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Microdialysis of norepinephrine into preoptic area of guinea pigs: characteristics of hypothermic effect

N. Quan, L. Xin and C. M. Blatteis
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Tennessee, Memphis 38163.

This study was designed to characterize the previously described hypothermic action of norepinephrine (NE) microdialyzed into the medial preoptic area (MPO) of conscious guinea pigs. To this end, the effects on core temperature (Tco) of isotonic pyrogen-free saline (PFS), hypotonic PFS, inactive (oxidized) NE (hypertonic), 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT, 10 and 20 micrograms/microliter), PFS with or without 2.4 mM Ca2+, 10 micrograms/microliters NE with Ca2+, and various doses of NE (0.05-60 micrograms/microliters) were compared in a series of studies at an ambient temperature (Ta) of 24 degrees C. The Tco responses to 10 micrograms/microliters NE in a cold (15 +/- 2 degrees C) and a warm (31 +/- 1 degrees C) Ta and during the night in the dark in Ta 24 degrees C were also measured. Bromophenol blue (0.2%) was microdialyzed to assess the extent of diffusion of these dialysates. A stain was found in the MPO, which increased in density but did not spread beyond this region over 3 h of continuous microdialysis. Neither PFS nor the hypotonic and hypertonic solutions had any obvious effect on Tco. Similarly, neither dose of 5-HT evoked a thermal response. Ca2+ added to either PFS or NE did not alter the usual Tco responses to these two solutions. NE induced dose-dependent hypothermia in Ta 24 degrees C. NE microdialyzed in Ta 15 degrees C also produced Tco falls, but these responses were smaller than those in 24 degrees C. NE had no effect in the warm Ta. During the night, NE elicited similar Tco falls, but their recoveries after dialysis ended were slower than during the day.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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