Norepinephrine Diffusion from Hypothalamus to Cerebrospinal Fluid and Cerebrospinal Fluid to Hypothalamus of Sheep
Year: 1974
Type: article
Abstract: Although both intraventricular and medial intrahypothalamic injections of adrenoceptor agonists elicited feeding in sheep, it was not clear that the two modes of injection activated similar hypothalamic adrenoceptors.To test the extent of diffusion of cerebroventricular injections, small areas of the hypothalamus 1.5 to 5 mm lateral to the third ventricle in anesthetized sheep were perfused via push-pull cannulas following injection of 480 nmol l-norepinephrine including 2 /~Ci carbon-14 labeled-dl-norepinephrine into a lateral ventricle.Although fluid from the cisterna magna contained much carbon-14 showing it had passed through the third ventricle, barely detectable amounts were in hypothalamic perfusates.Similarly, 45 nmol carbon-14 labeled carbonate containing 2 /~Ci injected intraventricularly was not detectable in hypothalamic perfusates.When carbon-14 labeled norepinephrine was injected into hypothalamie tissue, significant amounts of label were in perfusates of the cerebroventricular system.The quantity of norepinephrine diffusing to the eerebrospinal fluid was no more than one-hundredth of that which caused feeding when injected intraventricularly in conscious sheep.The feeding effects of intraventrieular and intrahypothalamie injections of 1-norepinephrine, therefore, may be mediated by different sets of adrenoceptors.
Source: Journal of Dairy Science
Authors: J.M. Forbes, C.A. Baile
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Language: English
Subfield: Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W2169314619