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In the external layer of the median eminence of the fox, the somatostatin-containing fibers and neurophysin-containing fibers of the hypothalamo-infundibular tract are located in distinct areas. In the neural lobe, somatostatin-positive areas are simultaneously neurophysin-positive. Outside the SON and PVN, some somatostatin-positive and neurophysin-negative perikarya are scattered close to the third ventricle. These facts suggest the existence of two somatostatin systems: a hypothalamo-infundibular (neurophysin-negative) one and a hypothalamo-neurohypophyseal (neurophysin-positive) one.
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PMID:[Somatostatin-containing fibers and neurophysin-containing fibers in the median eminence of the fox, as seen with a double staining cytoimmunoenzyme technique]. 14 93

Synthetic oxytocin and [8-arginine]-vasopressin conjugated to bovine thyroglobulin were used to induce specific antibodies in rabbits. The specificity of the anti-oxytocin serum, and the suitability of the anti-[8-arginine]-vasopressin serum for the detection of [8-lysine]-vasopressin, was evaluated by immunofluorescent studies of the respective hormones bound to Sepharose 4B particles. Oxytocin and [8-lysine]-vasopressin were specifically localized in the paraventricular (PVN) and supraoptic (SON) nuclei of the pig hypothalamus using the immunoperoxidase staining technique. After an examination of serial transverse and sagittal sections stained for either of the hormones we observed that: 1. In the rostral SON, oxytocin and vasopressin containing neurons were uniformly distributed; 2. In the caudal SON, most of the neurons contained oxytocin, but there were still a few 'vasopressin' neurons; 3. In the rostral PVN, the two hormones were evenly spread in neurons close to the third ventricle; 4. In the caudal PVN, the oxytocin and vasopressin containing neurons were differentially distributed, with 'oxytocin' neurons adjacent to the third ventricle, and 'vasopressin' neurons lateral to these and concentrated in the dorso-caudal PVN. In the cells of the PVN, there was evidence that the distribution of oxytocin and vasopressin is similar to the distribution of porcine neurophysin-II and porcine neurophysin-I respectively. This similarity is consistent with the one hormone--one neurophysin concept in the pig.
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PMID:Immunocytochemical study of the hypothalamo-neurohypophysial system. III. Localization of oxytocin- and vasopressin-containing neurons in the pig hypothalamus. 32 54

The classical areas for arginine-vasopressin (AVP) synthesis are the magnocellular supraoptic (SON) and paraventricular nuclei. More recently AVP was also demonstrated in neurons of the parvocellular suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the rat. This result was substantiated in the present study by means of immunoelectron microscopy, by subjecting sections to antivasopressin plasma. Conventional electron microscopy revealed dense-core vesicles in the SCN cell bodies and fibres (mean diameter 94.7 +/- 0.9 nm and 84.0 +/- 1.1 nm respectively). These vesicles were infrequent within the cell bodies and could not be accumulated by ethanol administration. Immunoelectron microscopy showed a positive reaction in the cell bodies and fibres within vesicles of 96.7 +/- 1.1 nm and 98.5 +/- 1.1 nm and 98.5 +/- 1.2 nm respectively. By comparison, the cell bodies and fibres of the SON showed immunoreactive granules of 143.0 +/- 1.8 and 147.3 +/- 1.8 nm respectively. The presence in the SCN of AVP in vesicles of different size than those in the SON suggests that synthesis of this substance is indeed occurring within the SCN cells.
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PMID:Immunoelectronmicroscopic localization of vasopressin in the rat suprachiasmatic nucleus. 71 7

Evolution of the (arginine)-vasopressin (AVP) content of the supraoptic (SON), paraventricular (PVN) and suprachiasmatic nuclei (SchN) and of the posterior lobe of the hypophysis (PLH) has been studied in rats at successive stages of rehydration after 4 days deprivation of drinking water. Particular attention has been focussed on short periods of rehydration. Evolution of the AVP content of the hypothalamo-posthypophysial system (HHS), the blood serum AVP concentration and osmolalities of serum and urine were compared. Variations of the AVP content in the different hypothalamo-hypophysial structures, are parallel. A marked depletion of AVP is observed after 2 and 4 days of dehydration. The AVP content of the PLH and of the hypothalamic nuclei shows two dramatic and short increases 15 min and 3 h after the onset of rehydration; these results are discussed in relation to the known physiological regulation mechanism of the HHS. In the PLH depleted by dehydration, reloading with neurosecretory granules (NSG) begins to be noticeable only after 24 h of rehydration, so that it does not seem to account for elevations of the AVP content occurring earlier. These could be related to a marked increase of the smooth endoplasmic reticulum (SER) network taking place in axons and nerve endings before the NSG reloading.
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PMID:Evolution of vasopressin levels in the hypothalamo-posthypophysial system of the rat during rehydration following water deprivation. Correlation with ultrastructural aspects in the posterior lobe. 73 44

The present paper deals with the development of an immunofluorescence procedure that allows specific localization of vasopressin and oxytocin in the hypothalamo-neurohypophyseal system(hnx) of the rat. Antibodies against arginine vasopressin (AVP), lysine-vasopressin (LVP) and oxytocin were raised by injecting these hormones that were covalently bound to thyroglobulin into rabbits. The vasopressin-immunized rabbits showed periods of diabetes insipidus, while histoloty of the "hns revealed an intact neurosecretory system with signs of increased endogenous hormone synthesis in the supraoptic nucleus and increased release in the neuro-hypophysis of some rabbits. The daily water intake of the oxytocin-immunized rabbits was similar to that of control rabbits. The development of antibodies against vasopressin as measured in the immunofluorescence procedure showed a course that was quite different from the curve of the titer as determined by radioimmunoassay (RIA). Also the specificity of the antibodies used in the immunofluorescence procedure was found to be quite different from their specificity in a RIA system. Potency and specificity of the antibodies have to be studied therefore within the immunofluorescence procedure itself. Using freshly frozen acetone-postfixed hypotalami or pituitaries, no sharp localization of immunofluorescence could be obtained in the HNS. Therefore prefixation was performed. Both, the type and the duration of prefixation revealed quite different results regarding the immunofluorescence in the neurosecretory cell boides in the hypotalamus and of their endings in the neurohypophysis. The best immunofluorescence results were obtained using 6 hours glyoxal-prefixation for the hypothalamus and 24 hours formalin-prefixation for the pituitary. The cross-reaction of the antibodies for oxytocin or vasopressin was tested on synthetic hormones that were bound to CNBR-activated agarose beads and mounted on glass sides. All anti-plasmas showed cross-reaction on beads containing the heterologou- antigen. The plasmas were purified by incubation with beads containing the heterologous hormone until the cross-reacting component had been removed. Using purified antibodies, the distribution of oxytocin and vasopressin cells within the HNS was investigated. More oxytocin containing cells were localized in the rostral part and more vasopressin in the caudal part of both, the supraoptic (SON) and paraventricular nucleus (PVN). Comparable percentages of oxytocin and vasopressin containing cells were found in the SON and PVN. The absolute amount of oxytocin containing cells was 2.5 times more in the SON than in the PVN, which seems to contradict the "classical" view that the PVN predominantly or entirely synthetizes oxytocin. In addition, fluorescence was found using antobodies against vasopressin in the suprachiasmatic nucleus in Wistar rats and heterozygous Brattleboro rats, but not in this nucleus of homozygous Brattleboros.
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PMID:Immunofluorescence of vasopressin and oxytocin in the rat hypothalamo-neurohypophypopseal system. 110 Jul 84

The cellular distribution of neurophysin was examined in hypothalami and neural lobes of normal Long-Evans rats and Brattleboro rats deficient in vasopressin and a major neurophysin. Tissue sections were treated with antisera to bovine, human, and rat neurophysins, using immunoperoxidase bridge techniques. Antisera to oxytocin (OT) and vasopressin (VP) were applied to adjacent sections. Two distinct cell populations were discernible in both magnocellular nuclei on the basis of the intensity of cytoplasmic staining. About half of the magnocellular neurons in the supraoptic (SON) and paraventricular (PVN) nuclei of homozygous Brattleboro rats with diabetes insipidus (DI) were devoid of immunoreactive neurophysin, OT, and VP. These cells were presumably the defective counterparts of those neurons that produce VP and its associated neurophysin in normal and heterozygous Brattleboro rats. The cells in homozygous DI rats which were stained with immunoreaction products to NP and OT were more concentrated in the dorsal part of the SON and in the periphery of the PVN. Spatial segregation of different neurons was also seen in the neural lobe, where clusters of stained axons were surrounded by bundles of nerve fibers lacking immunoreactive material. In normal rats and heterozygotes nearly all magnocellular neurons reacted immunologically with antiserum to neurophysin but with different intensities, so that "dark" and "light" cells could be distinguished. The darker cells in heterozygous Brattleboro rats had the same pattern of distribution as cells which contained OT. In homozygous DI rats, only some of those cells which contained neurophysin and OT exhibited a positive reaction with antiserum to VP due to slight reactivity with OT. The results obtained in the homozygous Brattleboro rat would suggest that OT and VP and their associated neurophysins are produced in different neurons in both the SON and PVN. However, in normal rats and in heterozygous Brattleboro rats, VP appeared to be present in both OT-positive and OT-negative neurons suggesting that some cells may have the capacity to synthesize two hormones.
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PMID:The hypothalamic-neurohypophysial system of the rat: localization and quantitation of neurophysin by light microscopic immunocytochemistry in normal rats and in Brattleboro rats deficient in vasopressin and a neurophysin. 126 12

The vasopressin (AVP) positive elements of the hypothalamic supraoptic (SON) and paraventricular (PVN) nuclei, were investigated in 180 male rats through immunohistochemical, morphometric and statistical methods. The rats were subdivided in the next groups: 20 control rats; 40 rats treated with physiological saline intraperitoneal via (ip); 40 rats treated with physiological saline intracerebroventricular via (icv); 40 histamine (HA) treated rats, ip; and 40 HA treated rats, icv. The labeled nerve cells appear in the lateral part of the PNV and the SON of the control animals. These neurons have central nucleus and vasopressin positive cytoplasmic granulations. After the treatment with physiological saline, ip or icv, no alterations were observed. In HA treated rats, icv, numerous neurons strongly labeled were observed in these hypothalamic nuclei. Vasopressin positive nerve fibers and large droplets were also found both in the SON and in the PVN of these animals. The vasopressin positive material in the control rats and in HA treated rats, ip, is similar. The morphometric and statistical studies confirm these findings. The results are discussed in this paper.
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PMID:The vasopressin positive elements in the hypothalamic magnocellular nuclei of rats treated with histamine. 130 18

Specific HKg immunostaining detected with antiserum against the light chain (LC) of HKg was restricted to SRIF neurons of the hypothalamic periventricular area projecting to median eminence (ME). Heavy chain (HC) immunoreactivity related to HKg and/or low molecular weight kininogen (LKg) was found in some other hypothalamic territories. Specific TKg was mainly associated with vasopressin in neurons of suprachiasmatic (SCN), supraoptic (SON) and paraventricular (PVN) nuclei. By direct RIA, hypothalamus was found to contain the highest level of TKg (10ng/mg protein) and after trypsin hydrolysis and HPLC separation of kinins, 10.3 pg BK and 7.3 pg T-kinin/mg protein.
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PMID:Immunolocalization of high molecular weight kininogen (HKg) and T kininogen (TKg) in the rat hypothalamus. 136 1

Studies in rats and sheep show that neurons in the CVOs of the lamina terminalis provide extensive neural input to the vasopressin-containing cells of the supraoptic nucleus. This input is both by direct pathways and via a synapse in the MnPO which also has projections to the vasopressin-containing cells of the SON. Neurons throughout the lamina terminalis (including possible osmoreceptors in the OVLT and subfornical organ) are activated by systematic hypertonicity. It is likely that in response to hypertonicity they signal the SON and PVN to release vasopressin and elsewhere to elicit other osmoregulatory responses such as thirst and the excretion of sodium.
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PMID:Efferent neural pathways of the lamina terminalis subserving osmoregulation. 141 Apr 25

Immunohistochemistry for rat liver ferritin (FRT) revealed an intensive labeling in some structures of the rat brain. In the supraoptic (SON) and paraventricular (PVN) hypothalamic nuclei, almost all neurosecretory neurons with vasopressin (AVP)-like immunoreactivity were immunostained with FRT. After water deprivation, a marked enlargement of cell body and an immunoreactivity to transferrin receptors were found in AVP-, FRT- and double (AVP+FRT)-labeled neurons in the SON and PVN.
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PMID:Magnocellular neurosecretory neurons with ferritin-like immunoreactivity in the hypothalamic supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei of the rat. 147 32


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