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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 265, Issue 2 302-R309, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society
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Z. Li and A. V. Ferguson
Department of Physiology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
In this study, we have utilized electrophysiological single unit recordings to evaluate the effects of nonpeptidergic angiotensin II (ANG II) antagonists on neural responses of hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) neurons to either electrical stimulation in subfornical organ (SFO) or direct application of ANG II. Electrical stimulation (200-400 microA; 0.1 ms) in the SFO resulted in excitatory responses in 36 of 50 PVN neurons tested. Peristimulus histogram analysis of such excitatory effects demonstrated latencies of < 30 ms and variability of response times of approximately 50 ms in 14 of these 36 neurons. In view of previous anatomic and electrophysiological studies such inputs were therefore considered to be monosynaptically mediated by direct neural inputs from the SFO. The remaining 22 cells excited by such SFO stimulation showed responses of longer latency and duration suggestive of a different underlying synaptic mechanism. Local pressure ejection of ANG II into the PVN resulted in increased neural activity in 50% (9 of 18) of the neurons tested. After systemic (3 mg/kg iv) or local (2 x 10(-2) M; 1-25 s; 2-40 psi) microinjection of the nonpeptidergic angiotensin II1 (AT1) receptor antagonist losartan, SFO excitations were attenuated in 63.9% (23 of 36) of the PVN neurons tested, such pharmacologically blocked excitatory responses being reduced by 68.3 +/- 5.2% from control stimulation effects (P < 0.001). Similar losartan-induced attenuations of both short latency (presumed monosynaptic) (50.0%) and longer latency (72.7%) responses were observed. In addition, losartan also abolished the excitatory effects of local administration of ANG II on 77.8% (7 of 9) of ANG II-sensitive neurons in PVN tested.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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