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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 296, Issue 5, Pages H1425-H1433Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00942.2008
Keywords
paraventricular nucleus; subfornical organ; angiotensin II type 1 receptor; autonomic regulation
Funding
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Veterans Health Administration
- Office of Research and Development
- Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [RO1-HL-073986]
- University of Iowa
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Wei S, Yu Y, Zhang Z, Felder RB. Angiotensin II upregulates hypothalamic AT(1) receptor expression in rats via the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 296: H1425-H1433, 2009. First published March 13, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00942.2008.-ANG II type 1 receptors (AT(1)R) mediate most of the central effects of ANG II on cardiovascular function, fluid homeostasis, and sympathetic drive. The mechanisms regulating AT(1)R expression in the brain are unknown. In some tissues, the AT(1)R can be upregulated by prolonged exposure to ANG II. We examined the hypothesis that ANG II upregulates the AT(1)R in the brain by stimulating the intracellular mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway. Using molecular and immunochemical approaches, we examined expression of the AT(1)R and phosphorylated MAPK in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN) and the subfornical organ (SFO) of rats receiving a chronic (4-wk) subcutaneous infusion of ANG II (0.6 mu g/h) or saline (vehicle control), with or without concomitant (4-wk) intracerebroventricular (ICV) infusions of MAPK inhibitors or the AT(1)R blocker losartan. Subcutaneous infusion of ANG II markedly increased phosphorylation of MAPK and expression of AT(1)R mRNA and protein and AT(1)R-like immunoreactivity in the PVN and SFO. ANG II-induced AT(1)R expression was blocked by ICV infusion of the p44/42 MAPK inhibitor PD-98059 (0.025 mu g/h) and the JNK inhibitor SP-600125 (0.125 mu g/h), but not by the p38 MAPK inhibitor SB-203580 (0.125 mu g/h). Upregulation of the AT(1)R in the PVN and SFO by peripheral ANG II was abolished by ICV losartan (10 mu g/h). The data indicate that blood-borne ANG II upregulates brain AT(1)R by activating intracellular p44/42 MAPK and JNK signaling pathways.
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