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Effects of illumination and enucleation on substance-P-immunoreactive structures in subcortical visual centers of golden hamster and Wistar rat
Authors:M Hartwich  A Kalsheek  P Pévet  F Nürnberger
Institution:(1) Institut für Anatomie und Zytobiologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Aulweg 123, D-35392 Giessen, Germany;(2) CNRS URA 1332, Neurobiologie des Fonctions Rythmics et Saisoniers, Laboratoire de Zoologie, Université Louis Pasteur, F-67000 Strasbourg, France;(3) Present address: Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, Meibergdreef 33, NL-1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Abstract:The undecapeptide substance P is found in different entities of the visual system that control eye movement and synchronize endogenous rhythms with the light cycle (i.e., superior colliculus, suprachiasmatic nucleus, intergeniculate leaflet). Immunocytochemical methods were used to compare the reactivity to substance P in the brain of five groups of golden hamsters and two groups of Wistar rats: (1) untreated hamsters kept under 14L:10D and sacrificed at noon; (2) identically maintained animals sacrificed at midnight; (3) enucleated animals kept under control conditions; (4) hamsters kept under constant darkness; (5) hamsters kept under the same conditions as the controls, but intraventricularly injected with colchicine. The results obtained in golden hamsters of groups (1) and (3) were compared with findings in Wistar rats treated accordingly groups (6) and (7)]. Substance P-immunoreactive perikarya were found in the suprachiasmatic nucleus and superior colliculus of hamsters and Wistar rats. Substance P-immunoreactive nerve fibers were abundant in the hypothalamic area ventral to the paraventricular nucleus, in the intergeniculate leaflet, in some thalamic nuclei, and in the superior colliculus. Immunoreactivity to substance P in the suprachiasmatic nucleus and intergeniculate leaflet did not vary among the experimental groups. However, a conspicuous decrease in reactivity to substance P was observed in the superficial layers of the superior colliculus of enucleated hamsters and rats, compared with all other groups. These results indicate that substance P immunoreactivity in the superior colliculus, but not that in the suprachiasmatic nucleus or intergeniculate leaflet, depends on the integrity of the retinal projection.
Keywords:Circadian rhythm  Enucleation  Optic tectum  Substance P  Suprachiasmatic nucleus  Visual system  Golden hamster  Rat (Wistar)
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