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Title: Insulin-responsive autonomic neurons in rat medulla oblongata
Austin Authors: Senthilkumaran, M;Bobrovskaya, L;Verberne, Anthony J M ;Llewellyn-Smith, Ida J
Affiliation: Cardiovascular Medicine, Human Physiology and Centre for Neuroscience, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia
Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Unit, Department of Medicine, Austin Health, The University of Melbourne, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Issue Date: 2018
Date: 2018-08-23
Publication information: The Journal of comparative neurology 2018; 526(16): 2665-2682
Abstract: Low blood glucose activates brainstem adrenergic and cholinergic neurons, driving adrenaline secretion from the adrenal medulla and glucagon release from the pancreas. Despite their roles in maintaining glucose homeostasis, the distributions of insulin-responsive adrenergic and cholinergic neurons in the medulla are unknown. We fasted rats overnight and gave them insulin (10 IU/kg i.p.) or saline after 2 weeks of handling. Blood samples were collected before injection and before perfusion at 90 min. We immunoperoxidase-stained transverse sections of perfused medulla to show Fos plus either phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase (PNMT) or choline acetyltransferase (ChAT). Insulin injection lowered blood glucose from 4.9+0.3 mmol/L to 1.7+0.2 mmol/L (mean+SEM; n=6); saline injection had no effect. In insulin-treated rats, many PNMT-immunoreactive C1 neurons had Fos-immunoreactive nuclei, with the proportion of activated neurons being highest in the caudal part of the C1 column. In the rostral ventrolateral medulla, 33.3%±1.4% (n=8) of C1 neurons were Fos-positive. Insulin also induced Fos in 47.2%±2.0% (n=5) of dorsal medullary C3 neurons and in some C2 neurons. In the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus (DMV), insulin evoked Fos in many ChAT-positive neurons. Activated neurons were concentrated in the medial and middle regions of the DMV beneath and just rostral to the area postrema. In control rats, very few C1, C2 or C3 neurons and no DMV neurons were Fos-positive. The high numbers of PNMT-immunoreactive and ChAT-immunoreactive neurons that express Fos after insulin treatment reinforce the importance of these neurons in the central response to a decrease in glucose bioavailability. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
URI: https://ahro.austin.org.au/austinjspui/handle/1/19377
DOI: 10.1002/cne.24523
ORCID: 0000-0003-4269-6846
0000-0002-8748-3660
0000-0002-2049-1439
0000-0002-5793-6147
Journal: The Journal of comparative neurology
PubMed URL: 30136719
Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Blood glucose
C1 neurons
C3 neurons
Fos
RRID:AB_2079751
RRID:AB_2231996
RRID:AB_2340397
RRID:AB_2340593
RRID:AB_262016
RVLM
dorsal vagal motor neurons
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