Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide: Postnatal development in multiple brain stem respiratory-related nuclei in the rat

Add time:08/31/2019    Source:sciencedirect.com

The pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) plays an important role in anterior pituitary hormone secretion, neurotransmission, and the control of breathing. Mice lacking PACAP die suddenly mainly in the 2nd postnatal week, coinciding temporally with a critical period of respiratory development uncovered by our laboratory in the rat. The goal of the current study was to test our hypothesis that PACAP expression is reduced during the critical period in normal rats. We undertook immunohistochemistry and optical densitometry of PACAP (specifically PACAP38) in several brain stem respiratory-related nuclei of postnatal days P2-21 rats, and found that PACAP immunoreactivity was significantly reduced at P12 in the pre-Bötzinger complex, nucleus ambiguus, hypoglossal nucleus, and the ventrolateral subnucleus of the nucleus tractus solitarius. No changes were observed in the control, non-respiratory cuneate nucleus at P12. Results imply that the down-regulation of PACAP during normal postnatal development may contribute to the critical period of vulnerability, when the animals’ response to hypoxia is at its weakest.

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