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  • Title: Prostaglandin E(2) fever mediated by inhibition of the GABAergic transmission in the region immediately adjacent to the organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis.
    Author: Osaka T.
    Journal: Pflugers Arch; 2008 Aug; 456(5):837-46. PubMed ID: 18188586.
    Abstract:
    Unilateral microinjection of prostaglandin (PG)E(2) into a region immediately adjacent to the organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis (peri-OVLT) in the preoptic area elicited thermogenic, tachycardic, cutaneous vasoconstrictive, and hyperthermic responses simultaneously in urethane-chloralose-anesthetized rats. The magnitude of these responses increased dose-dependently over the range of 57 fmol-2.8 pmol, except for the vasoconstrictive response. Microinjection of a GABA(A) receptor antagonist, bicuculline methiodide or gabazine (5-20 pmol), into the PGE(2)-sensitive site in the peri-OVLT region also elicited responses similar to those induced by PGE(2). Although administration of a GABA(A) receptor agonist, muscimol (10 pmol), microinjected into the same site alone usually had no effect on the rate of whole-body O(2) consumption, heart rate or colon and skin temperatures, all PGE(2)-induced responses were blocked 10 min after the muscimol pretreatment and recovered at 50-90 min. Pretreatment with the vehicle, saline, had no effect on the PGE(2)-induced responses. These results suggest that spontaneous release of GABA and tonic activation of GABA(A) receptors in the peri-OVLT region prevent the elevation in the body core temperature under normal circumstances and that PGE(2)-induced febrile responses are mediated, at least in part, by inhibition of the GABAergic transmission in this area.
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