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ArticleAmerican journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology2015

A comparison of physiological and transcriptome responses to water deprivation and salt loading in the rat supraoptic nucleus.

Michael P Greenwood, Andre S Mecawi, See Ziau Hoe, Mohd Rais Mustafa, Kory R Johnson, Ghada A Al-Mahmoud, Lucila L K Elias, Julian F R Paton, Jose Antunes-Rodrigues, Harold Gainer and 2 more

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Article in American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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12 authors.

Michael P GreenwoodSchool of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom;
Andre S MecawiDepartment of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Department of Physiological Sciences, Institute of Biology, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Seropedica, Brazil;
See Ziau HoeDepartment of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;
Mohd Rais MustafaDepartment of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;
Kory R JohnsonClinical Center, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland;
Ghada A Al-MahmoudDepartment of Biological and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Al Tarfa, Doha, Qatar;
Lucila L K EliasDepartment of Physiology, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil;
Julian F R PatonSchool of Physiology and Pharmacology, University Walk, Bristol, United Kingdom; and.
Jose Antunes-RodriguesDepartment of Physiology, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil;
Harold GainerLaboratory of Neurochemistry, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
David MurphySchool of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;
Charles C T HindmarchSchool of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; c.hindmarch@bristol.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-6271-758X

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/J005452/1British Heart Foundation RG/11/28714British Heart Foundation RG/11/6/28714British Heart Foundation RG/12/6/29670Intramural NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Salt loading (SL) and water deprivation (WD) are experimental challenges that are often used to study the osmotic circuitry of the brain. Central to this circuit is the supraoptic nucleus (SON) of the hypothalamus, which is responsible for the biosynthesis of the hormones, arginine vasopressin (AVP) and oxytocin (OXT), and their transport to terminals that reside in the posterior lobe of the pituitary. On osmotic challenge evoked by a change in blood volume or osmolality, the SON undergoes a function-related plasticity that creates an environment that allows for an appropriate hormone response. Here, we have described the impact of SL and WD compared with euhydrated (EU) controls in terms of drinking and eating behavior, body weight, and recorded physiological data including circulating hormone data and plasma and urine osmolality. We have also used microarrays to profile the transcriptome of the SON following SL and remined data from the SON that describes the transcriptome response to WD. From a list of 2,783 commonly regulated transcripts, we selected 20 genes for validation by qPCR. All of the 9 genes that have already been described as expressed or regulated in the SON by osmotic stimuli were confirmed in our models. Of the 11 novel genes, 5 were successfully validated while 6 were false discoveries.

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TranscriptomeWater DeprivationAnimalsArginine VasopressinBlood VolumeBody WeightDrinkingEatingGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationMaleOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisOsmolar ConcentrationOsmoregulationOxytocinRats, Sprague-DawleyArginine VasopressinOxytocinRNA, MessengerSodium Chloride, Dietaryneuroendocrinesalt loadsupraoptic nucleustranscriptomewater restriction

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PMID25632023
PMCPMC4386000

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