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Efeitos da expansão de volume extracelular sobre o conteúdo de catecolaminas e a ativação neuronal de estruturas do hipotálamo e do tronco cerebral de ratos

The fine adjustment of the volume and osmolarity of body fluids is vital to survival. Any variation in the composition of the internal environment, active behavioral mechanisms, neural and hormonal compensatory which control intake and excretion of water and electrolytes in order to maintain homeost...

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Autor principal: OLIVEIRA, Fabíola Raquel Tenório
Grau: Tese
Idioma: por
Publicado em: Universidade Federal do Pará 2013
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Acesso em linha: http://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/3645
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The fine adjustment of the volume and osmolarity of body fluids is vital to survival. Any variation in the composition of the internal environment, active behavioral mechanisms, neural and hormonal compensatory which control intake and excretion of water and electrolytes in order to maintain homeostasis hydroelectrolytic. Changes in the range of 1-2% in blood osmolarity stimulate the release of arginine vasopressin (AVP) resulting in antidiuresis addition to oxytocin (OT) and atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) promoting natriuresis. Work done in our laboratory using the experimental model of extracellular volume expansion (EVEC) showed activation of magnocellular OT-neurons located in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) and supraoptic nucleus (SON) responsible for the secretion of AVP and OT also changed in response this stimulus. The involvement of the sympathetic nervous system in these conditions has been raised. Projections spinal and brainstem (sympathetic) to the hypothalamus could act selectively inhibiting signals for eating and stimulating signals for excretion of water and electrolytes. The role of noradrenergic brainstem this regulation still needs to be better established. Thus, this study aimed to elucidate the role of the sympathetic nervous system (noradrenergic pathway) in the regulation of the changes induced model of EVEC analyzing by high performance liquid chromatography the content of norepinephrine (NE), epinephrine (DA) and serotonin (5 -HT) in brainstem structures such as the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS), bulb rostral ventrolateral (RVLM), locus coeruleus (LC) and dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) and hypothalamic structures like SON and PVN. We also seek, by immunocytochemical studies to determine changes in the pattern of neuronal activation by analysis of Fos-HT or Fos-5HT in the above mentioned structures in experimental conditions in which are induced changes in extracellular fluid volume.