PMID- 36426844 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230201 LR - 20230201 IS - 1365-2826 (Electronic) IS - 0953-8194 (Linking) VI - 34 IP - 12 DP - 2022 Dec TI - Synaptic control of rat magnocellular neurosecretory cells by warm-sensing neurons in the organum vasculosum lamina terminalis. PG - e13214 LID - 10.1111/jne.13214 [doi] AB - Increases in core body temperature cause secretion of vasopressin (vasopressin, antidiuretic hormone) to promote water reabsorption and blunt water losses incurred through homeostatic evaporative cooling. Subtypes of transient receptor potential vanilloid (Trpv) channels have been shown to contribute to the intrinsic regulation of vasopressin-releasing magnocellular neurosecretory cells (MNCs) in the supraoptic nucleus (SON) and paraventricular nucleus (PVN). However, MNCs in vivo can also be excited by local heating of the adjacent preoptic area, indicating they receive thermosensory information from other areas. Here, we investigated whether neurons in the organum vasculosum lamina terminalis (OVLT) contribute to this process using in vitro electrophysiological approaches in male rats. We found that the majority of OVLT neurons are thermosensitive in the physiological range (36-39 degrees C) and that this property is retained under conditions blocking synaptic transmission. A subset of these neurons could be antidromically activated by electrical stimulation in the SON. Whole cell recordings from SON MNCs revealed that heating significantly increases the rate of spontaneous excitatory postsynaptic currents (sEPCSs), and that this response is abolished by lesions targeting the OVLT, but not by bilateral lesions placed in the adjacent preoptic area. Finally, local heating of the OVLT caused a significant excitation of MNCs in the absence of temperature changes in the SON, and this effect was blocked by inhibitors of ionotropic glutamate receptors. These findings indicate that the OVLT serves as an important thermosensory nucleus and contributes to the activation of MNCs during physiological heating. CI - (c) 2022 British Society for Neuroendocrinology. FAU - Sudbury, Jessica R AU - Sudbury JR AD - Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience Program, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. FAU - Zaelzer, Cristian AU - Zaelzer C AD - Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience Program, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. FAU - Trudel, Eric AU - Trudel E AD - Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience Program, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. FAU - Bumagin, Anna AU - Bumagin A AD - Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience Program, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. FAU - Bourque, Charles W AU - Bourque CW AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1594-742X AD - Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience Program, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. LA - eng GR - PJT 178036/CIHR/Canada GR - FDN 143337/CIHR/Canada PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20221125 PL - United States TA - J Neuroendocrinol JT - Journal of neuroendocrinology JID - 8913461 RN - 11000-17-2 (Vasopressins) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Male MH - Rats MH - Hypothalamus MH - Neurons/physiology MH - *Organum Vasculosum/physiology MH - Supraoptic Nucleus MH - Vasopressins/pharmacology MH - *Neurosecretory Systems/physiology OTO - NOTNLM OT - OVLT OT - supraoptic nucleus OT - thermosensitivity OT - vasopressin EDAT- 2022/11/26 06:00 MHDA- 2022/12/27 06:00 CRDT- 2022/11/25 07:42 PHST- 2022/10/07 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/04/22 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/10/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/11/26 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/12/27 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/11/25 07:42 [entrez] AID - 10.1111/jne.13214 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Neuroendocrinol. 2022 Dec;34(12):e13214. doi: 10.1111/jne.13214. Epub 2022 Nov 25.