The Vasopressin Receptors Colocalize with Vasopressin in the Magnocellular Neurons of the Rat Supraoptic Nucleus and Are Modulated by Water Balance

Autor: Alain Rabié, Gérard Alonso, Hélène Orcel, Françoise Moos, Amandine Hurbin
Přispěvatelé: Biologie des neurones endocrines (BNE), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Rok vydání: 2002
Předmět:
Male
Receptors
Vasopressin

Vasopressin
[SDV.NEU.NB]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]/Neurobiology
MESH: Neurons
Oxytocin
Supraoptic nucleus
0302 clinical medicine
Endocrinology
MESH: Animals
In Situ Hybridization
Vasopressin receptor
Neurons
Arginine vasopressin receptor 1B
0303 health sciences
Arginine vasopressin receptor 1A
MESH: Indicators and Reagents
Water-Electrolyte Balance
Immunohistochemistry
MESH: Gene Expression Regulation
Hypothalamus
MESH: Receptors
Vasopressin

Supraoptic Nucleus
MESH: Vasopressins
hormones
hormone substitutes
and hormone antagonists

medicine.medical_specialty
MESH: Rats
Vasopressins
Neuropeptide
Biology
03 medical and health sciences
MESH: In Situ Hybridization
Internal medicine
MESH: Oxytocin
medicine
Animals
RNA
Messenger

Rats
Wistar

MESH: RNA
Messenger

030304 developmental biology
MESH: Immunohistochemistry
MESH: Rats
Wistar

MESH: Male
Rats
Gene Expression Regulation
nervous system
MESH: Supraoptic Nucleus
MESH: Water-Electrolyte Balance
Magnocellular cell
Indicators and Reagents
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: Endocrinology
Endocrinology, Endocrine Society, 2002, 143 (2), pp.456-466. ⟨10.1210/endo.143.2.8643⟩
ISSN: 1945-7170
0013-7227
DOI: 10.1210/endo.143.2.8643
Popis: Activity of the magnocellular neurons that synthesize vasopressin in the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus is modulated by local release of the neuropeptide within the nuclei. V1a and V1b vasopressin receptor genes are expressed in these cells. The present study reports the localization of V1a and V1b receptors using multiple labeling immunocytochemistry. Both receptors are mainly located in vasopressinergic magnocellular neurons and colocalized with vasopressin in cytoplasmic vesicles dispersed throughout the cell. Possible functional modifications of the mRNA and protein levels of the V1a receptor, the major isoform, were also investigated by semiquantitative in situ hybridization and immunocytochemistry in rats submitted to reduced or increased water intake. V1a mRNA and receptor levels varied with water balance. V1a mRNA level dropped in rats submitted to high water intake. Conversely, dehydration up-regulated the V1a receptor content. These observations suggest that the pathways that regulate the expression of the genes encoding vasopressin and the V1a receptor are linked, which fits the present findings that the two partners are colocalized in cytoplasmic vesicles. Colocalization might explain how V1 autoreceptors are controlled by cell activity and/or local concentration of vasopressin (released locally by the neurons themselves), allowing fine adjustment of magnocellular neuron activity.
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