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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 287, Issue 6, Pages R1325-R1334Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00391.2004
Keywords
subfornical organ; organum vasculosum laminae terminalis; osmoregulation; hypovolemia; rats
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- NINDS NIH HHS [NS-22274] Funding Source: Medline
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In many previous studies, one or the other forebrain circumventricular organ, the subfornical organ ( SFO) or organum vasculosum laminae terminalis ( OVLT), was lesioned to test whether it was critical for the behavioral or physiological responses to sodium depletion and hypernatremia. These studies conflict in their conclusions. The present study was designed to create discrete lesions of both the SFO and OVLT in the same animals and to compare these with rats having a lesion of only the SFO or OVLT. Both the OVLT- lesioned group and the combined SFO + OVLT-lesioned group drank significantly more water and saline on a daily basis than Controls or SFO- lesioned rats. In both sodium depletion and hypertonic saline testing, rats with SFO lesions displayed transient deficits in salt appetite or thirst responses, whereas the rats with single OVLT lesions did not. In the sodium depletion test, but not in the hypernatremia test, rats with lesions of both the SFO and OVLT exhibited the largest deficit. The data support the hypothesis that a combined lesion eliminates redundancy and is more effective than a single lesion in sodium depletion tests. The interpretation of the OVLT lesion- only data may have been complicated by a tendency to drink more fluid on a daily basis, because some of those animals drank copious water in addition to saline even very early during the salt appetite test.
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