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Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 9, 466-472, Copyright © 1989 by Society for Neuroscience

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Association of neurotensin binding sites with sensory and visceromotor components of the vagus nerve

JP Kessler and A Beaudet
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Quebec, Canada.

Specific neurotensin (NT) binding sites were recently shown to be highly concentrated in the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS), which receives primary vagal afferents, and in the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus (DMN), which contains the cell bodies of origin of vagal preganglionic neurons. To investigate the relationship of these binding sites with sensory and visceromotor components of the vagus nerve, they were labeled here in vitro, using monoiodo[Tyr3]neurotensin (125I-NT) and visualized by light microscopic radioautography in the dorsomedial medulla of both intact and unilaterally vagotomized rats, in the nodose ganglia of intact animals, and in ligated vagus nerves. Unilateral vagotomy performed above the nodose ganglion resulted in a significant ipsilateral decrease in 125I-NT binding within both the NTS and the DMN, suggesting that NT binding sites were associated with both primary afferent fibers and preganglionic nerve cell bodies. The selective radioautographic labeling of a subpopulation (approximately 15%) of neuronal perikarya in the nodose ganglion confirmed that a proportion of vagal afferent neurons contained NT binding sites. Following vagus nerve ligation, a pile up of radiolabeled NT binding sites was observed on both sides of the nerve crush, indicating that NT receptor components were transported both anterogradely and retrogradely along fibers of the vagus nerve. We conclude that NT receptors are synthesized and transported within a subpopulation of afferent and efferent components of the vagus nerve and that NT may therefore act presynaptically upon vagal axon terminals in both central and peripheral nervous systems.

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