scholarly journals The effects of vasopressin on electrical activity in the guinea-pig supraoptic nucleus in vitro.

1983 ◽  
Vol 337 (1) ◽  
pp. 665-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Abe ◽  
M Inoue ◽  
T Matsuo ◽  
N Ogata
Keyword(s):  
Guinea Pig ◽  
Electrical Activity ◽  
Supraoptic Nucleus

scholarly journals Effects of vasopressin on electrical activity in the guinea-pig supraoptic nucleus in vitro.

1983 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Nobukuni Ogata ◽  
Hidehiko Abe ◽  
Tadashi Matsuo ◽  
Masumi Inoue
Keyword(s):  
Guinea Pig ◽  
Electrical Activity ◽  
Supraoptic Nucleus

Activity-dependent feedback modulation of spike patterning of supraoptic nucleus neurons by endogenous adenosine

2006 ◽  
Vol 291 (1) ◽  
pp. R83-R90 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. M. Bull ◽  
C. H. Brown ◽  
J. A. Russell ◽  
M. Ludwig
Keyword(s):  
Electrical Activity ◽  
Hazard Function ◽  
Supraoptic Nucleus ◽  
Neuronal Excitability ◽  
Cell Activity ◽  
Male Rats ◽  
Firing Rates ◽  
Endogenous Adenosine

Neuropeptide secretion from the dendrites of hypothalamic magnocellular supraoptic nucleus (SON) neurons contributes to the regulation of neuronal activity patterning, which ultimately determines their peptide output from axon terminals in the posterior pituitary gland. SON dendrites also secrete a number of other neuromodulators, including ATP. ATP degrades to adenosine in the extracellular space to complement transported adenosine acting on pre- and postsynaptic SON A1 receptors to reduce neuronal excitability, measured in vitro. To assess adenosine control of electrical activity in vivo, we made extracellular single-unit recordings of the electrical activity of SON neurons in anesthetized male rats. Microdialysis application (retrodialysis) of the A1 receptor antagonist, 8-cyclopentyl-1,3-dimethylxanthine (CPT) increased phasic vasopressin cell intraburst firing rates progressively over the first 5 s by 4.5 ± 1.6 Hz ( P < 0.05), and increased burst duration by 293 ± 64% ( P < 0.05). Hazard function plots were generated from interval interspike histograms and revealed that these effects were associated with increased postspike excitability. In contrast, CPT had no effect on the firing rates and hazard function plot profiles of continuously active vasopressin and oxytocin cells. However, CPT significantly increased clustering of spikes, as quantified by the index of dispersion, in oxytocin cells and continuously active vasopressin cells (by 267 ± 113% and 462 ± 67%, respectively, P < 0.05). Indeed, in 4 of 5 continuously active vasopressin cells, CPT induced a pseudophasic activity pattern. Together, these results indicate that endogenous adenosine is involved in the local control of SON cell activity in vivo.

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