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Department of Physiology and Biophysics, The University of Calgary Health Sciences Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1
Rats have an attenuated febrile response to intracerebroventricular injection of PGE1 near the term of pregnancy, the mechanism of which is unknown. The present experiments were carried out to test the hypothesis that arginine vasopressin (AVP), functioning as an endogenous antipyretic substance in the central nervous system, mediates this attenuated febrile response. The febrile response to intracerebroventricular injection of 0.2 µg PGE1 was determined in pregnant and nonpregnant rats after an intracerebroventricular injection of either vehicle or a vasopressin V1-receptor antagonist. After intracerebroventricular administration of vehicle, intracerebroventricular administration of 0.2 µg PGE1 produced significant increases in core temperature in both nonpregnant and pregnant animals. The increase in core temperature, however, was attenuated both in magnitude and duration in pregnant compared with nonpregnant animals. After intracerebroventricular administration of a vasopressin V1-receptor antagonist, intracerebroventricular administration of 0.2 µg PGE1 produced significant increases in core temperature that were similar in nonpregnant and pregnant animals. Our data support the hypothesis that a pregnancy-related activation of AVP as an endogenous antipyretic substance in the central nervous system attenuates the febrile response to intracerebroventricular administration of PGE1 near term of pregnancy in rats.
arginine vasopressin; endogenous antipyretic; prostaglandin
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