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Although the convergence of neural and humoral afferent information onto paraventricular neuroendocrine corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) neurons is a major determinant for adaptive stress responses, the underlying integrative mechanisms are poorly understood. To dissect the relative contributions made by neural afferents and corticosterone to these processes, we determined how the concurrent application of two heterotypic physiological stressors, chronic dehydration (produced by drinking hypertonic saline) and sustained hypovolemia (produced by subcutaneous injections of polyethylene glycol), is interpreted by the synthetic and secretory activity of CRH neurons using in situ hybridization and plasma ACTH measurements. These two stressors are encoded by relatively simple, distinct, and well defined sets of neural afferents to CRH neurons. Both increase plasma corticosterone, but they have opposing actions on CRHgene expression when applied separately. In the first experiment, we showed that chronic dehydration suppressesCRH gene transcription after hypovolemia, but not the preproenkephalin and c-fos mRNA responses or ACTH secretion. In the second, we showed that negative feedback actions of corticosterone do not suppress CRH gene activation after hypovolemia, but instead determine the prestress lower limit of a range within which the CRH gene then responds. Collectively, these data show that at least two processes are integrated to control how theCRH gene responds to multiple stimuli. First, the presence of corticosterone, which although permissive for appropriately activating the CRH gene during hypovolemia, does not mediate the suppressed gene response. Second, neural afferent-driven processes that encode dehydration play a central role in suppressing CRH activation.

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Interactions between Heterotypic Stressors and Corticosterone Reveal Integrative Mechanisms for Controlling Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Gene Expression in the Rat Paraventricular Nucleus