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Howell JA, Edwards AA, Santollo J. The estrogenic reduction in water intake stimulated by dehydration involves estrogen receptor alpha and a potential role for GLP-1. Physiol Behav 2024; 276:114484. [PMID: 38331374 PMCID: PMC10896180 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2024.114484] [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: 11/21/2023] [Revised: 01/11/2024] [Accepted: 02/05/2024] [Indexed: 02/10/2024]
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It is well documented that estrogens inhibit fluid intake. Most of this research, however, has focused on fluid intake in response to dipsogenic hormone and/or drug treatments in euhydrated rats. Additional research is needed to fully characterize the fluid intake effects of estradiol in response to true hypovolemia. As such, the goals of this series of experiments were to provide a detailed analysis of water intake in response to water deprivation in ovariectomized female rats treated with estradiol. In addition, these experiments also tested if activation of estrogen receptor alpha is sufficient to reduce water intake stimulated by water deprivation and tested for a role of glucagon like peptide-1 in the estrogenic control of water intake. As expected, estradiol reduced water intake in response to 24 and 48 h of water deprivation. The reduction in water intake was associated with a reduction in drinking burst number, with no change in drinking burst size. Pharmacological activation of estrogen receptor alpha reduced intake. Finally, estradiol-treatment caused a leftward shift in the behavioral dose response curve of exendin-4, the glucagon like peptide-1 agonist. While the highest dose of exendin-4 reduced 10 min intake in both oil and estradiol-treated rats, the intermediate dose only reduced intake in rats treated with estradiol. Together, this series of experiments extends previous research by providing a more thorough behavioral analysis of the anti-dipsogenic effect of estradiol in dehydrated rats, in addition to identifying the glucagon like peptide-1 system as a potential bioregulator involved in the underlying mechanisms by which estradiol reduces water intake in the female rat.
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- Julia A Howell
- Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA.
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Sumiyoshi E, Masuki S, Nose H. Role of linkage between cerebral activity and baroreflex control of heart rate via central vasopressin V1a receptors in food-deprived mice. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2022; 132:761-772. [DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00364.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We previously reported that cerebral activation at the onset of voluntary locomotion suppressed baroreflex control of heart rate (HR) and increased arterial pressure via vasopressin V1a receptors in the brain. Here, we examined whether these responses were associated with food seeking, a motivated behavior, using free-moving wild-type (WT, n=10), V1a receptor knockout (KO, n=9) and wild-type mice locally infused with a V1a receptor antagonist into the nucleus tractus solitarii (BLK, n=10). For 3 consecutive days mice were fed ad libitum (Fed), food deprived (FD), and refed (RF) under a dark/light cycle (19:00/7:00). Food was removed on day2 and restored on day3 at 18:00. Throughout the protocol, cerebral activity was determined from the power density ratio of θ- to δ-wave band (θ/δ) by electroencephalogram every 4sec. Baroreflex was evaluated by the cross-correlation function (R(t)) between changes in HR and arterial pressure every 4sec. The cerebro-baroreflex linkage was then evaluated by the cross-correlation function between θ/δ and R(t). Behavior was recorded with CCD camera. We found that cerebro-baroreflex linkage, enhanced in WT at night after FD (P=0.006), returned to Fed level after RF (P=0.68). Similarly, food-seeking behavior increased after FD to a level twofold higher than during Fed (P=0.004) and returned to Fed level after RF (P=0.74). However, none of these changes occurred in KO or BLK (P>0.11). Thus, the suppression of baroreflex control of HR linked with cerebral activation via V1a receptors might play an important role at the onset of motivated behaviors, such as food seeking induced by FD.
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- Eri Sumiyoshi
- Department of Sports Medical Sciences, Shinshu University Graduate School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan
- Department of Environmental Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Shimane University, Izumo, Japan
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- Department of Sports Medical Sciences, Shinshu University Graduate School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan
- Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan
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- Department of Sports Medical Sciences, Shinshu University Graduate School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan
- e-Health Sciences, Shinshu University Graduate School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
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Aikins AO, Nguyen DH, Paundralingga O, Farmer GE, Shimoura CG, Brock C, Cunningham JT. Cardiovascular Neuroendocrinology: Emerging Role for Neurohypophyseal Hormones in Pathophysiology. Endocrinology 2021; 162:6247962. [PMID: 33891015 PMCID: PMC8234498 DOI: 10.1210/endocr/bqab082] [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: 01/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Arginine vasopressin (AVP) and oxytocin (OXY) are released by magnocellular neurosecretory cells that project to the posterior pituitary. While AVP and OXY currently receive more attention for their contributions to affiliative behavior, this mini-review discusses their roles in cardiovascular function broadly defined to include indirect effects that influence cardiovascular function. The traditional view is that neither AVP nor OXY contributes to basal cardiovascular function, although some recent studies suggest that this position might be re-evaluated. More evidence indicates that adaptations and neuroplasticity of AVP and OXY neurons contribute to cardiovascular pathophysiology.
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- Ato O Aikins
- Department of Physiology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UNT Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UNT Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
- Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, UNT Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UNT Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UNT Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UNT Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UNT Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UNT Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
- Correspondence: J. Thomas Cunningham Department of Physiology & Anatomy CBH 338 UNT Health Science Center 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA.
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Campos-Cardoso R, Silva CPB, Carolino ROG, Anselmo-Franci JA, Tirapelli CR, Padovan CM. Imipramine attenuates anxiety- and depressive-like effects of acute and prolonged ethanol-abstinence in male rats by modulating SERT and GR expression in the dorsal hippocampus. Behav Brain Res 2021; 408:113295. [PMID: 33839161 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2020] [Revised: 04/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/05/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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AIMS Considering that serotoninergic agents attenuate symptoms of anxiety and are used to treat depression, we investigated whether subchronic treatment with imipramine, a serotonin/noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor, would prevent the anxiogenic-like behaviour induced by acute and/or chronic ethanol withdrawal. We also investigated whether those changes were related to the disfunctioning of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and serotonergic neurotransmission. MAIN METHODS 264 Male Wistar rats were treated with ethanol 6% (vol./vol.) for 21 days. Acute ethanol withdrawal was induced by abrupt discontinuation of treatment and sustained for 48 h. Protracted abstinence was sustained for an additional period of 21 days. Behavioural tests included the Elevated Plus Maze (EPM) or Light/Dark Box (LDB) after acute abstinence, and the Forced Swim Test (FST) after protracted abstinence. Imipramine (15 mg/kg, i.p.) was administered 24, 19 and 1 h before EPM or LDB tests. KEY FINDINGS Acute abstinence decreased exploration of the open arms of the EPM, without changing exploration of LDB. Additionally, chronic abstinent rats displayed more time immobile in the FST, when compared to control animals. These effects were attenuated by imipramine treatment, without changing basal response. Imipramine prevented protracted abstinence -induced decrease in glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and serotonin transporter (SERT) expression in the dorsal hippocampus. SIGNIFICANCE Our findings indicate that chronic ethanol withdrawal affects the hippocampal serotonergic system by decreasing serotonin transporter expression. It also disturbs the HPA axis functioning through an imbalance on GR and mineralocorticoid (MR) expression.
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- Rodrigo Campos-Cardoso
- Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil; Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, USP, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, USP, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil; Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, USP, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, USP, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil; Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, USP, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil; Instituto de Neurociências e Comportamento (INeC), Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil; Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, USP, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil; Instituto de Neurociências e Comportamento (INeC), Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
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Kim DH, Kim KK, Lee TH, Eom H, Kim JW, Park JW, Jeong JK, Lee BJ. Transcription Factor TonEBP Stimulates Hyperosmolality-Dependent Arginine Vasopressin Gene Expression in the Mouse Hypothalamus. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2021; 12:627343. [PMID: 33796071 PMCID: PMC8008816 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2021.627343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2020] [Accepted: 02/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The hypothalamic neuroendocrine system is strongly implicated in body energy homeostasis. In particular, the degree of production and release of arginine vasopressin (AVP) in the hypothalamus is affected by plasma osmolality, and that hypothalamic AVP is responsible for thirst and osmolality-dependent water and metabolic balance. However, the osmolality-responsive intracellular mechanism within AVP cells that regulates AVP synthesis is not clearly understood. Here, we report a role for tonicity-responsive enhancer binding protein (TonEBP), a transcription factor sensitive to cellular tonicity, in regulating osmosensitive hypothalamic AVP gene transcription. Our immunohistochemical work shows that hypothalamic AVP cellular activity, as recognized by c-fos, was enhanced in parallel with an elevation in TonEBP expression within AVP cells following water deprivation. Interestingly, our in vitro investigations found a synchronized pattern of TonEBP and AVP gene expression in response to osmotic stress. Those results indicate a positive correlation between hypothalamic TonEBP and AVP production during dehydration. Promoter and chromatin immunoprecipitation assays confirmed that TonEBP can bind directly to conserved binding motifs in the 5'-flanking promoter regions of the AVP gene. Furthermore, dehydration- and TonEBP-mediated hypothalamic AVP gene activation was reduced in TonEBP haploinsufficiency mice, compared with wild TonEBP homozygote animals. Therefore, our result support the idea that TonEBP is directly necessary, at least in part, for the elevation of AVP transcription in dehydration conditions. Additionally, dehydration-induced reductions in body weight were rescued in TonEBP haploinsufficiency mice. Altogether, our results demonstrate an intracellular machinery within hypothalamic AVP cells that is responsible for dehydration-induced AVP synthesis.
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- Dong Hee Kim
- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea
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- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States
- *Correspondence: Byung Ju Lee, ; Jin Kwon Jeong,
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- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea
- *Correspondence: Byung Ju Lee, ; Jin Kwon Jeong,
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Nishimura H, Kawasaki M, Suzuki H, Matsuura T, Baba K, Motojima Y, Yamanaka Y, Fujitani T, Ohnishi H, Tsukamoto M, Maruyama T, Yoshimura M, Nishimura K, Sonoda S, Sanada K, Tanaka K, Onaka T, Ueta Y, Sakai A. The neurohypophysial oxytocin and arginine vasopressin system is activated in a knee osteoarthritis rat model. J Neuroendocrinol 2020; 32:e12892. [PMID: 32761684 DOI: 10.1111/jne.12892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2020] [Revised: 07/11/2020] [Accepted: 07/11/2020] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Osteoarthritis (OA) causes chronic joint pain and significantly impacts daily activities. Hence, developing novel treatment options for OA has become an increasingly important area of research. Recently, studies have reported that exogenous, as well as endogenous, hypothalamic-neurohypophysial hormones, oxytocin (OXT) and arginine-vasopressin (AVP), significantly contribute to nociception modulation. Moreover, the parvocellular OXT neurone (parvOXT) extends its projection to the superficial spinal dorsal horn, where it controls the transmission of nociceptive signals. Meanwhile, AVP produced in the magnocellular AVP neurone (magnAVP) is released into the systemic circulation where it contributes to pain management at peripheral sites. The parvocellular AVP neurone (parvAVP), as well as corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRH), suppresses inflammation via activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis. Previously, we confirmed that the OXT/AVP system is activated in rat models of pain. However, the roles of endogenous hypothalamic-neurohypophysial hormones in OA have not yet been characterised. In the present study, we investigated whether the OXT/AVP system is activated in a knee OA rat model. Our results show that putative parvOXT is activated and the amount of OXT-monomeric red fluorescent protein 1 positive granules in the ipsilateral superficial spinal dorsal horn increases in the knee OA rat. Furthermore, both magnAVP and parvAVP are activated, concurrent with HPA axis activation, predominantly modulated by AVP, and not CRH. The OXT/AVP system in OA rats was similar to that in systemic inflammation models, including adjuvant arthritis; however, magnocellular OXT neurones (magnOXT) were not activated in OA. Hence, localised chronic pain conditions, such as knee OA, activate the OXT/AVP system without impacting magnOXT.
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- Haruki Nishimura
- Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Division of Brain and Neurophysiology, Department of Physiology, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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Effect of amisulpride, olanzapine, quetiapine, and aripiprazole single administration on c-Fos expression in vasopressinergic and oxytocinergic neurons of the rat hypothalamic supraoptic nucleus. Endocr Regul 2020; 54:77-84. [PMID: 32597151 DOI: 10.2478/enr-2020-0010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to reveal the impact of four types of atypical antipsychotics including amisulpride (AMI), olanzapine (OLA), quetiapine (QUE), and aripiprazole (ARI), with different receptor-affinity profile and dissociation constant, on the activity of hypothalamic supraoptic nucleus (SON) vasopressinergic and oxytocinergic neurons. METHODS Male Sprague Dawley rats received a single injection of vehicle (VEH) (0.1 ml/100g), AMI (20 mg/kg), OLA (5 mg/kg), QUE (15 mg/kg/) or ARI (10 mg/kg). Ninety min after treatment, the animals were fixed by transcardial perfusion, the brains removed, and cryocut into serial coronal sections of 35 µm thickness. The sections were processed for c-Fos staining using an avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex and visualized by nickel intensified diaminobenzidine to reach black end product. Afterwards, the sections were exposed to vasopressin (AVP) and oxytocin (OXY) antibodies and the reaction product visualized by biotin-labeled fluorescent Alexa Fluor 568 dye. The data were evaluated from c-Fos and AVP or OXY merged sections. RESULTS The present study shows that all four antipsychotics applied induced c-Fos expression in the SON. With respect to the stimulation efficacy of the individual antipsychotics, estimated based on the quantity of c-Fos-labeled AVP and OXY neurons, could be a preferential action assigned to QUE over moderate effect of ARI and lower effect to OLA and reduced effect of AMI (VEH < AMI < OLA < ARI < QUE). CONCLUSION The present data for the first time provide an insight into the quantitative pattern of brain activity within the clusters of SON AVP and OXY cells in response to different atypical antipsychotics single treatment.
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Marciante AB, Wang LA, Little JT, Cunningham JT. Caspase lesions of PVN-projecting MnPO neurons block the sustained component of CIH-induced hypertension in adult male rats. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2020; 318:H34-H48. [PMID: 31675258 PMCID: PMC6985804 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00350.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2019] [Revised: 10/31/2019] [Accepted: 10/31/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Obstructive sleep apnea is characterized by interrupted breathing that leads to cardiovascular sequelae including chronic hypertension that can persist into the waking hours. Chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH), which models the hypoxemia associated with sleep apnea, is sufficient to cause a sustained increase in blood pressure that involves the central nervous system. The median preoptic nucleus (MnPO) is an integrative forebrain region that contributes to blood pressure regulation and neurogenic hypertension. The MnPO projects to the paraventricular nucleus (PVN), a preautonomic region. We hypothesized that pathway-specific lesions of the projection from the MnPO to the PVN would attenuate the sustained component of chronic intermittent hypoxia-induced hypertension. Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats (250-300 g) were anesthetized with isoflurane and stereotaxically injected bilaterally in the PVN with a retrograde Cre-containing adeno-associated virus (AAV; AAV9.CMV.HI.eGFP-Cre.WPRE.SV40) and injected in the MnPO with caspase-3 (AAV5-flex-taCasp3-TEVp) or control virus (AAV5-hSyn-DIO-mCherry). Three weeks after the injections the rats were exposed to a 7-day intermittent hypoxia protocol. During chronic intermittent hypoxia, controls developed a diurnal hypertension that was blunted in rats with caspase lesions. Brain tissue processed for FosB immunohistochemistry showed decreased staining with caspase-induced lesions of MnPO and downstream autonomic-regulating nuclei. Chronic intermittent hypoxia significantly increased plasma levels of advanced oxidative protein products in controls, but this increase was blocked in caspase-lesioned rats. The results indicate that PVN-projecting MnPO neurons play a significant role in blood pressure regulation in the development of persistent chronic intermittent hypoxia hypertension.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Chronic intermittent hypoxia associated with obstructive sleep apnea increases oxidative stress and leads to chronic hypertension. Sustained hypertension may be mediated by angiotensin II-induced neural plasticity of excitatory median preoptic neurons in the forebrain that project to the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus. Selective caspase lesions of these neurons interrupt the drive for sustained hypertension and cause a reduction in circulating oxidative protein products. This indicates that a functional connection between the forebrain and hypothalamus is necessary to drive diurnal hypertension associated with intermittent hypoxia. These results provide new information about central mechanisms that may contribute to neurogenic hypertension.
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- Alexandria B Marciante
- 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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Allen WE, DeNardo LA, Chen MZ, Liu CD, Loh KM, Fenno LE, Ramakrishnan C, Deisseroth K, Luo L. Thirst-associated preoptic neurons encode an aversive motivational drive. Science 2018; 357:1149-1155. [PMID: 28912243 PMCID: PMC5723384 DOI: 10.1126/science.aan6747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2017] [Accepted: 07/26/2017] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Water deprivation produces a drive to seek and consume water. How neural activity creates this motivation remains poorly understood. We used activity-dependent genetic labeling to characterize neurons activated by water deprivation in the hypothalamic median preoptic nucleus (MnPO). Single-cell transcriptional profiling revealed that dehydration-activated MnPO neurons consist of a single excitatory cell type. After optogenetic activation of these neurons, mice drank water and performed an operant lever-pressing task for water reward with rates that scaled with stimulation frequency. This stimulation was aversive, and instrumentally pausing stimulation could reinforce lever-pressing. Activity of these neurons gradually decreased over the course of an operant session. Thus, the activity of dehydration-activated MnPO neurons establishes a scalable, persistent, and aversive internal state that dynamically controls thirst-motivated behavior.
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- William E Allen
- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.,Neurosciences Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. .,Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. .,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Shi G, Somlo DRM, Kim GH, Prescianotto-Baschong C, Sun S, Beuret N, Long Q, Rutishauser J, Arvan P, Spiess M, Qi L. ER-associated degradation is required for vasopressin prohormone processing and systemic water homeostasis. J Clin Invest 2017; 127:3897-3912. [PMID: 28920920 DOI: 10.1172/jci94771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2017] [Accepted: 07/26/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Peptide hormones are crucial regulators of many aspects of human physiology. Mutations that alter these signaling peptides are associated with physiological imbalances that underlie diseases. However, the conformational maturation of peptide hormone precursors (prohormones) in the ER remains largely unexplored. Here, we report that conformational maturation of proAVP, the precursor for the antidiuretic hormone arginine-vasopressin, within the ER requires the ER-associated degradation (ERAD) activity of the Sel1L-Hrd1 protein complex. Serum hyperosmolality induces expression of both ERAD components and proAVP in AVP-producing neurons. Mice with global or AVP neuron-specific ablation of Se1L-Hrd1 ERAD progressively developed polyuria and polydipsia, characteristics of diabetes insipidus. Mechanistically, we found that ERAD deficiency causes marked ER retention and aggregation of a large proportion of all proAVP protein. Further, we show that proAVP is an endogenous substrate of Sel1L-Hrd1 ERAD. The inability to clear misfolded proAVP with highly reactive cysteine thiols in the absence of Sel1L-Hrd1 ERAD causes proAVP to accumulate and participate in inappropriate intermolecular disulfide-bonded aggregates, promoted by the enzymatic activity of protein disulfide isomerase (PDI). This study highlights a pathway linking ERAD to prohormone conformational maturation in neuroendocrine cells, expanding the role of ERAD in providing a conducive ER environment for nascent proteins to reach proper conformation.
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- Guojun Shi
- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Cam-Su Mouse Genomic Resources Center, Suzhou University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.,Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Diabetes, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.,Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Diabetes, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Greenwood MP, Greenwood M, Gillard BT, Loh SY, Paton JFR, Murphy D. Epigenetic Control of the Vasopressin Promoter Explains Physiological Ability to Regulate Vasopressin Transcription in Dehydration and Salt Loading States in the Rat. J Neuroendocrinol 2016; 28. [PMID: 26833868 PMCID: PMC4855680 DOI: 10.1111/jne.12371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2015] [Revised: 01/06/2016] [Accepted: 01/23/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The synthesis of arginine vasopressin (AVP) in the supraoptic nucleus (SON) and paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus is sensitive to increased plasma osmolality and a decreased blood volume, and thus is robustly increased by both dehydration (increased plasma osmolality and decreased blood volume) and salt loading (increased plasma osmolality). Both stimuli result in functional remodelling of the SON and PVN, a process referred to as functional-related plasticity. Such plastic changes in the brain have recently been associated with altered patterns of DNA methylation at CpG (cytosine-phosphate-guanine) residues, a process considered to be important for the regulation of gene transcription. In this regard, the proximal Avp promoter contains a number of CpG sites and is recognised as one of four CpG islands for the Avp gene, suggesting that methylation may be regulating Avp transcription. In the present study, we show that, in an immortalised hypothalamic cell line 4B, the proximal Avp promoter is highly methylated, and treatment of these cells with the DNA methyltransferase inhibitor 5-Aza-2'-deoxycytidine to demethylate DNA dramatically increases basal and stimulated Avp biosynthesis. We report no changes in the expression of DNA methyltransferases, Dnmt1 and Dnmt3a, whereas there is decreased expression of the demethylating enzyme ten-eleven-translocation 2, Tet2, in the SON by dehydration and salt loading. We found higher methylation of the SON Avp promoter in dehydrated but not salt-loaded rats. By analysis of individual CpG sites, we observed hypomethylation, hypermethylation and no change in methylation of specific CpGs in the SON Avp promoter of the dehydrated rat. Using reporter gene assays, we show that mutation of individual CpGs can result in altered Avp promoter activity. We propose that methylation of the SON Avp promoter is necessary to co-ordinate the duel inputs of increased plasma osmolality and decreased blood volume on Avp transcription in the chronically dehydrated rat.
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- M P Greenwood
- School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Physiology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Department of Physiology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Graebner AK, Iyer M, Carter ME. Understanding how discrete populations of hypothalamic neurons orchestrate complicated behavioral states. Front Syst Neurosci 2015; 9:111. [PMID: 26300745 PMCID: PMC4523943 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2014] [Accepted: 07/16/2015] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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A major question in systems neuroscience is how a single population of neurons can interact with the rest of the brain to orchestrate complex behavioral states. The hypothalamus contains many such discrete neuronal populations that individually regulate arousal, feeding, and drinking. For example, hypothalamic neurons that express hypocretin (Hcrt) neuropeptides can sense homeostatic and metabolic factors affecting wakefulness and orchestrate organismal arousal. Neurons that express agouti-related protein (AgRP) can sense the metabolic needs of the body and orchestrate a state of hunger. The organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis (OVLT) can detect the hypertonicity of blood and orchestrate a state of thirst. Each hypothalamic population is sufficient to generate complicated behavioral states through the combined efforts of distinct efferent projections. The principal challenge to understanding these brain systems is therefore to determine the individual roles of each downstream projection for each behavioral state. In recent years, the development and application of temporally precise, genetically encoded tools has greatly improved our understanding of the structure and function of these neural systems. This review will survey recent advances in our understanding of how these individual hypothalamic populations can orchestrate complicated behavioral states due to the combined efforts of individual downstream projections.
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- Allison K Graebner
- Program in Neuroscience, Department of Biology, Williams College Williamstown, MA, USA
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- Program in Neuroscience, Department of Biology, Williams College Williamstown, MA, USA
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- Program in Neuroscience, Department of Biology, Williams College Williamstown, MA, USA
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Walch JD, Nedungadi TP, Cunningham JT. ANG II receptor subtype 1a gene knockdown in the subfornical organ prevents increased drinking behavior in bile duct-ligated rats. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2014; 307:R597-607. [PMID: 25009217 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00163.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Bile duct ligation (BDL) causes congestive liver failure that initiates hemodynamic changes, resulting in dilutional hyponatremia due to increased water intake and vasopressin release. This project tested the hypothesis that angiotensin signaling at the subfornical organ (SFO) augments drinking behavior in BDL rats. A genetically modified adeno-associated virus containing short hairpin RNA (shRNA) for ANG II receptor subtype 1a (AT1aR) gene was microinjected into the SFO of rats to knock down expression. Two weeks later, BDL or sham surgery was performed. Rats were housed in metabolic chambers for measurement of fluid and food intake and urine output. The rats were euthanized 28 days after BDL surgery for analysis. A group of rats was perfused for immunohistochemistry, and a second group was used for laser-capture microdissection for analysis of SFO AT1aR gene expression. BDL rats showed increased water intake that was attenuated in rats that received SFO microinjection of AT1aR shRNA. Among BDL rats treated with scrambled (control) and AT1aR shRNA, we observed an increased number of vasopressin-positive cells in the supraoptic nucleus that colocalized with ΔFosB staining, suggesting increased vasopressin release in both groups. These results indicate that angiotensin signaling through the SFO contributes to increased water intake, but not dilutional hyponatremia, during congestive liver failure.
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- Joseph D Walch
- Department of Integrative Physiology and Anatomy and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of North Texas Health Science Centre at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas; and Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
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- Department of Integrative Physiology and Anatomy and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of North Texas Health Science Centre at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas; and
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- Department of Integrative Physiology and Anatomy and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of North Texas Health Science Centre at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas; and
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Bardgett ME, Chen QH, Guo Q, Calderon AS, Andrade MA, Toney GM. Coping with dehydration: sympathetic activation and regulation of glutamatergic transmission in the hypothalamic PVN. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2014; 306:R804-13. [PMID: 24671240 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00074.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Autonomic and endocrine profiles of chronic hypertension and heart failure resemble those of acute dehydration. Importantly, all of these conditions are associated with exaggerated sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) driven by glutamatergic activation of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN). Here, studies sought to gain insight into mechanisms of disease by determining the role of PVN ionotropic glutamate receptors in supporting SNA and mean arterial pressure (MAP) during dehydration and by elucidating mechanisms regulating receptor activity. Blockade of PVN N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors reduced (P < 0.01) renal SNA and MAP in urethane-chloralose-anesthetized dehydrated (DH) (48 h water deprivation) rats, but had no effect in euhydrated (EH) controls. Blockade of PVN α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptors had no effect in either group. NMDA in PVN caused dose-dependent increases of renal SNA and MAP in both groups, but the maximum agonist evoked response (Emax) of the renal SNA response was greater (P < 0.05) in DH rats. The latter was not explained by increased PVN expression of NMDA receptor NR1 subunit protein, increased PVN neuronal excitability, or decreased brain water content. Interestingly, PVN injection of the pan-specific excitatory amino acid transporter (EAAT) inhibitor DL-threo-β-benzyloxyaspartic acid produced smaller sympathoexcitatory and pressor responses in DH rats, which was associated with reduced glial expression of EAAT2 in PVN. Like chronic hypertension and heart failure, dehydration increases excitatory NMDA receptor tone in PVN. Reduced glial-mediated glutamate uptake was identified as a key contributing factor. Defective glutamate uptake in PVN could therefore be an important, but as yet unexplored, mechanism driving sympathetic hyperactivity in chronic cardiovascular diseases.
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- Department of Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan
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- Department of Physiology and Center for Biomedical Neuroscience, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas; and
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Nedungadi TP, Cunningham JT. Differential regulation of TRPC4 in the vasopressin magnocellular system by water deprivation and hepatic cirrhosis in the rat. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2013; 306:R304-14. [PMID: 24352411 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00388.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Transient receptor potential canonical subtype 4 (TRPC4) is expressed in the magnocellular paraventricular nucleus (PVN) and supraoptic nucleus (SON) of the hypothalamus. In this study, the regulation of TRPC4 expression was investigated in water deprivation and hepatic cirrhosis. We used laser capture microdissection technique for precise dissection of pure AVP cell population in the PVN and SON followed by quantitative real-time RT-PCR, and immunodetection techniques by Western blot analysis and immunofluorescence. Bile duct ligation elevated TRPC4 transcripts in the SON but not PVN with correlated changes in the protein expression in these regions, as well as increased colocalization with AVP in the SON, with no changes in the PVN. Water deprivation resulted in increased TRPC4 mRNA expression in the PVN, while it decreased channel expression levels in the SON. In both of these regions, protein expression measured from tissue punches were unaltered following water deprivation, with no changes in the number of TRPC4-positive cells. Thus, TRPC4 expression is differentially regulated in physiological and pathophysiological models of vasopressin release.
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- T Prashant Nedungadi
- Department of Integrative Physiology, and Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of North Texas Health Science Centre at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
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Noda M, Sakuta H. Central regulation of body-fluid homeostasis. Trends Neurosci 2013; 36:661-73. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2013.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2013] [Revised: 07/30/2013] [Accepted: 08/12/2013] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Davern PJ, McKinley MJ. Brain regions influenced by the lateral parabrachial nucleus in angiotensin II-induced water intake. Neuroscience 2013; 252:410-9. [PMID: 23994596 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.08.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2013] [Revised: 08/15/2013] [Accepted: 08/17/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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This study examined which brain regions are influenced by an inhibitory lateral parabrachial nucleus (LPBN) mechanism that affects water intake. Controls and rats with bilateral LPBN lesions were administered angiotensin II (AngII) (0.5mg/kg subcutaneous - SC), drinking responses measured, and brains processed for Fos-immunohistochemistry. A separate group of LPBN-lesioned and non-lesioned animals were denied water for 90 min prior to perfusion to remove any confounding factor of water intake. LPBN-lesioned rats drank a cumulative volume of 9 mL compared with <4 mL by controls (p<0.01). Compared with sham-lesioned animals, Fos expression was attenuated in overdrinking LPBN-lesioned rats in the median preoptic nucleus (MnPO), paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN), supraoptic nucleus (SON) (p<0.001), bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and central nucleus of the amygdala (p<0.01). In LPBN-lesioned rats that did not drink, greater numbers of activated neurons were detected in the PVN (p<0.001), SON (p<0.01), MnPO, nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS) and area postrema (p<0.05) in response to SC AngII, compared with non-lesioned rats. These data suggest that the direct effects of LPBN lesions caused an increase in AngII-induced water intake and in rats that did not drink an increase in Fos expression, while indirect secondary effects of LPBN lesions caused a reduction in Fos expression possibly related to excessive ingestion of water. An inhibitory mechanism, likely related to arterial baroreceptor stimulation, relayed by neurons located in the LPBN influences the responses of the MnPO, PVN and SON to increases in peripheral AngII.
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- P J Davern
- The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia; Neuropharmacology Laboratory, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, P.O. Box 6492, St Kilda Road Central, Melbourne, Victoria 8008, Australia.
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Yoshimura M, Ohkubo J, Katoh A, Ohno M, Ishikura T, Kakuma T, Yoshimatsu H, Murphy D, Ueta Y. A c-fos-monomeric red fluorescent protein 1 fusion transgene is differentially expressed in rat forebrain and brainstem after chronic dehydration and rehydration. J Neuroendocrinol 2013; 25:478-87. [PMID: 23350545 DOI: 10.1111/jne.12022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2012] [Revised: 12/17/2012] [Accepted: 01/10/2013] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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We have previously shown that an acute osmotic stimulation induces the expression of a c-fos and monomeric red fluorescent protein 1 (mRFP1) fusion transgene in osmosensitive rat brain areas, including the supraoptic (SON) and paraventricular nuclei (PVN). However, the effects of chronic stimuli, such as dehydration, have not been investigated. In the present study, the expression patterns of the c-fos-mRFP1 fusion gene in the forebrain and the brainstem of male and female transgenic rats were studied in seven experimental groups: ad lib. water (euhydration), water deprivation for 12, 24 or 48 h (dehydration) and water deprivation for 46 h + ad lib. water for 2, 6 or 12 h (rehydration). The number of cells that express nuclear mRFP1 fluorescence was quantified in the hypothalamus, the circumventricular organs and the brainstem. Compared to the euhydrated state, the number of transgene expressing cells significantly increased in all forebrain areas and in the rostral ventrolateral medulla after dehydration and 2 h of rehydration. In the nucleus of the solitary tract and area postrema, the number of mRFP1 fluorescent cells was markedly increased after 2 h of rehydration. Although the number of mRFP1 fluorescent cells in the organum vasculosum laminae terminalis, median preoptic nucleus and subfornical organ remained significantly increased after 6 h of rehydration, reaching control levels after 12 h of rehydration, the number of mRFP1 fluorescent cells in the SON and the PVN reached control levels after 6 h of rehydration. There were no significant differences between male and female rats. These results show that the expression of the c-fos-mRFP1 fusion gene changes in the forebrain and the brainstem not only after acute osmotic stimulation, but also after chronic osmotic stimulation. Interestingly, these studies reveal the differential activation of different neuronal groups over the time course of dehydration and rehydration.
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- M Yoshimura
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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Yao ST, Gouraud SS, Qiu J, Cunningham JT, Paton JFR, Murphy D. Selective up-regulation of JunD transcript and protein expression in vasopressinergic supraoptic nucleus neurones in water-deprived rats. J Neuroendocrinol 2012; 24:1542-52. [PMID: 22827527 PMCID: PMC3499652 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2012.02362.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2012] [Revised: 06/29/2012] [Accepted: 07/19/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The magnocellular neurones (MCN) of the supraoptic nucleus (SON) undergo reversible changes during dehydration. We hypothesise that alterations in steady-state transcript levels might be partially responsible for this plasticity. In turn, regulation of transcript abundance might be mediated by transcription factors. We have previously used microarrays to identify changes in the expression of mRNAs encoding transcription factors in response to water deprivation. We observed down-regulation of 11 and up-regulation of 31 transcription factor transcripts, including members of the activator protein-1 gene family, namely c-fos, c-jun, fosl1 and junD. Because JunD expression and regulation within the SON has not been previously described, we have used in situ hybridisation and the quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction to confirm the array results, demonstrating a significant increase in JunD mRNA levels following 24 and 72 h of water deprivation. Western blot and immunohistochemistry revealed a significant increase in JunD protein expression following dehydration. Double-staining fluorescence immunohistochemistry with a neurone-specific marker (NeuN) demonstrated that JunD staining is predominantly neuronal. Additionally, JunD immunoreactivity is observed primarily in vasopressin-containing neurones with markedly less staining seen in oxytocin-containing MCNs. Furthermore, JunD is highly co-expressed with c-Fos in MCNs of the SON following dehydration. These results suggest that JunD plays a role in the regulation of gene expression within MCNs of the SON in association with other Fos and Jun family members.
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- S T Yao
- Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
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Cunningham JT, Nedungadi TP, Walch JD, Nestler EJ, Gottlieb HB. ΔFosB in the supraoptic nucleus contributes to hyponatremia in rats with cirrhosis. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2012; 303:R177-85. [PMID: 22621966 PMCID: PMC3404636 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00142.2012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2012] [Accepted: 05/18/2012] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Bile duct ligation (BDL), a model of hepatic cirrhosis, is associated with dilutional hyponatremia and inappropriate vasopressin release. ΔFosB staining was significantly increased in vasopressin and oxytocin magnocellular neurosecretory cells in the supraoptic nucleus (SON) of BDL rats. We tested the role of SON ΔFosB in fluid retention following BDL by injecting the SON (n = 10) with 400 nl of an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector expressing ΔJunD (a dominant negative construct for ΔFosB) plus green fluorescent protein (GFP) (AAV-GFP-ΔJunD). Controls were either noninjected or injected with an AAV vector expressing only GFP. Three weeks after BDL or sham ligation surgery, rats were individually housed in metabolism cages for 1 wk. Average daily water intake was significantly elevated in all BDL rats compared with sham ligated controls. Average daily urine output was significantly greater in AAV-GFP-ΔJunD-treated BDL rats compared with all other groups. Daily average urine sodium concentration was significantly lower in AAV-GFP-ΔJunD-treated BDL rats than the other groups, although average daily sodium excretion was not different among the groups. SON expression of ΔJunD produced a diuresis in BDL rats that may be related to decreased circulating levels of vasopressin or oxytocin. These findings support the view that ΔFosB expression in SON magnocellular secretory cells contribute to dilutional hyponatremia in BDL rats.
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- J Thomas Cunningham
- Department of Integrative Physiology and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of North Texas Health Science Centre at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX 76017, USA.
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Cunningham JT, Knight WD, Mifflin SW, Nestler EJ. An Essential role for DeltaFosB in the median preoptic nucleus in the sustained hypertensive effects of chronic intermittent hypoxia. Hypertension 2012; 60:179-87. [PMID: 22689746 PMCID: PMC3415378 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.112.193789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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One of the main clinical features of obstructive sleep apnea is sustained hypertension and elevated sympathetic activity during waking hours. Chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH), animal model of the hypoxemia associated with obstructive sleep apnea, produces a similar sustained increase in blood pressure. This study determined the role of ΔFosB in the median preoptic nucleus (MnPO) in the sustained increase in mean arterial pressure associated with CIH. Rats were injected in the MnPO with viral vectors that expressed green fluorescent protein alone or green fluorescent protein plus a dominant-negative construct that inhibits the transcriptional effects of ΔFosB. In green fluorescent protein-injected rats and uninjected controls, 7-day exposure to CIH increased mean arterial pressure by 7 to 10 mm Hg during both intermittent hypoxia exposure and normoxia. Dominant-negative inhibition of MnPO ΔFosB did not affect changes in mean arterial pressure during intermittent hypoxia exposure but significantly reduced the sustained component of the blood pressure response to CIH during the normoxic dark phase. Inhibition of MnPO ΔFosB reduced the FosB/ΔFosB staining in the paraventricular nucleus and rostral ventrolateral medulla but not the nucleus of the solitary tract. PCR array analysis identified 6 activator protein 1-regulated genes expressed in the MnPO that were increased by CIH exposure, ace, ace2, nos1, nos3, prdx2, and map3k3. Dominant-negative inhibition of ΔFosB in the MnPO blocked increased expression of each of these genes in rats exposed to CIH except for Prdx2. ΔFosB may mediate transcriptional activity in MnPO necessary for sustained CIH hypertension, suggesting that neural adaptations may contribute to diurnal hypertension in obstructive sleep apnea.
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- J Thomas Cunningham
- Department of Integrative Physiology, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA.
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Structural and neurochemical plasticity in both supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei of hypothalamus of a desert rodent Meriones Shawi after a severe dehydration versus opposite treatment by rehydration: GFAP and vasopressin immunohistochemical study. Neurosci Lett 2012; 515:55-60. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.03.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2012] [Revised: 03/02/2012] [Accepted: 03/08/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Charra R, Datiche F, Casthano A, Gigot V, Schaal B, Coureaud G. Brain processing of the mammary pheromone in newborn rabbits. Behav Brain Res 2011; 226:179-88. [PMID: 21925546 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2011] [Revised: 08/30/2011] [Accepted: 09/04/2011] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Chemosignals strongly contribute to social interactions in mammals, including mother-young relationships. In the European rabbit, a volatile compound emitted by lactating females in milk, the 2-methylbut-2-enal, has been isolated. Carrying the properties of a pheromone, in particular the spontaneous ability to release critical sucking-related movements in newborns, it has been called the mammary pheromone (MP). Lesion of the vomeronasal organ and preliminary 2-deoxyglucose data suggested that the MP could be processed by the main olfactory system. However, the neuronal substrate that sustains the MP-induced response of neonates remained unknown. Here, we evaluated Fos expression in 4-day-old-rabbits exposed to the MP (in comparison with control neonates exposed to non-relevant odorant, no odorant or unmanipulated pups) both at the level of the olfactory bulb and central brain regions. Evidence of high and widespread Fos immunoreactivity in the main olfactory bulb appear in MP pups while the accessory olfactory bulb exhibits a negligible staining. However, no obvious bulbar pattern of Fos expression is observed, when in contrast a certain pattern emerges with the neutral odorant. Compared to this latter, the MP exposure increases Fos expression in the anterior piriform cortex, the organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis and the habenula, with a tendency in the lateral preoptic region. For the first time, a pheromone essential for mother-young interaction is thus highlighted for its processing by the main olfactory system, the whole olfactory bulb, and by brain regions involved in osmoregulation, thirst and motivation-guided motor responses.
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- R Charra
- Developmental Ethology and Cognitive Psychology & Brain, Sensoriality and Metabolism groups, Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation, UMR 6265 CNRS, 1324 INRA, Université de Bourgogne, Agrosup Dijon, Dijon, France
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Role of superior laryngeal nerve and Fos staining following dehydration and rehydration in the rat. Physiol Behav 2011; 104:1053-8. [PMID: 21781979 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2011] [Revised: 07/05/2011] [Accepted: 07/06/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Immunohistochemistry for Fos was used to determine the role of the superior laryngeal nerve in conscious rats following water deprivation and rehydration. Adult male rats were subjected to either unilateral superior laryngeal nerve section (SLNX) or sham surgery. Two weeks later rats from each surgical group were water deprived for 48 h or water deprived for 46 h and given access to water for 2 h prior to perfusion. Controls were allowed ad libitum access to water. Brains were processed for Fos using a commercially available antibody. Changes in plasma osmolality and hematocrit were not significantly different between SLNX and sham following any of the treatments. Water intake in rats was not significantly affected by SLNX. In the supraoptic nucleus (SON) of sham rats, water deprivation significantly increased Fos staining while water intake following dehydration prevented this increase. Water deprivation significantly increased Fos staining in the SON of SLNX rats. Following water intake after 46 h water deprivation in SLNX rats, Fos staining in the ipsilateral SON was significantly greater than the contralateral SON and significantly lower than 48 h water deprivation. In the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS) of sham rats, both water deprivation and water intake produced significant increases in Fos staining bilaterally compared to euhydrated controls. In SLNX rats, water deprivation significantly increased Fos in both ipsilateral and contralateral NTS that was not different from sham rats. SLNX significantly decreased Fos staining in the ipsilateral NTS of rats given access to water after dehydration compared to the corresponding sham treated rats. Fos staining was not affected in the contralateral NTS of SLNX rats given access to water after dehydration. This suggests that the superior laryngeal nerve contributes to changes in Fos staining in the NTS and SON following water intake in dehydrated rats.
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Sinke AP, Deen PMT. The physiological implication of novel proteins in systemic osmoregulation. FASEB J 2011; 25:3279-89. [PMID: 21737616 DOI: 10.1096/fj.11-188433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Maintenance of the osmobalance is important for life. In this process, in which brain and kidney act in concert, mammals have to cope with significant deviations as drinking water reduces plasma osmolality, whereas salty food increases it. To restore homeostasis, specialized nuclei within the hypothalamus play a pivotal role in detecting changes in plasma osmolality and initiating appropriate responses. These responses are accomplished by either changing the intake of water or the excretion of water by the kidney. In the past decade, several novel findings have made significant contributions to our insights in the process of systemic osmoregulation. Novel proteins have been identified in the brain as well as in the kidney that are fulfilling important roles in the process of systemic osmoregulation. In this review, recent evidence of the involvement of TRPV channels (TRPV1, TRPV2, and TRPV4) and proteins, such as sodium channels NALCN and Na(x), in neuronal osmoregulation, as well as; e.g., the purinergic P2Y2 receptor in renal osmoregulation, are discussed, and integrated with existing knowledge of systemic osmoregulation.
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- Anne P Sinke
- Department of Physiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Knight WD, Little JT, Carreno FR, Toney GM, Mifflin SW, Cunningham JT. Chronic intermittent hypoxia increases blood pressure and expression of FosB/DeltaFosB in central autonomic regions. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2011; 301:R131-9. [PMID: 21543638 PMCID: PMC3129875 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00830.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2010] [Accepted: 04/26/2011] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH) models repetitive bouts of arterial hypoxemia that occur in humans suffering from obstructive sleep apnea. CIH has been linked to persistent activation of arterial chemoreceptors and the renin-angiotensin system, which have been linked to chronic elevations of sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) and mean arterial pressure (MAP). Because Fos and FosB are transcription factors involved in activator protein (AP)-1 driven central nervous system neuronal adaptations, this study determined if CIH causes increased Fos or FosB staining in brain regions that regulate SNA and autonomic function. Male Sprague Dawley rats were instrumented with telemetry transmitters for continuous recording of MAP and heart rate (HR). Rats were exposed to continuous normoxia (CON) or to CIH for 8 h/day for 7 days. CIH increased MAP by 7-10 mmHg without persistently affecting HR. A separate group of rats was killed 1 day after 7 days of CIH for immunohistochemistry. CIH did not increase Fos staining in any brain region examined. Staining for FosB/ΔFosB was increased in the organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis (CON: 9 ± 1; CIH: 34 ± 3 cells/section), subfornical organ (CON: 7 ± 2; CIH: 31 ± 3), median preoptic nucleus (CON 15 ± 1; CIH: 38 ± 3), nucleus of the solitary tract (CON: 9 ± 2; CIH: 28 ± 4), A5 (CON: 3 ± 1; CIH: 10 ± 1), and rostral ventrolateral medulla (CON: 5 ± 1; CIH: 17 ± 2). In the paraventricular nucleus, FosB/ΔFosB staining was located mainly in the dorsal and medial parvocellular subnuclei. CIH did not increase FosB/ΔFosB staining in caudal ventrolateral medulla or supraoptic nucleus. These data indicate that CIH induces an increase in FosB/ΔFosB in autonomic nuclei and suggest that AP-1 transcriptional regulation may contribute to stable adaptive changes that support chronically elevated SNA.
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- W David Knight
- Department of Integrative Physiology and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
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Xiong Y, Liu R, Xu Y, Duan L, Cao R, Tu L, Li Z, Zhao G, Rao Z. Effects of vagotomy, splanchnic nerve lesion, and fluorocitrate on the transmission of acute hyperosmotic stress signals to the supraoptic nucleus. J Neurosci Res 2010; 89:256-66. [PMID: 21162132 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.22548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2010] [Revised: 10/02/2010] [Accepted: 10/11/2010] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The response to hyperosmotic stresses in the abdominal cavity is regulated, in part, by vasopressin (VP)-secreting neurons in the supraoptic nucleus (SON). How osmotic stress signals are transmitted to the brain is incompletely understood, and whether the transmission routes for osmotic stress signals differ between acute and chronic stresses is unknown. Here we investigated the role of the vagus, splanchnic nerves, and astrocytes in the SON in transducing acute hyperosmotic-stress signals from the abdominal cavity. We found that acute administration of hyperosmotic saline triggered the activation of neurons as well as astrocytes in the SON and the adjoining ventral glia limitans (SON-VGL). Severing the subdiaphragmatic vagal nerve (SDV) prevented the normal response of cells in the SON to HS treatment and attenuated the release of VP into the bloodstream. Lesioning the splanchnic nerves (SNL) diminished HS-induced release of VP, but to a much lesser extent than SDV. Furthermore, SNL did not significantly affect the up-regulation of Fos in SON neurons or the up-regulation of Fos and GFAP in SON and SON-VGL astrocytes that normally occurred in response to HS and did not affect HS-induced expansion of the SON-VGL. Inhibiting astrocytes with fluorocitrate (FCA) prevented the response of the SON to HS and attenuated the release of VP, similarly to SDV surgery. These results suggest that the vagus is the principle route for the transmission of hyperosmotic signals to the brain and that astrocytes in the SON region are necessary for the activation of SON neurons and the release of VP into the bloodstream.
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- Yingfei Xiong
- Institute of Neuroscience, Fourth Military Medical University (FMMU), Xi'an, China
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Padzys GS, Thornton SN, Martrette JM, Trabalon M. Effects of short term forced oral breathing in rat pups on weight gain, hydration and stress. Physiol Behav 2010; 102:175-80. [PMID: 21035477 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.10.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2010] [Revised: 10/15/2010] [Accepted: 10/21/2010] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Nasal obstruction is a risk factor in sleep-disordered breathing with a negative impact on the quality of life in humans. We investigated hydration changes produced by short term reversible, bilateral, nasal obstruction in young developing rat pups. Physiological parameters of growth (weight gain and gastric content weight) and dehydration were analyzed during two periods; during nasal obstruction at post-natal day 8 (days 9, 11 and 13), plus 7 and 90 days after recovery of nasal breathing (day 15 and adulthood). Body weight gain in oral breathing rat pups was slower compared to controls. Gastric weight was decreased significantly only in oral breathing rat pups on days 9 and 11 while plasma osmolality and vasopressin levels increased (indicators of dehydration). There were no differences between controls and treated rat pups by day 15, or at adulthood. Short term nasal obstruction-induced forced oral breathing, decreased gastric content which had a negative impact on growth and blood glucose concentration in the short term for female rat pups. Plasma corticosterone levels increased during the dehydration but were normal in males by 90 days. This could be a model for blocked nose syndrome in the newborn. Possible long term consequences on development are discussed.
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- Guy S Padzys
- Université H. Poincaré, B.P.70239, 54506 Vandœuvre-les-Nancy, France
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Knight WD, Ji LL, Little JT, Cunningham JT. Dehydration followed by sham rehydration contributes to reduced neuronal activation in vasopressinergic supraoptic neurons after water deprivation. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2010; 299:R1232-40. [PMID: 20844266 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00066.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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This experiment tested the role of oropharyngeal and gastric afferents on hypothalamic activation in dehydrated rats instrumented with gastric fistulas and allowed to drink water or isotonic saline compared with euhydrated controls (CON). Rats were water-deprived for 48 h (48 WD) or 46 h WD with 2 h rehydration with water (46+W) or isotonic saline (46+S). 46+W and 46+S rats were given water with fistulas open (46+WO/46+SO, sham) or closed (46+WC/46+SC). Compared with CON, water deprivation increased and water rehydration decreased plasma osmolality, while sham rehydration had no effect. Water deprivation increased c-Fos staining in the lamina terminalis. However, none of the sham or rehydration treatments normalized c-Fos staining in the lamina terminalis. Analysis of AVP and c-Fos-positive neurons in the supraoptic nucleus (SON) revealed reduced colocalization in 46+WO and 46+SC rats compared with 48 WD and 46+SO rats. However, 46+WO and 46+SC rats had higher c-Fos staining in the SON than 46+WC or CON rats. Examination of c-Fos in the perinuclear zone (PNZ) revealed that sham and rehydrated rats had increased c-Fos staining to CON, while 48 WD and 46+SO rats had little or no c-Fos staining in this region. Thus, preabsorptive reflexes contribute to the regulation of AVP neurons in a manner independent of c-Fos expression in the lamina terminalis. Further, this reflex pathway may include inhibitory interneurons in the PNZ region surrounding the SON.
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- W David Knight
- Department of Integrative Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Instittute, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas 76107, USA.
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Yuan H, Gao B, Duan L, Jiang S, Cao R, Xiong YF, Rao ZR. Acute hyperosmotic stimulus-induced Fos expression in neurons depends on activation of astrocytes in the supraoptic nucleus of rats. J Neurosci Res 2010; 88:1364-73. [PMID: 19938175 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.22297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Acute hyperosmolarity induced a time-dependent expression of Fos protein in both neurons and astrocytes of the rat supraoptic nucleus, with peak Fos expression occurring at 45 min in astrocytes and at 90 min in neurons after hypertonic stimulation in vivo. To determine whether the two cell types were activated separately or in an integrated manner, animals were pretreated with fluorocitrate, a glial metabolic blocker or carbenoxolone, a gap junction blocker followed by an acute hypertonic stimulation similar to that of the controls. Antibodies against glial fibrillary acidic protein, connexin 43, vasopressin, and oxytocin were used in serial sections to identify the cellular elements of the supraoptic nucleus. It was found that interruption of astrocyte metabolism with fluorocitrate significantly reduced Fos protein expression in both astrocytes and neurons, whereas blockage of gap junctions with carbenoxolone clearly reduced Fos protein expression in neurons, but not in astrocytes. These results indicate that both neurons and astrocytes in the rat supraoptic nucleus are involved in regulating osmolarity. Astrocytes are activated first, whereas connexin 43 functional hemichannels in SON astrocytes are required for the subsequent activation of the neurons.
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- Hua Yuan
- Institute of Neuroscience, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, China
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Bourassa EA, Speth RC. Water deprivation increases angiotensin-converting enzyme but not AT(1) receptor expression in brainstem and paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus of the rat. Brain Res 2010; 1319:83-91. [PMID: 20051229 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.12.079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2009] [Revised: 12/17/2009] [Accepted: 12/24/2009] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) is critical to the maintenance of blood pressure. It has been proposed that blood-borne Ang II can influence the RVLM via a neural connection between the circumventricular organs and paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVH) and that a component of this pathway is angiotensinergic. A period of water deprivation leads to increased ability of angiotensin type 1 (AT(1)) receptor antagonists to reduce blood pressure when administered into the RVLM and PVH. We studied the differences in AT(1) receptor and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) expression in these and other brain regions involved in blood pressure regulation and water intake following dehydration. AT(1) receptor and ACE expression in brains of rats deprived of water for 48 h were compared to that of water-replete rats by quantitative receptor autoradiography. AT(1) receptor expression was increased in the subfornical organ and periventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus, but not in other brain regions measured. ACE expression was increased in the RVLM, PVH, choroid plexus, median preoptic nucleus, and organosum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis. These findings suggest that increased Ang II production but not increased receptor expression in the PVH and RVLM is the mechanism by which Ang II in the brain helps to sustain systemic blood pressure during periods of water deprivation.
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- Erick A Bourassa
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA
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Masuki S, Nose H. Increased cerebral activity suppresses baroreflex control of heart rate in freely moving mice. J Physiol 2009; 587:5783-94. [PMID: 19805749 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2009.176164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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We assessed whether increased cerebral activity suppressed baroreflex control of heart rate (HR) and, if so, whether this occurred prior to the onset of locomotion in daily activity of mice. We measured mean arterial pressure (MAP, arterial catheter), cerebral blood flow in the motor cortex (CBF, laser-Doppler flowmetry), and electroencephalogram in free-moving mice (n = 8) during 12 daytime hours. The contribution of baroreflex control of HR to MAP regulation was determined during a total resting period for approximately 8 h from the cross-correlation function (R(t)) between spontaneous changes in HR (HR) and MAP (MAP) every 4 s and the sensitivity was determined from HR/MAP where R(t) was significant (P < 0.05). The power density ratio of theta to delta wave band in electroencephalogram (theta/delta), determined every 4 s as an index of cerebral activity, was positively correlated with CBF during 73 +/- 3% of the total resting period (P < 0.05) and with R(t) during 59 +/- 2% (P < 0.05). When each measurement during the resting period was divided into seven bins according to the level of theta/delta, CBF was 91 +/- 2% in the lowest bin and 118 +/- 3% in the highest bin (P < 0.001), R(t) was 0.69 +/- 0.06 and 0.27 +/- 0.04 (P < 0.001) and HR/MAP (beats min(1) mmHg(1)) was 12.4 +/- 0.9 and 7.5 +/- 0.9 (P < 0.001), respectively, with significant correlations with theta/delta (all P < 0.002). Moreover, mice started to move in approximately 30 sec after the sequential increases of theta/delta and R(t), mice started to move at 5 times higher probability than after a given time, followed by a rapid increase in MAP by approximately 10 mmHg. These results suggest that increased cerebral activity suppresses baroreflex control of HR and this might be related to the start of voluntary locomotion with a rapid increase in MAP.
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- Shizue Masuki
- Department of Sports Medical Sciences, Shinshu University Graduate School of Medicine, 3-1-1 Asahi Matsumoto 390-8621, Japan
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Zhu L, Mao C, Wu J, Guan J, Wan Z, Liu Y, Xu F, Zhou Y, Feng X, Xu Z. Ovine fetal hormonal and hypothalamic neuroendocrine responses to maternal water deprivation at late gestation. Int J Dev Neurosci 2009; 27:385-91. [PMID: 19460633 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2009.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2008] [Revised: 01/24/2009] [Accepted: 02/11/2009] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Angiotensin II (Ang II), aldosterone, and arginine-vasopressin (AVP) are three major neuropeptides or hormones that are important in the control of body fluid regulation. Dehydration during pregnancy induces alterations in maternal-fetal fluid homeostasis. It is still not clear about effects and mechanisms of maternal water deprivation on fetal neuroendocrine and hormonal responses. The present study deprived water from pregnant sheep at near-term for 24 h and 48 h, and determined maternal and fetal blood osmolality and sodium levels before and immediately after water deprivation. Fetal renal excretion and plasma hormones were measured. Fetal forebrain was analyzed for cellular activation marked with Fos and Fos-B. The results showed that maternal and fetal blood osmolality and sodium were increased by water deprivation. Maternal and fetal Ang II, aldosterone, and AVP levels were elevated by 24-h and 48-h water deprivation, while fetal plasma Ang I levels were increased only under the condition of 48-h water deprivation. Intensive Fos and Fos-B expression was detected in the median preoptic nuclei and paraventricular nuclei in the fetal brain following exposure to maternal water deprivation. Double labeling demonstrated that many Fos-positive cells were AVP-containing neurons in the fetal paraventricular nucleus. Together, the results suggest that neuroendocrine and hormonal regulatory mechanisms play a role in the control of body fluid homeostasis, and relatively matured and functional at the last third of gestation, as well as the fetal hypothalamus is functional in the control of the neuropeptide in response to maternal dehydration.
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- Liyan Zhu
- Perinatal Biology Center, Soochow University School of Medicine, Suzhou 215123, China
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Shi P, Martinez MA, Calderon AS, Chen Q, Cunningham JT, Toney GM. Intra-carotid hyperosmotic stimulation increases Fos staining in forebrain organum vasculosum laminae terminalis neurones that project to the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus. J Physiol 2008; 586:5231-45. [PMID: 18755745 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2008.159665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Body fluid hyperosmolality has long been known to elicit homeostatic responses that range from drinking to inhibition of salt appetite to release of neurohypohyseal hormones (i.e. vasopressin and oxytocin). More recently, it has been recognized that hyperosmolality is capable of also provoking a significant increase of sympathetic nerve activity (SNA). It has been reported that neurones in the forebrain organum vasculosum laminae terminalis (OVLT) and hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) each contribute significantly to this response. Here we sought to determine if sympathoexcitatory levels of hyperosmolality activate specifically those OVLT neurones that form a monosynaptic pathway to the PVN. First, we established in anaesthetized rats that graded concentrations of hypertonic NaCl (1.5 and 3.0 osmol kg(-1)) elicit graded increases of renal SNA (RSNA) when infused at a rate of 0.1 ml min(-1) through an internal carotid artery (ICA) - the major vascular supply of the forebrain. Next, infusions were performed in conscious rats in which OVLT neurones projecting to the PVN (OVLT-PVN) were retrogradely labelled with cholera toxin subunit B (CTB). Immunostaining of the immediate early gene product Fos and CTB was performed to quantify osmotic activation of OVLT-PVN neurones. ICA infusions of hypertonic NaCl and mannitol each significantly (P < 0.01-0.001) increased the number of Fos immunoreactive (Fos-ir) neuronal nuclei in the dorsal cap (DC) and lateral margins (LM) of OVLT. In the LM, infusions of 1.5 and 3.0 osmol kg(-1) NaCl produced similar increases in the number of Fos-ir neurones. In the DC, these infusions produced graded increases in Fos expression. Among OVLT neurones with axons projecting directly to the PVN (i.e. CTB-ir), graded hypertonic NaCl infusions again produced graded increases in Fos expression and this was observed in both the DC and LM. Although the DC and LM contained a similar number of OVLT-PVN neurones, the proportion of such neurones that expressed Fos-ir in responses to ICA hypertonic NaCl infusions was greater in the DC (P < 0.001). These findings support the conclusion that PVN-projecting neurones in the DC and LM of OVLT could participate in behavioural, neuroendocrine, and sympathetic nervous system responses to body fluid hyperosmolality.
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- Peng Shi
- Department of Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA
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Induction of c-Fos and DeltaFosB immunoreactivity in rat brain by Vagal nerve stimulation. Neuropsychopharmacology 2008; 33:1884-95. [PMID: 17957222 DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1301570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is used as therapy for treatment-resistant depression or epilepsy. This study used immunohistochemistry for biomarkers of short-term (c-Fos) and long-term (DeltaFosB) neuronal activation to map regions in brain that are activated by acute (2 h) or chronic (3 weeks) VNS in conscious Sprague-Dawley rats. Electrodes (Cyberonics Inc.) were implanted on the left vagus nerve and 1 week after surgery, stimulation began using parameters employed clinically (one burst of 20 Hz, 250 micros pulse width, 0.25 mA stimulation for 30 s every 5 min). Radio telemetry transmitters were used for monitoring blood pressure, heart rate, activity, and respiratory rate during VNS; neither acute nor chronic VNS significantly affected these parameters. Acute VNS significantly increased c-Fos staining in the nucleus of the solitary tract, paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus, parabrachial nucleus, ventral bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, and locus coeruleus but not in the cingulate cortex or dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN). Acute VNS did not affect DeltaFosB staining in any region. Chronic VNS significantly increased DeltaFosB and c-Fos staining bilaterally in each region affected by acute VNS as well as in the cingulate cortex and DRN. Using these stimulation parameters, VNS was tested for antidepressant-like activity using the forced swim test (FST). Both VNS and desipramine significantly decreased immobility in the FST; whereas desipramine decreased immobility by increasing climbing behavior, VNS did so by increasing swimming behavior. This study, then, identified potential sites in brain where VNS may produce its clinical effects.
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Arnhold MM, Wotus C, Engeland WC. Differential regulation of parvocellular neuronal activity in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus following single vs. repeated episodes of water restriction-induced drinking. Exp Neurol 2007; 206:126-36. [PMID: 17537436 PMCID: PMC2001306 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2007.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2007] [Revised: 04/20/2007] [Accepted: 04/24/2007] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Acute activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis releases glucocorticoids to maintain homeostasis, whereas prolonged exposure to elevated glucocorticoids has deleterious effects. Due to the potential benefits of limiting stress-induced glucocorticoid secretion, the present study uses drinking in dehydrated rats as a model to delineate mechanisms mobilized to rapidly inhibit HPA activity during stress. Using Fos expression as an indicator of neuronal activation, the effect of a single or repeated episode of dehydration-induced drinking on the activity of magnocellular and parvocellular neurons in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus was examined. Adult male rats underwent a single episode or repeated (six) episodes of water restriction and were sacrificed before or after drinking water in the AM. Plasma osmolality, vasopressin (AVP), adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and corticosterone were elevated by water restriction and reduced after drinking in both models. Fos expression was elevated in AVP-positive magnocellular PVN neurons and AVP- and corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH)-positive parvocellular PVN neurons after water restriction. Fos expression was reduced in magnocellular AVP neurons after both models of restriction-induced drinking. In contrast, Fos expression did not change in AVP and CRH parvocellular neurons after a single episode of restriction-induced drinking, but was reduced after repeated episodes of restriction-induced drinking. These data indicate that drinking-induced decreases in glucocorticoids in dehydrated rats involve multiple factors including reduction in magnocellular release of vasopressin and reduction in parvocellular neuronal activity. The differential inhibition of PVN parvocellular neurons after repeated rehydration may reflect a conditioned response to repeated stress reduction.
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- Michelle M Arnhold
- Departments of Surgery and Neuroscience, Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Gottlieb HB, Fleming TM, Ji L, Cunningham JT. Identification of central nervous system sites involved in the water diuresis response elicited by central microinjection of nociceptin/ Orphanin FQ in conscious rats via c-Fos and inducible cAMP early repressor immunocytochemistry. J Neuroendocrinol 2007; 19:531-42. [PMID: 17532793 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2007.01559.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) administration of the opioid-like peptide, nociceptin/Orphanin (nociceptin), in conscious rats produces diuretic and antinatriuretic effects. The present study utilised changes in Fos and inducible cAMP early repressor (ICER) immunocytochemistry expression to examine the central nervous (CNS) sites activated or inhibited, respectively, by central administration of nociceptin. Urine samples were collected during control (15 min) and after i.c.v. vehicle (5 microl, n = 12) or nociceptin (10 microg/5 microl; n = 12). Four additional urine samples (15-min) were collected after the i.c.v. injection. The brain was processed for Fos using a commercially available antibody (Oncogene AB-5) and for ICER using a polyclonal anti-ICER antibody raised in rabbits. In vehicle-injected conscious rats, renal excretion of water or sodium was not altered. However, nociceptin produced a rapid and marked increase in urine flow (V) and a decrease in urinary sodium excretion rate. In addition, i.c.v. nociceptin produced a significant increase in Fos staining in the dorsomedial nucleus of the hypothalamus, the perinuclear zone of the supraoptic nucleus, the organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis (OVLT), the lateral preoptic area and the lateral hypothalamic area compared to control. By contrast, Fos expression decreased in the area postrema and locus coeruleus compared to controls. Furthermore, ICER staining was significantly increased in the perinuclear zone of the supraoptic nucleus, supraoptic nucleus, median preoptic nucleus, OVLT, medial preoptic area, central nucleus of the amygdala, and medial nucleus of the solitary tract. Together, central opioid receptor-like type 1 activation in these CNS regions may participate in the neural pathways involved in the diuretic and antinatriuretic effects of nociceptin.
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- H B Gottlieb
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
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Qiu J, Yao S, Hindmarch C, Antunes V, Paton J, Murphy D. Transcription factor expression in the hypothalamo-neurohypophyseal system of the dehydrated rat: upregulation of gonadotrophin inducible transcription factor 1 mRNA is mediated by cAMP-dependent protein kinase A. J Neurosci 2007; 27:2196-203. [PMID: 17329416 PMCID: PMC6673476 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.5420-06.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2006] [Revised: 01/15/2007] [Accepted: 01/15/2007] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The supraoptic (SON) and paraventricular (PVN) nuclei of the hypothalamo-neurohypophyseal system (HNS) undergo a dramatic function-related plasticity during dehydration. We hypothesize that alterations in steady-state transcript levels might be partially responsible for this remodeling. In turn, regulation of transcript abundance might be mediated by transcription factors. We used microarrays to identify changes in the expression of mRNAs encoding transcription factors in response to water deprivation in the SON. We observed downregulation of 10 and upregulation of 28 transcription factor transcripts. For five of the upregulated mRNAs, namely gonadotropin inducible ovarian transcription factor 1 (Giot1), Giot2, cAMP-responsive element binding protein 3-like 1, CCAAT/enhancer binding protein beta, and activating transcription factor 4, in situ hybridization was used to confirm the array results, demonstrating a significant increase in expression in SON and PVN magnocellular neurons (MCNs) after 3 d of water deprivation and, in some cases, upregulation in parvocellular PVN neurons. Using a viral vector expressing a potent inhibitor of cAMP-dependent protein kinase A (PKA), we show that the osmotically induced increase in the abundance of transcripts encoding Giot1 is mediated in vivo by the PKA pathway. We thus suggest that signaling pathways activated by dehydration in MCNs mediate transcription factor gene activation, which, in turn, regulate target genes that mediate HNS remodeling.
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- Jing Qiu
- Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology, University of Bristol, Bristol BS1 3NY, United Kingdom, and
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- Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology, University of Bristol, Bristol BS1 3NY, United Kingdom, and
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- Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology, University of Bristol, Bristol BS1 3NY, United Kingdom, and
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- Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology, University of Bristol, Bristol BS1 3NY, United Kingdom, and
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- Department of Physiology, Bristol Heart Institute, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD, United Kingdom
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- Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology, University of Bristol, Bristol BS1 3NY, United Kingdom, and
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Cunningham JT, Herrera-Rosales M, Martinez MA, Mifflin S. Identification of active central nervous system sites in renal wrap hypertensive rats. Hypertension 2006; 49:653-8. [PMID: 17190876 DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.0000254481.94570.74] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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To identify central neurons participating in cardiovascular regulation in hypertension, we studied Fos staining, a marker for synaptically activated neurons, in adult male normotensive and hypertensive (HT) rats. At 1 and 4 weeks after induction of unilateral nephrectomy, renal wrap hypertension mean arterial pressure was 138+/-4 mm Hg (n=6) in 1-week HT rats and 159+/-6 mm Hg (n=6) in 4-week HT rats. Mean arterial pressure was 103+/-2 mm Hg (n=6) in sham-operated, normotensive rats. Mean arterial pressure was greater in both HT groups compared with normotensive rats, and the mean arterial pressure in 4-week HT rats was greater than that in 1-week HT rats. Rats were anesthetized and perfused, brains sectioned and processed using a Fos antibody, and the number of Fos immunoreactive neurons counted in sections through various brain regions. Hypertension of 1 or 4 weeks did not alter the number of Fos immunoreactive neurons in the area postrema, the supraoptic nucleus, and the median preoptic nucleus. The number of Fos immunoreactive neurons was increased after 1 and 4 weeks in the nucleus of the solitary tract, both the caudal and ventral lateral medulla, and the organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis. In addition, after 4 weeks of HT, the number of Fos immunoreactive neurons was increased in the parabrachial nucleus and the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus. The results indicate central regions active in acute and chronic HT rats and suggest certain areas that may be differentially activated depending on the duration of the hypertension.
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- J Thomas Cunningham
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.
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Wotus C, Arnhold MM, Engeland WC. Dehydration-induced drinking decreases Fos expression in hypothalamic paraventricular neurons expressing vasopressin but not corticotropin-releasing hormone. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2006; 292:R1349-58. [PMID: 17068162 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00304.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Water-restricted (WR) rats exhibit a rapid suppression of plasma corticosterone following drinking. The present study monitored Fos-like immunoreactivity (Fos) to assess the effect of WR-induced drinking on the activity of vasopressin (VP)-positive magnocellular and parvocellular neurons and corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH)-positive parvocellular neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus. Adult male rats received water for 30 min (WR) in the post meridiem (PM) each day for 6 days and were killed without receiving water or at 1 h after receiving water for 15 min. In WR rats, Fos increased in VP magnocellular and parvocellular neurons but not CRH neurons. After drinking, Fos was reduced in VP magnocellular and parvocellular neurons but did not change in CRH neurons. To assess the severity of osmotic stress, rats were sampled throughout the final day of WR. Plasma osmolality, hematocrit and plasma VP were increased throughout the day before PM rehydration, and plasma ACTH and corticosterone were elevated at 1230 and 1430, respectively, showing that WR activates hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity during the early PM before the time of rehydration. To determine the effects of WR-induced drinking on CRH neurons activated by acute stress, WR rats underwent restraint. Restraint increased plasma ACTH and corticosterone and Fos in CRH neurons; although rehydration reduced plasma ACTH and Fos expression in VP neurons, Fos in CRH neurons was not affected. These results suggest that inhibition of VP magnocellular and parvocellular neurons, but not CRH parvocellular neurons, contributes to the suppression of corticosterone after WR-induced drinking.
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- Cheryl Wotus
- Department of Neuroscience, Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, 321 Church Street, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Ji LL, Gottlieb HB, Penny ML, Fleming T, Toney GM, Cunningham JT. Differential effects of water deprivation and rehydration on Fos and FosB/DeltaFosB staining in the rat brainstem. Exp Neurol 2006; 203:445-56. [PMID: 17027755 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2006.08.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2006] [Revised: 08/24/2006] [Accepted: 08/28/2006] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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This study examined the effects of dehydration and rehydration with water on Fos and FosB staining in the brainstem of rats. Male rats were water deprived for 48 h (Dehyd, n=7) or 46 h followed by 2 h access to water (Rehyd, n=7). Controls had ad libitum access to water (Con, n=9). Brainstems were stained for Fos and FosB/DeltaFosB using commercially available antibodies. In the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS), the number of Fos stained neurons was significantly increased by dehydration and increased further following rehydration (Con 5+/-1; Dehyd 22+/-1; Rehyd 48+/-5). The average number of Fos-positive cells in the parabrachial nucleus (PBN) was significantly increased only by rehydration (Con 12+/-2; Dehyd 6+/-2; Rehyd 51+/-4). The area postrema (AP) showed significant increases in Fos staining after dehydration and rehydration (Fos: Con 4+/-1; Dehyd 28+/-3; Rehyd 24+/-3). In the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVL), Fos staining significantly increased after dehydration and this effect was reduced by rehydration (Con 3+/-1; Dehyd 21+/-2; Rehyd 12+/-1). In contrast, Fos staining in the caudal ventrolateral medulla (CVL) was not significantly influenced following either dehydration or rehydration with water (Con 4+/-1; Dehyd 4+/-1; Rehyd 5+/-1). FosB/DeltaFosB staining in the NTS, AP, and RVL was comparably increased by dehydration and rehydration. In the PBN and CVL, FosB/DeltaFosB staining was not affected by the treatments. Dehydration and rehydration have regionally specific effects on Fos and FosB/DeltaFosB staining in the brainstem.
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- Lisa L Ji
- Department of Pharmacology, and the Center for Biomedical Neuroscience, UTHSCSA, USA
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Mueller PJ, Sullivan MJ, Grindstaff RR, Cunningham JT, Hasser EM. Regulation of plasma vasopressin and renin activity in conscious hindlimb-unloaded rats. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2006; 291:R46-52. [PMID: 16469838 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00622.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Cardiovascular deconditioning occurs in astronauts after spaceflight or in individuals subjected to bed rest. It is characterized by an increased incidence of orthostatic intolerance. The mechanisms responsible for orthostatic intolerance are likely multifactorial and may include hypovolemia, autonomic dysfunction, and vascular and cardiac alterations. The arterial baroreflex is an important compensatory mechanism in the response to an orthostatic stress. In a previous study, we demonstrated that arterial baroreflex mediated sympathoexcitation was blunted in hindlimb-unloaded (HU) rats, a model of cardiovascular deconditioning. The arterial baroreflex also contributes to the regulation of vasoactive hormones including vasopressin and angiotensin II. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that the neurohumoral response to hypotension is also attenuated in rats after 14 days of hindlimb unloading. To test this hypothesis, the vasodilator diazoxide (15 or 25 mg/kg) or saline (0.9%) was administered to produce hypotension or control conditions, respectively, in conscious HU and control rats. Plasma samples were collected and assayed for vasopressin and plasma renin activity (PRA). Diazoxide (25 mg/kg) produced significant increases in vasopressin and PRA compared with saline controls. HU rats exhibited significantly higher levels of vasopressin at rest and the increase in vasopressin levels during hypotension was enhanced by hindlimb unloading. Neither resting nor hypotension-induced PRA was altered by hindlimb unloading. These data suggest that although baroreflex-mediated sympathoexcitation is blunted by hindlimb unloading, hypotension-induced vasopressin release is enhanced and hypotension-induced PRA is unaffected. Increased circulating vasopressin may serve to compensate for blunted baroreflex regulation of sympathetic nervous activity produced by hindlimb unloading or may actually contribute to it.
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- Patrick J Mueller
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65211-3300, USA.
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Gottlieb HB, Ji LL, Jones H, Penny ML, Fleming T, Cunningham JT. Differential effects of water and saline intake on water deprivation-induced c-Fos staining in the rat. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2006; 290:R1251-61. [PMID: 16306162 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00727.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We studied c-Fos staining in adult male rats after 48 h of water deprivation and after 46 h of water deprivation with 2 h of access to water or physiological saline. Controls were allowed ad libitum access to water and physiological saline. For immunocytochemistry, anesthetized rats were perfused with a commercially available antibody for c-Fos. Dehydration significantly increased plasma vasopressin (AVP), osmolality, plasma renin activity (PRA), hematocrit, and sodium concentration and decreased urinary volume. Fos staining was significantly increased in the median preoptic nucleus, organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis, supraoptic nucleus (SON), and magnocellular and parvocellular paraventricular nucleus (PVN), as well as the area postrema, nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS), and rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVL). Rehydration with water significantly decreased AVP levels and Fos staining in the SON, PVN, and RVL and significantly increased Fos expression in the perinuclear zone of the SON, NTS, and parabrachial nucleus. Rehydration with water was associated with decreased urinary sodium concentration and hypotonicity, and hematocrit and PRA were comparable to levels seen after dehydration. After rehydration with saline, plasma osmolality, hematocrit, and PRA were not different from control, but plasma AVP and urinary sodium concentration were increased. In the SON, Fos staining was significantly increased, with a great percentage of the Fos cells also stained for oxytocin compared with water deprivation. Changes in Fos staining were also observed in the NTS, RVL, parabrachial nucleus, and PVN. Rehydration with water or saline produces differential effects on plasma AVP, Fos staining, and sodium concentration.
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- Helmut B Gottlieb
- Dept. of Pharmacology, UTHSCSA, 7703 Floyd Curl Dr., San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
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Biagini G, D'Arcangelo G, Baldelli E, D'Antuono M, Tancredi V, Avoli M. Impaired activation of CA3 pyramidal neurons in the epileptic hippocampus. Neuromolecular Med 2006; 7:325-42. [PMID: 16391389 DOI: 10.1385/nmm:7:4:325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2005] [Revised: 09/06/2005] [Accepted: 09/28/2005] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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We employed in vitro and ex vivo imaging tools to characterize the function of limbic neuron networks in pilocarpine-treated and age-matched, nonepileptic control (NEC) rats. Pilocarpine-treated animals represent an established model of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Intrinsic optical signal (IOS) analysis of hippocampal-entorhinal cortex (EC) slices obtained from epileptic rats 3 wk after pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus (SE) revealed hyperexcitability in many limbic areas, but not in CA3 and medial EC layer III. By visualizing immunopositivity for FosB/DeltaFosB-related proteins which accumulate in the nuclei of neurons activated by seizures we found that: (1) 24 h after SE, FosB/DeltaFosB immunoreactivity was absent in medial EC layer III, but abundant in dentate gyrus, hippocampus proper (including CA3) and subiculum; (2) FosB/DeltaFosB levels progressively diminished 3 and 7 d after SE, whereas remaining elevated (p < 0.01) in subiculum; (3) FosB/DeltaFosB levels sharply increased 2 wk after SE (and remained elevated up to 3 wk) in dentate gyrus and in most of the other areas but not in CA3. A conspicuous neuronal damage was noticed in medial EC layer III, whereas hippocampus was more preserved. IOS analysis of the stimulus-induced responses in slices 3 wk after SE demonstrated that IOSs in CA3 were lower (p < 0.05) than in NEC slices following dentate gyrus stimulation, but not when stimuli were delivered in CA3. These findings indicate that CA3 networks are hypoactive in comparison with other epileptic limbic areas. We propose that this feature may affect the ability of hippocampal outputs to control epileptiform synchronization in EC.
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- Giuseppe Biagini
- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, 41100 Modena, Italy
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Penny ML, Bruno SB, Cornelius J, Higgs KAN, Cunningham JT. The effects of osmotic stimulation and water availability on c-Fos and FosB staining in the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus. Exp Neurol 2005; 194:191-202. [PMID: 15899256 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2005.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2004] [Revised: 01/19/2005] [Accepted: 02/10/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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We studied the effects of osmotic stimulation on the expression of FosB and c-Fos in the supraoptic nucleus (SON) and paraventricular nucleus (PVN). Adult male rats were divided into two groups that were injected with lidocaine (0.1-0.2 ml sc) followed by either 0.9% or 6% NaCl (1 ml/100 g bw sc). After the NaCl injections, the rats were anesthetized and perfused 2, 6, or 8 h after the injections. Their brains were prepared for immunocytochemistry and stained with FosB and c-Fos antibodies. The number of c-Fos-positive cells was significantly increased only at 2 h in the SON and PVN. In contrast, the number of FosB-positive cells was significantly increased at 6, and 8 h in both the SON and PVN. In a second experiment, the effect of water availability on FosB staining 8 h after injections of 6% NaCl was tested in 3 groups of rats: water ad libitum, rats that had no access to water, and rats that were given water 2 h prior to perfusion. FosB staining was significantly reduced in both the SON and the PVN of rats that had ad libitum water compared to the two water-restricted groups. In the third experiment, rats were injected with either 0.9% NaCl or 6% NaCl and were either given ad libitum access to water or water restricted for 6 h after the injections and perfused 24 h after the saline injections. FosB staining was not increased when water was available ad libitum. FosB staining was significantly increased at 24 h in the rats injected with 6% NaCl when water was restricted. Thus, FosB may continue to influence protein expression in the SON and PVN for at least 24 h following acute osmotic stimulation.
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- Maurice L Penny
- Department of Pharmacology and the Center for Biomedical Neuroscience, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
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Rinaman L, Vollmer RR, Karam J, Phillips D, Li X, Amico JA. Dehydration anorexia is attenuated in oxytocin-deficient mice. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2005; 288:R1791-9. [PMID: 15718385 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00860.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Evidence in rats suggests that central oxytocin (OT) signaling pathways contribute to suppression of food intake during dehydration (i.e., dehydration anorexia). The present study examined water deprivation-induced dehydration anorexia in wild-type and OT -/- mice. Mice were deprived of food alone (fasted, euhydrated) or were deprived of both food and water (fasted, dehydrated) for 18 h overnight. Fasted wild-type mice consumed significantly less chow during a 60-min refeeding period when dehydrated compared with their intake when euhydrated. Conversely, fasting-induced food intake was slightly but not significantly suppressed by dehydration in OT -/- mice, evidence for attenuated dehydration anorexia. In a separate experiment, mice were deprived of water (but not food) overnight for 18 h; then they were anesthetized and perfused with fixative for immunocytochemical analysis of central Fos expression. Fos was elevated similarly in osmo- and volume-sensitive regions of the basal forebrain and hypothalamus in wild-type and OT -/- mice after water deprivation. OT-positive neurons expressed Fos in dehydrated wild-type mice, and vasopressin-positive neurons were activated to a similar extent in wild-type and OT -/- mice. Conversely, significantly fewer neurons within the hindbrain dorsal vagal complex were activated in OT -/- mice after water deprivation compared with activation in wild-type mice. These findings support the view that OT-containing projections from the hypothalamus to the hindbrain are necessary for the full expression of compensatory behavioral and physiological responses to dehydration.
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- Linda Rinaman
- University of Pittsburgh, Department of Neuroscience, 446 Crawford Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
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Stocker SD, Hunwick KJ, Toney GM. Hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus differentially supports lumbar and renal sympathetic outflow in water-deprived rats. J Physiol 2004; 563:249-63. [PMID: 15611033 PMCID: PMC1665556 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2004.076661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The present study sought to determine whether the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) contributes in a time-dependent manner to the differential patterning of lumbar and renal sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) in water-deprived rats. Mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) and both lumbar SNA (LSNA) and renal SNA (RSNA) were recorded simultaneously in control, 24 and 48 h water-deprived rats, and the PVN was inhibited bilaterally with microinjection of the GABA(A) agonist muscimol (100 pmol in 100 nl per side). Inhibition of the PVN significantly decreased RSNA in 48 h water-deprived rats but not in 24 h water-deprived or control rats (48 h, -17 +/- 4%; 24 h, -2 +/- 5%; control, 4 +/- 6%; P < 0.05). In addition, injection of muscimol significantly decreased LSNA in 48 and 24 h water-deprived rats but not in control rats (48 h, -41 +/- 4%; 24 h, -14 +/- 6%; control, -3 +/- 2%; P < 0.05). Interestingly, the decrease in LSNA was significantly greater than the decrease in RSNA of 24 and 48 h water-deprived rats (P < 0.05). Inhibition of the PVN also significantly decreased MAP to a greater extent in 48 and 24 h water-deprived rats compared to control rats (48 h, -34 +/- 5 mmHg; 24 h, -26 +/- 4 mmHg; control, -15 +/- 3 mmHg; P < 0.05). When 48 h water-deprived rats were acutely rehydrated by giving access to tap water 2 h before experiments, inhibition of the PVN with muscimol did not alter LSNA (-12 +/- 8%) or RSNA (7 +/- 4%) but did produce a small decrease in MAP (-15 +/- 4 mmHg) that was not different from control rats. In a parallel set of experiments, acute rehydration of 48 h water-deprived rats significantly attenuated the increased Fos immunoreactivity in PVN neurones that project to the spinal cord or rostral ventrolateral medulla. Collectively, the present findings suggest that PVN autonomic neurones are synaptically influenced during water deprivation, and that these neurones differentially contribute to LSNA and RSNA in water-deprived rats.
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- Sean D Stocker
- Department of Physiology (MC-7756), University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.
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