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The Journal of Neuroscience, February 1, 2000, 20(3):1142-1156
Do Centrally Administered Neuropeptides Access Cognate
Receptors?: An Analysis in the Central Corticotropin-Releasing Factor
System
Jackson C.
Bittencourt and
Paul E.
Sawchenko
Laboratory of Neuronal Structure and Function, The Salk Institute
for Biological Studies and Foundation for Medical Research, La Jolla,
California 92037
To determine the extent to which centrally administered
corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) activates neurons that express CRF
receptors (CRF-Rs), we followed the kinetics and distribution (relative
to those of CRF-Rs) of Fos induction seen in response to
intracerebroventricular (icv) injection of the peptide (1-10 µg).
CRF provoked widespread Fos expression: its strength was dose-related,
it peaked at 2 hr after injection, and it was antagonized in a
dose-dependent manner by coinjection of CRF-R antagonists. The
activation pattern closely mimicked the distribution of CRF-R1 mRNA, in
including widespread Fos induction throughout the cortical mantle, in
cell groups involved in sensory information processing, and in the
cerebellum and several of its major afferents and targets. Dual
labeling revealed extensive correspondence of CRF-stimulated Fos-immunoreactivity (Fos-ir) and CRF-R1 mRNA at these and other loci. Unique sites of CRF-R2 expression were relatively unresponsive to
CRF but were more so after icv administration of urocortin (UCN), a new
mammalian CRF-related peptide. Both CRF and UCN elicited activational
responses in cell groups that are involved in central autonomic control
but that express neither CRF-R, including the central amygdaloid
and paraventricular hypothalamic nuclei, and brainstem
catecholaminergic cell groups. The results support an ability of
CRF-related peptides in the ventricular system to access receptor-expressing cells directly but leave open questions as to the
basis for the recruitment of central autonomic structures, many of
which have been identified as stress-related sites of CRF action.
Key words:
corticotropin-releasing factor; corticotropin-releasing
factor receptors; fos; intracerebroventricular injections; neuropeptides; stress; urocortin
Copyright © 2000 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/00/2031142-15$05.00/0
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