Role of midbrain parabrachial nucleus in controlling electrical activity of oxytocin and vasopressin secreting neurones in the hypothalamic supraoptic nucleus

Journal of Reproduction and Development

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 259-265

  Honda, Kazumasa ^a   Higuchi, Takashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electrical activity; Oxytocin neurone; Parabrachial nucleus; Supraoptic nucleus; Vasopressin neurone

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548040374     PISSN: 09168818     EISSN: 13484400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1262/jrd.47.259     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Wakerley JB, Clarke G, Summerlee AJS. Milk ejection and its control, In: Knobile E, Neill JD (eds.), The Physiology of Reproduction. 2nd ed, New York: Raven Press; 1994:1131-1177.
2. Higuchi T, Tadokoro Y, Honda K, Negoro H. Detailed analysis of blood oxytocin levels during suckling and parturition in the rat. J Endocrinol 1986; 110: 251-256.
3. Verbalis JG, Mangione MP, Stricker EM. Oxytocin produces natriuresis in rats at physiological plasma concentrations. Endocrinology 1991; 128:1317-1322.
4. Brimble MJ, Balment RJ, Smith CP, Windle RJ, Forsling ML. Influence of oxytocin on sodium excretion in the anaesthetized brattleboro rat. J Endocrinol 1991; 129: 49-54.
5. Forsling ML, Judah JM, Windle RJ. The effect of vasopressin and oxytocin on glomerular filtration rate in the conscious rat: contribution to the natriuretic response. J Endocrinol 1994; 141: 59-67.
6. Honda K, Negoro H, Higuchi T, Tadokoro Y. Activation of neurosecretory cells by osmotic stimulation of anteroventral third ventricle. Am J Physiol 1987; 252: R1039-R1045.
7. Honda K, Negoro H, Higuchi T, Tadokoro Y. The role of the anteroventral 3rd ventricle area in the osmotic control of paraventricular neurosecretory cells. Exp Brain Res 1989; 76: 497-502.
8. Chaudhry MA, Dyball REJ, Honda K, Weight NC. The role of interconnection between supraoptic nucleus and anterior third ventricular region in osmoregulation in the rat. J Physiol 1989; 410: 123-135.
9. Honda K, Negoro H, Dyball REJ, Higuchi T, Takano S. The osmoreceptor complex in the rat: evidence for interactions between the supraoptic and other diencephalic nuclei. J Physiol 1990; 431: 225-241.
10. Hochstenbach SL, Ciriello J. Effect of lesions of forebrain circumventricular organs on c-fos expression in the central nervous system to plasma hypernatremia. Brain Res 1996; 713:17-28.
11. Johnson AK, Thunhorst RL. The neuroendocrinology of thirst and salt appetite: Visceral sensory signals and mechanisms of central integratioin. Front Neuroendcrinol 1997; 18: 292-353.
12. Kannan H, Yamashita H. Connections of neurons in the region of the nucleus tractus solitarius with the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus: Their possible involvement in neural control of the cardiovascular system in rats. Brain Res 1985; 329: 205-212.
13. Day TA, Sibbald JR. Direct catecholaminergic projection from nucleus tractus solitarii to supraoptic nucleus. Brain Res 1988; 454: 387-392.
14. Day TA, Sibbald JR. Solitary nucleus excitation of supraoptic vasopressin cells via adrenergic afférents. Am J Physiol 1988; 254: R711-R716.
15. Day TA, Sibbald JR. Al cell group mediates solitary nucleus excitation of supraoptic vasopressin cells. Am J Physiol 1989; 257:1020-1026.
16. Jhamandas JH, Harris KH, Krukoff TL. Parabrachial nucleus projection towards the hypothalamic supraoptic nucleus: electrophysiological and anatomical observations in the rat. J Comp Neurol 1991; 308: 42-50.
17. Jhamandas JH, Harris KH, Petrov T, Krukoff TL. Charcterization of the parabrachial nucleus input to the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus in the rat. J Neuroendocrinol 1992; 4: 461-471.
18. Jhamandas JH, Harris KH. Excitatory amino acids may mediate nucleus tractus solitarius input to rat parabrachial neurons. Am J Physiol 1992; 263: R324-R330
19. Granata AR. Ascending and descending convergent inputs to neurons in the nucleus parabrachialis of the rat: an intracellular study. Brain Res 1993; 600: 315-321.
20. Honda K, Yangimoto M, Wang YF, Negoro H. Role of midbrain parabrachial nucleus in controlling electrical activity of cells in the hypothalamic supraoptic nucleus. In: Fourth IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience; 1995; Kyoto Japan Abstract p 446.
21. Paxinos G, Watson C. The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates. Academic Press, Tokyo; 1986.
22. Yamashita H, Inenaga K, Kawata M, Sano Y. Phasically firing neurons in the supraoptic nucleus of the rat hypothalamus: Immunocytochemical and electrophysiological studies. Neurosd Lett 1983; 37: 87-92.
23. Poulain DA, Wakerley JB. Electrophysiology of hypothalamic magnocellular neurones secreting oxytocin and vasopressin. Neuroscience 1982; 7: 773-808.
24. Aradachi H, Honda K, Negoro H, Kubota T. Median preoptic neurones projecting to the supraoptic nucleus are sensitive to haemodynamic changes as well as to rise in plasma osmolality in rats. J Neuroendocrinol 1996; 8: 35-43.
25. Honda K, Yanagimoto M, Negoro H, Narita K, Murata T, Higuchi T. Excitation of oxytocin cells in the hypothalamic supraoptic nucleus by electrical stimulation of the dorsal penile nerve and tactile stimulation of the penis in the rat. Brain Res Bull 1999; 48: 309-313.
26. Yasuda Y, Honda K, Negoro H, Higuchi T, Goto Y, Fukuda S. The contribution of the median preoptic nucleus to renal sympathetic nerve activity increased by intracerebroventricular injection of hypertonic saline in the rat. Brain Res 2000; 867:107-114.
27. Hochstenbach SL, Ciriello J. Effects of plasma hypernatremia on nucleus tractus solitarius neurons. Am J Physiol 1994; 266: R1916-R1921.