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Wiaderkiewicz J, Reilly S. Expression of c-Fos following voluntary ingestion of a novel or familiar taste in rats. Brain Res 2023; 1799:148177. [PMID: 36503889 PMCID: PMC9795852 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2022.148177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2022] [Revised: 11/13/2022] [Accepted: 11/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Taste neophobia, the rejection of novel tastes or foods, involves an interplay of various brain regions encompassing areas within the central gustatory system, as well as nuclei serving other functions. Previous findings, utilising c-Fos imaging, identified several brain regions which displayed higher activity after ingestion of a novel taste as compared to a familiar taste. The present study extends this analysis to include additional regions suspected of contributing to the neurocircuitry involved in evoking taste neophobia. Our data show increased c-Fos expression in the basolateral amygdala, central nucleus of the amygdala, gustatory portion of the thalamus, gustatory portion of the insular cortex and the medial and lateral regions of the parabrachial nucleus. These results confirm the contribution of areas previously identified as active during ingestion of novel tastes and expose additional areas that express elevated levels of c-Fos under these conditions, thus adding to the neural network involved in the detection and initial processing of taste novelty.
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- Jan Wiaderkiewicz
- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1007 West Harrison Street, Chicago, IL 60607, United States.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1007 West Harrison Street, Chicago, IL 60607, United States.
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Arthurs J, Lin JY, Reilly S. Inhibiting gustatory thalamus or medial amygdala has opposing effects on taste neophobia. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2018; 156:24-32. [PMID: 30336209 PMCID: PMC6309437 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2018.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2018] [Revised: 09/13/2018] [Accepted: 10/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Taste neophobia is a feeding system defense mechanism that limits consumption of an unknown, and therefore potentially dangerous, edible until the post-ingestive consequences are experienced. We found that transient pharmacological inhibition (induced with the GABA agonists baclofen and muscimol) of the gustatory thalamus (GT; Experiment 1), but not medial amygdala (MeA; Experiment 2), during exposure to a novel saccharin solution attenuated taste neophobia. In Experiment 3 we found that inhibition of MeA neurons (induced with the chemogenetic receptor hM4DGi) enhanced the expression of taste neophobia whereas excitation of MeA neurons (with hM3DGq) had no influence of taste neophobia. Overall, these results refine the temporal involvement of the GT in the occurrence of taste neophobia and support the hypothesis that neuronal excitation in the GT is necessary for taste neophobia. Conversely, we show that chemogenetically, but not pharmacologically, inhibiting MeA neurons is sufficient to exaggerate the expression of taste neophobia.
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- Joe Arthurs
- University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychology, United States.
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychology, United States
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- University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychology, United States.
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Good I, Allswede D, Curley K, Batsell WR. Increasing trial number produces augmentation, not blocking, in flavor-aversion conditioning. LEARNING AND MOTIVATION 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2015.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Arthurs J, Reilly S. Role of the gustatory thalamus in taste learning. Behav Brain Res 2013; 250:9-17. [PMID: 23644184 PMCID: PMC3699963 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.04.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2013] [Revised: 04/16/2013] [Accepted: 04/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The present study re-examined the involvement of the gustatory thalamus (GT) in the acquisition of drug- and toxin-induced conditioned taste aversions (CTAs) using a standardized procedure involving 15-min taste trials in rats injected with morphine (Experiment 1), lithium chloride (Experiment 2) or amphetamine (Experiment 3). Contrary to previous results, GT lesions did not eliminate drug-induced CTAs. Rather, GT-lesioned rats acquired aversions of comparable magnitude to non-lesioned subjects but from an elevated intake on the first conditioning trial. A similar pattern of lesion effects was found in the acquisition of an illness-induced CTA. Thus, we conclude that GT lesions do not differentially influence CTAs conditioned with drugs or toxins. The lesion-induced elevated intake of a novel tastant confirms an unappreciated role for the GT in taste neophobia.
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Affiliation(s)
- Joe Arthurs
- University of Illinois at Chicago, IL 60607,United States
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Lin JY, Roman C, Arthurs J, Reilly S. Taste neophobia and c-Fos expression in the rat brain. Brain Res 2012; 1448:82-8. [PMID: 22405689 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.02.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2011] [Revised: 01/07/2012] [Accepted: 02/05/2012] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Taste neophobia refers to a reduction in consumption of a novel taste relative to when it is familiar. To gain more understanding of the neural basis of this phenomenon, the current study examined whether a novel taste (0.5% saccharin) supports a different pattern of c-Fos expression than the same taste when it is familiar. Results revealed that the taste of the novel saccharin solution evoked more Fos immunoreactivity than the familiar taste of saccharin in the basolateral region of the amygdala, central nucleus of the amygdala, gustatory portion of the thalamus, and the gustatory insular cortex. No such differential expression was found in the other examined areas, including the bed nucleus of stria terminalis,medial amygdala, and medial parabrachial nucleus. The present results are discussed with respect to a forebrain taste neophobia system.
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- Jian-You Lin
- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1007 West Harrison Street, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.
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Lin JY, Arthurs J, Reilly S. Role of the insular cortex in morphine-induced conditioned taste avoidance. Brain Res 2011; 1384:80-8. [PMID: 21300039 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.01.109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2010] [Revised: 01/28/2011] [Accepted: 01/29/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The present study investigated the role of the insular cortex (IC) in morphine-induced conditioned taste avoidance. The results of Experiment 1 revealed that IC lesions impaired taste neophobia, retarded acquisition of conditioned saccharin avoidance and apparently attenuated the magnitude of that response at asymptote. Using neurologically intact subjects, Experiment 2 established that a safe and familiar saccharin stimulus supports substantially weaker conditioned avoidance at asymptote than does a potentially dangerous and novel saccharin stimulus. This pattern of results does not support the hypothesis that IC lesions disrupt the learning mechanism responsible for morphine-induced conditioned taste avoidance. The data are, however, consistent with the hypothesis that IC lesions impair the perception of the danger and/or novelty of the taste stimulus.
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- Jian-You Lin
- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1007 West Harrison Street, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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Onishi BKA, Xavier GF. Negative anticipatory contrast: does it involve anticipation of an impending reward? Behav Processes 2010; 86:263-71. [PMID: 21187128 DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2010] [Revised: 12/13/2010] [Accepted: 12/20/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Negative anticipatory contrast (NAC) corresponds to the suppression in consumption of a first rewarding substance (e.g., saccharin 0.15%) when it is followed daily by a second preferred substance (e.g., sucrose 32%). The NAC has been interpreted as resulting from anticipation of the impending preferred reward and its comparison with the currently available first reward [Flaherty, C.F., Rowan, G.A., 1985. Anticipatory contrast: within-subjects analysis. Anim. Learn. Behav. 13, 2-5]. In this context, one should expect that devaluation of the preferred substance after the establishment of the NAC would either reduce or abolish the contrast effect. However, contrary to this prediction, the results of the present study show that the NAC is insensitive to devaluation of the second, preferred, substance. This allows one to question that interpretation. The results reported in this study support the view that the NAC effect is controlled by memory of the relative value of the first solution, which is updated daily by means of both a gustatory and/or post-ingestive comparison of the first and second solutions, and memory of past pairings.
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- Barbara K A Onishi
- Department of Physiology, Biosciences Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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Lin JY, Roman C, Reilly S. Morphine-induced suppression of conditioned stimulus intake: effects of stimulus type and insular cortex lesions. Brain Res 2009; 1292:52-60. [PMID: 19631620 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.07.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2009] [Revised: 07/12/2009] [Accepted: 07/14/2009] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Intake of an unconditionally preferred taste stimulus (e.g., saccharin) is reduced by contingent administration of a drug of abuse (e.g., morphine). We examined the influence of insular cortex (IC) lesions on morphine-induced suppression of an olfactory cue and two taste stimuli with different levels of perceived innate reward value. Two major findings emerged from this study. First, morphine suppressed intake of an aqueous odor as well as each taste stimulus in neurologically intact rats. Second, IC lesions disrupted morphine-induced suppression of the taste stimuli but not the aqueous odor cue. These results indicate that the perceived innate reward value of the CS is not a factor that governs drug-induced intake suppression.
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- Jian-You Lin
- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1007 West Harrison Street, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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Roman C, Reilly S. Effects of insular cortex lesions on conditioned taste aversion and latent inhibition in the rat. Eur J Neurosci 2007; 26:2627-32. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05872.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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St Andre J, Albanos K, Reilly S. C-fos expression in the rat brain following lithium chloride-induced illness. Brain Res 2007; 1135:122-8. [PMID: 17204251 PMCID: PMC1851943 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2006] [Revised: 11/30/2006] [Accepted: 12/04/2006] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The present study examined c-Fos expression in selected brain areas consequent to administration of lithium chloride, the typical illness-inducing agent used in laboratory studies of conditioned taste aversion. The results replicated previous findings of significant c-Fos expression in the parabrachial nucleus, the central nucleus of the amygdala and the basolateral amygdala. New findings indicate significant lithium-induced c-Fos in the gustatory region of the thalamus and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis but not in the insular cortex. The results are discussed with respect to the neural substrates of conditioned taste aversion.
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- Justin St Andre
- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1007 West Harrison Street, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.
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Inui T, Shimura T, Yamamoto T. Effects of brain lesions on taste-potentiated odor aversion in rats. Behav Neurosci 2006; 120:590-9. [PMID: 16768611 DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.3.590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Rats failed to acquire aversions to odor stimulus, which was followed 30 min later by an unconditioned stimulus (US). However, when the odor stimulus was accompanied by a taste stimulus, they acquired odor aversions as well as taste aversions. In this phenomenon, referred to as a taste-potentiated odor aversion, lesions of the amygdala disrupted both taste and odor aversions, whereas lesions of the parvicellular part of ventroposteromedial thalamic nucleus (VPMpc) or insular cortex (IC) disrupted taste aversion but attenuated only odor aversion. These results suggest that both taste and odor stimuli are associated with US in the amygdala and that taste inputs delivered to the amygdala through the IC and/or VPMpc play an important role in potentiation of odor aversion.
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- Tadashi Inui
- Department of Behavioral Physiology, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
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Reilly S, Bornovalova M, Trifunovic R. Excitotoxic lesions of the gustatory thalamus spare simultaneous contrast effects but eliminate anticipatory negative contrast: evidence against a memory deficit. Behav Neurosci 2004; 118:365-76. [PMID: 15113262 DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.118.2.365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Using consummately contrast procedures and the same taste stimuli (0.15% saccharin and 1.0 M sucrose), the authors tested the hypothesis that lesions of the gustatory thalamus disrupt gustatory memory in 2 experiments. In Experiment 1, irrespective of the duration of the intersolution interval (0 s, 30 s, 1 min, 2 min, 4 min, 8 min), thalamic lesions had no influence on the expression of simultaneous contrast effects. In Experiment 2, thalamic lesions abolished anticipatory negative contrast at the 0-s intersolution interval. These results provide no support for the experimental hypothesis. Rather, the data seem best interpreted as a lesion-induced disruption of the comparison mechanism responsible for anticipatory negative contrast. By this analysis, different comparison mechanisms underlie simultaneous and anticipatory contrast effects.
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Affiliation(s)
- Steve Reilly
- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.
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