Effects of paraventricular lesions on stimulated ACTH release and CRF in stalk-median eminence of the rat
- 1 April 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism
- Vol. 240 (4), E441-E446
- https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpendo.1981.240.4.e441
Abstract
The effects of destroying the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the rat hypothalamus on pituitary-adrenal function were studied. Four days after PVN lesions were placed with a rotating knife, the basal plasma corticosterone level was normal, but the corticosterone response to electrical stimulation of the medial basal hypothalamus, surgical trauma, and ether-venesection stress was significantly inhibited. Four and 8 days after PVN lesioning and adrenalectomy, the basal plasma ACTH level was lower, and the rise of plasma ACTH level elicited by a 3-min ether inhalation was significantly smaller than in the adrenalectomized controls. Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) activity in the stalk-median eminence extracts from PVN-lesioned rats was significantly less than in the control extracts. The weight of the adrenals was decreased by both 2 and 4 wk after PVN destruction, and 2 wk after hemiadrenalectomy the compensatory adrenal hypertrophy was inhibited. The plasma corticosterone response to ether-venesection stress was inhibited only temporarily because it returned to normal by the end of the 4th postoperative wk. A substantial portion of CRF-containing fibers in the stalk-median eminence region either originate from or run through the PVN or its immediate vicinity.This publication has 33 references indexed in Scilit:
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