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Uchida R, Mukai Y, Amano T, Sakimura K, Itoi K, Yamanaka A, Minami M. Chronic pain enhances excitability of corticotropin-releasing factor-expressing neurons in the oval part of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis. Mol Brain 2024; 17:22. [PMID: 38702738 PMCID: PMC11071157 DOI: 10.1186/s13041-024-01094-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2024] [Accepted: 04/25/2024] [Indexed: 05/06/2024] Open
Abstract
We previously reported that enhanced corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) signaling in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) caused the aversive responses during acute pain and suppressed the brain reward system during chronic pain. However, it remains to be examined whether chronic pain alters the excitability of CRF neurons in the BNST. In this study we investigated the chronic pain-induced changes in excitability of CRF-expressing neurons in the oval part of the BNST (ovBNSTCRF neurons) by whole-cell patch-clamp electrophysiology. CRF-Cre; Ai14 mice were used to visualize CRF neurons by tdTomato. Electrophysiological recordings from brain slices prepared from a mouse model of neuropathic pain revealed that rheobase and firing threshold were significantly decreased in the chronic pain group compared with the sham-operated control group. Firing rate of the chronic pain group was higher than that of the control group. These data indicate that chronic pain elevated neuronal excitability of ovBNSTCRF neurons.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ryoko Uchida
- Department of Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0812, Japan
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- Department of Neuroscience II, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8601, Aichi, Japan
- Department of Cellular Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-8638, Japan
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, 102-0083, Japan
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- Department of Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0812, Japan
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- Department of Animal Model Development, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata, 951-8585, Japan
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- Department of Nursing, Tohoku Fukushi University, Sendai, 981-8522, Japan
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- Department of Neuroscience II, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8601, Aichi, Japan
- Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing, 102206, China
- Division of Brain Sciences, Institute for Advanced Medical Research, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan
- National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, 444-8585, Aichi, Japan
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- Department of Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0812, Japan.
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Sato T, Sugaya T, Talukder AH, Tsushima Y, Sasaki S, Uchida K, Sato T, Ikoma Y, Sakimura K, Fukuda A, Matsui K, Itoi K. Dual action of serotonin on local excitatory and inhibitory neural circuits regulating the corticotropin-releasing factor neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus. J Neuroendocrinol 2023; 35:e13351. [PMID: 37901949 DOI: 10.1111/jne.13351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2022] [Revised: 10/06/2023] [Accepted: 10/10/2023] [Indexed: 10/31/2023]
Abstract
Serotonergic neurons originating from the raphe nuclei have been proposed to regulate corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVH). Since glutamate- and γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-containing neurons, constituting the hypothalamic local circuits, innervate PVH CRF neurons, we examined whether they mediate the actions of serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine [5-HT]) on CRF neurons. Spontaneous excitatory postsynaptic currents (sEPSCs) or spontaneous inhibitory postsynaptic currents (sIPSCs) were recorded in PVH CRF neurons, under whole cell patch-clamp, using the CRF-modified yellow fluorescent protein (Venus) ΔNeo mouse. Serotonin elicited an increase in the frequency of sEPSCs in 77% of the cells and a decrease in the frequency of sIPSCs in 71% of the cells, tested in normal medium. Neither the amplitude nor decay time of sEPSC and sIPSC was affected, thus the site(s) of action of serotonin may be presynaptic. In the presence of tetrodotoxin (TTX), serotonin had no significant effects on either parameter of sEPSC or sIPSC, indicating that the effects of serotonin are action potential-dependent, and that the presynaptic interneurons are largely intact within the slice; distant neurons may exist, though, since some 20%-30% of neurons did not respond to serotonin without TTX. We next examined through what receptor subtype(s) serotonin exerts its effects on presynaptic interneurons. DOI (5-HT2A/2C agonist) mimicked the action of serotonin on the sIPSCs, and the serotonin-induced decrease in sIPSC frequency was inhibited by a selective 5-HT2C antagonist RS102221. 8-OH-DPAT (5-HT1A/7 agonist) mimicked the action of serotonin on the sEPSCs, and the serotonin-induced increase in sEPSC frequency was inhibited by a selective 5-HT7 antagonist SB269970. Thus, serotonin showed a dual action on PVH CRF neurons, by upregulating glutamatergic- and downregulating GABAergic interneurons; the former may partly be mediated by 5-HT7 receptors, whereas the latter by 5-HT2C receptors. The CRF-Venus ΔNeo mouse was useful for the electrophysiological examination.
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- Takayuki Sato
- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Super-Network Brain Physiology, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Animal Model Development, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
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- Super-Network Brain Physiology, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Super-Network Brain Physiology, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Department of Neuroendocrinology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Department of Nursing, Tohoku Fukushi University, Sendai, Japan
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Yamaguchi Y, Maekawa Y, Kabashima K, Mizuno T, Tainaka M, Suzuki T, Dojo K, Tominaga T, Kuroiwa S, Masubuchi S, Doi M, Tominaga K, Kobayashi K, Yamagata S, Itoi K, Abe M, Schwartz WJ, Sakimura K, Okamura H. An intact pituitary vasopressin system is critical for building a robust circadian clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2308489120. [PMID: 37844254 PMCID: PMC10614613 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2308489120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2023] [Accepted: 09/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/18/2023] Open
Abstract
The circadian clock is a biological timekeeping system that oscillates with a circa-24-h period, reset by environmental timing cues, especially light, to the 24-h day-night cycle. In mammals, a "central" clock in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) synchronizes "peripheral" clocks throughout the body to regulate behavior, metabolism, and physiology. A key feature of the clock's oscillation is resistance to abrupt perturbations, but the mechanisms underlying such robustness are not well understood. Here, we probe clock robustness to unexpected photic perturbation by measuring the speed of reentrainment of the murine locomotor rhythm after an abrupt advance of the light-dark cycle. Using an intersectional genetic approach, we implicate a critical role for arginine vasopressin pathways, both central within the SCN and peripheral from the anterior pituitary.
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Grants
- 18H04015 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
- 15H05642 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
- 22K06594 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
- 22K18384 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
- 20K20864 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
- 18002016 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
- 16H06276 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
- JPMJCR14W3 MEXT | JST | Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST)
- BR220401 MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
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- Yoshiaki Yamaguchi
- Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto606-8501, Japan
- Department of Life Science and Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemistry, Materials and Bioengineering, Kansai University, Suita564-8680, Japan
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- Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto606-8501, Japan
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- Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto606-8501, Japan
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- Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto606-8501, Japan
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- Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto606-8501, Japan
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- Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto606-8501, Japan
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- Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto606-8501, Japan
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- Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto606-8501, Japan
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- Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto606-8501, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute480-1195, Japan
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- Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto606-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima960-1295, Japan
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- Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai980-0845, Japan
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- Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai980-0845, Japan
- Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Tohoku Fukushi University, Sendai981-8522, Japan
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- Department of Cellular Neurobiology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata951-8585, Japan
- Department of Animal Model Development, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata951-8585, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX78712
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- Department of Cellular Neurobiology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata951-8585, Japan
- Department of Animal Model Development, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata951-8585, Japan
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- Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto606-8501, Japan
- Department of Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto606-8501, Japan
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Zhao C, Ries C, Du Y, Zhang J, Sakimura K, Itoi K, Deussing JM. Differential CRH expression level determines efficiency of Cre- and Flp-dependent recombination. Front Neurosci 2023; 17:1163462. [PMID: 37599997 PMCID: PMC10434532 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1163462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2023] [Accepted: 07/21/2023] [Indexed: 08/22/2023] Open
Abstract
Corticotropin-releasing hormone expressing (CRH+) neurons are distributed throughout the brain and play a crucial role in shaping the stress responses. Mouse models expressing site-specific recombinases (SSRs) or reporter genes are important tools providing genetic access to defined cell types and have been widely used to address CRH+ neurons and connected brain circuits. Here, we investigated a recently generated CRH-FlpO driver line expanding the CRH system-related tool box. We directly compared it to a previously established and widely used CRH-Cre line with respect to the FlpO expression pattern and recombination efficiency. In the brain, FlpO mRNA distribution fully recapitulates the expression pattern of endogenous Crh. Combining both Crh locus driven SSRs driver lines with appropriate reporters revealed an overall coherence of respective spatial patterns of reporter gene activation validating CRH-FlpO mice as a valuable tool complementing existing CRH-Cre and reporter lines. However, a substantially lower number of reporter-expressing neurons was discerned in CRH-FlpO mice. Using an additional CRH reporter mouse line (CRH-Venus) and a mouse line allowing for conversion of Cre into FlpO activity (CAG-LSL-FlpO) in combination with intersectional and subtractive mouse genetic approaches, we were able to demonstrate that the reduced number of tdTomato reporter expressing CRH+ neurons can be ascribed to the lower recombination efficiency of FlpO compared to Cre recombinase. This discrepancy particularly manifests under conditions of low CRH expression and can be overcome by utilizing homozygous CRH-FlpO mice. These findings have direct experimental implications which have to be carefully considered when targeting CRH+ neurons using CRH-FlpO mice. However, the lower FlpO-dependent recombination efficiency also entails advantages as it provides a broader dynamic range of expression allowing for the visualization of cells showing stress-induced CRH expression which is not detectable in highly sensitive CRH-Cre mice as Cre-mediated recombination has largely been completed in all cells generally possessing the capacity to express CRH. These findings underscore the importance of a comprehensive evaluation of novel SSR driver lines prior to their application.
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- Chen Zhao
- Molecular Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Molecular Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Molecular Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Molecular Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Animal Model Development, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
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- Super-Network Brain Physiology, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Molecular Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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Yamagata S, Talukder AH, Murasawa S, Niioka K, Kumagai N, Takagi M, Kawamura M, Natsume R, Abe M, Uchida K, Sato T, Kurose A, Kageyama K, Daimon M, Sakimura K, Itoi K. Vasopressin expressed in hypothalamic CRF neurons causes impaired water diuresis in secondary adrenal insufficiency. Endocrinology 2023:bqad109. [PMID: 37450603 PMCID: PMC10373949 DOI: 10.1210/endocr/bqad109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2023] [Revised: 06/28/2023] [Accepted: 07/11/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023]
Abstract
Patients with secondary adrenal insufficiency can present with impaired free water excretion and hyponatremia, which is due to the enhanced secretion of vasopressin (AVP) despite increased total body water. AVP is produced in magnocellular neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVH) and supraoptic nucleus and in parvocellular corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) neurons in the PVH. This study aimed to elucidate whether magnocellular AVP neurons or parvocellular CRF neurons co-expressing AVP are responsible for the pathogenesis of hyponatremia in secondary adrenal insufficiency. The number of CRF neurons expressing copeptin, an AVP gene product, was significantly higher in adrenalectomized AVP-floxed mice (AVPfl/fl) than in sham-operated controls. Adrenalectomized AVPfl/fl mice supplemented with aldosterone showed impaired water diuresis, under ad libitum access to water or after acute water loading. They became hyponatremic after acute water loading, and it was revealed under the condition that aquaporin-2 (AQP2) protein levels were increased in the kidney. Furthermore, translocation of AQP2 to the apical membrane was markedly enhanced in renal collecting duct epithelial cells. Remarkably, all these abnormalities observed in the mouse model for secondary adrenal insufficiency were ameliorated in CRF-AVP-/- mice that lacked AVP in CRF neurons. Our study demonstrates that CRF neurons in the PVH are responsible for the pathogenesis of impaired water excretion in secondary adrenal insufficiency.
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- Satoshi Yamagata
- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan
- Laboratory of Information Sciences, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Sciences, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan
- Laboratory of Information Sciences, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan
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- Department of Anatomic Pathology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan
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- Department of Anatomic Pathology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan
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- Department of Animal Model Development, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata 951-8585, Japan
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- Department of Animal Model Development, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata 951-8585, Japan
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- Department of Animal Model Development, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata 951-8585, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Sciences, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Sciences, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
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- Department of Anatomic Pathology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan
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- Department of Animal Model Development, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata 951-8585, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Sciences, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
- Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Tohoku Fukushi University, Sendai 981-0943, Japan
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Hagiwara H, Sakimura K, Abe M, Itoi K, Kamiya Y, Akema T, Funabashi T. Sex differences in pain-induced modulation of corticotropin-releasing hormone neurons in the dorsolateral part of the stria terminalis in mice. Brain Res 2021; 1773:147688. [PMID: 34644526 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2021.147688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2021] [Revised: 09/22/2021] [Accepted: 10/06/2021] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
Abstract
We earlier reported female-biased, sex-specific involvement of the dorsolateral bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (dl BST) in the formalin-induced pain response in rats. The present study investigated pain effects on mice behaviors. Because the dl BST is densely populated with corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) neurons, we examined sex differences in these parameters for the dl BST CRH neurons in male and female mice of a mouse line for which the CRH gene promoter (corticotropin-releasing factor [CRF]-Venus ΔNeo) controls the expression of the modified yellow fluorescent protein (Venus). Approximately 92% of Venus-positive cells in the dl BST were also CRH mRNA-positive, irrespective of sex. Therefore, the cells identified using Venus fluorescence were regarded as CRH neurons. A female-biased sex difference was observed in pain-induced behaviors during the interphase (5-15 min after formalin injection) but not during the later phase (phase 2, 15-60 min) in wild-type mice. In CRF-Venus ΔNeo mice, a female-biased difference was observed in either the earlier phase (phase 1, 0-5 min) or the interphase, but not in phase 2. Patch-clamp recordings taken using an acute BST slice obtained from a CRF-Venus ΔNeo mouse after formalin injection showed miniature excitatory postsynaptic currents (mEPSCs) and miniature inhibitory postsynaptic currents (mIPSCs). Remarkably, the mEPSCs frequency was higher in the Venus-expressing cells of formalin-injected female mice than in vehicle-treated female mice. Male mice showed no increase in mEPSC frequency by formalin injection. Formalin injection had no effect on mEPSC or mIPSC amplitudes in either sex. Pain-induced changes in mEPSC frequency in putative CRH neurons were phase-dependent. Results show that excitatory synaptic inputs to BST CRH neurons are temporally enhanced along with behavioral sex differences in pain response, suggesting that pain signals alter the BST CRH neurons excitability in a sex-dependent manner.
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- Hiroko Hagiwara
- Department of Physiology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, 2-16-1 Sugao Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki 216-8511, Japan
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- Department of Animal Model Development, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, 1-757 Asahimachi-dori Chuo-ku, Niigata 951-8585, Japan
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- Department of Animal Model Development, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, 1-757 Asahimachi-dori Chuo-ku, Niigata 951-8585, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, 6-3-09 Aramaki-aza Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
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- Division of Anesthesiology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, 1-757 Asahimachi-dori, Chuo-ku, Niigata 950-8510, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, 2-16-1 Sugao Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki 216-8511, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, 2-16-1 Sugao Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki 216-8511, Japan.
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Kawatani M, deGroat W, Itoi K, Uchida K, Sakimura K, Yamanaka A, Yamashita T, Kawatani M. Downstream projection of Barrington's nucleus to the spinal cord in mice. J Neurophysiol 2021; 126:1959-1977. [PMID: 34731061 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00026.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Barrington's nucleus (Bar) which controls micturition behavior through downstream projections to the spinal cord contains two types of projection neurons BarCRH and BarESR1 that have different functions and target different spinal circuitry. Both types of neurons project to the L6-S1 spinal intermediolateral (IML) nucleus while BarESR1 neurons also project to the dorsal commissural nucleus (DCN). To obtain more information about the spinal circuits targeted by Bar, we used patch-clamp recording in spinal slices from adult mice in combination with optogenetic stimulation of Bar terminals. Recording of opto-evoked excitatory post synaptic currents (oEPSCs) in DiI-labeled lumbosacral preganglionic neurons (LS-PGN) revealed that both Bar neuronal populations make strong glutamatergic monosynaptic connections with LS-PGN, while BarESR1 neurons also elicited smaller amplitude glutamatergic polysynaptic oEPSCs or polysynaptic inhibitory post synaptic currents (oIPSCs) in some LS-PGN. Optical stimulation of BarCRH and BarESR1 terminals also elicited monosynaptic oEPSCs and polysynaptic oIPSCs in sacral DCN neurons, some of which must include interneurons projecting either to the IML or ventral horn. Application of capsaicin increased opto-evoked firing during repetitive stimulation of Bar terminals through the modulation of spontaneous post synaptic currents in LS-PGN. In conclusion, our experiments have provided insights into the synaptic mechanisms underlying the integration of inputs from Bar to autonomic circuitry in the lumbosacral spinal cord that may control micturition.
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- Masahiro Kawatani
- Department of Neurophysiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Akita University, Akita, Japan.,Department of Neuroscience II, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan.,Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Fujita Health University, Aichi, Japan
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- Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Neuroendocrinology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Neuroendocrinology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Animal Model Development, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Neuroscience II, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan
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- Department of Neuroscience II, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan.,Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Fujita Health University, Aichi, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Akita University, Akita, Japan
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Ueda S, Hosokawa M, Arikawa K, Takahashi K, Fujiwara M, Kakita M, Fukada T, Koyama H, Horigane SI, Itoi K, Kakeyama M, Matsunaga H, Takeyama H, Bito H, Takemoto-Kimura S. Distinctive Regulation of Emotional Behaviors and Fear-Related Gene Expression Responses in Two Extended Amygdala Subnuclei With Similar Molecular Profiles. Front Mol Neurosci 2021; 14:741895. [PMID: 34539345 PMCID: PMC8446640 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2021.741895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2021] [Accepted: 08/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
The central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA) and the lateral division of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) are the two major nuclei of the central extended amygdala that plays essential roles in threat processing, responsible for emotional states such as fear and anxiety. While some studies suggested functional differences between these nuclei, others showed anatomical and neurochemical similarities. Despite their complex subnuclear organization, subnuclei-specific functional impact on behavior and their underlying molecular profiles remain obscure. We here constitutively inhibited neurotransmission of protein kinase C-δ-positive (PKCδ+) neurons-a major cell type of the lateral subdivision of the CeA (CeL) and the oval nucleus of the BNST (BNSTov)-and found striking subnuclei-specific effects on fear- and anxiety-related behaviors, respectively. To obtain molecular clues for this dissociation, we conducted RNA sequencing in subnuclei-targeted micropunch samples. The CeL and the BNSTov displayed similar gene expression profiles at the basal level; however, both displayed differential gene expression when animals were exposed to fear-related stimuli, with a more robust expression change in the CeL. These findings provide novel insights into the molecular makeup and differential engagement of distinct subnuclei of the extended amygdala, critical for regulation of threat processing.
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- Shuhei Ueda
- Department of Neuroscience I, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
- Molecular/Cellular Neuroscience, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Research Organization for Nano and Life Innovation, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
- Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, Japan
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- Research Organization for Nano and Life Innovation, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Research Organization for Nano and Life Innovation, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuroscience I, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Neuroscience I, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
- Laboratory for Systems Neurosciences and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Tokorozawa, Japan
- Research Institute for Environmental Medical Sciences, Waseda University, Tokorozawa, Japan
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- Department of Neuroscience I, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
- Molecular/Cellular Neuroscience, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Neurochemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuroscience I, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
- Molecular/Cellular Neuroscience, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Nursing, Tohoku Fukushi University, Sendai, Japan
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- Laboratory for Systems Neurosciences and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Tokorozawa, Japan
- Research Institute for Environmental Medical Sciences, Waseda University, Tokorozawa, Japan
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- Research Organization for Nano and Life Innovation, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Research Organization for Nano and Life Innovation, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
- Computational Bio Big-Data Open Innovation Laboratory, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
- Institute for Advanced Research of Biosystem Dynamics, Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurochemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuroscience I, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
- Molecular/Cellular Neuroscience, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
- Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, Japan
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Kawakami N, Otubo A, Maejima S, Talukder AH, Satoh K, Oti T, Takanami K, Ueda Y, Itoi K, Morris JF, Sakamoto T, Sakamoto H. Variation of pro-vasopressin processing in parvocellular and magnocellular neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus: Evidence from the vasopressin-related glycopeptide copeptin. J Comp Neurol 2021; 529:1372-1390. [PMID: 32892351 DOI: 10.1002/cne.25026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2020] [Revised: 08/31/2020] [Accepted: 09/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
Abstract
Arginine vasopressin (AVP) is synthesized in parvocellular- and magnocellular neuroendocrine neurons in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus. Whereas magnocellular AVP neurons project primarily to the posterior pituitary, parvocellular AVP neurons project to the median eminence (ME) and to extrahypothalamic areas. The AVP gene encodes pre-pro-AVP that comprises the signal peptide, AVP, neurophysin (NPII), and a copeptin glycopeptide. In the present study, we used an N-terminal copeptin antiserum to examine copeptin expression in magnocellular and parvocellular neurons in the hypothalamus in the mouse, rat, and macaque monkey. Although magnocellular NPII-expressing neurons exhibited strong N-terminal copeptin immunoreactivity in all three species, a great majority (~90%) of parvocellular neurons that expressed NPII was devoid of copeptin immunoreactivity in the mouse, and in approximately half (~53%) of them in the rat, whereas in monkey hypothalamus, virtually all NPII-immunoreactive parvocellular neurons contained strong copeptin immunoreactivity. Immunoelectron microscopy in the mouse clearly showed copeptin-immunoreactivity co-localized with NPII-immunoreactivity in neurosecretory vesicles in the internal layer of the ME and posterior pituitary, but not in the external layer of the ME. Intracerebroventricular administration of a prohormone convertase inhibitor, hexa-d-arginine amide resulted in a marked reduction of copeptin-immunoreactivity in the NPII-immunoreactive magnocellular PVN neurons in the mouse, suggesting that low protease activity and incomplete processing of pro-AVP could explain the disproportionally low levels of N-terminal copeptin expression in rodent AVP (NPII)-expressing parvocellular neurons. Physiologic and phylogenetic aspects of copeptin expression among neuroendocrine neurons require further exploration.
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- Natsuko Kawakami
- Ushimado Marine Institute (UMI), Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.,Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.,Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Ushimado Marine Institute (UMI), Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Ushimado Marine Institute (UMI), Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Ushimado Marine Institute (UMI), Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.,Department of Anatomy, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan
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- Ushimado Marine Institute (UMI), Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.,Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kanagawa University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Ushimado Marine Institute (UMI), Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.,Mouse Genomics Resources Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.,Department of Physiology, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Ushimado Marine Institute (UMI), Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Ushimado Marine Institute (UMI), Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.,Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Mukai Y, Nagayama A, Itoi K, Yamanaka A. Identification of substances which regulate activity of corticotropin-releasing factor-producing neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus. Sci Rep 2020; 10:13639. [PMID: 32788592 PMCID: PMC7424526 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-70481-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2020] [Accepted: 07/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
The stress response is a physiological system for adapting to various internal and external stimuli. Corticotropin-releasing factor-producing neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN-CRF neurons) are known to play an important role in the stress response as initiators of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. However, the mechanism by which activity of PVN-CRF neurons is regulated by other neurons and bioactive substances remains unclear. Here, we developed a screening method using calcium imaging to identify how physiological substances directly affect the activity of PVN-CRF neurons. We used acute brain slices expressing a genetically encoded calcium indicator in PVN-CRF neurons using CRF-Cre recombinase mice and an adeno-associated viral vector under Cre control. PVN-CRF neurons were divided into ventral and dorsal portions. Bath application of candidate substances revealed 12 substances that increased and 3 that decreased intracellular calcium concentrations. Among these substances, angiotensin II and histamine mainly increased calcium in the ventral portion of the PVN-CRF neurons via AT1 and H1 receptors, respectively. Conversely, carbachol mainly increased calcium in the dorsal portion of the PVN-CRF neurons via both nicotinic and muscarinic acetylcholine receptors. Our method provides a precise and reliable means of evaluating the effect of a substance on PVN-CRF neuronal activity.
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- Yasutaka Mukai
- Department of Neuroscience II, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan.,Department of Neural Regulation, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, 466-8550, Japan.,CREST, JST, Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan.,JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Tokyo, 102-0083, Japan
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- Department of Neuroscience II, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan.,Department of Neural Regulation, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, 466-8550, Japan
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- Department of Neuroendocrinology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8575, Japan
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- Department of Neuroscience II, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan. .,Department of Neural Regulation, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, 466-8550, Japan. .,CREST, JST, Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012, Japan.
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Kawatani M, Itoi K, Talukder AH, Uchida K, Sakimura K, Kawatani M. Cholinergic modulation of CRH and non-CRH neurons in Barrington's nucleus of the mouse. J Neurophysiol 2020; 124:443-457. [PMID: 32609567 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00342.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) is expressed in Barrington's nucleus (BarN), which plays an essential role in the regulation of micturition. To control the neural activities of BarN, glutamatergic and GABAergic inputs from multiple sources have been demonstrated; however, it is not clear how modulatory neurotransmitters affect the activity of BarN neurons. We have employed knock-in mice, CRH-expressing neurons of which are labeled with a modified yellow fluorescent protein (Venus). Using whole cell patch-clamp recordings, we examined the responses of Venus-expressing (putative CRH-expressing) neurons in BarN (BarCRH), as well as non-CRH-expressing neurons (BarCRH-negative), following bath application of cholinergic agonists. According to the present study, the activity of BarCRH neurons could be modulated by dual cholinergic mechanisms. First, they are inhibited by a muscarinic receptor-mediated mechanism, most likely through the M2 subclass of muscarinic receptors. Second, BarCRH neurons are excited by a nicotinic receptor-mediated mechanism. BarCRH-negative neurons also responded to cholinergic agents. Choline transporter-immunoreactive nerve terminals were observed in close proximity to the neurites, as well as the somata of BarCRH. The present results suggest that BarN neurons are capable of responding to cholinergic input.NEW & NOTEWORTHY This study investigates the effects of bath-applied cholinergic agonists on Barrington's nucleus (BarN) neurons in vitro. They were either excitatory, through nicotinic receptors, or inhibitory, through muscarinic receptors. Putative corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH)-expressing neurons in BarN, as well as putative non-CRH-expressing neurons, responded to cholinergic agonists.
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- Masahiro Kawatani
- Department of Neurophysiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Akita University, Akita, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.,Department of Neuroendocrinology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Cellular Neurobiology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Akita University, Akita, Japan
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Uchida K, Otsuka H, Morishita M, Tsukahara S, Sato T, Sakimura K, Itoi K. Correction to: Female-biased sexual dimorphism of corticotropin-releasing factor neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis. Biol Sex Differ 2019; 10:10. [PMID: 30782210 PMCID: PMC6381707 DOI: 10.1186/s13293-019-0224-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2019] [Accepted: 02/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- Katsuya Uchida
- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai City, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai City, Japan
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- Department of Regulation Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama City, Japan
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- Department of Regulation Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama City, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai City, Japan
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- Department of Cellular Neurobiology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata City, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai City, Japan.
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Uchida K, Otsuka H, Morishita M, Tsukahara S, Sato T, Sakimura K, Itoi K. Female-biased sexual dimorphism of corticotropin-releasing factor neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis. Biol Sex Differ 2019; 10:6. [PMID: 30691514 PMCID: PMC6350317 DOI: 10.1186/s13293-019-0221-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2018] [Accepted: 01/06/2019] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
Abstract
Background The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) contains the highest density of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF)-producing neurons in the brain. CRF-immunoreactive neurons show a female-biased sexual dimorphism in the dorsolateral BNST in the rat. Since CRF neurons cannot be immunostained clearly with available CRF antibodies in the mouse, we used a mouse line, in which modified yellow fluorescent protein (Venus) was inserted to the CRF gene, and the Neo cassette was removed, to examine the morphological characteristics of CRF neurons in the dorsolateral BNST. Developmental changes of CRF neurons were examined from postnatal stages to adulthood. Gonadectomy (GDX) was carried out in adult male and female mice to examine the effects of sex steroids on the number of CRF neurons in the dorsolateral BNST. Methods The number of Venus-expressing neurons, stained by immunofluorescence, was compared between male and female mice over the course of development. GDX was carried out in adult mice. Immunohistochemistry, in combination with Nissl staining, was carried out, and the effects of sex or gonadal steroids were examined by estimating the number of Venus-expressing neurons, as well as the total number of neurons or glial cells, in each BNST subnucleus, using a stereological method. Results Most Venus-expressing neurons co-expressed Crf mRNA in the dorsolateral BNST. They constitute a group of neurons without calbindin immunoreactivity, which makes a contrast to the principal nucleus of the BNST that is characterized by calbindin immunostaining. In the dorsolateral BNST, the number of Venus-expressing neurons increased across developmental stages until adulthood. Sexual difference in the number of Venus-expressing neurons was not evident by postnatal day 5. In adulthood, however, there was a significant female predominance in the number of Venus expressing neurons in two subnuclei of the dorsolateral BNST, i.e., the oval nucleus of the BNST (ovBNST) and the anterolateral BNST (alBNST). The number of Venus-expressing neurons was smaller significantly in ovariectomized females compared with proestrous females in either ovBNST or alBNST, and greater significantly in orchiectomized males compared with gonadally intact males in ovBNST. The total number of neurons was also greater significantly in females than in males in ovBNST and alBNST, but it was not affected by GDX. Conclusion Venus-expressing CRF neurons showed female-biased sexual dimorphism in ovBNST and alBNST of the mouse. Expression of Venus in these subnuclei was controlled by gonadal steroids.
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- Katsuya Uchida
- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai City, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai City, Japan
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- Department of Regulation Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama City, Japan
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- Department of Regulation Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama City, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai City, Japan
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- Department of Cellular Neurobiology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata City, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai City, Japan.
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Itoi K, Motoike I, Liu Y, Clokie S, Iwasaki Y, Uchida K, Sato T, Aguilera G. Genome-Wide Analysis of Glucocorticoid-Responsive Transcripts in the Hypothalamic Paraventricular Region of Male Rats. Endocrinology 2019; 160:38-54. [PMID: 30364965 PMCID: PMC6302960 DOI: 10.1210/en.2018-00535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2018] [Accepted: 10/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
Abstract
Glucocorticoids (GCs) are essential for stress adaptation, acting centrally and in the periphery. Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF), a major regulator of adrenal GC synthesis, is produced in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVH), which contains multiple neuroendocrine and preautonomic neurons. GCs may be involved in diverse regulatory mechanisms in the PVH, but the target genes of GCs are largely unexplored except for the CRF gene (Crh), a well-known target for GC negative feedback. Using a genome-wide RNA-sequencing analysis, we identified transcripts that changed in response to either high-dose corticosterone (Cort) exposure for 12 days (12-day high Cort), corticoid deprivation for 7 days (7-day ADX), or acute Cort administration. Among others, canonical GC target genes were upregulated prominently by 12-day high Cort. Crh was upregulated or downregulated most prominently by either 7-day ADX or 12-day high Cort, emphasizing the recognized feedback effects of GC on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Concomitant changes in vasopressin and apelin receptor gene expression are likely to contribute to HPA repression. In keeping with the pleotropic cellular actions of GCs, 7-day ADX downregulated numerous genes of a broad functional spectrum. The transcriptome response signature differed markedly between acute Cort injection and 12-day high Cort. Remarkably, six immediate early genes were upregulated 1 hour after Cort injection, which was confirmed by quantitative reverse transcription PCR and semiquantitative in situ hybridization. This study may provide a useful database for studying the regulatory mechanisms of GC-dependent gene expression and repression in the PVH.
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- Keiichi Itoi
- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Department of Neuroendocrinology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Correspondence: Keiichi Itoi, MD, PhD, Graduate School of Information Biology, Tohoku University, 6-3-09, Aramaki-aza Aoba, Sendai 980-8579, Japan. E-mail:
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- Department of Integrative Genomics, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Section on Endocrine Physiology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Section of Neuroendocrinology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Section on Endocrine Physiology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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Sato T, Kikkawa T, Saito T, Itoi K, Osumi N. Organizing activity of Fgf8 on the anterior telencephalon. Dev Growth Differ 2017; 59:701-712. [PMID: 29124740 DOI: 10.1111/dgd.12411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2017] [Revised: 09/20/2017] [Accepted: 09/24/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The anterior part of the embryonic telencephalon gives rise to several brain regions that are important for animal behavior, including the frontal cortex (FC) and the olfactory bulb. The FC plays an important role in decision-making behaviors, such as social and cognitive behavior, and the olfactory bulb is involved in olfaction. Here, we show the organizing activity of fibroblast growth factor 8 (Fgf8) in the regionalization of the anterior telencephalon, specifically the FC and the olfactory bulb. Misexpression of Fgf8 in the most anterior part of the mouse telencephalon at embryonic day 11.5 (E11.5) by ex utero electroporation resulted in a lateral shift of dorsal FC subdivision markers and a lateral expansion of the dorsomedial part of the FC, the future anterior cingulate and prelimbic cortex. Fgf8-transfected brains had lacked ventral FC, including the future orbital cortex, which was replaced by the expanded olfactory bulb. The olfactory region occupied a larger area of the FC when transfection efficiency of Fgf8 was higher. These results suggest that Fgf8 regulates the proportions of the FC and olfactory bulb in the anterior telencephalon and has a medializing effect on the formation of FC subdivisions.
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- Tatsuya Sato
- Department of Developmental Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, 980-8575, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.,Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, 980-8578, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Developmental Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, 980-8575, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Developmental Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, 260-8670, Japan
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- Department of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8579, Japan
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- Department of Developmental Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, 980-8575, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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Kakizawa K, Watanabe M, Mutoh H, Okawa Y, Yamashita M, Yanagawa Y, Itoi K, Suda T, Oki Y, Fukuda A. A novel GABA-mediated corticotropin-releasing hormone secretory mechanism in the median eminence. Sci Adv 2016; 2:e1501723. [PMID: 27540587 PMCID: PMC4988769 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2015] [Accepted: 07/19/2016] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
Abstract
Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), which is synthesized in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus, plays an important role in the endocrine stress response. The excitability of CRH neurons is regulated by γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-containing neurons projecting to the PVN. We investigated the role of GABA in the regulation of CRH release. The release of CRH was impaired, accumulating in the cell bodies of CRH neurons in heterozygous GAD67-GFP (green fluorescent protein) knock-in mice (GAD67(+/GFP)), which exhibited decreased GABA content. The GABAA receptor (GABAAR) and the Na(+)-K(+)-2Cl(-) cotransporter (NKCC1), but not the K(+)-Cl(-) cotransporter (KCC2), were expressed in the terminals of the CRH neurons at the median eminence (ME). In contrast, CRH neuronal somata were enriched with KCC2 but not with NKCC1. Thus, intracellular Cl(-) concentrations ([Cl(-)]i) may be increased at the terminals of CRH neurons compared with concentrations in the cell body. Moreover, GABAergic terminals projecting from the arcuate nucleus were present in close proximity to CRH-positive nerve terminals. Furthermore, a GABAAR agonist increased the intracellular calcium (Ca(2+)) levels in the CRH neuron terminals but decreased the Ca(2+) levels in their somata. In addition, the increases in Ca(2+) concentrations were prevented by an NKCC1 inhibitor. We propose a novel mechanism by which the excitatory action of GABA maintains a steady-state CRH release from axon terminals in the ME.
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- Keisuke Kakizawa
- Department of Neurophysiology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3192, Japan
- Second Division, Department of Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3192, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3192, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3192, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3192, Japan
- Second Division, Department of Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3192, Japan
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- Second Division, Department of Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3192, Japan
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- Department of Genetic and Behavioral Neuroscience, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma 371-8511, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan
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- Second Division, Department of Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3192, Japan
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- Department of Family and Community Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3192, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3192, Japan
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Itoi K, Talukder AH, Fuse T, Kaneko T, Ozawa R, Sato T, Sugaya T, Uchida K, Yamazaki M, Abe M, Natsume R, Sakimura K. Visualization of corticotropin-releasing factor neurons by fluorescent proteins in the mouse brain and characterization of labeled neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus. Endocrinology 2014; 155:4054-60. [PMID: 25057791 DOI: 10.1210/en.2014-1182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) is the key regulator of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. CRF neurons cannot be distinguished morphologically from other neuroendocrine neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVH) without immunostaining. Thus, we generated a knock-in mouse that expresses modified yellow fluorescent protein (Venus) in CRF neurons (CRF-Venus), and yet its expression is driven by the CRF promoter and responds to changes in the interior milieu. In CRF-Venus, Venus-expressing neurons were distributed in brain regions harboring CRF neurons, including the PVH. The majority of Venus-expressing neurons overlapped with CRF-expressing neurons in the PVH, but many neurons expressed only Venus or CRF in a physiological glucocorticoid condition. After glucocorticoid deprivation, however, Venus expression intensified, and most Venus neurons coexpressed CRF. Conversely, Venus expression was suppressed by excess glucocorticoids. Expression of copeptin, a peptide encoded within the vasopressin gene, was induced in PVH-Venus neurons by glucocorticoid deprivation and suppressed by glucocorticoid administration. Thus, Venus neurons recapitulated glucocorticoid-dependent vasopressin expression in PVH-CRF neurons. Noradrenaline increased the frequency of glutamate-dependent excitatory postsynaptic currents recorded from Venus-expressing neurons in the voltage clamp mode. In addition, the CRF-iCre knock-in mouse was crossed with a CAG-CAT-EGFP reporter mouse to yield the Tg(CAG-CAT-EGFP/wt);CRF(iCre/wt) (EGFP/CRF-iCre) mouse, in which enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) is driven by the CAG promoter. EGFP was expressed more constitutively in the PVH of EGFP/CRF-iCre mice. Thus, CRF-Venus may have an advantage for monitoring dynamic changes in CRF neurons and CRF networks in different glucocorticoid states.
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- Keiichi Itoi
- Laboratory of Information Biology (K.I., A.H.T., T.F., T.K., R.O., T.Sa., T.Su., K.U.), Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan; Department of Neuroendocrinology (K.I.), Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan; and Department of Cellular Neurobiology (M.Y., M.A., R.N., K.S.), Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata 951-8585, Japan
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Kageyama K, Itoi K, Iwasaki Y, Niioka K, Watanuki Y, Yamagata S, Nakada Y, Das G, Suda T, Daimon M. Stimulation of corticotropin-releasing factor gene expression by FosB in rat hypothalamic 4B cells. Peptides 2014; 51:59-64. [PMID: 24246425 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2013.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2013] [Revised: 11/07/2013] [Accepted: 11/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The Fos- and Jun family proteins are immediate-early gene products, and the Fos/Jun heterodimer, activator protein-1 (AP-1), may be involved in the regulation of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) gene expression. FosB is a member of the Fos family proteins that is expressed in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus upon stress exposure, but it has not been clear whether FosB participates in the regulation of CRF gene expression. This study aimed to explore the effect of the FosB and cJun proteins on CRF gene expression in rat hypothalamic 4B cells. The levels of FosB mRNA and cJun mRNA increased following treatment with forskolin, phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA), or A23187 in the hypothalamic cells. Overexpression of FosB or cJun potently increased CRF mRNA levels. Furthermore, downregulation of FosB or cJun suppressed the CRF gene expression induced by forskolin, PMA, or A23187. In addition, the basal CRF mRNA levels were partially reduced by cJun downregulation. These findings suggest that FosB, together with cJun, may mediate CRF gene expression in the hypothalamic cells.
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- Kazunori Kageyama
- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan; Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Infectious Diseases, Hirosaki University School of Medicine & Hospital, Hirosaki 036-8563, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan
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Uchida K, Taguchi Y, Sato C, Miyazaki H, Kobayashi K, Kobayashi T, Itoi K. Amelioration of improper differentiation of somatostatin-positive interneurons by triiodothyronine in a growth-retarded hypothyroid mouse strain. Neurosci Lett 2013; 559:111-6. [PMID: 24333174 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.11.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2013] [Revised: 11/08/2013] [Accepted: 11/26/2013] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Thyroid hormone (TH) plays an important role in brain development, and TH deficiency during pregnancy or early postnatal periods leads to neurological disorders such as cretinism. Hypothyroidism reduces the number of parvalbumin (PV)-positive interneurons in the neocortex and hippocampus. Here we used a mouse strain (growth-retarded; grt) that shows growth retardation and hypothyroidism to examine whether somatostatin (Sst)-positive interneurons that are generated from the same pool of neural progenitor cells as PV-positive cells are also altered by TH deficiency. The number of PV-positive interneurons was significantly decreased in the neocortex and hippocampus of grt mice as compared with normal control mice. In contrast to the decrease in the number of PV neurons, the number of Sst-positive interneurons in grt mice was increased in the stratum oriens of the hippocampus and the hilus of the dentate gyrus, although their number was unchanged in the neocortex. These changes were reversed by triiodothyronine administration from postnatal day (PD) 0 to 20. TH supplementation that was initiated after PD21 did not, however, affect the number of PV- or Sst-positive cells. These results suggest that during the first three postnatal weeks, TH may be critical for the generation of subpopulations of interneurons.
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- Katsuya Uchida
- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
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- Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan
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- Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Stomatology and Oral Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Gunma University, Maebashi, Japan
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- Health Effects Research Group, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Kawasaki, Japan
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- Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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Kasahara Y, Sato K, Takayanagi Y, Mizukami H, Ozawa K, Hidema S, So KH, Kawada T, Inoue N, Ikeda I, Roh SG, Itoi K, Nishimori K. Oxytocin receptor in the hypothalamus is sufficient to rescue normal thermoregulatory function in male oxytocin receptor knockout mice. Endocrinology 2013; 154:4305-15. [PMID: 24002032 DOI: 10.1210/en.2012-2206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Oxytocin (OXT) and OXT receptor (OXTR) have been implicated in the regulation of energy homeostasis, but the detailed mechanism is still unclear. We recently showed late-onset obesity and impaired cold-induced thermogenesis in male OXTR knockout (Oxtr(-/-)) mice. Here we demonstrate that the OXTR in the hypothalamus has important functions in thermoregulation. Male Oxtr(-/-) mice failed to maintain their body temperatures during exposure to a cold environment. Oxtr(-/-) mice also showed decreased neuronal activation in the thermoregulatory hypothalamic region during cold exposure. Normal cold-induced thermogenesis was recovered in Oxtr(-/-) mice by restoring OXTR to the hypothalamus with an adeno-associated virus-Oxtr vector. In addition, brown adipose tissue (BAT) in Oxtr(-/-) mice contained larger lipid droplets in both 10- and 20-week-old compared with BAT from age-matched Oxtr(+/+) control mice. In BAT, the expression level of β3-adrenergic receptor at normal temperature was lower in Oxtr(-/-) mice than that in control mice. In contrast, α2A-adrenergic receptor expression level was higher in BAT from Oxtr(-/-) mice in both normal and cold temperatures. Because β3- and α2A-adrenergic receptors are known to have opposite effects on the thermoregulation, the imbalance of adrenergic receptors is suspected to affect this dysfunction in the thermoregulation. Our study is the first to demonstrate that the central OXT/OXTR system plays important roles in the regulation of body temperature homeostasis.
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- Yoshiyuki Kasahara
- PhD, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, 1-1 Tsutsumidori-Amamiyamachi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 981-8555, Japan.
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Itoi K, Ohara S, Kobayashi K. Selective ablation of dopamine β-hydroxylase neurons in the brain by immunotoxin-mediated neuronal targeting: new insights into brain catecholaminergic circuitry and catecholamine-related diseases. Adv Pharmacol 2013; 68:155-66. [PMID: 24054144 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-411512-5.00008-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The locus coeruleus (LC) has been implicated in a variety of physiological functions including sleep/wakefulness, cognition/memory, stress/emotion, and pain. Marked loss of LC-noradrenergic (NAergic) neurons is observed in autopsy specimens of patients with Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease (PD), and part of the clinical symptoms of these diseases may be related to dysfunction of the LC. Neurotoxins have been utilized to ablate LC-NAergic neurons in experimental animals for elucidating the pathophysiological implication of the loss of LC, but there are methodological drawbacks in previously utilized methods. We employed immunotoxin-mediated neuronal targeting to overcome these problems. Following complete disruption of the LC-NAergic neurons by immunotoxin, mice showed behavioral changes, which resembled the nonmotor symptoms of PD. The LC-NAergic neurons did not regenerate following ablation, so the immunotoxin-mediated neuronal targeting may be useful especially for studying the long-term effects of the loss of LC-NAergic neurons on brain functions.
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- Keiichi Itoi
- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; Department of Neuroendocrinology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
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Itoi K, Sugimoto N, Suzuki S, Sawada K, Das G, Uchida K, Fuse T, Ohara S, Kobayashi K. Selective ablation of locus coeruleus noradrenergic neurons expressing human interleukin-2 receptor α-subunit in transgenic mice by a recombinant immunotoxin: Exploring noradrenergic influence upon anxiety-like and depression-like behaviors. Neurosci Res 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2011.07.812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Uchida K, Taguchi Y, Sato C, Miyazaki H, Fuse T, Kobayashi T, Itoi K. Gamma-aminobutyric acid interneuron hypoplasia in the hypothyroidal growth-retarded mouse brain is improved by triiodothyronine treatment at early stage of the postnatal life. Neurosci Res 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2011.07.1747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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The locus coeruleus (LC) is regarded as a part of the central 'stress circuitry' because robust activation of the LC has been reported after stressful stimuli in experimental animals. A considerable amount of clinical evidence also suggests the relationship between the central noradrenergic (NAergic) system and fear/anxiety states or depression. However, previous animal studies have not been able to demonstrate unequivocally the involvement of the NAergic system in mediating fear or anxiety. The forebrain structures, including the hypothalamus, receive massive inputs from the medullary NAergic nuclei via the ventral NAergic bundle (VNAB). The VNAB has been implicated in the neuroendocrine stress axis mainly through its action on the corticotrophin-releasing factor neurones in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus. Novel tools were introduced that are capable of disrupting the NAergic system more selectively and/or thoroughly than the neurotoxins employed in previous studies: the anti-dopamine-beta hydroxylase (DBH)-saporin is an immunotoxin that is taken up from nerve endings and disrupt the NAergic neurones in a retrograde manner. The genetically DBH-depleted mice were also introduced, which lack endogenous noradrenaline. Owing to the rapid development of functional imaging technique, visualisation of the emotional phenomena has become possible in human subjects. Along with the advent of these technologies, endeavors have been continued to unravel the functional relevance of the central NAergic system to stress, anxiety and depression.
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- K Itoi
- Division of Neuroendocrinology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan.
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Culman J, Das G, Ohlendorf C, Haass M, Maser-Gluth C, Zuhayra M, Zhao Y, Itoi K. Blockade of tachykinin NK1/NK2 receptors in the brain attenuates the activation of corticotrophin-releasing hormone neurones in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus and the sympathoadrenal and pituitary-adrenal responses to formalin-induced pain in the rat. J Neuroendocrinol 2010; 22:467-76. [PMID: 20210847 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2010.01987.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Evidence from pharmacological studies has implicated substance P (SP), a natural ligand of tachykinin NK(1) receptors which can also interact with NK(2) receptors, in the generation of pressor and tachycardic responses to stress. Using selective blockade of brain NK(1) and NK(2) receptors, we tested in conscious rats the hypothesis that SP initiates, within the neuronal brain circuits, the sympathoadrenal, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) and behavioural responses to noxious stimuli. Formalin injected s.c. through a chronically implanted catheter in the area of the lower leg was used as a pain stimulus. Rats were pretreated i.c.v. with vehicle or the selective, nonpeptide antagonists of tachykinin NK(1) and NK(2) receptors, RP 67580 and SR 48968, respectively. Ten minutes thereafter, formalin was injected s.c. and the cardiovascular responses were recorded, plasma concentrations of catecholamines, adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) and corticosterone were determined and the expression of the inducible transcription factor c-Fos in the paraventricular (PVN) and supraoptic nuclei was detected to identify neurones which were activated during pain stimulation. Blockade of NK(1) and NK(2) receptors attenuated the formalin-induced increases in mean arterial pressure and heart rate, adrenaline and ACTH concentrations in plasma, and completely abolished the pain-induced c-Fos expression in corticotrophin-releasing hormone neurones localised in the parvocellular division of the PVN. The results obtained provide pharmacological evidence that tachykinins, most probably SP, act as mediators within the neuronal circuits linked to the initiation and control of the cardiovascular, sympathoadrenal, HPA and behavioural responses to pain stimuli and provide an excitatory input to corticotrophin-releasing hormone neurones in the PVN to activate the HPA axis. Our data demonstrating the inhibition of the complex response pattern to noxious stimuli and stress are consistent with the proposed anxiolytic and antidepressant activity of NK(1) and NK(2) receptor antagonists.
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- J Culman
- Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, 24105 Kiel, Germany.
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Uchida K, Kobayashi D, Das G, Onaka T, Inoue K, Itoi K. Participation of the prolactin-releasing peptide-containing neurones in caudal medulla in conveying haemorrhagic stress-induced signals to the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus. Neurosci Res 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2010.07.1255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Uchida K, Kobayashi D, Das G, Onaka T, Inoue K, Itoi K. Participation of the prolactin-releasing peptide-containing neurones in caudal medulla in conveying haemorrhagic stress-induced signals to the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus. J Neuroendocrinol 2010; 22:33-42. [PMID: 19912474 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2009.01935.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The prolactin-releasing peptide (PrRP) has been proposed to be a co-transmitter or modulator of noradrenaline (NA) because it colocalises with NA in the A1 (in the ventrolateral reticular formation) and A2 (in the nucleus of the solitary tract; NTS) cell groups in the caudal medulla. The baroreceptor signals, originating from the great vessels, are transmitted primarily to the NTS, and then part of the signals is conveyed to the hypothalamic neuroendocrine neurones via the ascending NA neurones. The hypotensive haemorrhagic paradigm was employed to examine whether the PrRP-containing neurones in the caudal medulla participate in conveying signals to the hypothalamic neuroendocrine neurones. Among the caudal medullary A1 or A2 neurones, the majority of the PrRP-immunoreactive (-ir) neurones became c-Fos-ir at 2 h after hypotensive haemorrhage. Hypothalamic corticotrophin-releasing hormone-ir neurones and vasopressin-ir neurones became c-Fos positive in parallel with the activation of medullary PrRP-ir neurones. After delivery of retrograde tracer fluorogold (FG) to the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN), part of the PrRP/FG double-labelled neurones in the A1 and A2 became c-Fos-ir after haemorrhage, demonstrating that PrRP-ir neurones participate in conveying the haemorrhagic stress-induced signals from the medulla to the PVN. PrRP and/or NA were microinjected directly to the PVN of conscious rats, and they presented a synergistic action on arginine vasopressin release, whereas an additive action was observed for adrenocorticotrophin release. These results suggest that the PrRP-containing NA neurones in the caudal medulla may relay the haemorrhagic stress-induced medullary inputs to the hypothalamic neuroendocrine neurones.
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- K Uchida
- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Aramaki-aza Aoba, Sendai, Japan
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Das G, Uchida K, Kageyama K, Iwasaki Y, Suda T, Itoi K. Glucocorticoid dependency of surgical stress-induced FosB/DeltaFosB expression in the paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei of the rat hypothalamus. J Neuroendocrinol 2009; 21:822-31. [PMID: 19686449 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2009.01902.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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FosB is a member of the Fos family transcription factors. To determine whether FosB expression is regulated by glucocorticoids (GCs) in the hypothalamus, rats underwent sham adrenalectomy (sham-ADX) or bilateral ADX, and FosB/DeltaFosB (DeltaFosB, a truncated splice variant of FosB)-immunoreactivity (ir) was determined in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) and supraoptic nucleus (SON). In the parvocellular division of the PVN (paPVN) and SON, FosB/DeltaFosB-immunoreactivity (ir) increased significantly following sham-ADX compared to naive rats, which was suppressed with either corticosterone (CORT) or dexamethasone (DEX). Following ADX, the increase in FosB/DeltaFosB-ir was much more prominent than that in the sham-ADX group, and the ADX-induced robust increase was suppressed by CORT or DEX, but not by aldosterone. Stressless removal of CORT from drinking water did not induce FosB/DeltaFosB-ir in either the PVN or SON, and thus the up-regulation of FosB/DeltaFosB-ir following ADX was dependent on the systemic stress associated with surgery. In the paPVN, the majority of corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRH) neurones co-expressed FosB/DeltaFosB-ir following ADX, whereas, in the magnocellular division of the PVN, vasopressin (AVP) and oxytocin (OXT) neurones did not express FosB/DeltaFosB-ir. In the SON, approximately 40% of the AVP neurones co-expressed FosB/DeltaFosB-ir following ADX, but the OXT neurones were devoid of FosB/DeltaFosB-ir. In concert with these results obtained in vivo, DEX suppressed the forskolin-induced increase in FosB gene promoter activity in a homologous hypothalamic cell line. These results suggest that GCs may be a potent regulator of FosB/DeltaFosB expression, which is induced by stress, in hypothalamic neuroendocrine neurones.
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- G Das
- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
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Prolactin-releasing peptide (PrRP)-producing neurones are known to be localised mainly in the medulla oblongata and to act as a stress mediator in the central nervous system. In addition, central administration of PrRP elevates the arterial pressure and heart rate. However, the neuronal pathway of the cardiovascular effects of PrRP has not been revealed. In the present study, we demonstrate that PrRP-immunoreactive neurones projected to the locus coeruleus (LC) and the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus. The c-fos positive neurones among the noradrenaline cells in the LC, and the parvo- and magnocellular neurones in the PVN, were increased after central administration of PrRP. The arterial pressure and heart rate were both elevated after i.c.v. administration of PrRP. Previous studies have demonstrated that PrRP stimulated the neurones in the PVN [i.e. oxytocin-, vasopressin- and corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRH)-producing neurones], which suggests that PrRP may induce its cardiovascular effect via arginine vasopressin (AVP) or CRH. Although the elevation of blood pressure and heart rate elicited by PrRP administration were not inhibited by an AVP antagonist, they were completely suppressed by treatment with a CRH antagonist. Thus, we conclude that PrRP stimulated CRH neurones in the PVN and that CRH might regulate the cardiovascular system via the sympathetic nervous system.
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- T Yamada
- Department of Regulatory Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Sakura-ku, Saitama, Japan
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Ooto S, Kimura D, Itoi K, Mukuno H, Kusuhara S, Miyamoto N, Akimoto M, Takagi H. Suprachoroidal fluid as a complication of 23-gauge vitreous surgery. Br J Ophthalmol 2008; 92:1433-4. [DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2007.133462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Despite considerable evidence suggesting the relationship between the central noradrenergic (NA) system and fear/anxiety states, previous animal studies have not demonstrated sheer involvement of the locus coeruleus (LC) in mediating fear or anxiety. Following the negative results of 6-hydroexydopamine (6-OHDA)-induced LC ablation in fear-conditioning studies, most researchers dared not approach this problem using the ablation strategy. The results obtained by a limited number of endeavors, conducted later, were not consistent with the idea of LC being related to anxiety, either, with the exception of the study by Lapiz and colleagues. Since methodological problems were recognized in the neurotoxin-induced NA ablation, employed in previous studies, a novel mouse model was developed in which the LC-NA neurons were ablated selectively and thoroughly by the immunotoxin-mediated cellular targeting. The use of this model clearly demonstrated that the LC was part of the anxiety circuitry. The reason for the discrepancy between the latest study and previous ones is not clear, but it may be due either to the difference in the experimental paradigms or to the different methods for LC ablation. In any case, our findings have shed light on the LC as a locus pertaining to anxiety behavior, and may help link the apparently inconsistent results in previous studies. In addition, the novel method for the LC cell targeting, presented here may provide a potential means for studying the physiological roles of the LC including sleep/wakefulness, as well as its possible involvement in the pathogenesis of psychiatric disorders, including depression, anxiety disorders, and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
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- Keiichi Itoi
- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan.
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Kusuhara S, Ooto S, Kimura D, Itoi K, Mukuno H, Miyamoto N, Akimoto M, Kuriyama S, Takagi H. Outcomes of 23- and 25-gauge transconjunctival sutureless vitrectomies for idiopathic macular holes. Br J Ophthalmol 2008; 92:1261-4. [PMID: 18614566 DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2008.140533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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BACKGROUND/AIMS To assess the outcomes of 23-gauge sutureless transconjunctival vitrectomies (TSV), as compared with 25-gauge TSV in macular hole surgeries. METHODS A retrospective, consecutive, interventional case series of 47 eyes with idiopathic macular holes treated by 23- or 25-gauge TSV were analysed. RESULTS The operative time was 37.2 (SD 8.9) min with 23-gauge TSV and 34.2 (8.7) min with 25-gauge TSV (p = 0.388). The anatomical success rate was 96% with 23-gauge TSV and 92% with 25-gauge TSV (p>0.999). The logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution of best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) at the sixth postoperative month was 0.19 (0.16) with 23-gauge TSV and 0.19 (0.25) with 25-gauge TSV (p = 0.521). Postoperative improvement in BCVA was comparable between the two TSVs. IOP on postoperative day 1 was lower with 25-gauge TSV (12.3 (4.9) mm Hg) than with 23-gauge TSV (17.4 (5.8) mm Hg) (p = 0.036). Complications included retinal break, intraoperative bleeding and slippage of the infusion cannula with 23-gauge TSV, while retinal detachment and postoperative hypotony occurred in the 25-gauge TSV group (p = 0.570). CONCLUSION 23-gauge TSV appears to be as safe and effective as 25-gauge TSV in macular hole surgery.
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- S Kusuhara
- Department of Ophthalmology, Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki Hospital, Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan
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Sugimoto K, Mori K, Uchida K, Kobayashi D, Itoi K. Quantitative analysis of thyroid-stimulating hormone messenger RNA and heterogeneous nuclear RNA in hypothyroid rats. Brain Res Bull 2007; 74:142-6. [PMID: 17683800 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2007.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2007] [Revised: 06/05/2007] [Accepted: 06/08/2007] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) stimulates the synthesis and release of thyroid hormones including triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4). Semiquantitative analyses using northern blot and in situ hybridization suggested that TSH gene transcription is upregulated under conditions of hypothyroidism. However, no quantitative analysis of TSH gene expression using real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been reported. In this study, we quantitated the TSHbeta messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) level as well as the TSHbeta heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleic acid (hnRNA) level in the anterior pituitary of hypothyroid rats, by real-time PCR using the LightCycler system. The hnRNA is the primary deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) transcript, which reflects the transcription rate more reliably than the mRNA because of its short half-life. In the anterior pituitary of rats with methimazol-induced chronic hypothyroidism, both mRNA and hnRNA expression of TSHbeta were upregulated fourfold relative to normal rats (n=4). Our method provides a rapid and accurate measure of gene transcription. In the present report, we described a technique for accurate measurement of TSHbeta hnRNA level.
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- Koreaki Sugimoto
- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan.
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Yamamori E, Iwasaki Y, Taguchi T, Nishiyama M, Yoshida M, Asai M, Oiso Y, Itoi K, Kambayashi M, Hashimoto K. Molecular mechanisms for corticotropin-releasing hormone gene repression by glucocorticoid in BE(2)C neuronal cell line. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2007; 264:142-8. [PMID: 17169483 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2006.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2006] [Revised: 09/04/2006] [Accepted: 11/02/2006] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The molecular mechanisms for the suppression of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) gene expression by glucocorticoid remain to be clarified albeit the well-known physiological role of the glucocorticoid-induced negative feedback regulation of the gene. In this study, we examined the effect of glucocorticoid on CRH gene transcription using the human BE(2)C neuronal cell line, which expresses the CRH gene and produces CRH peptide intrinsically. Dexamethasone, a specific ligand for the glucocorticoid receptor (GR), potently suppressed human CRH 5'-promoter activity. The effect was GR-dependent, and was completely antagonized by antiglucocorticoid RU38486. Treatment with neither sodium butyrate nor trichostatin A abolished the suppression, thus making the possible involvement of histone deacetylase (HDACs) unlikely. The suppression was not influenced by the deletion or mutation of the proposed negative glucocorticoid-response element (nGRE) but was completely eliminated by that of cAMP-response element. Finally, overexpression of protein kinase A catalytic subunit antagonized the glucocorticoid suppression, whereas overexpression of GR enhanced it. Taken together, our data suggest that: (1) glucocorticoid exerts its negative effect on CRH gene transcription in a GR-dependent manner, but the GR-mediated inhibition appears to be independent of the nGRE; (2) HDACs do not play a significant role in the glucocorticoid repression; (3) some of the inhibitory events may take place through transrepression of protein kinase A by GR.
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- Etsuko Yamamori
- Department of Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine and Hospital, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan
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Kasahara Y, Takayanagi Y, Yoshida M, Kawada T, Itoi K, Nishimori K. Cold-sensitive phenotype in mice lacking oxytocin receptor. Neurosci Res 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2007.06.465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Uchida K, Itoi K. Long-term effects of voluntary running on neurogenesis of adult mice. Neurosci Res 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2007.06.955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Yoshida M, Iwasaki Y, Asai M, Takayasu S, Taguchi T, Itoi K, Hashimoto K, Oiso Y. Identification of a functional AP1 element in the rat vasopressin gene promoter. Endocrinology 2006; 147:2850-63. [PMID: 16543367 DOI: 10.1210/en.2005-1222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Arginine vasopressin (AVP) is expressed in paraventricular, supraoptic, and suprachiasmatic nuclei of the hypothalamus, where transcription of the AVP gene is activated by various forms of stress, such as hyperosmolality, inflammation, and photic stimulation. In vasopressinergic neurons, the expression of the Fos/Jun family proteins is known to be rapidly induced after these stimuli as well. However, it is still unknown whether these proteins actually mediate AVP gene expression. In this study we examined in vitro the role of Fos/Jun protein in transcriptional regulation of the AVP gene using the BE(2)M17 neuroblastoma cell line. We found that 5'-promoter activity of the rat AVP gene (-803/+26) markedly increased when all combinations of the Fos/Jun family proteins were overexpressed. Coexpression of the cAMP-responsive element-binding protein-binding protein and steroid receptor coactivator-1a further enhanced the Fos/Jun-mediated transcription. Using site-directed mutagenesis and EMSA techniques, we identified an activation protein 1 (AP1)-like element (-134/-128; TGAATCA) in the AVP gene 5'-promoter region, which is the sole responsible site for the Fos/Jun-mediated transcription. We also found that 12-O-tetradecarbonyl phorbol 13-acetate stimulates AVP gene transcription partly via the AP1 site through the activation of ERK signaling. Together, these results suggest that a variety of Fos/Jun family member proteins stimulate transcription of the AVP gene through the AP1 site we identified. Furthermore, this effect may be activated by both protein kinase A and protein kinase C signaling pathways.
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- Masanori Yoshida
- Department of Endocrinology, Toyota Memorial Hospital, Toyota 471-8513, Japan.
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Itoi K. [The CRH gene as a key player in stress responses]. Nihon Yakurigaku Zasshi 2005; 126:174-8. [PMID: 16272759 DOI: 10.1254/fpj.126.174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Yamamori E, Asai M, Yoshida M, Takano K, Itoi K, Oiso Y, Iwasaki Y. Calcium/calmodulin kinase IV pathway is involved in the transcriptional regulation of the corticotropin-releasing hormone gene promoter in neuronal cells. J Mol Endocrinol 2004; 33:639-49. [PMID: 15591024 DOI: 10.1677/jme.1.01415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Although corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) plays a pivotal role in the regulation of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis, the mechanism of CRH gene expression in the neuronal cell is not completely understood. In this study, we examined the transcriptional regulation of human CRH gene 5'-promoter, using a human BE(2)C neuroblastoma cell line expressing intrinsic CRH. In particular, we focused on the involvement of calmodulin kinases (CaMKs), which are known to play an important role in excitation-induced gene expression through the rise in intracellular calcium in the central nervous system. RT-PCR analysis confirmed the expression of CaMK as well as CRH mRNA in BE(2)C cells. When we introduced approximately 1.1 kb of the 5'-promoter region of the human CRH fused with luciferase reporter gene into the cells, a substantial transcriptional activity was observed, and this was further increased by the activation of the cAMP/PKA pathway. We then examined the effect of activation of CaMKs by introducing the expression vectors of each kinase, revealing a potent stimulatory effect of CaMKIV, but no effect of CaMKII. Depolarization of the cells caused an increase in CRH promoter activity, which was completely abolished by the treatment with the CaMK antagonist K252a. Interestingly, KCREB, a dominant negative form of CREB, antagonized the effect of the CaMKIV-mediated effect. Altogether, we conclude that not only the cAMP/PKA but also the calcium/CaMKIV signaling pathway is involved in the regulation of CRH gene expression. Furthermore, CREB is thought to be involved in CaMK- as well as cAMP/PKA-mediated CRH gene expression. Since the CRH gene is expressed in the neuronal cells of the hypothalamus, the calcium/CaMKIV signaling pathway may play an important role in the excitation-mediated regulation of CRH synthesis.
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- E Yamamori
- Department of Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine and Hospital, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan
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Jiang YQ, Kawashima H, Iwasaki Y, Uchida K, Sugimoto K, Itoi K. Differential effects of forced swim-stress on the corticotropin-releasing hormone and vasopressin gene transcription in the parvocellular division of the paraventricular nucleus of rat hypothalamus. Neurosci Lett 2004; 358:201-4. [PMID: 15039116 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.01.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2003] [Revised: 01/19/2004] [Accepted: 01/23/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) and vasopressin (AVP) colocalize in the parvocellular division of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN). We examined the effect of forced swim-stress on the CRH and AVP primary transcript (hnRNA) levels in the rat PVN by semi-quantitative in situ hybridization. CRH hnRNA increased markedly following 10-min swim-stress and returned to the basal level by 2 h. AVP hnRNA in the parvocellular division of the PVN, where AVP colocalizes with CRH, did not change significantly immediately after the swim-stress, but it did increase significantly 2 h after the stress. Pretreatment with dexamethasone abolished the increases in CRH and AVP hnRNA levels after the swim-stress. The present results demonstrate the differential effects of forced swim-stress on the CRH and AVP gene transcription in the parvocellular PVN, confirming the diverse response of the dual peptide-containing system in the face of acute stressful events.
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- Ya-Qiu Jiang
- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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Tuberoinfundibular corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) neurones are the principal regulators of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)-axis. Vasopressin is primarily a neurohypophysial hormone, produced in magnocellular neurones of the hypothalamic paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei, but parvocellular CRH neurones also coexpress vasopressin, which acts as a second 'releasing factor' for adrenocorticotropic hormone along with CRH. All stress inputs converge on these hypothalamic neuroendocrine neurones, and the input signals are integrated to determine the output secretion of CRH and vasopressin. Aminergic, cholinergic, GABAergic, glutamatergic and a number of peptidergic inputs have all been implicated in the regulation of CRH/vasopressin neurones. Glucocorticoids inhibit the HPA-axis activity by negative feedback. Interleukin-1 stimulates CRH and vasopressin gene expression, and is implicated in immune-neuroendocrine regulation. cAMP-response element-binding protein phosphorylation may mediate transcriptional activation of both CRH and vasopressin genes, but the roles of AP-1 and other transcription factors remain controversial. Expression profiles of the CRH and vasopressin genes are not uniform after stress exposure, and the vasopressin gene appears to be more sensitive to glucocorticoid suppression.
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- K Itoi
- Laboratory of Information Biology, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
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Saga T, Tamaki N, Itoi K, Yamazaki T, Endo K, Watanabe G, Maruno H, Machinami R, Koizumi K, Ichikawa T, Takami H, Ishibashi M, Kubo A, Kusakabe K, Hirata Y, Murata Y, Miyachi Y, Tsubuku M, Sakahara H, Katada K, Tonami N, Yamamoto K, Konishi J, Imamura M, Doi R, Shimatsu A, Noguchi S, Hasegawa Y, Ishikawa O, Watanabe Y, Nakajo M. [Phase III additional clinical study of 111In-pentetreotide (MP-1727): diagnosis of gastrointestinal hormone producing tumors based on the presence of somatostatin receptors]. Kaku Igaku 2003; 40:185-203. [PMID: 12884785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/03/2023]
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Additional phase III multicenter clinical study was performed to investigate the efficacy, safety, and usefulness of somatostatin receptor scintigraphy using 111In-pentetreotide (MP-1727), which binds to somatostatin receptors. Forty patients were included in the study; Group A: 18 patients, gastrointestinal hormone producing tumors had been detected with conventional imaging modalities, Group B: 22 patients, no tumors had been detected with conventional imaging modalities in spite of high serum hormone levels. By comparing the results of the octreotide suppression test, 12/16 cases (75.0%) of Group A and 11/19 cases (57.9%) of Group B were assessed as "effective." By comparing the results of immunohistological examination, 5/9 cases (55.6%) of Group A and 2/4 cases (50.0%) of Group B were assessed as "effective." Severe adverse events were not observed in any of the evaluable 35 cases. MP-1727 was judged as clinically useful in 11/16 cases (68.8%) of Group A and 5/19 cases (26.3%) of group B. These results suggest that MP-1727 scintigraphy is very useful for the diagnosis and decision of the therapeutic strategy of gastrointestinal hormone producing tumors.
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- Tsuneo Saga
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine
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Sugawara A, Takeuchi K, Suzuki T, Itoi K, Sasano H, Ito S. A Case of Aldosterone-Producing Adrenocortical Adenoma Associated with a Probable Post-Operative Adrenal Crisis: Histopathological Analyses of the Adrenal Gland. Hypertens Res 2003; 26:663-8. [PMID: 14567506 DOI: 10.1291/hypres.26.663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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We describe a case of aldosterone-producing adrenocortical adenoma (APA) associated with a probable post-operative adrenal crisis possibly due to subtle autonomous cortisol secretion. The patient was a 46-year-old female who suffered from severe hypertension and hypokalemia. CT and MRI scans revealed a 2-cm diameter adrenal mass. The patient's plasma aldosterone level was increased, and her plasma renin activity was suppressed, both of which findings were consistent with APA. Cushingoid appearance was not observed. Morning and midnight serum cortisol and plasma adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) levels were all within the normal range. Her serum cortisol level was suppressed to 1.9 microg/dl as measured by an overnight 1-mg dexamethasone suppression test, but was incompletely suppressed (2.7 microg/dl) by an overnight 8-mg dexamethasone suppression test. In addition, adrenocortical scintigraphy showed a strong uptake at the tumor region and a complete suppression of the contra-lateral adrenal uptake. After unilateral adrenalectomy, she had an episode of adrenal crisis, and a transient glucocorticoid replacement improved the symptoms. Histopathological studies demonstrated that the tumor was basically compatible with APA. The clear cells in the tumor were admixed with small numbers of compact cells that expressed 17alpha-hydroxylase, suggesting that the tumor was able to produce and secrete cortisol. In addition, the adjacent non-neoplastic adrenal cortex showed cortical atrophy, and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfotransferase immunoreactivity in the zonae fasciculata and reticularis was markedly diminished, suggesting that the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis of the patient was suppressed due to neoplastic production and secretion of cortisol. Together, these findings suggested that autonomous secretion of cortisol from the tumor suppressed the HPA axis of the patient, thereby triggering the probable post-operative adrenal crisis. Post-operative adrenocortical insufficiency should be considered in clinical management of patients with relatively large APA, even when physical signs of autonomous cortisol overproduction are not apparent.
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- Akira Sugawara
- Division of Nephrology, Endocrinology, and Vascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
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Sugawara T, Sato M, Itoi K, Sugawara A, Matsuda Y, Shimada K, Sado T, Wu S, Kondo T. Successful localization and treatment for ectopic adrenocorticotrophic hormone secretion in a rare case of possible Tx N2 M0 carcinoid tumor with Cushing syndrome. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002; 124:1237-8. [PMID: 12447195 DOI: 10.1067/mtc.2002.127330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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- Takafumi Sugawara
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, and the 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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Uchida K, Kumihashi K, Kurosawa S, Kobayashi T, Itoi K, Machida T. Stimulatory effects of prostaglandin E2 on neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of the adult rat. Zoolog Sci 2002; 19:1211-6. [PMID: 12499663 DOI: 10.2108/zsj.19.1211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of adult rodents is elicited by transient global ischemia. Cyclooxygenase (COX) -2, a rate-limiting enzyme for prostanoid synthesis, is also induced by ischemia. We recently found that the administration of a non-selective COX inhibitor to ischemic animals suppressed cell proliferation in the subgranular zone (SGZ) at the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. To clarify whether prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) synthesis by COX's is involved in neurogenesis, sulprostone, an analogue of PGE2, was injected into the rat hippocampus. Sulprostone injection increased the number of 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU)-positive cells in the SGZ. BrdU-positive cells also expressed polysialylated isoforms of neural cell adhesion molecule and neuronal nuclear antigen. These results suggest that PGE2 plays an important role in the proliferation of cells in the SGZ.
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- Katsuya Uchida
- Department of Regulation Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan.
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Helmreich DL, Itoi K, Lopez-Figueroa MO, Akil H, Watson SJ. Norepinephrine-induced CRH and AVP gene transcription within the hypothalamus: differential regulation by corticosterone. Brain Res Mol Brain Res 2001; 88:62-73. [PMID: 11295232 DOI: 10.1016/s0169-328x(01)00018-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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We have previously demonstrated that microinjection of norepinephrine (NE) into the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN) of conscious rats elicits a marked increase in CRH gene transcription, indicated by CRH hnRNA levels, without changing AVP hnRNA levels. We hypothesized that this differential response is due to differential sensitivity of AVP and CRH gene transcription to the inhibitory effects of the NE-induced rise in corticosterone. In the current study, we used animals that had been adrenalectomized and implanted with a subcutaneous corticosterone pellet (ADX/B) which prevented the NE-induced rise in corticosterone levels. NE (50 nmol) or artificial CSF was injected into the PVN of conscious rats, which had undergone either sham-operation (SHAM) or ADX/B 1 week earlier. CRH and AVP hnRNA levels were semi-quantitated by in situ hybridization using intron-specific riboprobes. In both SHAM and ADX/B animals, CRH hnRNA levels were significantly elevated at the 15 min time-point and returned to basal levels by 120 min. At 15 min, the magnitude of the CRH hnRNA response was only slightly greater in the ADX/B group than SHAM. In contrast, changes in medial parvocellular PVN AVP hnRNA levels in the ADX/B group were significantly greater than the changes observed in the SHAM group, at both the 15 and 120 min time-points. These results suggest that corticosterone has a greater impact on the transcriptional regulation of AVP than CRH, suggesting important differences and distinct roles of these secretagogues in the regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.
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- D L Helmreich
- Departments of Biology and Psychology, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753, USA.
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Itoi K, Helmreich DL, Lopez-Figueroa MO, Watson SJ. Differential regulation of corticotropin-releasing hormone and vasopressin gene transcription in the hypothalamus by norepinephrine. J Neurosci 1999; 19:5464-72. [PMID: 10377355 PMCID: PMC6782334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023] Open
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All stress-related inputs are conveyed to the hypothalamus via several brain areas and integrated in the parvocellular division of the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) where corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) is synthesized. Arginine vasopressin (AVP) is present in both magnocellular and parvocellular divisions of the PVN, and the latter population of AVP is colocalized with CRH. CRH and AVP are co-secreted in the face of certain stressful stimuli, and synthesis of both peptides is suppressed by glucocorticoid. CRH and AVP stimulate corticotropin (ACTH) secretion synergistically, but the physiological relevance of the dual corticotroph regulation is not understood. Norepinephrine (NE) is a well known neurotransmitter that regulates CRH neurons in the PVN. We explored the mode of action of NE on CRH and AVP gene transcription in the PVN to examine the effect of the neurotransmitter on multiple genes that are responsible for a common physiological function. After NE injection into the PVN of conscious rats, CRH heteronuclear (hn) RNA increased rapidly and markedly in the parvocellular division of the PVN. AVP hnRNA did not change significantly in either the parvocellular or magnocellular division of the PVN after NE injection. The present results show that the transcription of CRH and AVP genes is differentially regulated by NE, indicating the complexity of neurotransmitter regulation of multiple releasing hormone genes in a discrete hypothalamic neuronal population.
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- K Itoi
- Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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Nitric oxide and glucocorticoids have been implicated in learning and memory, as well as in regulation of the stress response. By use of the in situ hybridization technique, we examined the role of glucocorticoids in the regulation of nitric oxide synthase messenger RNA in the hippocampus. In control animals, nitric oxide synthase subtype I (neuronal) messenger RNA was expressed in the CA1, CA3 and dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. Nitric oxide synthase subtype I expression was almost absent in CA2 pyramidal neurons. Neither subtype II (immunological) nor subtype III (endothelial) nitric oxide synthase messenger RNAs were observed in neurons of the hippocampal subfields. Bilateral removal of the adrenal glands resulted in a significant increase in nitric oxide synthase subtype I messenger RNA expression in the CA1 and CA3 pyramidal neurons and in granular cells of the dentate gyrus. To a lesser degree, the nitric oxide synthase subtype I messenger RNA signal was increased in CA2 pyramidal neurons. Daily administration of glucocorticoids for one week attenuated the adrenalectomy-induced increased level of expression of the messenger RNA encoding nitric oxide synthase subtype I in all areas studied. Because adrenalectomy, which suppresses the production of glucocorticoids, increases nitric oxide synthase expression, and replacement of adrenalectomized animals with glucocorticoids restores the basal levels of nitric oxide synthase subtype I expression, our results demonstrate an up-regulation of nitric oxide synthase subtype I messenger RNA in the absence of glucocorticoids in the hippocampus. The present findings suggest an involvement of the stress axis in the regulation of the synaptic plasticity process mediated by nitric oxide in the hippocampus.
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- M O López-Figueroa
- Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-0720, USA
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- K Itoi
- The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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Sugawara A, Hanew K, Ogawa M, Kamijo T, Tanaka A, Itoi K, Igarashi Y, Iwatani N, Kohno H, Koga J, Ito S. A Case of Inherited GH Deficiency with a 6.7-kb Deletion of GH-1 Gene. Clin Pediatr Endocrinol 1998. [DOI: 10.1297/cpe.7.41] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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