Neural circuits underlying thirst and fluid homeostasis

CA Zimmerman, DE Leib, ZA Knight - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Thirst motivates animals to find and consume water. More than 40 years ago, a set of
interconnected brain structures known as the lamina terminalis was shown to govern thirst …

Stressor specificity of central neuroendocrine responses: implications for stress-related disorders

K Pacak, M Palkovits - Endocrine reviews, 2001 - academic.oup.com
Despite the fact that many research articles have been written about stress and stress-
related diseases, no scientifically accepted definition of stress exists. Selye introduced and …

Angiotensin, thirst, and sodium appetite

JT Fitzsimons - Physiological reviews, 1998 - journals.physiology.org
Fitzsimons, JT Angiotensin, Thirst, and Sodium Appetite. Physiol. Rev. 78: 583–686, 1998.—
Angiotensin (ANG) II is a powerful and phylogenetically widespread stimulus to thirst and …

Neuroendocrine control of body fluid metabolism

J Antunes-Rodrigues, M De Castro… - Physiological …, 2004 - journals.physiology.org
Antunes-Rodrigues, José, Margaret de Castro, Lucila LK Elias, Marcelo M. Valença, and
Samuel M. McCann. Neuroendocrine Control of Body Fluid Metabolism. Physiol Rev 84: 169 …

Distinct neural mechanisms for the control of thirst and salt appetite in the subfornical organ

T Matsuda, TY Hiyama, F Niimura, T Matsusaka… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Body fluid conditions are continuously monitored in the brain to regulate thirst and salt-
appetite sensations. Angiotensin II drives both thirst and salt appetite; however, the neural …

The sensory circumventricular organs of the mammalian brain: subfornical organ, OVLT and area postrema

MJ McKinley - 2003 - books.google.com
The brain's three sensory circumventricular organs, the subfornical organ, organum
vasculosum of the lamina terminalis and the area postrema lack a blood brain barrier and …

Gene regulation in the magnocellular hypothalamo-neurohypophysial system

JPH Burbach, SM Luckman, D Murphy… - Physiological …, 2001 - journals.physiology.org
The hypothalamo-neurohypophysial system (HNS) is the major peptidergic neurosecretory
system through which the brain controls peripheral physiology. The hormones vasopressin …

The median preoptic nucleus: front and centre for the regulation of body fluid, sodium, temperature, sleep and cardiovascular homeostasis

MJ McKinley, ST Yao, A Uschakov… - Acta …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Located in the midline anterior wall of the third cerebral ventricle (ie the lamina terminalis),
the median preoptic nucleus (Mn PO) receives a unique set of afferent neural inputs from …

The interplay between Angiotensin II, TLR4 and hypertension

VC Biancardi, GF Bomfim, WL Reis, S Al-Gassimi… - Pharmacological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Hypertension is a multifactorial disease. Although a number of different underlying
mechanisms have been learned from the various experimental models of the disease …

Sensory circumventricular organs: central roles in integrated autonomic regulation

GT Cottrell, AV Ferguson - Regulatory peptides, 2004 - Elsevier
Circumventricular organs (CVO) play a critical role as transducers of information between
the blood, neurons and the cerebral spinal fluid (CSF). They permit both the release and …