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NEUROHUMORAL CONTROL OF CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION

Lactate is a critical "sensed" variable in caudal hindbrain monitoring of CNS metabolic stasis

Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, The University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe, Louisiana

Submitted 18 March 2004 ; accepted in final form 11 July 2005

Caudal hindbrain "sensing" of glucoprivation activates central neural mechanisms that enhance systemic glucose availability, but the critical molecular variable(s) linked to detection of local metabolic insufficiency remains unclear. Central neurons and glia are metabolically coupled via intercellular trafficking of the glycolytic product lactate as a substrate for neuronal oxidative respiration. Using complementary in vivo models for experimental manipulation of lactate availability within the caudal hindbrain, we investigated the hypothesis that lactate insufficiency may be monitored by local metabolically "sensitive" neurons as an indicator of central nervous system energy imbalance. The data show that caudal fourth ventricular (CV4) administration of the monocarboxylate transporter inhibitor -cyano-4-hydroxycinnamate (4CIN) resulted in dose-dependent increases in blood glucose in euglycemic animals, whereas the degree and duration of hypoglycemia elicited by insulin administration were exacerbated by exogenous L-lactate delivery to the CV4. Immunocytochemical processing of the hindbrain for the inducible c-fos gene product Fos revealed that 4CIN enhanced Fos immunoreactivity in the dorsal vagal complex (DVC), e.g., the nucleus of the solitary tract and dorsal vagal motor nucleus, and adjacent area postrema, sites where cells characterized by unique sensitivity to diminished glucose and/or glycolytic intermediate/end product levels reside, and in the medial vestibular nucleus (MV), and that CV4 L-lactate infusion increased Fos labeling within the DVC and MV after insulin-induced hypoglycemia. Together, these results support the view that lactate is a critical monitored metabolic variable in caudal hindbrain detection of energy imbalance resulting from glucoprivation and that diminished uptake and/or oxidative catabolism of this fuel activates neural mechanisms that increase systemic glucose availability.

nucleus of the solitary tract; -cyano-4-hydroxycinnamate; central nervous system

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