Vasopressin Coexists in Half of the Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Axons Present in the External Zone of the Median Eminence in Normal Rats
作者:
Mark H. Whitnall,
Derek Smyth,
Harold Gainer,
期刊:
Neuroendocrinology
(Karger Available online 1987)
卷期:
Volume 45,
issue 5
页码: 420-424
ISSN:0028-3835
年代: 1987
DOI:10.1159/000124768
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: ACTH;Electron microscopy;Immunocytochemistry;Stress;Coexistence
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
Electron-microscopic immunocytochemistry of serial thin sections showed that, in normal rats, approximately 50% of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) axons in the external zone of the median eminence contained vasopressin (AVP) and AVP precursor-derived peptides coexistent in the same secretory vesicles as CRF. The other 50% of the CRF axons contained little or no detectable AVP or AVP precursor-derived peptides. Differential activation of these subpopulations of CRF axons could provide a mechanism by which levels of CRF and AVP in portal plasma could be varied independently.
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