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Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 225:207-210 (2000)
© 2000 Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine

Original Article

Melatonin and the Synthesis of Vasopressin in Pinealectomized Male Rats

Marlena Juszczak1,, Ewa Bojanowska and Ryszard Dabrowski


Department of Pathophysiology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland

The pineal hormone, melatonin, is known to modify, under different experimental conditions, neurohypophysial hormone secretion in the rat. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of melatonin on the vasopressin biosynthesis rate in the hypothalamus of either pinealectomized or sham-operated rats, using the colchicine method. To estimate whether colchicine affects the function of the neurohypophysis in these animals, the neurohypophysial and plasma vasopressin levels were also measured.The vasopressin synthesis rate was increased after pineal removal, when compared with sham-operated animals, and melatonin strongly inhibited the rise in the hormone synthesis due to pinealectomy. After pineal removal plasma vasopressin concentration was significantly elevated, and melatonin attenuated this effect. On the contrary, the neurohypophysial vasopressin content was significantly decreased after pinealectomy, but it was not further modified by melatonin.Thus, melatonin suppresses the synthesis and secretion of vasopressin in pinealectomized rats. The present results confirm our previous reports as to the inhibitory impact of the pineal on both vasopressin synthesis and release and suggest that melatonin may mediate the effect of the pineal gland on vasopressinergic neuron activity.






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