title: Interrelations between hypothalamic somatostatin and proopiomelanocortin neurons.
abstract: Somatostatin receptors were visualized by [125I]-Tyr0-DTrp8-somatostatin radioautography on 35% of arcuate neurons containing proopiomelanocortin (POMC) mRNA, as identified by in situ hybridization using a [35S] labelled riboprobe on 5 microm-thick consecutive sections. Furthermore, double immunohistochemical staining revealed contacts of beta-endorphin or alpha-MSH containing fibres with a majority of somatostatin perikarya in the anterior hypothalamic periventricular nucleus. Taken together, these data indicate that hypothalamic somatostatin and POMC neurons are interconnected. The results are discussed in term of intrahypothalamic control of GH secretion.
authors.affiliation: U 159, Paris, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fodor
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Csaba
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Epelbaum
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Vaudry
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jegou
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001345:Autoradiography; D001665:Binding Sites; D007031:Hypothalamus / Q000378:metabolism*; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D017403:In Situ Hybridization; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D008297:Male; D009474:Neurons / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D011333:Pro-Opiomelanocortin / Q000378:metabolism*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D017481:Receptors, Somatostatin / Q000378:metabolism; D013004:Somatostatin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D017481:Receptors, Somatostatin; D013004:Somatostatin; C012088:somatostatin, N-Tyr(1)-; D011333:Pro-Opiomelanocortin