Simultaneous Microdialysis in Blood and Brain: Oxytocin and Vasopressin Release in Response to Central and Peripheral Osmotic Stimulation and Suckling in the Rat

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Simultaneous microdialysis in blood and brain has been used to monitor the release of both oxytocin and vasopressin into the systemic circulation (jugular vein/right atrium) and within the hypothalamic supraoptic nucleus of rats. Both home-made probes for blood and brain microdialysis revealed detectable nonapeptide concentrations under basal conditions and differential responses to a variety of stimuli. In urethane-anesthetized male rats, bilateral stimulation of the supraoptic nucleus by microdialyzing hypertonic medium (1 M NaCl) not only significantly increased the intranuclear release of both oxytocin and vasopressin (p < 0.05), but also their release from the neurohypophysis into blood (p < 0.05). In poststimulation microdialysates sampled from blood, the nonapeptides reached basal levels again, whereas intranuclear levels were further elevated. Intraperitoneal injection of hypertonic saline, on the other hand, resulted not only in the well-known increased peripheral release of oxytocin and vasopressin (p < 0.01 each), but also in a delayed increase in intranuclear oxytocin (p < 0.05). In contrast, intranuclear vasopressin release failed to change within the 90-min period following osmotic stimulation. In conscious lactating rats, suckling increased oxytocin contents in microdialysates sampled simultaneously in blood and the supraoptic nucleus (p < 0.05 each) further validating the microdialysis techniques used. The in vivo recovery in blood of approximately 65% determined using both radiolabeled and endogenous oxytocin provides a rough estimate to assess nonapeptide concentrations in plasma from 30-min or even 10-min blood microdialysis data. The results of the present study suggest that simultaneous microdialysis in blood and brain provides a useful tool to study patterns of peripheral and central release. Dependent upon the characteristics of the stimulus used, nonapeptide release into the different compartments may be either differentially regulated or coordinated.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): NEN

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Neuroendocrinology

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.0028-3835

Title: Neuroendocrinology

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 0028-3835

ISSN (Electronic): 1423-0194

Publication date Subscription-year: 1993

Publication date (Print): 1993

Publication date (Electronic): 08 April 2008

Volume: 58

Issue: 6

Pages: 637-645

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^aNeuroscience Research Group and Department of Medical Physiology, University of Calgary, Canada; ^bNeurobiology Group, Section of Biosciences, University of Leipzig, and ^cMax Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Clinical Institute, Munich, FRG

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Publisher ID: 126604 Other ID: Neuroendocrinology 1993;58:637–645

DOI: 10.1159/000126604

PubMed ID: 8127393

SO-VID: e630a8fb-2c31-470c-bf11-e579122d054e

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Date received : 23 February 1993

Date accepted : 23 July 1993

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