. We tested whether elevated tonic renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) induced by chronic angiotensin administration is mediated by recruitment or increased firing frequency and whether this is characteristic of the pattern observed with activation of stress, chemoreflex or baroreflex pathways. Conscious rabbits treated with angiotensin II for 12 weeks to increase blood pressure by 10-30% were subjected to stress (air jet), hypoxia (10% O2 + 3% CO2) and drug-induced changes in blood pressure to produce baroreflexes. Total RSNA and RSNA burst amplitude were scaled to 100 normalized units (n.u.) by the maximal response to smoke. After 12 weeks of treatment, blood pressure was 17% higher than baseline 68 ± 1 mmHg (P = 0.02). Compared with sham treatment, total RSNA and burst amplitude were +82% (P < 0.001) and 39% (P = 0.04) greater, but burst frequency was similar. Total RSNA increased during hypoxia (+38% from 4.9 ± 0.7 n.u.), owing to greater amplitude, but not frequency. Air-jet stress increased total RSNA (+44% from 4.3 ± 0.5 n.u.) and burst frequency (+21% from 5.4 ± 0.7 bursts s(-1) ), but not amplitude. Angiotensin enhanced total RSNA responses to both air jet (+33%) and hypoxia (+58%), but only increased the amplitude response to air jet. The RSNA baroreflexes reset to the higher blood pressure, but amplitude or frequency was not differentially altered. Chronic angiotensin treatment elevated RSNA by recruitment of neurons, which is similar to chemoreflex stimulation, but not to stress or baroreceptor activation, suggesting that presympathetic pathways activated by angiotensin may be common to those activated by chemoreceptors.
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- Kyungjoon Lim
- Neuropharmacology Laboratory, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Neuropharmacology Laboratory, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Neuropharmacology Laboratory, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Neuropharmacology Laboratory, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Department of Pharmacology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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Silvani A, Calandra-Buonaura G, Dampney RAL, Cortelli P. Brain-heart interactions: physiology and clinical implications. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2016; 374:rsta.2015.0181. [PMID: 27044998 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/19/2016] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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The brain controls the heart directly through the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the autonomic nervous system, which consists of multi-synaptic pathways from myocardial cells back to peripheral ganglionic neurons and further to central preganglionic and premotor neurons. Cardiac function can be profoundly altered by the reflex activation of cardiac autonomic nerves in response to inputs from baro-, chemo-, nasopharyngeal and other receptors as well as by central autonomic commands, including those associated with stress, physical activity, arousal and sleep. In the clinical setting, slowly progressive autonomic failure frequently results from neurodegenerative disorders, whereas autonomic hyperactivity may result from vascular, inflammatory or traumatic lesions of the autonomic nervous system, adverse effects of drugs and chronic neurological disorders. Both acute and chronic manifestations of an imbalanced brain-heart interaction have a negative impact on health. Simple, widely available and reliable cardiovascular markers of the sympathetic tone and of the sympathetic-parasympathetic balance are lacking. A deeper understanding of the connections between autonomic cardiac control and brain dynamics through advanced signal and neuroimage processing may lead to invaluable tools for the early detection and treatment of pathological changes in the brain-heart interaction.
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- Autonomic Unit, Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy IRCCS, Institute of Neurological Sciences of Bologna, Bellaria University Hospital, Block G, Via Altura 3, 40139 Bologna, Italy
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- School of Medical Sciences (Physiology) and Bosch Institute for Biomedical Research, University of Sydney, Sidney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Autonomic Unit, Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy IRCCS, Institute of Neurological Sciences of Bologna, Bellaria University Hospital, Block G, Via Altura 3, 40139 Bologna, Italy
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Dampney RAL. Central mechanisms regulating coordinated cardiovascular and respiratory function during stress and arousal. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2015; 309:R429-43. [DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00051.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2015] [Accepted: 05/28/2015] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Actual or potentially threatening stimuli in the external environment (i.e., psychological stressors) trigger highly coordinated defensive behavioral responses that are accompanied by appropriate autonomic and respiratory changes. As discussed in this review, several brain regions and pathways have major roles in subserving the cardiovascular and respiratory responses to threatening stimuli, which may vary from relatively mild acute arousing stimuli to more prolonged life-threatening stimuli. One key region is the dorsomedial hypothalamus, which receives inputs from the cortex, amygdala, and other forebrain regions and which is critical for generating autonomic, respiratory, and neuroendocrine responses to psychological stressors. Recent studies suggest that the dorsomedial hypothalamus also receives an input from the dorsolateral column in the midbrain periaqueductal gray, which is another key region involved in the integration of stress-evoked cardiorespiratory responses. In addition, it has recently been shown that neurons in the midbrain colliculi can generate highly synchronized autonomic, respiratory, and somatomotor responses to visual, auditory, and somatosensory inputs. These collicular neurons may be part of a subcortical defense system that also includes the basal ganglia and which is well adapted to responding to threats that require an immediate stereotyped response that does not involve the cortex. The basal ganglia/colliculi system is phylogenetically ancient. In contrast, the defense system that includes the dorsomedial hypothalamus and cortex evolved at a later time, and appears to be better adapted to generating appropriate responses to more sustained threatening stimuli that involve cognitive appraisal.
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- Roger A. L. Dampney
- School of Medical Sciences (Physiology) and Bosch Institute, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Erdos B, Clifton RR, Liu M, Li H, McCowan ML, Sumners C, Scheuer DA. Novel mechanism within the paraventricular nucleus reduces both blood pressure and hypothalamic pituitary-adrenal axis responses to acute stress. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2015; 309:H634-45. [PMID: 26071542 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00207.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2015] [Accepted: 06/05/2015] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) counteracts pressor effects of angiotensin II (ANG II) in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN) in normotensive rats, but this mechanism is absent in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs) due to a lack of MIF in PVN neurons. Since endogenous ANG II in the PVN modulates stress reactivity, we tested the hypothesis that replacement of MIF in PVN neurons would reduce baseline blood pressure and inhibit stress-induced increases in blood pressure and plasma corticosterone in adult male SHRs. Radiotelemetry transmitters were implanted to measure blood pressure, and then an adeno-associated viral vector expressing either enhanced green fluorescent protein (GFP) or MIF was injected bilaterally into the PVN. Cardiovascular responses to a 15-min water stress (1-cm deep, 25°C) and a 60-min restraint stress were evaluated 3-4 wk later. MIF treatment in the PVN attenuated average restraint-induced increases in blood pressure (37.4 ± 2.0 and 27.6 ± 3.5 mmHg in GFP and MIF groups, respectively, P < 0.05) and corticosterone (42 ± 2 and 36 ± 3 μg/dl in GFP and MIF groups, respectively, P < 0.05). MIF treatment in the PVN also reduced stress-induced elevations in the number of c-Fos-positive cells in the rostral ventrolateral medulla (71 ± 5 in GFP and 47 ± 5 in MIF SHRs, P < 0.01) and corticotropin-releasing factor mRNA expression in the PVN. However, MIF had no significant effects on the cardiovascular responses to water stress in SHRs or to either stress in Sprague-Dawley rats. Therefore, viral vector-mediated restoration of MIF in PVN neurons of SHRs attenuates blood pressure and hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis responses to stress.
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- Benedek Erdos
- Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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Gross BA, Vanderheyden WM, Urpa LM, Davis DE, Fitzpatrick CJ, Prabhu K, Poe GR. Stress-free automatic sleep deprivation using air puffs. J Neurosci Methods 2015; 251:83-91. [PMID: 26014662 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2015.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2014] [Revised: 04/21/2015] [Accepted: 05/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Sleep deprivation via gentle handling is time-consuming and personnel-intensive. NEW METHOD We present here an automated sleep deprivation system via air puffs. Implanted EMG and EEG electrodes were used to assess sleep/waking states in six male Sprague-Dawley rats. Blood samples were collected from an implanted intravenous catheter every 4h during the 12-h light cycle on baseline, 8h of sleep deprivation via air puffs, and 8h of sleep deprivation by gentle handling days. RESULTS The automated system was capable of scoring sleep and waking states as accurately as our offline version (∼90% for sleep) and with sufficient speed to trigger a feedback response within an acceptable amount of time (1.76s). Manual state scoring confirmed normal sleep on the baseline day and sleep deprivation on the two manipulation days (68% decrease in non-REM, 63% decrease in REM, and 74% increase in waking). No significant differences in levels of ACTH and corticosterone (stress hormones indicative of HPA axis activity) were found at any time point between baseline sleep and sleep deprivation via air puffs. COMPARISON WITH EXISTING METHOD There were no significant differences in ACTH or corticosterone concentrations between sleep deprivation by air puffs and gentle handling over the 8-h period. CONCLUSIONS Our system accurately detects sleep and delivers air puffs to acutely deprive rats of sleep with sufficient temporal resolution during the critical 4-5h post learning sleep-dependent memory consolidation period. The system is stress-free and a viable alternative to existing sleep deprivation techniques.
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- Brooks A Gross
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
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- University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States; Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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Wang SJ, Yang HY, Wang F, Li ST. Acupoint Specificity on Colorectal Hypersensitivity Alleviated by Acupuncture and the Correlation with the Brain-Gut Axis. Neurochem Res 2015; 40:1274-82. [PMID: 25968478 DOI: 10.1007/s11064-015-1587-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2014] [Revised: 03/19/2015] [Accepted: 04/21/2015] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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This project was focused on the study of the effect of the different acupoints on visceral hypersensitivity and the correlation with the brain-gut axis. By using a mouse model of zymosan-induced colorectal hypersensitivity, and observing the response of hypersensitivity model to colorectal distension stimulation in acupuncture at different acupoints, we selected the specific acupoints. With immunohistochemical staining method, we observed c-fos expression, distribution and changes after acupuncture on sensory pathway, including colorectum, spinal dorsal horn and different regions of brain center in the model with colorectal distension stimulation, and evaluated the acupuncture effect on brain-gut axis. The results revealed that the effectiveness of acupuncture for alleviating visceral hypersensitivity was different at individual acupoint, meaning Tianshu (ST25), Zusanli (ST36) and Shangjuxu (ST37) > Quchi (LI11) and Dachangshu (BL25) > Ciliao (BL32). C-fos expression was concentrated in anterior cingulate cortex, hypothalamus, spinal dorsal horn and colorectum in model of zymosan-induced colorectal hypersensitivity and it was down-regulated after acupuncture. The results demonstrates that the acupoint specificity presents in acupuncture for relieving visceral hypersensitivity and the effects are more predominated at the acupoints on stomach meridian innervated by the same or adjacent spinal ganglion segments. The model of zymosan-induced colorectal hypersensitivity can be the animal model simulating brain-gut interaction.
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- Shao-Jun Wang
- Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100700, China,
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de Almeida DO, Ferreira HS, Pereira LB, Fregoneze JB. Hypertensive response to stress: the role of histaminergic H1 and H2 receptors in the medial amygdala. Physiol Behav 2015; 144:95-102. [PMID: 25748254 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2015.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2014] [Revised: 03/03/2015] [Accepted: 03/04/2015] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Different brain areas seem to be involved in the cardiovascular responses to stress. The medial amygdala (MeA) has been shown to participate in cardiovascular control, and acute stress activates the MeA to a greater extent than any of the other amygdaloid structures. It has been demonstrated that the brain histaminergic system may be involved in behavioral, autonomic and neuroendocrine responses to stressful situations. The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of the histaminergic receptors H1 and H2 in cardiovascular responses to acute restraint stress. Wistar rats (280-320g) received bilateral injections of cimetidine, mepyramine or saline into the MeA and were submitted to 45min of restraint stress. Mepyramine microinjections at doses of 200, 100 and 50nmol promoted a dose-dependent blockade of the hypertensive response induced by the restraint stress. Cimetidine (200 and 100nmol) promoted a partial blockade of the hypertensive response to stress only at the highest dose administered. Neither drugs altered the typical stress-evoked tachycardiac responses. Furthermore, mepyramine and cimetidine were unable to modify the mean arterial pressure or heart rate of freely moving rats under basal conditions (non-stressed rats). The data suggest that in the MeA the histaminergic H1 receptors appear to be more important than H2 receptors in the hypertensive response to stress. Furthermore, there appears to be no histaminergic tonus in the MeA controlling blood pressure during non-stress conditions.
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- Life Sciences Department, Bahia State University, 41195-001 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology, Health Sciences Institute, Federal University of Bahia, 40110-100 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology, Health Sciences Institute, Federal University of Bahia, 40110-100 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
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