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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 26, Issue 36, Pages 9205-9215Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2491-06.2006
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anxiety; circumventricular organs; GABA; medial preoptic nucleus; organum vasculosum lamina terminalis; saralasin; stress; subfornical organ; losartan; AT(1) receptor
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- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH065697, R01 MH065702, R01 MH 65702, R01 MH 65697, R01 MH 52691] Funding Source: Medline
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Intravenous sodium lactate infusions or the noradrenergic agent yohimbine reliably induce panic attacks in humans with panic disorder but not in healthy controls. However, the exact mechanism of lactate eliciting a panic attack is still unknown. In rats with chronic disruption of GABA-mediated inhibition in the dorsomedial hypothalamus (DMH), achieved by chronic microinfusion of the glutamic acid decarboxylase inhibitor L-allylglycine, sodium lactate infusions or yohimbine elicits panic-like responses (i.e., anxiety, tachycardia, hypertension, and tachypnea). In the present study, previous injections of the angiotensin-II (A-II) type 1 receptor antagonist losartan and the nonspecific A-II receptor antagonist saralasin into the DMH of panic-prone rats blocked the anxiety-like and physiological components of lactate-induced panic-like responses. In addition, direct injections of A-II into the DMH of these panic-prone rats also elicited panic-like responses that were blocked by pretreatment with saralasin. Microinjections of saralasin into the DMH did not block the panic-like responses elicited by intravenous infusions of the noradrenergic agent yohimbine or by direct injections of NMDA into the DMH. The presence of the A-II type 1 receptors in the region of the DMH was demonstrated using immunohistochemistry. Thus, these results implicate A-II pathways and the A-II receptors in the hypothalamus as putative substrates for sodium lactate-induced panic-like responses in vulnerable subjects.
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