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Centrally administered adrenomedullin 2 activates hypothalamic oxytocin-secreting neurons, causing elevated plasma oxytocin level in rats

¹Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu; ²Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Marine Bioscience, Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo; and ³Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan

Submitted 4 February 2005 ; accepted in final form 9 June 2005

We examined the effects of intracerebroventricular (ICV) administration of adrenomedullin 2 (AM2) on plasma oxytocin (OXT) and arginine vasopressin (AVP) levels in conscious rats. Plasma OXT levels were markedly increased 5 min after ICV administration of AM2 (1 nmol/rat) compared with vehicle and remained elevated in samples taken at 10, 15, 30, and 60 min. By contrast, plasma AVP levels were not significantly elevated in samples taken between 5 and 180 min after ICV administration of AM2 except at the 30-min time point. Fos-like immunoreactivity (Fos-LI) was observed in various brain areas, including the paraventricular (PVN) and the supraoptic nuclei (SON) after ICV administration of AM2 (2 nmol/rat) in conscious rats (measured at 90 min post-AM2 infusion). Dual immunostaining for OXT/Fos and AVP/Fos showed that OXT-LI neurons predominantly exhibited nuclear Fos-LI compared with AVP-LI neurons in the PVN and the SON. In situ hybridization histochemistry showed that ICV administration of AM2 (0.2, 1, and 2 nmol/rat) caused marked induction of the expression of the c-fos gene in the PVN and the SON. This induction was significantly reduced by pretreatment with both the calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) antagonist CGRP-(8–37) (3 nmol/rat) and the AM receptor antagonist AM-(22–52) (27 nmol/rat). These results suggest that centrally administered AM2 mainly activates OXT-secreting neurons in the PVN and the SON, at least in part through the CGRP and/or AM receptors with marked elevation of plasma OXT levels in conscious rats.

c-fos; fos; paraventricular nucleus; supraoptic nucleus; vasopressin

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