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Correlations between brain catecholamines,neurosecretion, and serum corticoid levels in osmotically stressed mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos)
Authors:T H McNeill  Dr J H Abel Jr  G P Kozlowski
Institution:1. Departments of Anatomy and Physiology-Biophysics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Abstract:The effects of depleting brain catecholamines with a combined treatment of reserpine and alpha-methyl-p-tyrosine on serum corticosterone levels and release of immunoreactive neurophysin from the median eminence, in osmotically stressed and unstressed mallard ducks, were studied. Corticoid levels in salt loaded birds were more than three times that of unstressed birds. The combined treatment of reserpine and alpha-methyl-p-tyrosine significantly decreased the concentration of brain monoamines in all experimental groups and raised serum corticoid levels in non-stressed birds to the same level found in the osmotically stressed animals. Immunoreactive neurophysin in the zona externa of the median eminence was depleted in all birds subjected to either osmotic stress and/or reserpine treatment but not in unstressed control birds. These preliminary data indicate that catecholamines may exert an inhibitory influence on both ACTH release from the anterior pituitary and neurophysin from the median eminence and that these two events may in some way be interrelated in the duck.
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