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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 279: R2277-R2286, 2000;
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Vol. 279, Issue 6, R2277-R2286, December 2000

Circumventricular organs and ANG II-induced salt appetite: blood pressure and connectivity

Douglas A. Fitts, Elizabeth M. Starbuck, and Alexandra Ruhf

Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1525

A lesion of the subfornical organ (SFO) may reduce sodium depletion-induced salt appetite, which is largely dependent on ANG II, and yet ANG II infusions directly into SFO do not provoke salt appetite. Two experiments were designed to address this apparent contradiction. In experiment 1 sustained infusions of ANG II into SFO did not produce a sustained elevation of blood pressure, and neither a reduction of blood pressure alone with minoxidil and captopril nor a reduction of both blood pressure and volume with furosemide and captopril enhanced salt appetite. Infusions of ANG II in the organum vasculosum laminae terminalis (OVLT) did evoke salt appetite without raising blood pressure. In experiment 2 knife cuts of the afferent and efferent fibers of the rostroventral pole of the SFO abolished water intake during an infusion of ANG II into the femoral vein but failed to reduce salt appetite during an infusion of ANG II into the OVLT. We conclude that 1) hypertension does not account for the failure of infusions of ANG II in the SFO to generate salt appetite and 2) the OVLT does not depend on its connectivity with the SFO to generate salt appetite during ANG II infusions.

angiotensin II; organum vasculosum laminae terminalis; subfornical organ; thirst


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