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The Journal of Neuroscience, March 1, 1998, 18(5):1879-1885
Vasopressin Regularizes the Phasic Firing Pattern of Rat
Hypothalamic Magnocellular Vasopressin Neurons
Laurent
Gouzènes,
Michel G.
Desarménien,
Nicolas
Hussy,
Philippe
Richard, and
Françoise C.
Moos
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Unité Propre de
Recherche 9055, Biologie des Neurones Endocrines, Centre de
Pharmacologie Endocrinologie, 34094 Montpellier cedex 05, France
Vasopressin (AVP) magnocellular neurons of hypothalamic nuclei
express specific phasic firing (successive periods of activity and
silence), which conditions the mode of neurohypophyseal vasopression release. In situations favoring plasmatic secretion of AVP, the hormone
is also released at the somatodendritic level, at which it is believed
to modulate the activity of AVP neurons. We investigated the nature of
this autocontrol by testing the effects of juxtamembrane applications
of AVP on the extracellular activity of presumed AVP neurons in
paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei of anesthetized rats. AVP had
three effects depending on the initial firing pattern: (1) excitation
of faintly active neurons (periods of activity of <10 sec), which
acquired or reinforced their phasic pattern; (2) inhibition of
quasi-continuously active neurons (periods of silences of <10 sec),
which became clearly phasic; and (3) no effect on neurons already
showing an intermediate phasic pattern (active and silent periods of
10-30 sec). Consequently, AVP application resulted in a narrower range
of activity patterns of the population of AVP neurons, with a Gaussian
distribution centered around a mode of 57% of time in activity,
indicating a homogenization of the firing pattern. The resulting phasic
pattern had characteristics close to those established previously for
optimal release of AVP from neurohypophyseal endings. These results
suggest a new role for AVP as an optimizing factor that would foster
the population of AVP neurons to discharge with a phasic pattern known
to be most efficient for hormone release.
Key words:
vasopressin; autocontrol; phasic activity; optimization; supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei; extracellular electrical
activity; hypothalamic magnocellular neurons
Copyright © 1998 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/98/1851879-07$05.00/0
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