[Effect of water deprivation on serotonin metabolism in rat brain].
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to Ia D Finkinshteĭn.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
In anesthetized dogs with cannulae implanted in the lateral cerebral ventricle, the water transfer from the CSF to the blood was studied using determination of drainage of tritiated water injected into the ventricle. Vasopressin and aldosterone accelerated the transfer of tritiated water into veins whereas angiotensin decelerated it. The data obtained suggest that the above hormones regulate volume and osmolality of the CSF.
Histochemical study of the choroid plexus of the control and hydrated dogs injected with pituitrin solution (25 IU/kg bw) into the cerebral ventricle via a special cannula has demonstrated the ventricular surface of the choroid epithelium to bear compounds belonging to the class of glycosaminoglycans (GAG), primarily containing hyaluronic acid. The animals exposed to hydration showed an overt increase, whereas those treated with pituitrin a reduction in the content of GAG as compared with controls. The data obtained suggest that GAG contained by the choroid plexus are involved in the mechanism by which the rate of CSF formation is regulated.
In chronic experiments on dogs with cannulae implanted in the lateral cerebral ventricle and occipital cistern, the CSF volume and Na+, K+ concentrations were measured during osmoregulating reaction and pituitrin infusion in the lateral ventricle. Isoosmotic CSF volume decrease in both experimental groups indicates that water-salt regulation in the body and brain tissues is performed by means of common neuro-humoral mechanisms with vasopressin participation.
In anesthetized cats, 52 units of the hypothalamic supraoptic nuclei out of 65 retained the ability to respond to the osmotic stimulation after dissection of the brain stem (cerveau isolé). Administration of 1.0 ml 5% NaCl solution into the v. porta decreased the firing rate in 9 units and increased it in 43 units. The latency and the maximum reaction time were 30-100 sec and 2-6 min, resp. The data obtained suggest a humoral link in the reflex from the liver osmoreceptors.
Local stimulation of the liver with MgC12 solution in unanesthetized dogs evoked a reflex magnesiuretic response by changing the tubular processes in the kidneys. The presence of selectively magnesium-sensitive receptors in the liver is supposed. The information from these receptors was shown to spread along the vagus nerves.
by dissecting very fine strands of the liver afferent nerves, in cats, it has been possible to record activity of single fibers during intraportal infusion of different test-solutions. Different fibers were found which responded specifically to increase in the intraportal volume, to change of the osmosis and of concentration of ions. The liver was found to have highly selective specific populations of receptors: mechano (volume)-, osmo-, Na+-sensitive and K+ sensitive receptors.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Role of the liver receptors in osmo- and ionic homeostasis regulation was studied in unanesthetized dogs. The presence of selective sodium-and potassium-sensitive receptors was shown in the liver receptor field. Stimulation of the ionic receptors evokes ADH-induced antidiuretic and specific ionuretic renal response. Impulses depressing diuresis were found to spread mainly in the posterior roots of the spinal cord, while those changing the ion excretion - in the n. vagi.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Chronic experiments conducted on 17 dogs whose ureters were brought out on the skin of the abdomen showed that administration of solutions of saccharose (1150 mmol/l) and NaCl (515 mmol/l) into the right atrium reduces diuresis and increases natriuresis. The concentration of atrial natriuretic factor in the blood does not change, vasopressin and cortisol secretion increases while that of aldosterone decreases. It is concluded that, in addition to the cardiopeptide mechanism regulating the blood volume, the right atrium possesses a reflex osmoregulatory mechanism.
In experiments on puppies ageing from 7 days to 8 months, as well as on adult dogs, studies have been made on reflex mechanisms of potassium excretion after injection of 135 mM KCl solution (0.7 ml/kg) to the portal vein. It was found that reflex regulation of potassium extrusion undergoes 3 developmental stages: in puppies up to 1 month potassium excretion is absent; from 1 to 4 months ionuresis is not differentiated, since injection of KCl increases excretion of both K and Na; after 4 months of postnatal life potassium excretion attains its final form. Intravenous injections of pituitrin P reproduce the reactions which were observed in reflex potassium regulation in puppies up to 4 months, this finding indicating possible participation of neurohypophysial hormones in these reactions. In acute experiments it was shown that in puppies of the first month, the liver is not capable of potassium retention. This may be one of the causes of absence of reflex potassium excretion in animals of this age.
In experiments on puppies ageing from 3 days up to 8 months, as well as on adult dogs, studies have been made of mechanisms of excretion of water and sodium during the increase of osmotic concentration in the blood circulation of the liver and spleen. It was found that in contrast to adult dogs, in which the osmotic shift decreases diuresis and increases sodium excretion, the decrease of diuresis in 1-month puppies is accompanied by a decrease of sodium excretion. Two-component osmoregulatory reaction is developed only to the 2nd month of life. Pituitrin P, injected intravenously, evoked the same reactions which were observed in osmoregulatory reflexes at various stages of ontogenesis. Studies on papillary-cortical osmotic and sodium gradients implies that kidney reactions to osmotic shifts are realized via neurohypophysial hormones; maturation of mechanisms realizing the osmotic papillary-cortical gradient takes place previously to those which realize sodium concentration gradient.