Inhibition of brown adipose tissue thermogenesis by neurons in the ventrolateral medulla and in the nucleus tractus solitarius.
Neurons in the ventrolateral medulla (VLM) and in the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) play important roles in the regulation of cardiovascular and other autonomic functions. In the present study, we demonstrate an inhibition of brown adipose tissue (BAT) thermogenesis evoked by activation of neurons in the VLM, as well as by neurons in the intermediate NTS, of chloralose/urethane-anesthetized, artificially ventilated rats. Activation of neurons in either rostral VLM or caudal VLM with N-methyl-d-aspartate (12 nmol) reversed the cold-evoked increase in BAT sympathetic nerve activity (SNA), BAT temperature, and end-expired CO(2). Disinhibition of neurons in either VLM or NTS with the GABA(A) receptor antagonist, bicuculline (30 pmol), reversed the increases in BAT SNA, BAT temperature, and end-expired CO(2) that were elicited 1) by cold defense; 2) during the febrile model of nanoinjection of prostaglandin E(2) into the medial preoptic area; 3) by activation of neurons in the dorsomedial hypothalamus or in the rostral raphe pallidus (rRPa); or 4) by the micro-opioid receptor agonist fentanyl. Combined, but not separate, inhibitions of neurons in the VLM and in the NTS, with the GABA(A) receptor agonist, muscimol (120 pmol/site), produced increases in BAT SNA, BAT temperature, and expired CO(2), which were reversed by nanoinjection of glycine (30 nmol) into the rRPa. These findings suggest that VLM and NTS contain neurons whose activation inhibits BAT thermogenesis, that these neurons receive GABAergic inputs that are active under these experimental conditions, and that neurons in both sites contribute to the tonic inhibition of sympathetic premotor neuronal activity in the rRPa that maintains a low level of BAT thermogenesis in normothermic conditions.
Cao
Wei-Hua
WH
Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton, Oregon 97006, USA.
Madden
Christopher J
CJ
Morrison
Shaun F
SF
D002001:Adipose Tissue, Brown / Q000187:drug effects / Q000294:innervation / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D001640:Bicuculline / Q000494:pharmacology; D001831:Body Temperature / Q000187:drug effects; D002319:Cardiovascular System / Q000187:drug effects; D003080:Cold Temperature; D026603:D-Aspartic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology; D005334:Fever; D007031:Hypothalamus / Q000187:drug effects; D008297:Male; D008526:Medulla Oblongata / Q000187:drug effects; D009118:Muscimol / Q000494:pharmacology; D016202:N-Methylaspartate / Q000494:pharmacology; D009474:Neurons / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D011301:Preoptic Area / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D022722:Thermogenesis / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*
D009118:Muscimol; D026603:D-Aspartic Acid; D016202:N-Methylaspartate; D001640:Bicuculline
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