Relative efficiency of neural firing patterns for vasopressin release in vitro.

Abstract:

:Single rat neurohypophyses were impaled on a platinum electrode, perifused with isotonic medium and fractions of perifusate collected each minute. Arginine vasopressin content of the fractions was measured by radioimmunoassay. The basal release of arginine vasopressin varied from 50 to 350 pg (0.02-0.14 mU/min) between individual neurohypophyses. Recordings previously obtained from rat supraoptic neurones provided the patterns for electrical stimulation. 8-min segments of a phasically and a continuously firing neurone were selected such that each was firing at a mean rate of 6 spikes/s and possessed very similar overall distributions of interspike intervals. In 15 experiments individual neurohypophyses were stimulated with the phasic pattern, followed by the continuous pattern, or vice versa, separated by an 8-min unstimulated period. In either case, significantly more hormone was released during phasic stimulation than during continuous stimulation. It is concluded that the phasic firing pattern typical of vasopressin neurones is highly efficient for the release of vasopressin from the neurohypophysis, but that its effectiveness does not lie in an increased preponderance of short interspike intervals.

journal_name

Neuroendocrinology

journal_title

Neuroendocrinology

authors

Bicknell RJ,Leng G

doi

10.1159/000123248

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1981-11-01 00:00:00

pages

295-9

issue

5

eissn

0028-3835

issn

1423-0194

journal_volume

33

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