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Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3052, Australia
This study was undertaken to determine if neurons in the lamina terminalis, previously identified as projecting to the kidney (35), were responsive to alterations in stimuli associated with fluid balance homeostasis. Neurons in the lamina terminalis projecting to the kidney were identified by the retrograde transynaptic transport of Bartha's strain of pseudorabies virus in anesthetized rats. Rats were also exposed to 24-h water deprivation, intravenous hypertonic saline, or intracerebroventricular ANG II. To determine if "kidney-directed" neurons were activated following each stimulus, brain sections that included the lamina terminalis were examined immunohistochemically for viral antigen and Fos protein. With the exception of ANG II in the subfornical organ, all regions of the lamina terminalis contained neurons that were significantly activated by water deprivation, hypertonic saline, and ANG II. These results provide evidence for a neural substrate, which may underpin some of the effects of hypertonic saline and ANG II on renal function thought to be mediated through the lamina terminalis.
pseudorabies; c-Fos; angiotensin; dehydration; hypertonic saline
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