Brain research
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Previous studies of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and hemorrhagic shock (HS) models, have shown cardiorespiratory depression in ethanol-treated animals. This study investigated the effects of ethanol (ET) on brain lactate concentrations and acidosis in a TBI/HS model. ⋯ In this TBI/HS model, ethanol-induced increases in lactate concentrations in brain tissue and cerebral venous blood are associated with respiratory depression and reduced organ blood flow.
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Prior studies suggest that prolactin (PRL) stimulates release of dopamine (DA) from tuberoinfundibular dopaminergic (TIDA) neurons. In the present study, the time course over which PRL exerts its effects on all three populations of neuroendocrine dopaminergic (DAergic) neuron populations [TIDA, tuberohypophyseal (THDA) and periventricular-hypophyseal (PHDA)] was determined. Ten days following ovariectomy (OVX), groups of female rats were injected either with 15 microg of ovine PRL (oPRL) or saline at 0900 h. ⋯ However, the second increase of DA turnover present in the ME of control animals never occurred in oPRL-treated animals. Furthermore, there were two increases in the concentration of DA in the AL: the first coincided with the increased turnover of DA in all three terminal areas and the second with increased DA turnover in the IL and NL. These data suggest that all three populations of hypothalamic neuroendocrine DAergic neurons are activated by PRL and that PHDA/THDA neurons have a second 'delayed' activation.