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  • Title: Uptake of a monoclonal antibody to corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) into rat hypothalamic neurons.
    Author: Burlet AJ, Menzaghi F, Tilders FJ, van Oers JW, Nicolas JP, Burlet CR.
    Journal: Brain Res; 1990 May 28; 517(1-2):283-93. PubMed ID: 2375997.
    Abstract:
    Previous immunocytochemical studies reported that when specific monoclonal antibody directed against vasopressin (VP) (VP-MAb) was injected in vivo above the rat hypothalamic nuclei, it penetrated and was specifically transported by VP-producing neurons. In this study, using the same methodological approach, the fate of monoclonal antibody directed against corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) (CRF-MAb) injected in vivo above the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the rat brain was investigated by immunocytochemistry in male Zucker rats and adrenalectomized or colchicine-pretreated male Long-Evans rats. The simultaneous immunocytochemical localization of the injected CRF-MAb and endogenous peptides and enzyme synthesized by the neurons penetrated by the antibody, demonstrated that CRF-MAb was mainly detected in CRF neurons. But the CRF-MAb was also detected in VP, oxytocin, neuropeptide Y and tyrosine hydroxylase-producing neurons of the PVN. CRF-MAb was therefore localized in PVN neurons which synthesize CRF and in PVN neurons with physiological and morphological relationships with the CRF peptidergic system. Before obtaining biological effects of injected CRF-MAb, the results described here suggest that specific monoclonal antibodies provide a useful specific tool for elucidating the functional relationships between neuronal systems.
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