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Magnocellular hypothalamic neurons of the paraventricular (PVN) and supraoptic (SON) nuclei have been shown to contain a wide variety of messenger molecules in addition to vasopressin and oxytocin, including the nitric oxide (NO)-synthesizing enzyme (NOS). In this paper we have investigated the effects of salt loading on the expression of NOS by means of immunohistochemistry and in-situ hybridization. The results show an increase in the number of NOS-immunoreactive (IR) neurons both in the PVN and the SON after 5 and 14 days of salt loading. Several of these neurons were double labelled with vasopressin antiserum. In situ hybridization showed a marked increase in the number of neurons expressing NOS mRNA and a stronger signal in individual neurons. The present results suggest a role for NO in the magnocellular hypothalamic system after salt loading.
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PMID:Nitric oxide synthase increases in hypothalamic magnocellular neurons after salt loading in the rat. An immunohistochemical and in situ hybridization study. 751 26

This investigation deals with the histochemical and scanning electron microscopic (SEM) correlates that depict regeneration of the neurohypophyseal system that may be nitric oxide dependent following hypophysectomy in the rodent hypothalamus. NOS histochemistry and correlative SEM were employed to establish the rates of regrowth and appearance of NOS-positive supraoptic (SON) and paraventricular (PVN) neurites and their cell bodies following hypophysectomy. NOS activity increased significantly in SON and PVN neuronal perikarya and regenerating axons by 2 weeks. NOS-positive neurites were observed to regrow into the adjacent median eminence and insinuate into the lumen of the third cerebral ventricle. By 4 weeks posthypophysectomy, NOS staining of SON and PVN neurons and their regrown neurites had returned to normal control levels. Despite this fact, large complexes of apparent magnocellular neurites remained upon the floor of the third cerebral ventricle as observed with SEM. These observations support the hypothesis that NO may play a fundamental role in the process of regeneration, plasticity, and retargeting of SON and PVN axons following injury.
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PMID:Increased expression of nitric oxide synthase in hypothalamic neuronal regeneration. 768 63

Nitric oxide (NO) synthase (NOS), the enzyme responsible for NO formation, is found in hypothalamic neurons containing oxytocin (OT), vasopressin (VP), and to a lesser extent corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF). Because NO is reported to modulate endocrine activity, we have investigated the hypothesis that endogenous NO participates in ACTH released by various secretagogues in the rat. In the adult male rat, the intravenous injection of interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta; 0.2-0.3 micrograms/kg), VP (0.3-0.9 micrograms/kg), and OT (30 micrograms/kg) significantly increased plasma ACTH and corticosterone levels. Pretreatment with the L-form, but not the D-form, of N omega nitro-L-arginine-methylester (L-NAME; a specific inhibitor of NOS) markedly augmented the effects of these secretagogues whether it was injected acutely or over a 4 d period. Blockade of NOS activity also caused significant (P < 0.01) extensions of the duration of action of IL-1 beta, VP, and OT. In contrast, L-NAME did not significantly alter the stimulatory action of peripherally injected CRF, or centrally administered IL-1 beta. Administration of L-arginine, but not D-arginine (100 mg/kg), used as a substrate for basal NO synthesis and which did not by itself alter the activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, blunted IL-1-induced ACTH secretion, and reversed the interaction between L-NAME and IL-1 beta. The stimulatory action of endotoxin, a lipopolysaccharide that releases endogenous cytokines, was also augmented by inhibition of NO formation.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:In the rat, endogenous nitric oxide modulates the response of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis to interleukin-1 beta, vasopressin, and oxytocin. 815 53

1. We compared the regional haemodynamic responses to lipopolysaccharide (LPS; 150 micrograms kg-1 h-1, i.v.) in the presence of saline, aminoguanidine (AG; 45 mg kg-1 bolus, 45 mg kg-1 h-1 infusion), or AG and the non-selective endothelin receptor antagonist, SB 209670 (600 micrograms kg-1 h-1), in conscious, chronically instrumented, Long Evans rats (350-450 g; n = 8 in all groups). We used AG because there is evidence that it is a selective inhibitor of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), although recently it has been claimed AG also inhibits constitutive NOS. 2. Infusion of LPS in the presence of saline caused an early, transient hypotension (1-2 h) and a renal vasodilatation, with a secondary, delayed fall in mean arterial blood pressure (MAP), progressive tachycardia, and renal and hindquarters vasodilatation. 3. AG alone caused a rapid (within 30 s) transient rise in MAP (delta 27 +/- 3 mmHg), accompanied by tachycardia and regional vasoconstrictions, but no reduction in regional flows, indicating the pressor effect of AG was, probably, largely due to an increase in cardiac output. These effects are not consistent with AG inhibiting constitutive NOS. In the presence of AG, LPS still caused an early, transient fall in MAP accompanied by a renal vasodilatation, but thereafter there was a significant rise in MAP (17 +/- 3 mmHg, 3 h after onset of LPS infusion) accompanied by bradycardia and marked mesenteric and hindquarters vasoconstrictions. However, 23 h after the onset of co-infusion of AG and LPS all variables were not different from baseline, except heart rate and renal vascular conductance, which were increased. 4. In the presence of AG and SB 209670, LPS caused progressive hypotension and increases in renal, mesenteric and hindquarters vascular conductances. Hence, SB 209670 prevented the rise in MAP and the regional vasoconstrictions seen with AG and LPS, indicating an involvement of endothelin in these events. 5. In the presence of AG and SB 209670, 23 h after the onset of LPS infusion, the AT 1-receptor antagonist, losartan (10 mg kg-1), and the V 1-receptor antagonist, d(CH2)5-0-Me-Tyr-AVP (10 micrograms kg-1, 10 micrograms kg-1 h-1) caused additional incremental falls in MAP and increases in renal, mesenteric and hindquarters vascular conductances. Under these circumstances, MAP was lower and regional vascular conductances higher than in the other experiments following administration of losartan and d(CH2)5-0-Me-Tyr-AVP. Thus, although the findings are consistent with AG inhibiting iNOS, thereby revealing the pressor and vasoconstrictor actions of endothelin released by LPS, it is clear that LPS activates a very powerful hypotensive/vasodilator mechanism(s) which is resistant to AG, and whose full influence is only unmasked when the actions of endothelin, angiotensin II and vasopressin are inhibited.
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PMID:Influence of aminoguanidine and the endothelin antagonist, SB 209670, on the regional haemodynamic effects of endotoxaemia in conscious rats. 884 49

The pathogenesis of renal sodium and water retention in cirrhosis involves extrarenal mechanisms because when kidneys from cirrhotic patients are transplanted into persons with normal livers, renal sodium and water retention no longer occurs. Cirrhosis is accompanied by portal hypertension, which leads to a hyperdynamic circulatory state. The Peripheral Arterial Vasodilation Hypothesis incriminates a relative underfilling of the arterial vascular compartment, which leads to the same neurohumoral responses that occurs in low cardiac output. Activation of the renain-angiotensin-aldosterone axis and the sympathetic system as well as non-osmotic release of vasopressin are well documented in cirrhosis. This sequence of events results in renal water and sodium retention, failure to escape from the sodium-retaining effect of aldosterone, and renal resistance to atrial natriuretic peptide. Dilutional hyponatremia is the strongest predictor of the occurrence of hepatorenal syndrome. The pathogenesis of the peripheral arterial vasodilation is not completely elucidated, but there is evidence for a major role of nitric oxide (NO). Increased vascular NO production has been demonstrated in cirrhosis. In the rat model of cirrhosis, normalization of vascular NO production with a NOS inhibitor corrects the hyperdynamic circulation, improves sodium and water excretion, and decreases neurohumoral activation. This insight into the mechanism(s) of the peripheral arterial vasodilation in cirrhosis should provide new tools in the treatment of edema and ascites, a major cause of morbidity and mortality in cirrhosis.
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PMID:Pathogenesis of water and sodium retention in cirrhosis. 918 4

The distribution of immunoreactivity to neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) and vasopressin (AVP) was studied in the circumventricular organs of the female rat. The occurrence of NOS immunoreactivity showed correspondence to nicotinamide dinucleotide phosphate diaphorase reactivity, a previously used but less specific marker for neuronal NOS. nNOS immunolabeling was detected in the two most rostrally located circumventricular organs - the organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis and the subfornical organ. In the latter, AVP immunoreactivity was observed in some cell bodies, which also were nNOS-immunoreactive. In the median eminence and the neurohypophysis there were large amounts of nNOS- and AVP-immunoreactive nerve fibers, which often displayed similarities in distribution and morphology. Within the pineal gland, only very few nNOS-immunoreactive varicose terminals were observed, which ran along blood vessels. nNOS immunoreactivity was also seen in the epithelium of the choroid plexus, whereas no nNOS immunoreactivity could be found in the subcommissural organ or in the area postrema. The present demonstration of nNOS and AVP immunoreactivity in the subfornical organ, median eminence, and neurohypophysis, and the occurrence of nNOS immunoreactivity also in the choroid plexus and organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis, provides a morphological background for a functional role for nitric oxide in water homeostatic mechanisms, both as executed through the hypothalamohypophyseal system and via the production of cerebrospinal fluid.
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PMID:Nitric oxide synthase and vasopressin in rat circumventricular organs. An immunohistochemical study. 938 4

Recently, we have demonstrated a decreased neuronal isoform of nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) message in the hypothalamus of rats with heart failure (HF). The purpose of this study was to determine the changes in NADPH-diaphorase (a commonly used marker for neuronal NOS activity) positive neurons in specific hypothalamic sites of rats with HF. After a standard histochemical protocol, NOS positive neurons were measured in paraventricular nucleus (PVN), supraoptic nucleus (SON), median preoptic area (MePO), subfornical organ (SFO), organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis (OVLT) and lateral hypothalamus (LH) of rats with coronary artery ligation (HF group; n=8) and sham-operated control rats (n=9). A total of 4 months after coronary ligation, the rats in the HF group displayed infarcts greater than at least 35% of the left ventricular wall (n = 8). Sham-operated rats had no observable damage to the myocardium. Rats with HF had a significantly lower number of NOS positive cells in the PVN (36% less) compared to sham rats. The number of NOS positive cells remained unaltered in the SON, MePO and LH in rats with HF. Conversely there was an increased number of NOS positive cells in the SFO (42% greater) and OVLT (100% greater). These data support the conclusion that the NO system within the hypothalamus involved in controlling autonomic outflow is altered during HF and may contribute to the elevated levels of vasopressin and sympatho-excitation commonly observed in HF.
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PMID:Altered number of diaphorase (NOS) positive neurons in the hypothalamus of rats with heart failure. 955 24

The aim of the present study was to analyze the neurochemical properties of the centrifugal visual system (CVS) of the quail using an immunohistochemical approach by testing 16 neuropeptides (angiotensin: ANG, bradykinin: BK, cholecystokinin, dynorphin, L and M-enkephalin, beta-endorphin: beta-END, galanin, alpha-neoendorphin, neurokinin A, neuropeptide Y (NPY), ocytocin, somatostatin, substance P, vasopressin, vasoactive intestinal polypeptide) and three neurotransmitters or their synthetic enzymes (choline acetyltransferase: ChAT, tyrosine hydroxylase: TH, serotonin: 5-HT and nitric oxide synthase: NOS, including the histochemical nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate diaphorase technique). For each substance, the somatic and afferent fiber and terminal labeling was analyzed within the nucleus isthmo-opticus (NIO) and the ectopic area (EA) and compared with that of retinopetal cell bodies labeled retrogradely with RITC following its intraocular injection (double-labeling procedure). The results showed that none of the centrifugal neurons were reactive to any of the substances tested. In contrast, all with the exception of ANG, BK and beta-END, labeled fibers and terminals within the EA and only four (ChAT, 5-HT, NPY and NOS) within the NIO. Possible sources of these immunoreactive fibers terminating in the NIO and EA were investigated by mapping the somatic immunolabeling of the different substances within brainstem regions previously shown by Miceli and other authors to project upon the centrifugal neurons. The data suggests that, besides the rapid retino-tecto-NIO-retinal loop, which facilitates the transfer of meaningful or more relevant information within particular portions of the visual field, the multiple afferent input which stems from various brainstem regions utilizes a wide range of neuroactive substances. Some of these afferent projections upon the centrifugal neurons appear to belong to nonspecific systems which might play a role in modulating the excitability of centrifugal neurons as a function of arousal.
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PMID:An immunohistochemical study of putative neuromodulators and transmitters in the centrifugal visual system of the quail (Coturnix japonica). 971 61

The gas nitric oxide (NO) is an important messenger in brain signaling. Along with many other functions, NO is thought to influence the expression and/or release of various hypothalamic hormones (corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and vasopressin). To learn more about the role of NO in neuroendocrine mechanisms, we studied in mutant mice lacking neuronal isoform of NO synthase (nNOS) the cellular expression of CRH, neurophysin (the carrier protein of vasopressin/oxytocin) and pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC), as well as of the POMC-derived peptides beta-endorphin (beta-END), alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) and corticotropin (ACTH) by use of immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization. Additionally, the remaining NO-generating capacities of the nNOS minus mice were investigated by NADPH-diaphorase histochemistry and citrulline immunohistochemistry as well as by immunohistochemical localization and Western blot analysis of endothelial NOS (eNOS) and nNOS isoforms. Amongst all hypothalamic peptides under investigation, only beta-END was found to be altered in mutant mice. A morphometric analysis of beta-END producing neurons of the arcuate nucleus revealed that significantly less cells were immunoreactive in mutant mice, whereas the expression of the precursor POMC as well as of other POMC-derived peptides was found to be unchanged. In addition to that, fewer beta-END-immunoreactive fibers were found in the paraventricular nucleus of nNOS minus mice in comparison to wild-type animals. Hence, the reduction of hypothalamic beta-END is probably a posttranslational event that might reflect a disturbed endorphinergic innervation of those hypothalamic neurons which normally express nNOS.
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PMID:Expression of hypothalamic peptides in mice lacking neuronal nitric oxide synthase: reduced beta-END immunoreactivity in the arcuate nucleus. 987 4

The investigation was performed on the medial (MMS) and lateral (LMS) magnocellular subdivisions of the hypothalamic paraventricular nuclei (HPN). The histochemical activity NO synthesizing enzyme nitric oxide synthase or NOS whose histochemical marker is NADPH-diaphorase (NADPH-D), immunocytochemical content of oxytocin (OXY), vasopressin (VP) and nucleoli sizes (squares) were studied in the mature male rats under experimental reconstruction of the both micro- and macrogravity, which are factors of the gravity field changes acting to the body during the space flight. Two experimental effects were used: B--tail suspending (imitation of the microgravity effects), C--centrifugation at 2 G (imitation of the macrogravity effects). The effect durations were designed as a time period when body is mostly affected by (1 day) and adapted (15 days) to the stress. There were 6 animal groups. 1--B(15 days), 2--B(15 days) succeeded by C(1 day), 3--B(15 days) succeeded by C(15 days), 4--C(1 day), 5--C(15 days), 6--intact animals. The histochemically and immuno-cytochemically stained neurons developing the high, moderate and small reaction intensity were counted in serial HPN sections under the light microscope and the results obtained were transformed to percent neuron contents. The nucleoli squares were examined by using the TV analyser. The histochemical staining intensity of NADPH-D in MMS is enhanced in the animals of the groups 1-4; the number of NADPH-D staining neurons with high enzyme activity was increased in 8-14 times. In the animals of group 5 the NADPH-D activity did not differ from the intact animals. The number of MMS neurons with high OXY immunoreactivities was increased up to 1.5-1.7 times in groups 1-5 if compared to those of intact controls. VP-positive neurons of LMS developed the similar increase in number of the high staining neurons in experimental animals as well as OXY-positive neurons of MMS. The nucleoli enlargement was observed in MMS (in 1.3-1.5 times) of groups 1-5 (insignificantly in group 5) and in the most magnocellular neurons LMS (in 1.5-1.7 times) of group 2-5 except group 1 where nucleoli were insignificantly decreased. The nucleoli sizes of group 4 were more than group 5. So the hypothalamo-neurohypophyseal system was activated in the animals subjected of the earthly correlates of micro- and macrogravity. The data obtained suggest involvement both the nonconventional neurotransmitter NO and stress-related peptides OXY and VP in the mechanisms subserving adaptation to the extreme factors by what a human has to be faced with during the space flight.
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PMID:[The participation of the nontraditional neuromediator nitric oxide in the mechanisms of adaptation to extreme conditions]. 1042 Apr 74

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