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Query: UNIPROT:P01185 (vasopressin)
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An organotypic cell culture (OCC) model of the rat hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) was established to monitor intracellular calcium levels ([Ca(2+)](i)) of magnocellular neurons in response to glutamate and nitric oxide (NO). The histoarchitectural organization of these cultures was characterized either by immunohistochemical labeling of vasopressin, neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) and the neuronal marker NeuN or by the enzyme histochemical NADPH-diaphorase staining. A distinct NeuN positive cell population in 14-days old OCC's was confirmed as being the PVN by its vasopressin- and nNOS-immunostained neurons as well as by its NADPH-diaphorase labeling. Life cell imaging was performed using the [Ca(2+)](i) sensor Fluo-4 to measure [Ca(2+)](i) transients in response to bath applications of glutamate, high potassium (60 mM), and ATP. The glutamate-induced [Ca(2+)](i) response was mimicked by AMPA but not NMDA in the PVN. NMDA, however, elicited a [Ca(2+)](i) transient in a different area of the OCC that corresponds to the suprachiasmatic nucleus indicating the potential effectiveness of the stimulus. The AMPA-receptor blocker NBQX abolished the glutamate-induced response in the PVN. An inhibition of endogenous NO production by the NOS inhibitor L-NAME decreased the amplitude of AMPA- and glutamate-induced [Ca(2+)](i) rises. Taken together, these data suggest that AMPA mediates the glutamate-induced [Ca(2+)](i) rises within the PVN, where endogenous NO is able to modulate such glutamate signaling in OCC.
Nitric Oxide 2006 Jun
PMID:AMPA receptor-induced intracellular calcium response in the paraventricular nucleus is modulated by nitric oxide: calcium imaging in a hypothalamic organotypic cell culture model. 1644 20

This study was undertaken to examine the importance of nitric oxide (NO) generated by the neural isoform of the nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) on the activity of the hypothalamic neurohypophyseal system in neural nitric oxide synthase knock-out (KO) and wild-type (WT) mice under basal conditions and in response to forced swimming. The intensity of the hybridisation signal for vasopressin (AVP) in the hypothalamic supraoptic nucleus (SON) was significantly higher in KO mice when compared with WT, whereas oxytocin (OXT) basal mRNA levels were similar in both groups. Although the basal peripheral release of AVP and OXT was equivalent in both genotypes, we observed in KO mice a significant drop of AVP and OXT plasma values 15 min after stressor onset and a robust increase in the OXT plasma concentration at 60 min. These findings suggest that in the male mouse, NO inhibits AVP gene transcription in magnocellular neurones of the SON and collaborates in maintaining constant AVP and OXT plasma levels following acute stressor exposure, exerting a bimodal regulatory action on OXT secretion. We conclude that NO is involved in the regulation of magnocellular neurones of the SON, and it is preferentially implicated in the attenuation of the peripheral release of OXT induced by acute stressor exposure.
Nitric Oxide 2007 Feb
PMID:Neural nitric oxide gene inactivation affects the release profile of oxytocin into the blood in response to forced swimming. 1676 31

The objective of this study was to analyze the frequency of syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH) in patients with positive aquaporin-4 (AQP4) antibodies and evaluate the relationship between SIADH and hypothalamic lesions in patients with NMO and NMO spectrum disorder (NMOSD). AQP4 antibodies were tested by an indirect immunofluorescence assay employing HEK-293 cells transfected with recombinant human AQP4. Clinical data of patients were analyzed retrospectively. In total, 192 patients with AQP4 antibodies were certified, of which 41 patients (21.4 %) were included in the present study. Six patients (14.6 %, 6/41) met the criteria of SIADH, of which hyponatremia was mild in one patient, and severe in five. Five patients experienced confusion or decreased consciousness. Four patients were diagnosed with NMO and two were diagnosed with recurrent optic neuritis. Magnetic resonance imaging showed 11 of 41 patients (26.8 %) had hypothalamic lesions. All patients with SIADH had hypothalamic abnormalities. Hyponatremia resolved in all patients after intravenous methylprednisolone and intravenous immunoglobulin therapy. SIADH is not rare in patients with NMO/NMOSD, especially in patients with lesions close to the hypothalamus.
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PMID:Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion in patients with aquaporin-4 antibody. 2531 41