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Tajima K, Zheng F, Collange O, Barthel G, Thornton SN, Longrois D, Levy B, Audibert G, Malinovsky JM, Mertes PM. Time to Achieve Target Mean Arterial Pressure during Resuscitation from Experimental Anaphylactic Shock in an Animal Model. A Comparison of Adrenaline Alone or in Combination with Different Volume Expanders. Anaesth Intensive Care 2019; 41:765-73. [DOI: 10.1177/0310057x1304100612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- K. Tajima
- Faculty of Medicine, Groupe choc, U1116 Inserm, University of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
- Université de Lorraine, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Faculty of Medicine, Groupe choc, U1116 Inserm, University of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
- Université de Lorraine, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Faculty of Medicine, Groupe choc, U1116 Inserm, University of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
- éanimations Chirurgicales, SAMU, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Faculty of Medicine, Groupe choc, U1116 Inserm, University of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
- Université de Lorraine, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Faculty of Medicine, Groupe choc, U1116 Inserm, University of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
- Université de Lorraine, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Faculty of Medicine, Groupe choc, U1116 Inserm, University of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
- Département d'Anesthésie-Réanimation Chirurgicale, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Faculty of Medicine, Groupe choc, U1116 Inserm, University of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
- Service de Réanimation Médicale, Institut Lorrain du Coeur et des Vaisseaux, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Faculty of Medicine, Groupe choc, U1116 Inserm, University of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
- Département d'Anesthésie-Réanimation Chirurgicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Central, Nancy, France
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- Faculty of Medicine, Groupe choc, U1116 Inserm, University of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
- Département d'Anesthésie-Réanimation Chirurgicale, CHU de Reims, Reims, France
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- Faculty of Medicine, Groupe choc, U1116 Inserm, University of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
- Pôle Anesthésie, Réanimations Chirurgicales, SAMU, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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Martrette JM, Egloff C, Clément C, Yasukawa K, Thornton SN, Trabalon M. Effects of prolonged exposure to CO 2 on behaviour, hormone secretion and respiratory muscles in young female rats. Physiol Behav 2017; 177:257-262. [PMID: 28501558 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2017.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [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: 12/01/2016] [Revised: 02/07/2017] [Accepted: 05/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Atmospheric CO2 concentrations increased significantly over the last century and continuing increases are expected to have significant effects on current ecosystems. This study evaluated the behavioural and physiological (hormone status, muscle structure) effects of prolonged CO2 exposure in young female Wistar rats exposed at 700ppm of CO2 during 6h a day for 15days. Prolonged CO2 exposure, though not continuous, produced significant disturbances in behaviour with an increase in drinking, grooming and resting, and a reduction in rearing, jumping-play and locomotor activity. Furthermore, CO2 exposure was accompanied by increased plasma levels of corticosterone, suggesting that prolonged exposure to CO2 was stressful. The muscular structure can also be modified also when respiratory working conditions change. The expression of myosin heavy chain was significantly affected in the diaphragm and oral respiratory muscles: Masseter Superficialis and Anterior Digastric. Modified behaviour and hormonal changes both appear to be at the origin of the observed muscular adaptation.
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- J M Martrette
- EA 3450 DevAH, Université de Lorraine, 54505 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- UMR 7039 CNRS, Université de Lorraine, 54505 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France.
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- EA 3450 DevAH, Université de Lorraine, 54505 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- EA 3450 DevAH, Université de Lorraine, 54505 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- INSERM U_1116, Université de Lorraine, 54505 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- UMR 6552 CNRS, Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes, France
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Koenders EE, Franken CPG, Cotter JD, Thornton SN, Rehrer NJ. Restricting dietary sodium reduces plasma sodium response to exercise in the heat. Scand J Med Sci Sports 2016; 27:1213-1220. [DOI: 10.1111/sms.12748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/14/2016] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- E. E. Koenders
- Department of Physiology; Radboud University; Nijmegen The Netherlands
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- Department of Physiology; Radboud University; Nijmegen The Netherlands
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- School of Physical Education Sport & Exercise Sciences; Otago University; Dunedin New Zealand
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- Faculty of Sciences; University of Lorraine; INSERM UMR_S.1116; Nancy France
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- School of Physical Education Sport & Exercise Sciences; Otago University; Dunedin New Zealand
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Omouessi ST, Lemamy GJ, Kiki-Mvouaka S, Fernette B, Falconetti C, Ndeboko B, Mouecoucou J, Thornton SN. Fluid deprivation increases isotonic NaCl intake, but not hypertonic salt intake, under normal and heated conditions in obese Zucker rats. Appetite 2015; 97:111-9. [PMID: 26621332 DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2015.11.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [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: 05/04/2015] [Revised: 11/17/2015] [Accepted: 11/19/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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In the course of exposure to fluid deprivation and heated environment, mammals regulate their hydromineral balance and body temperature by a number of mechanisms including sweating, water and salt intakes. Here we challenged obese Zucker rats, known to have a predisposition to hypertension, with 0.9%NaCl alone or with 2%NaCl solution + water to drink under fluid deprivation and heated conditions. Food and fluid intakes, body weight, diuresis and natriuresis were measured daily throughout. Serum aldosterone levels and Na(+) concentration were also analyzed. Data showed that obese and lean rats presented similar baseline measurements of food, 0.9%NaCl and fluid intakes, diuresis and fluid balance; whereas hypertonic 2%NaCl consumption was almost absent. Before and during fluid deprivation animals increased isotonic but not hypertonic NaCl intake; the obese showed significant increases in diuresis and Na(+) excretion, whereas, total fluid intake was similar between groups. Heat increased isotonic NaCl intake and doubled natriuresis in obese which were wet on their fur and displayed a paradoxical increase of fluid gain. Fluid deprivation plus heat produced similar negative fluid balance in all groups. Body weight losses, food intake and diuresis reductions were amplified under the combined conditions. Animals exposed to 2%NaCl showed higher circulating levels of aldosterone and obese were lower than leans. In animals which drank 0.9%NaCl, obese showed higher serum levels of Na(+) than leans. We conclude that in spite of their higher sensitivity to high salt and heat obese Zucker rats can control hydromineral balance in response to fluid deprivation and heat by adjusting isotonic NaCl preference with sodium balance and circulating levels of aldosterone. This suggests a key hormonal role in the mechanisms underlying thermoregulation, body fluid homeostasis and sodium intake.
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- S T Omouessi
- EA 3453 SNCI, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France; Laboratoire de Physiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université des Sciences de la Santé, Libreville, Gabon.
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, Université des Sciences de la Santé, Libreville, Gabon
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, Université des Sciences de la Santé, Libreville, Gabon
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- EA 3453 SNCI, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France
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- EA 3453 SNCI, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, Université des Sciences de la Santé, Libreville, Gabon
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- Laboratoire de Physiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université des Sciences de la Santé, Libreville, Gabon
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- EA 3453 SNCI, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France; INSERM, U-1116, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France
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Thornton SN. RAAS blockade in combination with diuretic therapy increases urine excretion, which in turn increases drinking and thus reduces erythropoietin and proteinuria. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2010; 25:2383-4; author reply 2384. [DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfq237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Thornton SN. Angiotensin inhibition and malignancies: a question of hydration. J Hum Hypertens 2009; 24:226. [PMID: 20033073 DOI: 10.1038/jhh.2009.111] [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: 11/10/2022]
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Thornton SN. Letter to the Editor. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr 2009; 33:575. [DOI: 10.1177/0148607109333113] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- S. N. Thornton
- Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy Université, Nancy, France, INSERM-UHP, U684, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France
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Taft LM, Evans RS, Shyu CR, Egger MJ, Chawla N, Mitchell JA, Thornton SN, Bray B, Varner M. Countering imbalanced datasets to improve adverse drug event predictive models in labor and delivery. J Biomed Inform 2009; 42:356-64. [PMID: 18824133 PMCID: PMC2692750 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2008.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [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: 06/02/2008] [Revised: 09/05/2008] [Accepted: 09/07/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND The IOM report, Preventing Medication Errors, emphasizes the overall lack of knowledge of the incidence of adverse drug events (ADE). Operating rooms, emergency departments and intensive care units are known to have a higher incidence of ADE. Labor and delivery (L&D) is an emergency care unit that could have an increased risk of ADE, where reported rates remain low and under-reporting is suspected. Risk factor identification with electronic pattern recognition techniques could improve ADE detection rates. OBJECTIVE The objective of the present study is to apply Synthetic Minority Over Sampling Technique (SMOTE) as an enhanced sampling method in a sparse dataset to generate prediction models to identify ADE in women admitted for labor and delivery based on patient risk factors and comorbidities. RESULTS By creating synthetic cases with the SMOTE algorithm and using a 10-fold cross-validation technique, we demonstrated improved performance of the Naïve Bayes and the decision tree algorithms. The true positive rate (TPR) of 0.32 in the raw dataset increased to 0.67 in the 800% over-sampled dataset. CONCLUSION Enhanced performance from classification algorithms can be attained with the use of synthetic minority class oversampling techniques in sparse clinical datasets. Predictive models created in this manner can be used to develop evidence based ADE monitoring systems.
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- L M Taft
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, 30 North 1900 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132, USA.
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Thornton SN, Omouessi ST, Falconetti C. Mineralocorticoid modulation of central angiotensin-induced neuronal activity, water intake and sodium appetite. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 40:699-705. [PMID: 17464433 DOI: 10.1590/s0100-879x2007000500014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 10/11/2006] [Accepted: 02/13/2007] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Central angiotensin II (AngII) stimulates water and salt solution intake. Pretreatment with low-dose mineralocorticoid (DOCA) enhances this AngII-induced intake of salt solutions (the synergy theory) in Wistar and Sprague Dawley rats but not in Fischer rats. This response is mediated via the AT-1 receptor. Electrophysiological experiments using iontophoretic application of AngII and the AT-1 receptor-specific non-peptide antagonist losartan showed excitation of neurons in the preoptic/medial septum region of urethane-anesthetized male Wistar rats. DOCA pretreatment further enhances this neuronal excitation in response to AngII and reduces the responses to losartan. This generated the hypothesis that DOCA-enhanced AngII-induced neuronal excitation is the neural support for the synergy theory. AT-2 receptors modulate these intake responses depending on sodium in the diet, and diuretic-induced dehydration during pregnancy produces a higher salt intake in the offspring. AngII-induced salt and water intakes were tested in offspring from Sprague Dawley mothers with only 1.8% NaCl to drink in which half were treated with furosemide. The important observations were a) the AT-1 antagonist alone suppressed intakes in offspring from mothers not treated with furosemide, b) both AT-1 and AT-2 antagonists suppressed intakes in offspring from furosemide-treated mothers, and c) combined administration of AT-1 and AT-2 antagonists greatly suppressed water intake in offspring from mothers not treated with furosemide. These results suggest that AT-1 and AT-2 receptors have variable properties (receptor number and/or second messengers). Furthermore, the activity and function of these central AngII receptors depend on the background mineralocorticoid levels. The exact mechanism of this influence, however, remains to be determined.
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- S N Thornton
- U684 UHP-INSERM, Faculté de Médecine, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France.
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Omouessi ST, Falconetti C, Fernette B, Thornton SN. DOCA stimulates salt appetite in Zucker rats: effect of dose, synergistic action with central angiotensin II, and obesity. Brain Res Bull 2007; 74:14-20. [PMID: 17683784 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2007.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [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: 03/25/2007] [Accepted: 04/03/2007] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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An enhanced sodium appetite is found in rats by the synergist interaction of peripheral mineralocorticoids, deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA), and central angiotensin II (AngII), the synergy theory. We used obese Zucker rats which have a predisposition to develop hypertension under appropriate salt conditions to examine this synergy response between AngII and different low doses of DOCA on 2% NaCl intake. Obese and lean Zucker rats on low sodium food were treated systemically with 0.5, 1 and 2 mg/kg/day of DOCA for 3 days, before receiving i.c.v. AngII (10 pmol) on the fourth day. Food, fluid intakes and urine outputs were measured daily throughout. Plasma aldosterone levels were also analysed. Results showed that AngII alone increased water but not salt intake, whereas all three doses of DOCA by themselves enhanced daily salt intake during the treatment period. The lowest dose of DOCA plus AngII did not stimulate an enhanced sodium consumption. The 1 mg/kg was the threshold dose of DOCA for a synergistic response, and with 2 mg/kg DOCA the obese rats consumed nearly 2-fold more hypertonic NaCl solution than the leans. Moreover, obese baseline plasma levels of aldosterone were more elevated than the lean rats. In conclusion, in adult Zucker rats a threshold level of mineralocorticoid is required for the salt stimulating action of central AngII. In the obese rat the synergistic effect is enhanced with higher doses of mineralocorticoid, suggesting that the plasma level of aldosterone could be a prominent factor, which may predispose the obese to salt-sensitivity and, possibly, subsequently to hypertension under appropriate conditions.
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- S T Omouessi
- EA 3453 SNCI, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France
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Omouessi ST, Falconetti C, Chapleur M, Fernette B, Thornton SN. Mineralocorticoid pretreatment enhances angiotensin II-induced neuronal excitation but not salt drinking in male Fischer rats. J Neuroendocrinol 2007; 19:109-15. [PMID: 17214873 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2006.01512.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [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: 11/28/2022]
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Central administration of angiotensin (Ang) II stimulates thirst and sodium intake via the AT-1 receptor. Mineralocorticoid pretreatment enhances Ang II-induced drinking of hypertonic salt solutions (i.e. the synergy theory) in Wistar and Sprague-Dawley rats. Electrophysiological experiments using iontophoretic application of Ang II, and the AT-1 receptor specific nonpeptide antagonist losartan, have shown excitation of neurones in the preoptic/medial septum region of urethane anaesthetised male Wistar rats. Deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA) pretreatment further enhanced this neuronal excitation to Ang II and reduced the responses to losartan. This generated the hypothesis that DOCA-enhanced Ang II-induced neuronal excitation was necessary for the enhanced salt intake of synergy theory. We tested this hypothesis in Fischer 344 rats that are known to have a low basal salt appetite and reduced sensitivity for i.c.v. Ang II. We compared the effect of DOCA pretreatment on i.c.v. Ang II-induced water and 2% NaCl intake in behaving adult male, Fischer rats, as well as preoptic/medial septum region neuronal responses to Ang II and losartan, using a seven-barrelled micro-iontophoretic electrode sealed to a recording electrode in urethane anaesthetised, male Fischer rats. Two groups were used: one pretreated with DOCA (0.5 mg/day for 3 days) and the other comprising controls, treated with isotonic saline. Ang II applied iontophoretically increased activity in 31% of the spontaneously active neurones. Following DOCA pretreatment, the responsiveness to Ang II (when applied after aldosterone) was increased. By contrast, in the behaving animals, water and 2% NaCl intake in response to i.c.v. Ang II were not enhanced by DOCA pretreatment. These results do not support the working hypothesis but could be interpreted as evidence for the existence of two separately modulated central Ang II systems: one responding to mineralocorticoids with increased neuronal activity and the other responsible for the Ang II-induced sodium appetite in conscious rats.
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Omouessi ST, Chapleur M, Leshem M, Thornton SN. Gender and obesity influence sodium intake and fluid regulation in Zucker rats following repeated sodium depletions. Physiol Behav 2006; 89:576-81. [PMID: 16956627 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2006.07.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 05/12/2005] [Revised: 07/15/2006] [Accepted: 07/17/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The Zucker obese rat is an important model for the metabolic syndrome, which includes renal disease and salt-sensitive hypertension, suggesting abnormalities of body fluid regulation. Here, in Zucker rats, lean and obese, and of both sexes, we compared 48 h of sodium intake and fluid regulation responses with repeated depletions with furosemide to repeated control saline injections. Increased urine volume excretion was observed after each furosemide administration for the 4 groups and obese rats excreted more than the leans on the control days. Male obese rats did not excrete sodium nor increase intake of 2% NaCl following the first furosemide administration, whereas the other 3 groups did. Subsequent depletions increased 2% NaCl consumption and urinary sodium excretion in all groups. Males excreted more sodium in their urine than the females on the control days. Females showed an increase in 2% NaCl intake on control days. Water intake increased in the female leans after each depletion, increased in the males after the 2nd and 3rd depletion and increased in the obese females only after the 2nd depletion. These findings show clearly that there are gender- and weight-related differences in the response of Zucker rats to furosemide-induced depletion. However, the main differences occurred with the first depletion. With repeated depletions the rats adjusted sodium and fluid intake and excretion so that differences due to gender and body weight tended to disappear. Our findings caution against drawing conclusions about differences due to gender and body weight based on single treatments.
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- S T Omouessi
- EA 3453 SNCI, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France
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Abdelmalek A, Ayad G, Thornton SN. Cardiovascular effects of catecholamines injected into the DBB of rats, influence of urethane anaesthesia and local colchicine. Brain Res 1999; 821:50-9. [PMID: 10064787 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(99)01057-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 11/23/2022]
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In a previous publication it was shown that 1 microgram colchicine injected into the diagonal band of Broca (DBB) produced a significant decrease in femoral artery blood pressure (and/or volume) measured in urethane-anaesthetised rats. In order to test if the central catecholamines were involved in this effect, guide cannulae were implanted in the DBB and a catheter in the femoral artery. On-line pressure recordings were taken before during and after alpha1, alpha2 and beta adrenoreceptor agonists and antagonists were injected into the region of the DBB of non-anaesthetised and urethane anaesthetised male Wistar rats with and without injection of colchicine. Arterial pressure was significantly increased in the non-anaesthetised rats (114.6+/-2.6 n=11 vs. 149.3+/-3.3 mmHg n=12, p<0.01) yet significantly reduced (82.0+/-3.9 n=11 vs. 63.8+/-4.5 mmHg n=12, p<0.01) in the urethane treated rats by the alpha2 agonist clonidine. The alpha2 antagonist yohimbine blocked these effects in both preparations. In contrast, the beta adrenoreceptor agonist isoprenaline produced a significant decrease in arterial pressure in both preparations (107.7+/-3.9 n=11 vs. 85.9+/-4.0 mmHg n=12, p<0.01) (102.6+/-6.7 n=11 vs. 81.7+/-3.4 mmHg n=12, p<0.01) and this effect was blocked by the beta antagonist propranolol. Colchicine injected into the DBB abolished the effects of the alpha2 agonist and antagonist in the non-anaesthetised but not the anaesthetised rats. The responses to the beta agonist and antagonist were not greatly affected by the colchicine in the non-anaesthetised rats whereas in the anaesthetised rat beta agonist injection tended to totally depress arterial pressure. These results suggest that the sympathetic nervous system in the DBB plays a significant role in the central control of arterial pressure and that the alpha2 component is significantly affected by the state of anaesthesia.
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- A Abdelmalek
- C.N.R.S. U.R.A. 9054, Neurobiologie des Régulations, Collège de France, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75231, Paris Cedex 05, France
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Sodium (Na+) depletion induces sodium appetite to replenish Na+ loss. It appears to be a consequence of enhanced levels of aldosterone (Aldo) and angiotensin II (AII) in the plasma as well as in the brain. Mineralocorticoid pretreatment modifies the sensitivity of septo-preoptic neurons to locally applied AII and Aldo. Therefore, we investigated septo-preoptic neuronal sensitivities to AII and Aldo, as well as to the specific AII type-1 receptor (AT-1) non-peptide antagonist losartan (Los) and to the specific AII type-2 receptor (AT-2) non-peptide antagonist PD123319 after one Na+ depletion without repletion. We found that one Na+ depletion induced increases in the proportion of neurons inhibited by iontophoretic application of AII (20.5% vs. 7.8%, p=0.004) whereas, the proportion of neurons excited by Aldo was increased, (23.7% vs. 5%, p=0.001). Moreover, the proportion of neurons changing sensitivity to AII after one application of Aldo was increased in the furosemide group (44.2% vs. 20.4%, p=0.0123). The proportion of neurons inhibited by application of losartan was enhanced, (26.4% vs. 9.3%, p=0.03). No significant changes were found in response to PD123319 by itself. Moreover, there were more neurons which co-localized responses to both Los and PD123319 in the furosemide group than in the control group (29.7% vs. 8.6%, p=0.027). It is known that multidepletions induce an increased need-free sodium appetite and our present findings could well form part of the neuronal basis of this behavior.
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- F Liénard
- CNRS UPR 9054 Groupe de Neurobiologie des Régulations, I.E.S.G.C.A., Campus de l'Université de Bourgogne, 15 rue Hugues Picardet, 21000 Dijon, France
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Liénard F, Thornton SN, Martial FP, Mousseau MC, Galaverna O, Meile MJ, Nicolaïdis S. Effects of DOCA pretreatment on neuronal sensitivity and cell responsiveness to angiotensin II, in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in the rat. Regul Pept 1996; 66:59-63. [PMID: 8899895 DOI: 10.1016/0167-0115(96)00060-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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A previous study has shown that DOCA pretreatment altered the responsiveness of neurons to microiontophoretic administration of angiotensin II (AII) and aldosterone (Aldo). This result coincided with an increase in activity in the septo-preoptic region and a decrease in activity of the central nucleus of the amygdala. The latter region is anatomically linked to the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST). Single unit activity was recorded in the BNST in response to iontophoretic application of AII, non-peptide AII-receptor antagonists or Aldo in DOCA-pretreated and in non-pretreated rats. DOCA-pretreatment significantly decreased the responsiveness to AII (28 cells (18.5%) vs. 8 cells (14.0%) u = 0.018 for excitation and 3 cells (8.6%) vs. 0 cells 0%, u = 0.011 for inhibition, P < 0.05) and to Aldo (24 cells (21.4%) vs. 4 cells (10.2%), u = 0.026 for excitation, and 3 cells (2.6%) vs. 0 cells, u = 0.009 for inhibition, P < 0.05) of the neurons localised in the BNST. A significant decrease was found in the inhibitory responses to iontophoretic application of losartan, an AII type-1 receptor (AT-1) antagonist (u = 0.042, P < 0.05). No significant differences were recorded with iontophoretic application of PD 123319, a specific AII-type-2 (AT-2) receptor antagonist. Therefore AT-1 receptors are likely responsible for the decreased responsiveness of the BNST correlated with the decrease in the activity within the amygdala.
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- F Liénard
- CNRS URA 1860, Collège de France, Paris, France
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Liénard F, Thornton SN, Martial FP, Mousseau MC, Nicolaïdis S. Angiotensin II receptor subtype antagonists can both stimulate and inhibit salt appetite in rats. Regul Pept 1996; 66:87-94. [PMID: 8899899 DOI: 10.1016/0167-0115(96)00061-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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In urethane-anaesthetised male Wistar rats iontophoretic application of the angiotensin II (Ang II) type 1 (AT-1) receptor specific nonpeptide antagonist losartan in the septo-preoptic continuum can produce neuronal excitation of short- and long-term duration which has been interpreted as removal of tonic Ang II-induced inhibition. Mineralocorticoid pretreatment, which increases neuronal sensitivity to Ang II to enhance salt appetite, also removes this losartan-induced long-term excitation. These results suggested steroid modulation of the AT-1 receptor and a complex involvement of Ang II in salt appetite. To investigate the role of the inhibitory action of central Ang II on salt appetite, we gave intracerebroventicular injections of a single, low dose (10 ng) of losartan in normal euhydrated rats and this produced, paradoxically, a progressive increase in salt intake (1.6 +/- 0.3 ml/day to 3.5 +/- 0.9 ml/day, n = 15, P < 0.05). Treatment of these salt enhanced rats with DOCA (0.5 mg/day, s.c., for 3 days) further increased the salt appetite, but then a second i.c.v. injection of the same dose of losartan significantly inhibited the enhanced salt appetite (4.7 +/- 0.7 to 1.3 +/- 0.4, n = 9, P < 0.05). These results provide evidence for a complex action of Ang II on the At-1 receptor mediating the generation of salt appetite that appears to involve either at least two functional subtypes of this AT-1 receptor, as already suggested by previous electrophysiological experiments, or one AT-1 receptor with several activation states.
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- F Liénard
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Collège de France, Paris, France
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Mousseau MC, Thornton SN, Martial FP, Lienard F, Nicolaidis S. Neuronal responses to iontophoretically applied angiotensin II, losartan and aldosterone, as well as gustatory stimuli, in non-anesthetized control and desoxycorticosterone acetate-pretreated rats. Regul Pept 1996; 66:51-4. [PMID: 8899893 DOI: 10.1016/0167-0115(96)00059-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The neuronal mechanism of the sodium appetite initiated in rats by priming with a mineralocorticoid (desoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA)) treatment and subsequent central angiotensin II (Ang II) was investigated using electrophysiological-iontophoretic techniques and sapid salt stimulation of the tongue in non-anesthetized restrained, DOCA-pretreated (0.5 mg/day s.c. for 3 days) or non-pretreated male Wistar rats. The rats were trained to drink water and a 1.6% NaCl solution while their heads were painlessly held in a stereotaxic apparatus with an attachment fixed to the skull. A total of 634 neurons (375 in non-pretreated and 259 in DOCA-pretreated rats) were recorded in the medial septum and median preoptic area during iontophoretic application of Ang II, aldosterone or losartan, or tongue application of the salty solution or water. Of the 151 neurons recorded in control rats during the application of the solutions on the tongue, one (0.7%) was found specifically excited and 16 (10.6%) inhibited by the sapid sodium. Similarly, of the 110 neurons tested in the DOCA-pretreated rats, 5 (4.5%) were found specifically excited and 8 (7.3%) inhibited by the sapid sodium. The number of neurons responding to the iontophoretically applied agents was not significantly changed by the DOCA pretreatment. Thus, the DOCA pretreatment significantly increased the number of preoptic neurons that were specifically excited by a salty solution applied on the tongue. These results suggest that hormonally induced changes in the gustatory responsiveness of ventral forebrain neurons may be part of the sequence that alters the hedonic valence of NaCl during sodium appetite.
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- M C Mousseau
- CNRS URA 1860, Collège de France, Paris, France.
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Mousseau MC, Thornton SN, Liénard F, Martial FP, Nicolaïdis S. Water versus salty taste and Iontophoretic ANGII responses of septopreoptic neurons in dehydrated and euhydrated awake rats. Brain Res Bull 1996; 41:167-73. [PMID: 8886386 DOI: 10.1016/0361-9230(96)00164-5] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Little is known of the influence of gustatory, particularly salt, input on neurons of the forebrain and if the same neurons are sensitive to hydromineral balance humoral stimuli. In awake, nonpremedicated rats we recorded the activity of spontaneously active neurons in the preoptic/anterior hypothalamic area of dehydrated and euhydrated rats while allowing them to ingest water or a hypertonic salt solution (1.6% NaCl) administered to the tongue. The hormones angiotensin and aldosterone, both implicated in hydromineral balance, were applied by iontophoresis to the same neurons. In the dehydrated rats, 27% (15/55) of the spontaneously active neurons responded to a liquid (either water or the NaCl) applied to the tongue; in the euhydrated rats 23% (18/78) responded to the same stimuli. In the dehydrated rats, however, 33% (5/15) of the responding neurons were inhibited when the NaCl solution was applied to the tongue compared with only 5% (1/18) in the euhydrated rats. Iontophoretic application of angiotensin increased the spontaneous activity in 21% of those neurons tested that responded to taste. These results suggest that the state of hydration of an animal is able to change the neuronal response to substances applied to the tongue. Furthermore, it appears that these gustatory-sensitive neurons may also be related to hydromineral balance regulation since they are able to respond to angiotensin.
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- M C Mousseau
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité de Recherche Associée 1860, Laboratoire de Neurobiologie des Régulations, Collège de France, Paris, France
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el Ghissassi M, Thornton SN, Nicolaïdis S. Angiotensin II-induced thirst, but not sodium appetite, via AT1 receptors in organum cavum prelamina terminalis. Am J Physiol 1995; 268:R1401-5. [PMID: 7611515 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1995.268.6.r1401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The angiotensin receptor specificity, with respect to fluid intake, of the organum cavum prelamina terminalis (OCPLT), a recently discovered discrete forebrain structure with high sensitivity to angiotensin II (ANG II), was investigated. ANG II (10 ng) microinjected into the OCPLT significantly increased water consumption but did not induce intake of a hypertonic (3%) NaCl solution. Losartan, an ANG II type 1 (AT1) receptor-specific antagonist, produced dose-related (1-100 ng) inhibition of ANG II-induced drinking. The ANG II type 2 receptor-specific antagonist CGP-42112A was ineffective. Intake of the 3% NaCl solution in response to microinjection of either of the antagonists into the OCPLT was never observed. These findings suggest that water intake produced by microinjection of ANG II into the OCPLT is mediated by AT1 receptors uniquely and that, in contrast to other regions of the brain, these receptors do not induce salt intake when stimulated by ANG II.
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- M el Ghissassi
- Laboratoire de Neurobiologie des Régulations, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Collège de France, Paris
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We have investigated the role of peripheral angiotensin II in the generation of hypotension (without hypovolaemia)-induced salt intake in rats treated with an IV infusion of the quaternary ammonium peripheral ganglion blocker Penthonium. At a dose of 15.4 mg/ml this compound induces a significant decrease in blood pressure from the beginning of the infusion. Intake of 3% NaCl was significantly increased only on the first day (1.7 +/- 0.3 ml, n = 7, p < 0.01 vs. the day before) and this induced salt appetite was not altered (2.3 +/- 0.9 ml, n = 7, p < 0.05 vs. the day before) by intracerebroventricular administration of a nonpeptide AII-type 1 receptor specific antagonist, Losartan, at a dose known to block AII-induced drinking (250 ng). We conclude from these results that AII liberated in response to the hypovolaemia is probably not responsible for the subsequent induced intake of NaCl which may be the result of a direct barosensitive input to the salt appetite centers of the brain.
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- S N Thornton
- C.N.R.S. URA 637, Laboratoire de Neurobiologie des Régulations, Collège de France, Paris
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Thornton SN, Nicolaïdis S. Long-term mineralocorticoid-induced changes in rat neuron properties plus interaction of aldosterone and ANG II. Am J Physiol 1994; 266:R564-71. [PMID: 8141416 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1994.266.2.r564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The central site of action and the neuronal mechanism of the robust sodium appetite initiated in rats by the synergistic action of a peripheral priming with mineralocorticoid [deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA)] and subsequent central angiotensin II (ANG II) were investigated using iontophoretic and electrophysiological techniques in urethan-anesthetized, DOCA-pretreated (0.5 mg/day sc for 3 days) or nonpretreated male Wistar rats. A significantly greater number of spontaneously active neurons were recorded in the medial septum and median preoptic area, but not in the cortex, in rats pretreated with DOCA than found in the nonpretreated animals (9.3 +/- 1.2 per electrode descent; n = 19 vs. 6.1 +/- 0.7 per descent; n = 21; P < 0.001). The firing rate of the spontaneously active neurons was also significantly increased in the DOCA-pretreated animals. A greatly increased neuronal sensitivity (increased activity lasting up to 10 min after the end of the application) to iontophoretically applied ANG II was found in 32% of the ANG II-sensitive neurons in pretreated animals. This prolonged response was never observed in the nonpretreated animals. Iontophoretically applied aldosterone produces rapid neuronal excitation in both groups of rats and renders previously insensitive neurons sensitive to iontophoretically applied ANG II only in the DOCA-pretreated animals. This forebrain region, therefore, contains neurons that undergo a mineralocorticoid pretreatment-induced and/or a rapid aldosterone-induced sensitization to ANG II, which may be the neuronal mechanism whereby a persistent sodium appetite, induced by the synergistic action of these two hormones, is stimulated.
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- S N Thornton
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité de Recherche Associée 637, Collège de France, Paris
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Abdelmalek A, Forsling ML, Thornton SN. Colchicine injected into the anterior forebrain in rats decreases blood pressure without changing the responses to haemorrhage. Brain Res Bull 1994; 34:313-7. [PMID: 8055355 DOI: 10.1016/0361-9230(94)90069-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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In a previous publication rats were shown to develop a marked positive sodium balance 6 days after injection of 1 microgram colchicine into their anterior forebrains. This was thought to be the normal hydromineral balance response to correct an hypothesised colchicine-induced decrease in blood volume (and/or pressure). To test this hypothesis, fluid and sodium intakes and excretion were measured before and then for 6 days following injection of colchicine (1 microgram in 250 nl) into the anterior forebrain, around the diagonal band of Broca, in male Wistar rats. At the end of the 6 days the animals were anaesthetised with urethane and blood pressure measured continuously before during and after a 3.5 ml haemorrhage. Blood pressure was significantly reduced (86.4 +/- 3.9 n = 11 vs. 67.7 +/- 3.4 mm Hg n = 12, p < 0.01) in the colchicine-treated rats compared to the controls and failed to recover following the haemorrhage. Measured blood parameters were similar in both colchicine-treated and nontreated groups, including plasma levels of vasopressin both before and following the haemorrhage. These results suggest that the colchicine injections may have compromised a central component of the sympathetic nervous system, thereby leading to the significant decrease in blood pressure without compensatory vasopressin release, and the lack of recovery of the decrease in blood pressure following a haemorrhage.
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- A Abdelmalek
- C.N.R.S. U.R.A. 637, Neurobiologie des Régulations, Collège de France, Paris
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Martial FP, Thornton SN, Lienard F, Mousseau MC, Nicolaidis S. Tonic neuronal inhibition by AII revealed by iontophoretic application of Losartan, a specific antagonist of AII type-1 receptors. Brain Res Bull 1994; 34:533-9. [PMID: 7922595 DOI: 10.1016/0361-9230(94)90137-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Short-term low-dose mineralocorticoid pretreatment enhances subsequent neuronal activity in the medial septum/preoptic region and in the stria terminalis/posterior amygdala of urethane anaesthetised male Wistar rats and sensitises these neurons to angiotensin II (AII). We have investigated the effect of iontophoretic application of Losartan, a specific nonpeptidergic AII type-1 receptor antagonist, on the background activity of spontaneously active neurons in these regions using a seven-barrelled microiontophoretic electrode sealed to a recording electrode. The influence of Losartan on the effects of iontophoretically applied AII in deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA) pretreated and nonpretreated rats was also investigated. Iontophoretically applied Losartan was observed to block the excitatory effect of AII in some neurons. In other spontaneously active neurons Losartan was seen to stimulate (or inhibit) immediately, this effect being greater in nonpretreated than in DOCA pretreated rats. Losartan was also observed to provoke persistent excitation of some spontaneously active neurons only in the nonpretreated rats. These results suggest that there exists a tonic inhibition by AII on the neurons in this area of the forebrain and that there may exist at least two subtypes of the AII type-1 receptor.
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- F P Martial
- C.N.R.S. U.R.A. 637, Neurobiologie des Régulations, Collège de France, Paris
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In the course of electrophysiological investigations using iontophoresis, we observed that in specific regions of the forebrain even these minute applications of peptide and steroid hormones can influence systemic blood pressure. In urethan-anesthetized male Wistar rats, with a catheter in the femoral artery, iontophoretic application of the peptide hormones angiotensin II (ANG II), vasopressin (AVP), and atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and the steroid hormone aldosterone (ALDO) was effective at locations in the midline septum, the triangularis nucleus of the septum, and the subfornical organ (SFO). Increases in blood pressure (of up to 15 mmHg) were observed after ANG II and AVP, decreases after ALDO, and either an increase or a decrease, depending on the location, after ANP. There was no clear evidence of an antagonistic effect of ANP on ANG II-induced neuronal or blood pressure responses. In addition to demonstrating the potency of these hormones even when they are restricted to tiny volumes of tissue, the present results demonstrate that the medial ventral region of the anterior forebrain may be included in the same baroreceptive circuit as the SFO (and organ vasculosum of the lamina terminalis) and hence be involved in the regulation of blood volume and perhaps in the sensing of and corrective responses to extracellular thirst.
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- S N Thornton
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité de Recherche Associée 637, Laboratoire de Neurobiologie des Régulations, Collège de France, Paris
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Thornton SN, Larue-Achagiotis C, Nicolaïdis S. Blood pressure responses and drinking following central angiotensin II in adult rats guanethidine-sympathectomised at birth. Physiol Behav 1991; 50:869-71. [PMID: 1775567 DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(91)90034-l] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Rats pups were sympathectomised with daily, for 3 weeks, injections of guanethidine (0.01 ml/g body weight), starting the second day after birth. They were separated from their respective dams at 6 weeks, and when they had reached their adult weight (350 g), the males were used to study the role of the sympathetic nervous system in the blood pressure and drinking responses to central injections of angiotensin II (AII, 250 ng). Littermates injected with 0.15 NaCl served as controls. Mean blood pressure was similar in both experimental and control groups (118 +/- 6 versus 128 +/- 4 mmHg) though the sympathectomised rats had a less stable baseline blood pressure than the controls. AII injected into the third cerebral ventricle produced similar increases in blood pressure and drinking responses in both groups. From these results we conclude that other systems appeared to have compensated for the lack of the sympathetic nervous system in normal blood pressure regulation and in stimulated (AII) blood pressure increases.
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- S N Thornton
- Laboratoire de Neurobiologie des Régulations, Collège de France, Paris
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Thornton SN, Nicolaïdis S, Larue-Achagiotis C, Campfield A. Body weight gain after VMH lesions in adult female rats guanethidine-sympathectomized at birth. Appetite 1991; 17:47-53. [PMID: 1952915 DOI: 10.1016/0195-6663(91)90083-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [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] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The role of the sympathetic nervous system in body weight gain produced by lesions of the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus (VMH) was studied in adult female rats that had been sympathectomized from birth for 3 weeks with daily injections of guanethidine (0.01 ml/g body weight) starting the second day after birth. Female littermates injected with 0.15 M NaCl served as controls. Body weight gain during the dynamic phase after the VMH lesion was the same in the sympathectomized and control groups of rats, whereas the treated rats gained weight at a slower rate than the controls in the static phase. The increase in food intake stimulated by the VMH lesion peaked sooner and remained elevated longer in the controls than in the experimental animals despite the similar increases in body weight gain. These results indicate that the sympathetic nervous system may play an important role in body weight gain during the static phase following a VMH lesion in adulthood.
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- S N Thornton
- Laboratoire de Neurobiologie des Régulations, Collège de France, Paris
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Central administration of the tachykinins, eledoisin or physalaemin has been reported to produce significant water intake in pigeons but inhibition of stimulated drinking in rats. In this paper it is shown that high and low doses of these two tachykinins injected centrally in two much larger species, goats and pigs, did not produce any significant drinking. Furthermore, in pigs, physalaemin, but not eledoisin, attenuated AII stimulated drinking (576 +/- 64 ml AII alone, versus 456 +/- 131 ml AII + eledoisin, not significant, and 124 +/- 89 ml AII plus physalaemin, p less than 0.01, in the same 5 pigs) and also, especially at the higher doses, induced general locomotor activation. However, in goats neither tachykinin interfered with drinking induced by central injection of 300 ng AII. These results show that in pigs and goats the tachykinins, eledoisin and physalaemin, are not effective dipsogens and that one of the possible reasons for the inhibitory action of physalaemin on AII-induced drinking may be through the general locomotor activation and not through a direct effect on the central AII system.
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- S N Thornton
- Department of Behavioural Physiology, A.F.R.C. Institute of Animal Physiology, Cambridge, England
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Anti-calbindin D28K (CaBP) and anti-parvalbumin (PVA) antibodies were used to study the number and size of neurones containing these two calcium binding proteins in post-mortem brains from 7 neurologically normal controls and from 4 elderly patients with clinically diagnosed Down's syndrome (DS) and whose brains contained numerous senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. The possible co-existence of these two calcium binding proteins in human cerebral cortex was also examined. In the controls, CaBP immunoreactive neurones were mainly non-pyramidal neurones although some pyramidal neurones were also CaBP immunoreactive. All the PVA immunoreactive neurones were non-pyramidal cells. CaBP and PVA did not apparently co-exist with each other in cortical neurones. When compared with the neurologically normal controls, the number and size of CaBP and PVA immunoreactive neurones were significantly reduced in the cortex of patients with DS. These findings show that CaBP and PVA containing cortical neurones are affected in elderly persons with DS.
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- K Kobayashi
- MRC Group, AFRC Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Babraham, Cambridge, U.K
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- S N Thornton
- A.F.R.C. Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Babraham, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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The effect of an intravenous bolus injection of cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK-8; 0.85 micrograms/kg) on the release of cortisol, prolactin, vasopressin, and oxytocin was studied in sheep (n = 10). Concentrations of these hormones were measured in blood samples taken before (-10, 0 min) and after (5, 10, 20 min) administration of a saline vehicle or vehicle + CCK. Following CCK treatment, levels of cortisol were raised after 10 and 20 min, prolactin and vasopressin concentrations were increased after 5 min, and oxytocin secretion was unaffected.
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- I S Ebenezer
- Agricultural and Food Research Council, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Cambridge Research Station, United Kingdom
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Thornton SN, Baldwin BA, Forsling ML. The influence of central hypersomotic solutions on drinking and vasopressin release following peripheral hyperosmotic NaCl in the minipig. Brain Res 1989; 488:297-303. [PMID: 2743124 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(89)90721-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [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: 01/02/2023]
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The drinking and lysine vasopressin (LVP, porcine vasopressin) responses were measured in minipigs given simultaneous intracarotid (i.c.) (1.28 ml/min) and intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) (50 microliters/min) infusions of solutions of differing osmolality and sodium content. Observations were made during, and for a further 15 min after, the combined infusions which lasted 15 min. Drinking in response to i.c. infusion of 2.0 Osm NaCl started with a latency of 7 min and was unaffected by simultaneous i.c.v. infusion of 0.15 M NaCl, was additive with the drinking produced by i.c.v. 1.4 Osm NaCl, sucrose or mannitol, and inhibited by i.c.v. infusion of 1.4 Osm urea. LVP release following i.c. hyperosmotic NaCl was observed as early as the first blood sample, at 2 min, and was attenuated by i.c.v. hyperosmotic urea and attenuated, then slightly augmented, by i.c.v. infusions of the hyperosmotic non-electrolyte solutions. These results show that drinking following peripheral administration of an osmotic stimulus in the minipig can add to that induced by central infusions of solutions that would have increased the effective osmotic pressure of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) but may have increased or decreased CSF sodium concentration. By contrast, the stimulated LVP release was attenuated by solutions that decreased CSF sodium concentration. Thus, in minipigs, separate osmoreceptors appear to mediate osmotically induced drinking and LVP release.
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- S N Thornton
- A.F.R.C. Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Barbraham, Cambridge, U.K
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Six pony mares deprived of water for 24 hours showed significant increases in plasma vasopressin (2.8 pg/ml) and osmolality (9 mosmol/kg). When water was made available the ponies drank rapidly (5 of 6 drank to satiety within 90 seconds) and corrected their fluid deficits precisely. Vasopressin did not return to predehydration levels until osmolality did after 15 minutes of access to water. The horse differs from rodents and humans, but is similar to pigs in that vasopressin levels do not fall before osmolality returns to normal. Oropharyngeal factors, therefore, may not be as important in vasopressin release in horses as in other species.
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- K A Houpt
- New York State College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca 14853-6401
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Angiotensin II (AII; 300 ng) injected into the lateral cerebral ventricle produced significant drinking responses and also stimulated release of lysine vasopressin (LVP) in conscious, water replete, unrestrained minipigs. Plasma LVP concentration, measured by a specific radioimmunoassay, was decreased by drinking. At the end of the experiment the level was inversely proportional to the volume of water drunk in response to the AII, and not to changes in plasma osmolality. These findings suggest that AII-stimulated LVP release is influenced by a negative feed-back mechanism, probably involving oropharyngeal receptors.
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- S N Thornton
- Department of Behavioural Physiology, AFRC Institute of Animal Physiology, Cambridge
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The effects of intravenous injections of naloxone (2 mg/kg), morphine (0.3 mg/kg) and saline vehicle on plasma concentrations of cortisol, prolactin, vasopressin and oxytocin were assessed in sheep (N = 10) when in their social groups (basal conditions) and during a period of isolation (psychological stress). Blood samples were collected by jugular venipuncture before and during the 60-min period following drug administration. Plasma hormone concentrations were determined by radioimmunoassay. Under basal conditions, cortisol levels were increased after naloxone (36-48%), but not after morphine or saline, and concentrations of prolactin, vasopressin and oxytocin did not change. Under stress conditions, (1) cortisol concentrations were elevated throughout the 60-min sampling period after naloxone or saline but for only 20 min after morphine; maximum increases observed were 161% (naloxone), 150% (saline) and 112% (morphine); (2) prolactin levels were raised after saline (85-129%) and morphine (55-61%) but were unchanged after naloxone; (3) vasopressin concentrations decreased transiently (43%) after saline but not following naloxone or morphine; and (4) oxytocin levels did not change after any treatment. These results indicate that endogenous and exogenous opioids modulate cortisol release in nonstressed sheep, and cortisol and prolactin secretion in sheep subjected to psychological stress. The nature of the anterior pituitary responses induced, together with the absence of a discernible effect on posterior pituitary function, suggest that the central opioid systems involved are similar in sheep and primates but different from those in the rat.
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- R F Parrott
- AFRC Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Cambridge Research Station, England
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Thornton SN, Parrott RF. Naloxone affects the release of cortisol, but not of vasopressin or oxytocin, in dehydrated sheep. Acta Endocrinol (Copenh) 1989; 120:50-4. [PMID: 2911940 DOI: 10.1530/acta.0.1200050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Ovariectomized ewes (N = 7) were dehydrated for 24 h and then given iv injections of saline vehicle or 8 or 64 mg naloxone hydrochloride in saline. Blood samples were taken by jugular venepuncture before and after dehydration and at intervals during the 90 min period directly following naloxone treatment. Plasma concentrations of AVP, OT and cortisol were measured by radioimmunoassay. Plasma AVP levels and osmolality increased with dehydration, OT concentrations showed no consistent change, and cortisol levels were unaffected. After administration of naloxone, AVP and OT concentrations did not alter. The sampling procedure increased plasma cortisol levels and the duration of this response was prolonged by the 64 mg dose of naloxone.
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- S N Thornton
- A.F.R.C. Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Cambridge Research Station, UK
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Thornton SN, Baldwin BA. Centrally injected atrial natriuretic factor inhibits angiotensin- and osmotically-induced drinking in pigs. Q J Exp Physiol 1988; 73:1009-12. [PMID: 2976951 DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.1988.sp003211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Atrial natriuretic factor 5-28 (atriopeptin III, APIII; 10 micrograms) injected into the cerebral ventricles of young pigs 5 min before injection of either angiotensin II (AII, 300 ng) or hypertonic NaCl (0.74 M) attenuated the subsequent drinking responses to these dipsogens although the latency to the response was not altered. The inhibition lasted for up to 4 days in the case of AII-induced drinking but normal daily water intake was not disrupted. These findings suggest that in the pig APIII may play a role in the central regulation of drinking in response to AII and that it may have a long biological half-life.
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- S N Thornton
- Department of Behaviour Physiology, AFRC Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Babraham, Cambridge
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Parrott RF, Thornton SN, Baldwin BA, Forsling ML. Changes in vasopressin and cortisol secretion during operant drinking in dehydrated pigs. Am J Physiol 1988; 255:R248-51. [PMID: 3407802 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1988.255.2.r248] [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] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Two studies were carried out to examine endocrine changes during a 60-min period of operant drinking in 24-h dehydrated pigs. Measurements were made of water intake, osmolality, hematocrit, and plasma concentrations of lysine vasopressin (LVP) and cortisol during rehydration (experiment 1) and of fluid intake, osmolality, and LVP levels during consumption of isotonic saline (experiment 2). Increases in osmolality and LVP produced by dehydration in experiment 1 were rapidly reversed during rehydration with the result that osmolality returned to predeprivation levels after 20 min and LVP after 30 min, but there was no evidence of a decrease in LVP before absorption. Plasma cortisol concentrations were unaffected by dehydration although they declined during the final 40 min of experiment 1. In experiment 2, osmolality remained elevated during saline drinking, but plasma concentrations of LVP declined abruptly. The results suggest that oropharyngeal factors inhibiting vasopressin release, revealed during saline ingestion, are obscured during normal rehydration as a result of the rapid rate at which water is absorbed by the gut in this species.
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- R F Parrott
- Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Agricultural and Food Research Council, Babraham, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Parrott RF, Thornton SN, Robinson JE. Endocrine responses to acute stress in castrated rams: no increase in oxytocin but evidence for an inverse relationship between cortisol and vasopressin. Acta Endocrinol (Copenh) 1988; 117:381-6. [PMID: 3381640 DOI: 10.1530/acta.0.1170381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Plasma concentrations of cortisol, oxytocin, vasopressin and prolactin were measured by radioimmunoassay in eight castrated rams subjected to handling (control), restraint or isolation. Determinations were also made of hematocrit and plasma osmolality. Blood was collected by jugular venipuncture 60 and less than 1 min before, and 5, 15, 30, 60 and 120 min after the start of treatment. Plasma cortisol was raised above pre-treatment levels during isolation and restraint but only transiently after handling. In the first 30 min of treatment, cortisol concentrations were higher following isolation than after restraint or handling and, in the final 60 min, levels were higher during both isolation and restraint than after handling. Oxytocin concentrations showed little change but vasopressin levels were reduced 15, 30 and 60 min after the start of isolation and were negatively correlated with those of cortisol. Plasma prolactin concentrations decreased during handling and restraint but remained unaltered after isolation. Osmolality and hematocrit decreased in all three treatment conditions. These findings indicate that stress does not alter oxytocin levels in sheep, but changes in vasopressin secretion and water balance may occur if cortisol release is greatly enhanced.
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- R F Parrott
- A.F.R.C. Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Babraham, Cambridge, UK
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Thornton SN, Delaney CE, Chapman C. Plasma vasopressin and oxytocin levels in intact goats and in castrated goats given testosterone. Acta Endocrinol (Copenh) 1988; 117:260-4. [PMID: 3381635 DOI: 10.1530/acta.0.1170260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Oxytocin, vasopressin, cortisol and testosterone levels in the plasma were measured by radioimmunoassay in intact male goats as well as in prepubertally castrated goats injected daily, for 2 weeks, with oil vehicle and then, for 4 weeks, with testosterone propionate in oil to study the influence of gonadal steroids on posterior pituitary hormones. Packed cell volume, plasma osmolality and sodium concentration were also measured in all blood samples. Plasma levels of oxytocin, vasopressin and cortisol were similar in the intact and oil-injected castrated goats. Testosterone treatment significantly increased plasma levels of oxytocin (P less than 0.01) in castrated goats but the increased levels were similar to those seen in the intact goats at the same time of year. Plasma levels of cortisol and vasopressin were unaffected by testosterone propionate treatment, whereas packed cell volume was significantly decreased (P less than 0.01). Testosterone treatment of castrated male goats appears not to have any action on pituitary hormones and oxytocin increases in the spring in both intact and castrated male goats.
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- S N Thornton
- A.F.R.C., Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Babraham, Cambridge, England
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Thornton SN, Sirinathsinghji DJ, Delaney CE. The effects of a reversible colchicine-induced lesion of the anterior ventral region of the third cerebral ventricle in rats. Brain Res 1987; 437:339-44. [PMID: 3435840 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(87)91648-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [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] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Colchicine was injected into the region of the organum vasculosum lamina terminalis/anterior region of the third cerebral ventricle (OVLT/AV3V) to produce a temporary disruption of the nervous connections of this area and the rest of the anterior hypothalamus, but to maintain the vascular connections intact. Rats were kept in metabolism cages throughout the experiment and food and water intake plus urine and electrolyte excretion and body weight were measured each day. Food intake, body weight gain and urine and sodium excretion were reduced for several days after the injection of colchicine and the rats went into a marked positive sodium balance from the third day postinjection. Following 24 h water deprivation, 7 days after the colchicine injection, water intake was increased for 2 days. Urine and electrolyte excretion and food intake were also increased on the second day after the deprivation. Following a second deprivation, 10 days later, the colchicine-injected animals behaved as the control rats had done during both the deprivation periods. Injections of colchicine into the OVLT region of the AV3V, that would have blocked neural activity while maintaining a constant blood supply, produced some of the characteristics of a 'normal' lesion in this area; the rats decreased sodium excretion and increased their water intake in response to water deprivation. Therefore, colchicine may provide a useful means of investigating what role the constituent areas of the AV3V play in body fluid regulation.
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- S N Thornton
- A.F.R.C., Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Babraham, Cambridge, U.K
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Thornton SN, Sharman DF, Baldwin BA. Intracerebroventricular dopamine attenuates sodium-induced but not angiotensin-induced drinking in minipigs. Brain Res 1987; 410:401-3. [PMID: 3297255 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(87)90347-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Drinking in response to dopamine (100 micrograms) injected into the lateral cerebral ventricles (i.c.v.), alone, or together with angiotensin II (AII, 300 ng) or hypertonic NaCl (1.4 Osm) was studied in water-replete minipigs trained to obtain their water under operant conditions. Dopamine itself was ineffective at producing drinking and it did not affect AII-induced drinking. Drinking in response to hypertonic NaCl was significantly attenuated by dopamine. Therefore in minipigs angiotensin-induced drinking does not appear to operate through a dopaminergic mechanism whereas sodium-induced drinking does.
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Thornton SN, Parrott RF, Delaney CE. Differential responses of plasma oxytocin and vasopressin to dehydration in non-stressed sheep. Acta Endocrinol (Copenh) 1987; 114:519-23. [PMID: 3577584 DOI: 10.1530/acta.0.1140519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Group housed, castrated rams (N = 10) were studied over a 2 day period. Water was available ad libitum during day 1 (control) but was withheld throughout day 2 (experimental). On both days, blood was collected by jugular venepuncture at 10.30 h, and then again 2, 4, 6 and 24 h later. Plasma samples were analysed by radioimmunoassay for arginine vasopressin (AVP), oxytocin and cortisol content and measurements were also made of the haematocrit and plasma osmolality and electrolyte (Na+, Cl-) concentrations. After 24 h water deprivation there was a significant increase in plasma AVP levels but no changes in oxytocin or cortisol concentrations. Dehydration also significantly depressed the haematocrit and increased plasma osmolality and electrolyte concentrations.
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de Beaurepaire R, Thornton SN. Unit activity in the nucleus triangularis septi of the rat following blood pressure changes or vasoactive peptides, and electrically stimulated blood pressure decreases. Brain Res Bull 1987; 18:467-71. [PMID: 3580915 DOI: 10.1016/0361-9230(87)90022-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The nucleus Triangularis Septi (TS) of anesthetized rats was studied using iontophoretic application of various vasoactive peptides (vasopressin and angiotensin) to a small number of the cells in this nucleus and blood pressure recordings during electrical stimulation of the nucleus. In the iontophoretic study 83% of the cells investigated were found to be sensitive to iontophoretic application or intracerebroventricular infusion of angiotensin II and vasopressin and that 40% of these cells were sensitive to spontaneous or induced increases of blood pressure. Electrical stimulation of the nucleus produced a reliable and reproducible decrease in blood pressure without any change in heart rate. Therefore the possible role of the TS in blood pressure regulation is discussed.
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The effect of stress on drinking, water balance and endocrine profile was studied using ten castrated rams. Individual sheep were exposed to 30-h periods of total isolation (psychological stress) or physical separation from their social group (control). Plasma was analysed for haematocrit, osmolality, electrolyte levels and concentrations of cortisol and arginine vasopressin. Isolation stress significantly reduced water intake, increased haematocrit and plasma concentration of cortisol, but did not alter osmolality or vasopressin concentration. The physiological effects of this self-imposed water restriction contrast with those obtained by depriving the sheep of water for 24 h under conditions that were not stressful, i.e. by keeping them grouped together. These results suggest that cortisol may act to defend plasma volume in sheep exposed to acute stress. The results also indicate that vasopressin probably should not be considered to be a 'stress hormone' in the sheep.
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Thornton SN, Forsling ML, Baldwin BA, Delaney CE. Separate mechanisms for central osmotically-induced drinking and vasopressin release in minipigs. Physiol Behav 1987; 39:541-5. [PMID: 3107001 DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(87)90387-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Operant drinking and lysine vasopressin (LVP) release were investigated in minipigs following intracerebroventricular (ICV) injections of hypertonic equiosmolar (1.4 osM) solutions of NaCl and of sucrose and mannitol dissolved in 0.15 M NaCl or water, and of urea dissolved in 0.15 M NaCl. Hypertonic (0.74 M) NaCl produced significant drinking and LVP release in all minipigs tested whereas hypertonic equiosmolar (1.4 osM) solutions of sucrose and mannitol induced only drinking. Mannitol, both with and without NaCl, was more effective than sucrose. Hypertonic urea was ineffective both as an osmotic dipsogen and at stimulating the release of LVP. These results suggest that two independent mechanisms could be involved in drinking and LVP responses to ICV administration of hypertonic solutions in minipigs.
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Thornton SN, Leng G, Bicknell RJ, Chapman C, Purdew T. Vasopressin, but not oxytocin, is released in response to water deprivation in conscious goats. J Endocrinol 1986; 110:335-40. [PMID: 3746167 DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1100335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Plasma samples obtained at 4-h intervals from goats for at least 24 h before and then during 24 h of deprivation of water were analysed by radioimmunoassay for vasopressin and oxytocin concentrations. The samples were also analysed for osmolality and sodium concentration. The differential effect of night/day versus day/night deprivation was also studied. During the two periods before the two deprivations osmolality varied in a regular manner, with low values occurring at 08.00 h. Sodium concentration followed osmolality, whereas vasopressin did not vary during the period before deprivation. During deprivation vasopressin increased along with osmolality and sodium concentration, with the beginning of the increase occurring after the morning feed. Oxytocin levels did not increase during the period of deprivation. These results do not support the hypothesis of general release of neurohypophysial hormones in response to osmotic stimuli but instead indicate there are species variations with respect to hormonal response to water deprivation.
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The area of the brain of pigeons that may be responsible for drinking following intravascular administration of osmotically effective solutes was investigated using infusions of water or isotonic and hypertonic solutions of NaCl or sucrose into various regions of the brains of conscious birds, and measuring the volume of water drunk. The preoptic area and the lateral hypothalamus were the only areas from which dose related drinking could be obtained in response to bilateral infusions of hypertonic NaCl or sucrose. Unilateral infusion of the hypertonic solutions rarely produced drinking. In contrast, water or isotonic NaCl, when infused unilaterally, in some cases caused some water intake. Drinking in response to intravenous infusion of hypertonic NaCl was not abolished by an 'apparent' lesion of the preoptic area. In several cases infusion of water or sucrose into the preoptic area caused a small volume of isotonic saline solution to be drunk. Thus the preoptic area and the lateral hypothalamus appear to be at least two of the areas involved in osmoregulation in the pigeon and may also be involved in sodium regulation.
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This study deals with the influence of intracerebroventricular (ICV) infusions on urine volume and electrolyte excretion in response to a peripherally administered osmotic load in conscious behaving pigeons. The ICV infusions were intended to influence the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) sodium (Na+) concentration that would have been increased by the hypertonic NaCl or sucrose solutions infused intravenously (IV). Urine and electrolyte excretion following IV infusion of 0.5 M NaCl were enhanced by simultaneous ICV infusion of 0.3 M NaCl and essentially unchanged by ICV infusions of 0.3 M or 0.9 M sucrose, or water. Infusions (ICV) of water, isotonic and hypertonic NaCl or sucrose did not significantly influence urine and electrolyte excretions following IV infusion of 1.0 M NaCl or sucrose (except K+ in the case of ICV/IV sucrose). Isotonic (0.3 M) or hypertonic (0.9 M) sucrose infused ICV enhanced urine and electrolyte excretion following IV infusion of 1.5 M sucrose. Similar amounts of sodium were excreted following IV infusion of 0.5 M NaCl, 1.0 M sucrose or 1.5 M sucrose plus the ICV infusions. The results suggest that the concentration of Na+ in the CSF is one of the factors that play a role in urine and electrolyte excretion following IV administration of osmotic stimuli in the pigeon.
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