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Shin Y, Kim S, Sohn JW. Serotonergic regulation of appetite and sodium appetite. J Neuroendocrinol 2023; 35:e13328. [PMID: 37525500 DOI: 10.1111/jne.13328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2023] [Revised: 06/27/2023] [Accepted: 07/15/2023] [Indexed: 08/02/2023]
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Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that is synthesized and released from the brainstem raphe nuclei to affect many brain functions. It is well known that the activity of raphe serotonergic neurons is changed in response to the changes in feeding status to regulate appetite via the serotonin receptors. Likewise, changes in volume status are known to alter the activity of raphe serotonergic neurons and drugs targeting serotonin receptors were shown to affect sodium appetite. Therefore, the central serotonin system appears to regulate ingestion of both food and salt, although neural mechanisms that induce appetite in response to hunger and sodium appetite in response to volume depletion are largely distinct from each other. In this review, we discuss our current knowledge regarding the regulation of ingestion - appetite and sodium appetite - by the central serotonin system.
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- Yurim Shin
- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
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Du M, Santiago A, Akiz C, Aoki C. GABAergic interneurons' feedback inhibition of dorsal raphe-projecting pyramidal neurons of the medial prefrontal cortex suppresses feeding of adolescent female mice undergoing activity-based anorexia. Brain Struct Funct 2022; 227:2127-2151. [PMID: 35635653 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-022-02507-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2021] [Accepted: 04/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is characterized by voluntary food restriction, excessive exercise and extreme body weight loss. AN is particularly prevalent among adolescent females experiencing stress-induced anxiety. We used the animal model, activity-based anorexia (ABA), which captures these characteristics of AN, to reveal the neurobiology underlying individual differences in AN vulnerability. Dorsal raphe (DR) regulates feeding and is recruited when coping inescapable stress. Through chemogenetic activation, we investigated the role of mPFC pyramidal neurons projecting to DR (mPFC→DR) in adolescent female mice's decision to eat or exercise following ABA induction. Although the DREADD ligand C21 could activate 44% of the mPFC→DR neurons, this did not generate significant group mean difference in the amount of food intake, compared to control ABA mice without chemogenetic activation. However, analysis of individuals' responses to C21 revealed a significant, positive correlation between food intake and mPFC→DR neurons that co-express cFos, a marker for neuronal activity. cFos expression by GABAergic interneurons (GABA-IN) in mPFC was significantly greater than that for the control ABA mice, indicating recruitment of GABA-IN by mPFC→DR neurons. Electron microscopic immunohistochemistry revealed that GABAergic innervation is 60% greater for the PFC→DR neurons than adjacent Layer 5 pyramidal neurons without projections to DR. Moreover, individual differences in this innervation correlated negatively with food intake specifically on the day of C21 administration. We propose that C21 activates two antagonistic pathways: (1) PFC→DR pyramidal neurons that promote food intake; and (2) GABA-IN in the mPFC that dampen food intake through feedback inhibition of mPFC→DR neurons.
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- Muzi Du
- Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, 10003, USA.,The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, 10003, USA.,New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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- Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, 10003, USA
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- Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, 10003, USA. .,Neuroscience Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, 10016, USA.
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Ramirez-Plascencia OD, Saderi N, Cárdenas Romero S, Flores Sandoval O, Báez-Ruiz A, Martínez Barajas H, Salgado-Delgado R. Temporal dysregulation of hypothalamic integrative and metabolic nuclei in rats fed during the rest phase. Chronobiol Int 2022; 39:374-385. [PMID: 34906015 DOI: 10.1080/07420528.2021.2002352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
Abstract
Temporal coordination of organisms according to the daytime allows a better performance of physiological processes. However, modern lifestyle habits, such as food intake during the rest phase, promote internal desynchronization and compromise homeostasis and health. The hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) synchronizes body physiology and behavior with the environmental light-dark cycle by transmitting time information to several integrative hypothalamic nuclei, such as the paraventricular nucleus (PVN), dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus (DMH) and median preoptic area (MnPO). The SCN receives metabolic information mainly via Neuropeptide Y (NPY) inputs from the intergeniculate nucleus of the thalamus (IGL). Nowadays, there is no evidence of the response of the PVN, DMH and MnPO when the animals are subjected to internal desynchronization by restricting food access to the rest phase of the day. To explore this issue, we compared the circadian activity of the SCN, PVN, DMH and MnPO. In addition, we analyzed the daily activity of the satiety centers of the brainstem, the nucleus of the tractus solitarius (NTS) and area postrema (AP), which send metabolic information to the SCN, directly or via the thalamic intergeniculate leaflet (IGL). For that, male Wistar rats were assigned to three meal protocols: fed during the rest phase (Day Fed); fed during the active phase (Night Fed); free access to food (ad libitum). After 21 d, the daily activity patterns of these nuclei were analyzed by c-Fos immunohistochemistry, as well as NPY immunohistochemistry, in the SCN. The results show that eating during the rest period produces a phase advance in the activity of the SCN, changes the daily activity pattern in the MnPO, NTS and AP and flattens the c-Fos rhythm in the PVN and DMH. Altogether, these results validate previous observations of circadian dysregulation that occurs within the central nervous system when meals are consumed during the rest phase, a behavior that is involved in the metabolic alterations described in the literature.
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- Oscar D Ramirez-Plascencia
- Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.,Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
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- Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
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- Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
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Okuda T, Osako Y, Hidaka C, Nishihara M, Young LJ, Mitsui S, Yuri K. Separation from a bonded partner alters neural response to inflammatory pain in monogamous rodents. Behav Brain Res 2021; 418:113650. [PMID: 34748865 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2021] [Revised: 10/04/2021] [Accepted: 10/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Pain experience is known to be modified by social factors, but the brain mechanisms remain unspecified. We recently established an animal model of social stress-induced hyperalgesia (SSIH) using a socially monogamous rodent, the prairie vole, in which males separated from their female partners (loss males) became anxious and displayed exacerbated inflammatory pain behaviors compared to males with partners (paired males). In the present study, to explore the neural pathways involved in SSIH, a difference in neuronal activation in pain-related brain regions, or "pain matrix", during inflammatory pain between paired and loss males was detected using Fos immunoreactivity (Fos-ir). Males were paired with a female and pair bonding was confirmed in all subjects using a partner preference test. During formalin-induced inflammatory pain, both paired and loss males showed a significant induction of Fos-ir throughout the analyzed pain matrix components compared to basal condition (without injection), and no group differences in immunoreactivity were found among the injected males in many brain regions. However, the loss males had significantly lower Fos-ir following inflammatory pain in the medial prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens shell than the paired males, even though base Fos-ir levels were comparable between groups. Notably, both regions with different Fos-ir are major components of the dopamine and oxytocin systems, which play critical roles in both pair bonding and pain regulation. The present results suggest the possibility that pain exacerbation by social stress emerges through alteration of signaling in social brain circuitry.
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- Takahiro Okuda
- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Oko-cho, Nankoku, Kochi 783-8505, Japan; Department of Physical Therapy, Tosa Rehabilitation College, Otsu, Ohtsu, Kochi 781-5103, Japan.
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- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Oko-cho, Nankoku, Kochi 783-8505, Japan
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- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Oko-cho, Nankoku, Kochi 783-8505, Japan
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- Multidisciplinary Pain Centre, Aichi Medical University, School of Medicine, 21 Karimata, Nagakute, Aichi, 480-1195, Japan
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- Silvio O. Conte Center for Oxytocin and Social Cognition, Center for Translational Social Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Yerkes National Primate Center, Emory University School of Medicine, 954 Gatewood Rd. Atlanta, GA 30322, USA; Center for Social Neural Networks, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba 305-8577, Japan
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Gunma University Graduate School of Health Sciences, 3-39-22 Showa-machi, Maebashi, Gunma 371-8514, Japan
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- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Oko-cho, Nankoku, Kochi 783-8505, Japan
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van Galen KA, Ter Horst KW, Serlie MJ. Serotonin, food intake, and obesity. Obes Rev 2021; 22:e13210. [PMID: 33559362 PMCID: PMC8243944 DOI: 10.1111/obr.13210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2020] [Revised: 12/28/2020] [Accepted: 12/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
The role of serotonin in food intake has been studied for decades. Food intake is mainly regulated by two brain circuitries: (i) the homeostatic circuitry, which matches energy intake to energy expenditure, and (ii) the hedonic circuitry, which is involved in rewarding and motivational aspects of energy consumption. In the homeostatic circuitry, serotonergic signaling contributes to the integration of metabolic signals that convey the body's energy status and facilitates the ability to suppress food intake when homeostatic needs have been met. In the hedonic circuitry, serotonergic signaling may reduce reward-related, motivational food consumption. In contrast, peripherally acting serotonin promotes energy absorption and storage. Disturbed serotonergic signaling is associated with obesity, emphasizing the importance to understand the role of serotonergic signaling in food intake. However, unraveling the serotonin-mediated regulation of food intake is complex, as the effects of serotonergic signaling in different brain regions depend on the regional expression of serotonin receptor subtypes and downstream effects via connections to other brain regions. We therefore provide an overview of the effects of serotonergic signaling in brain regions of the homeostatic and hedonic regulatory systems on food intake. Furthermore, we discuss the disturbances in serotonergic signaling in obesity and its potential therapeutic implications.
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- Katy A van Galen
- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Petersen CL, Hurley LM. Putting it in Context: Linking Auditory Processing with Social Behavior Circuits in the Vertebrate Brain. Integr Comp Biol 2018; 57:865-877. [PMID: 28985384 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icx055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Context is critical to the adaptive value of communication. Sensory systems such as the auditory system represent an important juncture at which information on physiological state or social valence can be added to communicative information. However, the neural pathways that convey context to the auditory system are not well understood. The serotonergic system offers an excellent model to address these types of questions. Serotonin fluctuates in the mouse inferior colliculus (IC), an auditory midbrain region important for species-specific vocalizations, during specific social and non-social contexts. Furthermore, serotonin is an indicator of the valence of event-based changes within individual social interactions. We propose a model in which the brain's social behavior network serves as an afferent effector of the serotonergic dorsal raphe nucleus in order to gate contextual release of serotonin in the IC. Specifically, discrete vasopressinergic nuclei within the hypothalamus and extended amygdala that project to the dorsal raphe are functionally engaged during contexts in which serotonin fluctuates in the IC. Since serotonin strongly influences the responses of IC neurons to social vocalizations, this pathway could serve as a feedback loop whereby integrative social centers modulate their own sources of input. The end result of this feedback would be to produce a process that is geared, from sensory input to motor output, toward responding appropriately to a dynamic external world.
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, 47405 IN, USA
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Overlapping Brain Circuits for Homeostatic and Hedonic Feeding. Cell Metab 2018; 27:42-56. [PMID: 29107504 PMCID: PMC5762260 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2017.09.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 217] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2017] [Revised: 07/11/2017] [Accepted: 09/25/2017] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Central regulation of food intake is a key mechanism contributing to energy homeostasis. Many neural circuits that are thought to orchestrate feeding behavior overlap with the brain's reward circuitry both anatomically and functionally. Manipulation of numerous neural pathways can simultaneously influence food intake and reward. Two key systems underlying these processes-those controlling homeostatic and hedonic feeding-are often treated as independent. Homeostatic feeding is necessary for basic metabolic processes and survival, while hedonic feeding is driven by sensory perception or pleasure. Despite this distinction, their functional and anatomical overlap implies considerable interaction that is often overlooked. Here, we argue that the neurocircuits controlling homeostatic feeding and hedonic feeding are not completely dissociable given the current data and urge researchers to assess behaviors extending beyond food intake in investigations of the neural control of feeding.
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Evaluation of food intake and Fos expression in serotonergic neurons of raphe nuclei after intracerebroventricular injection of adrenaline in free-feeding rats. Brain Res 2018; 1678:153-163. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2017.10.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2017] [Revised: 09/21/2017] [Accepted: 10/22/2017] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Hajinezhad MR, Hasanein P, Mokhtarpour A. Nociceptin/Orphanin FQ (N/OFQ) Receptors are Involved in Adrenaline-Induced Feeding Behavior in Broiler Cockerels. Int J Pept Res Ther 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s10989-017-9623-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Scheduled feeding restores memory and modulates c-Fos expression in the suprachiasmatic nucleus and septohippocampal complex. Sci Rep 2017; 7:6755. [PMID: 28754901 PMCID: PMC5533780 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06963-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2017] [Accepted: 06/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Disruptions in circadian timing impair spatial memory in humans and rodents. Circadian-arrhythmic Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus) exhibit substantial deficits in spatial working memory as assessed by a spontaneous alternation (SA) task. The present study found that daily scheduled feeding rescued spatial memory deficits in these arrhythmic animals. Improvements in memory persisted for at least 3 weeks after the arrhythmic hamsters were switched back to ad libitum feeding. During ad libitum feeding, locomotor activity resumed its arrhythmic state, but performance on the SA task varied across the day with a peak in daily performance that corresponded to the previous daily window of food anticipation. At the end of scheduled feeding, c-Fos brain mapping revealed differential gene expression in entrained versus arrhythmic hamsters in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) that paralleled changes in the medial septum and hippocampus, but not in other neural structures. These data show that scheduled feeding can improve cognitive performance when SCN timing has been compromised, possibly by coordinating activity in the SCN and septohippocampal pathway.
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Effects of perinatal protein malnutrition and fenfluramine action on food intake and neuronal activation in the hypothalamus and raphe nuclei of neonate rats. Physiol Behav 2016; 165:35-42. [DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2016.06.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2016] [Revised: 06/23/2016] [Accepted: 06/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Chaskiel L, Paul F, Gerstberger R, Hübschle T, Konsman JP. Brainstem metabotropic glutamate receptors reduce food intake and activate dorsal pontine and medullar structures after peripheral bacterial lipopolysaccharide administration. Neuropharmacology 2016; 107:146-159. [PMID: 27016016 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2016.03.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2016] [Revised: 03/18/2016] [Accepted: 03/21/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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During infection-induced inflammation food intake is reduced. Vagal and brainstem pathways are important both in feeding regulation and immune-to-brain communication. Glutamate is released by vagal afferent terminals in the nucleus of the solitary tract and by its neurons projecting to the parabrachial nuclei. We therefore studied the role of brainstem glutamate receptors in spontaneous food intake of healthy animals and during sickness-associated hypophagia after peripheral administration of bacterial lipopolysaccharides or interleukin-1beta. Brainstem group I and II metabotropic, but not ionotropic, glutamate receptor antagonism increased food intake both in saline- and lipopolysaccharide-treated rats. In these animals, expression of the cellular activation marker c-Fos in the lateral parabrachial nuclei and lipopolysaccharide-induced activation of the nucleus of the solitary tract rostral to the area postrema were suppressed. Group I metabotropic glutamate receptors did not colocalize with c-Fos or neurons regulating gastric function in these structures. Group I metabotropic glutamate receptors were, however, found on raphé magnus neurons that were part of the brainstem circuit innervating the stomach and on trigeminal and hypoglossal motor neurons. In conclusion, our findings show that brainstem metabotropic glutamate receptors reduce food intake and activate the lateral parabrachial nuclei as well as the rostral nucleus of the solitary tract after peripheral bacterial lipopolysaccharide administration. They also provide insight into potential group I metabotropic glutamate receptor-dependent brainstem circuits mediating these effects.
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- Léa Chaskiel
- CNRS, PsychoNeuroImmunologie, Nutrition et Génétique, UMR 5226, Bordeaux, France; Univ. Bordeaux, PsyNuGen, UMR 5226, Bordeaux, France
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- CNRS, PsychoNeuroImmunologie, Nutrition et Génétique, UMR 5226, Bordeaux, France; Univ. Bordeaux, PsyNuGen, UMR 5226, Bordeaux, France
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- Institut für Veterinär-Physiologie und -Biochemie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, 35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Institut für Veterinär-Physiologie und -Biochemie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, 35392 Giessen, Germany
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- CNRS, PsychoNeuroImmunologie, Nutrition et Génétique, UMR 5226, Bordeaux, France; Univ. Bordeaux, PsyNuGen, UMR 5226, Bordeaux, France.
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da Silva ES, Flores RA, Cella EC, Levone BR, Taschetto AP, Kochenborger L, Terenzi MG, Faria MS, Paschoalini MA. Blockade of median raphe nucleus α1-adrenoceptor subtypes increases food intake in rats. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2014; 124:350-5. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2014.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2014] [Revised: 06/11/2014] [Accepted: 06/15/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Mammals exhibit daily anticipatory activity to cycles of food availability. Studies on such food anticipatory activity (FAA) have been conducted mainly in nocturnal rodents. They have identified FAA as the behavioral output of a food entrained oscillator (FEO), separate of the known light entrained oscillator (LEO) located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of hypothalamus. Here we briefly review the main characteristics of FAA. Also, we present results on four topics of food anticipation: (1) possible input signals to FEO, (2) FEO substrate, (3) the importance of canonical clock genes for FAA, and (4) potential practical applications of scheduled feeding. This mini review is intended to introduce the subject of food entrainment to those unfamiliar with it but also present them with relevant new findings on the issue.
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- Breno T S Carneiro
- Departamento de Ciências Animais, Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido Mossoró, Brazil ; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicobiologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Natal, Brazil
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Blum ID, Waddington Lamont E, Rodrigues T, Abizaid A. Isolating neural correlates of the pacemaker for food anticipation. PLoS One 2012; 7:e36117. [PMID: 22558352 PMCID: PMC3338627 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2011] [Accepted: 03/30/2012] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Mice fed a single daily meal at intervals within the circadian range exhibit food anticipatory activity. Previous investigations strongly suggest that this behaviour is regulated by a circadian pacemaker entrained to the timing of fasting/refeeding. The neural correlate(s) of this pacemaker, the food entrainable oscillator (FEO), whether found in a neural network or a single locus, remain unknown. This study used a canonical property of circadian pacemakers, the ability to continue oscillating after removal of the entraining stimulus, to isolate activation within the neural correlates of food entrainable oscillator from all other mechanisms driving food anticipatory activity. It was hypothesized that continued anticipatory activation of central nuclei, after restricted feeding and a return to ad libitum feeding, would elucidate a neural representation of the signaling circuits responsible for the timekeeping component of the food entrainable oscillator. Animals were entrained to a temporally constrained meal then placed back on ad libitum feeding for several days until food anticipatory activity was abolished. Activation of nuclei throughout the brain was quantified using stereological analysis of c-FOS expressing cells and compared against both ad libitum fed and food entrained controls. Several hypothalamic and brainstem nuclei remained activated at the previous time of food anticipation, implicating them in the timekeeping mechanism necessary to track previous meal presentation. This study also provides a proof of concept for an experimental paradigm useful to further investigate the anatomical and molecular substrates of the FEO.
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- Department of Neuroscience, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Wu Q, Clark MS, Palmiter RD. Deciphering a neuronal circuit that mediates appetite. Nature 2012; 483:594-7. [PMID: 22419158 DOI: 10.1038/nature10899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 250] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2011] [Accepted: 01/24/2012] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Hypothalamic neurons that co-express agouti-related protein (AgRP), neuropeptide Y and γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) are known to promote feeding and weight gain by integration of various nutritional, hormonal, and neuronal signals. Ablation of these neurons in mice leads to cessation of feeding that is accompanied by activation of Fos in most regions where they project. Previous experiments have indicated that the ensuing starvation is due to aberrant activation of the parabrachial nucleus (PBN) and it could be prevented by facilitating GABA(A) receptor signalling in the PBN within a critical adaptation period. We speculated that loss of GABA signalling from AgRP-expressing neurons (AgRP neurons) within the PBN results in unopposed excitation of the PBN, which in turn inhibits feeding. However, the source of the excitatory inputs to the PBN was unknown. Here we show that glutamatergic neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) and caudal serotonergic neurons control the excitability of PBN neurons and inhibit feeding. Blockade of serotonin (5-HT(3)) receptor signalling in the NTS by either the chronic administration of ondansetron or the genetic inactivation of Tph2 in caudal serotonergic neurons that project to the NTS protects against starvation when AgRP neurons are ablated. Likewise, genetic inactivation of glutamatergic signalling by the NTS onto N-methyl D-aspartate-type glutamate receptors in the PBN prevents starvation. We also show that suppressing glutamatergic output of the PBN reinstates normal appetite after AgRP neuron ablation, whereas it promotes weight gain without AgRP neuron ablation. Thus we identify the PBN as a hub that integrates signals from several brain regions to bidirectionally modulate feeding and body weight.
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- Qi Wu
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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Madsen HB, Brown RM, Short JL, Lawrence AJ. Investigation of the neuroanatomical substrates of reward seeking following protracted abstinence in mice. J Physiol 2012; 590:2427-42. [PMID: 22393250 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2011.225219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Persistent vulnerability to relapse represents a major challenge in the treatment of drug addiction. The brain circuitry that underlies relapse-like behaviour can be investigated using animal models of drug seeking. As yet there have been no comprehensive brain mapping studies that have specifically examined the neuroanatomical substrates of cue-induced opiate seeking following abstinence in a mouse operant paradigm. The aim of this study was to compare the brain regions involved in sucrose vs. morphine seeking following protracted abstinence in mice. Male CD1 mice were trained to respond for either sucrose (10% w/v) or intravenous morphine (0.1 mg kg(-1) per infusion) in an operant paradigm in the presence of a discrete cue. Once stable responding was established, mice were subjected to abstinence in their home cages for 3 weeks and then perfused for tissue collection, or returned to the operant chambers to assess cue-induced reward seeking before being perfused for tissue collection. Brain tissue was processed for Fos immunohistochemistry and Fos expression was quantified in a range of brain nuclei. We identified unique patterns of neuronal activation for sucrose and morphine seeking mice as well as some overlap. Structures activated in both ‘relapse' groups included the anterior cingulate and orbitofrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens shell, bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, substantia nigra pars compacta, ventral tegmental area, hippocampus, periaqueductal grey, locus coeruleus and lateral habenula. Structures that were more activated in morphine seeking mice included the nucleus accumbens core, basolateral amygdala, substantia nigra pars reticulata, and the central nucleus of the amygdala. The dorsal raphe was the only structure examined that was specifically activated in sucrose seeking mice. Overall our findings support a cortico-striatal limbic circuit driving opiate seeking, and we have identified some additional circuitry potentially relevant to reward seeking following abstinence.
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- Heather B Madsen
- Florey Neuroscience Institutes, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic, Australia, 3010
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Soares JG, Cavalcanti JR, Oliveira FG, Pontes AL, Sousa TB, Freitas LM, Cavalcante JS, Nascimento ES, Cavalcante JC, Costa MS. Nuclear organization of the serotonergic system in the brain of the rock cavy (Kerodon rupestris). J Chem Neuroanat 2012; 43:112-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2012.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2011] [Revised: 03/12/2012] [Accepted: 03/12/2012] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Myślińska D, Plucińska K, Glac W, Wrona D. Blood natural killer cell cytotoxicity enhancement correlates with an increased activity in brain motor structures following chronic stimulation of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in rats. Brain Res Bull 2011; 87:212-20. [PMID: 22230108 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2011.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2011] [Revised: 12/10/2011] [Accepted: 12/22/2011] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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The present study indicates that a chronic 14 day electrical stimulation of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BST) increased blood but not spleen natural killer cell (NK) cytotoxicity and a large granular lymphocyte (LGL) number. These immune changes positively correlated with the increased activity in brain cortical and subcortical motor structures that influence the BST stimulation-induced behavioral response. No significant changes in blood and spleen leukocyte population numbers and plasma corticosterone concentration after the stimulation were found. The obtained results suggest that this immunoenhancing effect on blood NK cell function and number is dependent on the behavioral outcome of the BST stimulation rather than endocrine response.
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- Dorota Myślińska
- Department of Animal Physiology, University of Gdańsk, 24 Kładki St., 80-822 Gdańsk, Poland
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Nunes-de-Souza V, Nunes-de-Souza R, Rodgers RJ, Canto-de-Souza A. Blockade of 5-HT2 receptors in the periaqueductal grey matter (PAG) abolishes the anxiolytic-like effect of 5-HT1A receptor antagonism in the median raphe nucleus in mice. Behav Brain Res 2011; 225:547-53. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.07.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2011] [Revised: 07/26/2011] [Accepted: 07/30/2011] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Mansur SS, Terenzi MG, Neto JM, Faria MS, Paschoalini MA. Alpha1 receptor antagonist in the median raphe nucleus evoked hyperphagia in free-feeding rats. Appetite 2011; 57:498-503. [DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2011.06.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2011] [Revised: 06/08/2011] [Accepted: 06/24/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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dos Santos TS, Meneghelli C, Hoeller AA, Paschoalini MA, Arckens L, Lino-de-Oliveira C, Marino-Neto J. Behavioral profile and Fos activation of serotonergic and non-serotonergic raphe neurons after central injections of serotonin in the pigeon (Columba livia). Behav Brain Res 2011; 220:173-84. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2010] [Revised: 01/28/2011] [Accepted: 02/01/2011] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Hurley LM, Hall IC. Context-dependent modulation of auditory processing by serotonin. Hear Res 2010; 279:74-84. [PMID: 21187135 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2010.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2010] [Revised: 12/13/2010] [Accepted: 12/20/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Context-dependent plasticity in auditory processing is achieved in part by physiological mechanisms that link behavioral state to neural responses to sound. The neuromodulator serotonin has many characteristics suitable for such a role. Serotonergic neurons are extrinsic to the auditory system but send projections to most auditory regions. These projections release serotonin during particular behavioral contexts. Heightened levels of behavioral arousal and specific extrinsic events, including stressful or social events, increase serotonin availability in the auditory system. Although the release of serotonin is likely to be relatively diffuse, highly specific effects of serotonin on auditory neural circuitry are achieved through the localization of serotonergic projections, and through a large array of receptor types that are expressed by specific subsets of auditory neurons. Through this array, serotonin enacts plasticity in auditory processing in multiple ways. Serotonin changes the responses of auditory neurons to input through the alteration of intrinsic and synaptic properties, and alters both short- and long-term forms of plasticity. The infrastructure of the serotonergic system itself is also plastic, responding to age and cochlear trauma. These diverse findings support a view of serotonin as a widespread mechanism for behaviorally relevant plasticity in the regulation of auditory processing. This view also accommodates models of how the same regulatory mechanism can have pathological consequences for auditory processing.
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- L M Hurley
- Indiana University, Jordan Hall/Biology, 1001 E. Third St, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
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Mansur SS, Terenzi MG, Neto JM, Faria MS, Paschoalini MA. Changes in food intake and anxiety-like behaviors after clonidine injected into the median raphe nucleus. Behav Brain Res 2010; 212:71-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.03.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2009] [Revised: 03/19/2010] [Accepted: 03/23/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Hall IC, Rebec GV, Hurley LM. Serotonin in the inferior colliculus fluctuates with behavioral state and environmental stimuli. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010; 213:1009-17. [PMID: 20228336 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.035956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Neuromodulation by serotonin (5-HT) could link behavioral state and environmental events with sensory processing. Within the auditory system, the presence of 5-HT alters the activity of neurons in the inferior colliculus (IC), but the conditions that influence 5-HT neurotransmission in this region of the brain are unknown. We used in vivo voltammetry to measure extracellular 5-HT in the IC of behaving mice to address this issue. Extracellular 5-HT increased with the recovery from anesthesia, suggesting that the neuromodulation of auditory processing is correlated with the level of behavioral arousal. Awake mice were further exposed to auditory (broadband noise), visual (light) or olfactory (2,5-dihydro-2,4,5-trimethylthiazoline, TMT) stimuli, presented with food or confined in a small arena. Only the auditory stimulus or restricted movement increased the concentration of extracellular 5-HT in the IC. Changes occurred within minutes of stimulus onset, with the auditory stimulus increasing extracellular 5-HT by an average of 5% and restricted movement increasing it by an average of 14%. These findings suggest that the neuromodulation of auditory processing by 5-HT is a dynamic process that is dependent on internal state and behavioral conditions.
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- Ian C Hall
- Department of Biology, 1001 E. Third Street, 342 Jordan Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
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Watanabe RLH, Andrade IS, Zemdegs JCS, Albuquerque KT, Nascimento CMO, Oyama LM, Carmo MGT, Nogueira MI, Ribeiro EB. Prolonged consumption of soy or fish-oil-enriched diets differentially affects the pattern of hypothalamic neuronal activation induced by refeeding in rats. Nutr Neurosci 2010; 12:242-8. [PMID: 19925717 DOI: 10.1179/147683009x423472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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We used c-Fos immunoreactivity to estimate neuronal activation in hypothalamic feeding-regulatory areas of 3-month-old rats fed control or oil-enriched diets (soy or fish) since weaning. While no diet effect was observed in c-Fos immunoreactivity of 24-h fasted animals, the acute response to refeeding was modified by both hyperlipidic diets but with different patterns. Upon refeeding, control-diet rats had significantly increased c-Fos immunoreactivity only in the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus (PVH, 142%). In soy-diet rats, refeeding with the soy diet increased c-Fos immunoreactivity in dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus (DMH, 271%) and lateral hypothalamic area (LH, 303%). Refeeding fish-diet rats with the fish diet increased c-Fos immunoreactivity in PVH (161%), DMH (177%), VMH (81%), and ARC (127%). Compared to the fish-diet, c-Fos immunoreactivity was increased in LH by the soy-diet while it was decreased in ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus (VMH) and arcuate hypothalamic nucleus (ARC). Based on the known roles of the activated nuclei, it is suggested that, unlike the fish-diet, the soy-diet induced a potentially obesogenic profile, with high LH and low VMH/PVH activation after refeeding.
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- Regina L H Watanabe
- Dept of Physiology, Division of Nutrition Physiology, Federal University of São Paulo, 04023-060 São Paulo, Brazil
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Food intake increased after injection of adrenaline into the median raphe nucleus of free-feeding rats. Behav Brain Res 2009; 197:411-6. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2008] [Revised: 09/30/2008] [Accepted: 10/04/2008] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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