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The effect of adrenaline and acetylcholine on the hypothalamic-hypophysial neurosecretion in the rat

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The present investigation was undertaken to study the effects of adrenaline and acetylcholine on the hypothalamic-hypophysial neurosecretory system in rats.

The drugs were injected intraperitoneally and into the lateral brain ventricle. The water diuresis was measured (I group). The animals were killed 45 min after intraperitoneal and 20 min after intraventricular administration of the drugs for the histological observations on the neurosecretory system and the histochemical studies of catecholamines in this area (II group).

The antidiuretic effect of adrenaline and acetylcholine was established. The antidiuresis was more remarkable following intraventricular treatment.

There was no direct relationship between the amount of neurosecretory substance and ADH activity in the posterior pituitary in the short term experiment after intraperitoneal administration of these drugs.

The rapid release of ADH from the posterior pituitary was accompanied with a remarkable output of neurosecretory substance from the neurosecretory cell bodies into the axons and these effects were considerable after intraventricular introduction of the drugs. Some neurosecretory cells in the state of the initial hyperfunction were observed. In the posterior pituitary the initial mobilisation of the neurosecretory material from the neurosecretory terminals following intraventricular introduction of the drugs was observed.

The supraoptic nucleus seems to be more sensitive to acetylcholine and the paraventricular nucleus to adrenaline treatment.

The significant vasodilatation in the posterior pituitary and in the area of the supraoptic nucleus following intraventricular acetylcholine introduction was established.

According to the data described it is possible to expect the existence of control of the hypothalamic neurosecretory activity by means of adrenergic and cholinergic structures.

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I am very obliged to Prof. W. Bargmann for his stimulating interest in this Study. I am grateful to Dr. G. Leontieva and Dr. V. Govyrin for the possibility to use the fluorescence catecholamine method, to Dr. E. Zeimal and Prof. M. Michelson for using the method for intraventricular injections.

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Konstantinova, M. The effect of adrenaline and acetylcholine on the hypothalamic-hypophysial neurosecretion in the rat. Z. Zellforsch. 83, 549–567 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00319324

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