Oxytocin localization and function in the A1 noradrenergic cell group: ultrastructural and electrophysiological studies

Neuroscience
Ruud M. BuijsJ H Jhamandas

Abstract

Antibodies to oxytocin and noradrenalin were utilized in an immunocytochemical study of the caudal ventrolateral medulla of the rat brainstem. Noradrenalin was visualized by using antibodies to noradrenalin and by means of a silver-gold intensification of diaminobenzidine, whereas oxytocin could be demonstrated in the same section by using the diaminobenzidine precipitate as a marker. At the light microscopic level, oxytocin fibers were densely distributed around the A1 cell bodies. At the ultrastructural level, oxytocin-containing fibers were seen to terminate synaptically onto noradrenalin-containing neurons. Previous studies have shown that electrical stimulation of A1 neurons selectively activates vasopressin-secreting neurons in the supraoptic nucleus. Therefore, separate electrophysiological studies were set up, in which we observed that oxytocin infusions (100-200 pg) into the A1 area enhanced the activity of 16 out of 19 putative vasopressin-secreting neurons and elicited no response from any of 10 oxytocin-secreting neurons. This finding suggests that some of the parvicellular neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus, from which the A1 neurons derive their oxytocin innervation, can activate the A1 cel...Continue Reading

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