Serotonin and its receptor agonists stimulate the release of arginine vasopressin (AVP) into peripheral blood under intraventricular injection. To test the hypothesis that brain serotonin can modulate the development of natural osmoregulatory responses, the effect of an increase in endogenous brain serotonin on the response to an intragastric hypo- or hyperosmotic loading was studied in Wistar and AVP-deficient Brattleboro rats. 5-Hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP), the rate-limiting serotonin biosynthesis precursor known to increase the brain level of serotonin, was injected intraperitoneally (5 mg/100 g body weight). The renal functional parameters (glomerular filtration rate [GFR], free water reabsorption, and urine flow rate) were monitored during the 4 h after intragastric infusion of water or a 2% NaCl solution (5% of body weight). Plasma AVP was measured by radioimmunoassay. In Wistar rats, intraperitoneal injection of 5-HTP at the same time as water loading prevented the development of the renal diuretic response: there was no increase in urine flow rate and GFR, and free water reabsorption remained at the high level. In AVP-deficient Brattleboro rats, unlike Wistar rats, 5-HTP treatment was without effect on the renal function parameters. In Wistar rats, injection of 5-HTP at the peak of water diuresis produced an abrogation of the diuretic response to water loading due to the increase in free water reabsorption. Plasma AVP increased from 1.2 ± 0.4 to 4.2 ± 1.6 pg/ml (n = 8 in each group, p < 0.01). Hyperosmotic treatment of Wistar rats with a 2% NaCl solution stimulated AVP secretion compared to baseline (from 3.2 ± 0.1, n = 7 to 5.6 ± 0.9, n = 7, p < 0.01), and the saluretic response developed on the background of high free water reabsorption. When injected concomitantly with NaCl solution, 5-HTP revealed no additive effect on plasma AVP and on free water reabsorption. We conclude that the 5-HTP-caused increase in brain serotonin contributed significantly to the dynamics of changes in the osmoregulatory response to the hypo-osmotic challenge due to stimulation of AVP secretion. 5-HTP had no additive effect on the osmoregulatory response to hyperosmotic loading. Peripherally injected 5-HTP had no effect on the renal function, being absent in AVP-deficient Brattleboro rats.
The hydruric response to water load in Wistar rats and homozygous Brattleboro rats with a hereditary defect in the synthesis of vasopressin was studied under conditions of increased brain serotonin level. Serotonin prevented the reduction in reabsorption of osmotically free water in normal rats, but had no effect in vasopressin-deficient Brattleboro rats. Our results suggest that serotonin stimulates vasopressin secretion and interacts with the vasopressinergic system during the realization of osmotic regulation.
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