PubMed · 11347064
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Y Miyashita. 2001. [Alpha-blocker].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11347064/
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The present study was undertaken to investigate the mechanisms involved in a nitric oxide donor [3-morpholino-sydnonimine (SIN-1)]-induced activation of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in urethane- and alpha-chloralose-anesthetized rats. Intracerebroventricularly (i.c.v.) administered SIN-1 (250 and 500 microg/animal) effectively and dose-dependently elevated plasma levels of corticosterone. Pretreatment with phentolamine (250 microg/animal, i.c.v.), an alpha-adrenoceptor antagonist, attenuated the elevation of plasma corticosterone evoked by SIN-1, but sotalol (300 microg/animal, i.c.v.), a beta-adrenoceptor antagonist, was without effects. The same doses of SIN-1 also increased the release of noradrenaline in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) measuring microdialysis technique, and this increase was abolished by tetrodotoxin (1 microM) administered into the perfusion solution of the PVN. Furthermore, pretreatment with indomethacin (500 microg/animal, i.c.v.), a cyclooxygenase inhibitor, abolished the SIN-1-induced elevations of both noradrenaline in the PVN and plasma corticosterone. These results suggest that i.c.v. administered SIN-1 activates central noradrenergic neurons innervating the PVN by prostaglandin-mediated mechanisms. Released noradrenaline in the PVN elevates plasma levels of corticosterone via an activation of the central alpha-adrenoreceptors in rats.
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The effects of local injections of adrenaline into the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) and into other anterior hypothalamic areas on blood glucose levels were investigated in conscious pigeons (Columba livia). Adrenaline evoked a reliable and potent increase in blood glucose levels when injected into the PVN; no glycemic change was observed after vehicle injections into the PVN or after adrenaline injections into the 3rd ventricle or hypothalamic structures adjacent to the PVN. Local pretreatment with propranolol, but not with phentolamine, abolished the adrenaline-induced hyperglycemia. The present results indicate that adrenergically mediated circuits into the avian PVN play an important role in central mechanisms of energy balance that may be equivalent to those observed in mammalian species.