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Coordinate hormonal and synaptic regulation of vasopressin messenger RNA
F Baldino1, T M O'Kane, S Fitzpatrick-McElligott
1Medical Products Department, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Wilmington, DE 19898.
Abstract:
Previous studies have shown that adrenalectomy augments arginine vasopressin (AVP) messenger RNA levels in the adult paraventricular nucleus. It is now demonstrated that unilateral lesions in the lateral septal nucleus enhance the adrenalectomy-induced expression of AVP mRNA. This effect was entirely ipsilateral to the lesion and most prominent in the rostral paraventricular nucleus and related nuclei. Moreover, AVP and AVP mRNA were found to be colocalized with oxytocin in a few neurons. These results indicate that mRNA expression is modulated by synaptic influences and raise the possibility that synaptically mediated selection of neuronal phenotypes is a dynamic feature of the mature central nervous system.
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