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Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 257: E757-E763, 1989;
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AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 257, Issue 5 E757-E763, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Development in rats of the brain-pituitary-adrenal response to hypoglycemia in vivo and in vitro

E. P. Widmaier
Department of Biology, Boston University, Massachusetts 02215.

To clarify the nature of the stress hyporesponsive period that occurs in neonatal rats, the development of the response of the brain-pituitary-adrenal axis to hypoglycemia stress in rats was assessed in vivo and in vitro. Hypothalami were removed from the brains of neonatal (9-35 days postnatal) or adult rats and incubated in vitro for sequential 30-min periods in Krebs buffer for determination of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) secretion under conditions of altered glucose concentrations. As expected from previous studies, CRF secretion from adult hypothalami was significantly increased in severely hypoglycemic conditions (0.55 mM glucose) by approximately 50% above base-line values (in 5.5 mM glucose). However, lowering glucose did not elicit an increase in CRF release from hypothalami of rats less than 35 days of age. Hypothalami obtained from rats less than or equal to 24 days old also failed to show consistent secretory responses to potassium depolarization. At 35 days postnatal the response to hypoglycemia was significant and similar to the adult response. To determine if the lack of hypothalamic response to hypoglycemia in vitro could be correlated with the in vivo responses to hypoglycemia, rats aged 4 days to adult were injected intraperitoneally with porcine insulin and killed at different times after injection. Insulin injections lowered plasma glucose levels in fasted 4-day-old rats in a dose-dependent fashion, but a nadir in glucose (approximately 40 mg/dl) was not reached until 90 min; the same treatment produced a nadir in glucose within 30 min in fasted rats 10 days old and older, suggesting that the 4-day-old rats are relatively insulin insensitive.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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