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Chiacchierini G, Naneix F, Peters KZ, Apergis-Schoute J, Snoeren EMS, McCutcheon JE. Protein Appetite Drives Macronutrient-Related Differences in Ventral Tegmental Area Neural Activity. J Neurosci 2021; 41:5080-5092. [PMID: 33926995 PMCID: PMC8197647 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.3082-20.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2020] [Revised: 04/07/2021] [Accepted: 04/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Control of protein intake is essential for numerous biological processes as several amino acids cannot be synthesized de novo, however, its neurobiological substrates are still poorly understood. In the present study, we combined in vivo fiber photometry with nutrient-conditioned flavor in a rat model of protein appetite to record neuronal activity in the VTA, a central brain region for the control of food-related processes. In adult male rats, protein restriction increased preference for casein (protein) over maltodextrin (carbohydrate). Moreover, protein consumption was associated with a greater VTA response, relative to carbohydrate. After initial nutrient preference, a switch from a normal balanced diet to protein restriction induced rapid development of protein preference but required extensive exposure to macronutrient solutions to induce elevated VTA responses to casein. Furthermore, prior protein restriction induced long-lasting food preference and VTA responses. This study reveals that VTA circuits are involved in protein appetite in times of need, a crucial process for animals to acquire an adequate amount of protein in their diet.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Acquiring insufficient protein in one's diet has severe consequences for health and ultimately will lead to death. In addition, a low level of dietary protein has been proposed as a driver of obesity as it can leverage up intake of fat and carbohydrate. However, much remains unknown about the role of the brain in ensuring adequate intake of protein. Here, we show that in a state of protein restriction a key node in brain reward circuitry, the VTA, is activated more strongly during consumption of protein than carbohydrate. Moreover, although rats' behavior changed to reflect new protein status, patterns of neural activity were more persistent and only loosely linked to protein status.
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- Giulia Chiacchierini
- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology & Behaviour, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 9HN, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology & Behaviour, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 9HN, United Kingdom
- Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology & Behaviour, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 9HN, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology & Behaviour, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 9HN, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology & Behaviour, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 9HN, United Kingdom
- Department of Psychology, Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, 9037, Norway
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Tapia MA, Lee JR, Bathe EL, Rivera LL, Mason KL, Cessac ME, Bodeen JL, Miller DK, Will MJ. Sigma-1 receptor antagonist, PD144418, selectively reduces female motivation for food during negative energy balance. Behav Brain Res 2019; 373:112087. [PMID: 31325519 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2019] [Revised: 07/15/2019] [Accepted: 07/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Sigma-1 (σ1) receptors have been investigated for their involvement in learning, rewarding and motivational processes. PD144418, a σ1 receptor antagonist, has been found to produce a dose-dependent attenuation of locomotor activity induced by cocaine, and by itself, does not suppress basal locomotor activity in mice. Moreover, PD144418 decreases the motivational effort of a food-reinforced behavior in male rats, without altering appetite or food palatability. It remains unknown whether the PD144418 can alter the motivational effort of a food-reinforced behavior in response to altered energy homeostasis, as is the case under 24 -h food deprivation. Additionally, while the previous experiments indicate effects in male rats, there has been no research examining the effects of PD144418, or any other σ1 receptor antagonist, on motivational aspects of feeding in females. The present study examined the effects of PD144418 on motivational aspects of feeding in male and female rats using an operant task under sated or food deprived conditions. Results indicated that when animals are sated, at the highest dose (10 μmol/kg), under a progressive ratio (PR) reinforcement schedule, PD144418 significantly attenuated the breakpoint and the number of active lever responses for sucrose pellets in both males and females. When animals are in a state of energy deficit, as is the case following 24-hr food deprivation, PD144418 does not alter motivationally driven operant responding as measured by the breakpoint in either sex but does alter the number of earned reinforcers responses in females.
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- Melissa A Tapia
- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.
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- Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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Tapia MA, Lee JR, Weise VN, Tamasi AM, Will MJ. Sex differences in hedonic and homeostatic aspects of palatable food motivation. Behav Brain Res 2018; 359:396-400. [PMID: 30465814 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2018.11.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2018] [Revised: 11/12/2018] [Accepted: 11/16/2018] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Feeding behaviors can be modified via homeostatic and hedonic mechanisms. Homeostasis, while primarily concerned with maintaining energy balance via food consumption and energy expenditure, can alter food reward and motivation in response to food deprivation. Alternatively, reward and motivation of food is also driven by its palatability or hedonic nature, and this process can be augmented by opioid receptor activation. The present study examined sex differences in the motivational properties of sucrose pellets through manipulation of homeostatic and hedonic processes via acute food deprivation and acute systemic administration of morphine, respectively. The results showed that regardless of sex, systemic injections of morphine did not alter the motivation to obtain a sucrose pellet on a progressive ratio schedule of reinforcement but does significantly increase consumption of sucrose pellets when freely available. Male and female rats demonstrated similar increased consumption of sucrose pellets under free feeding conditions following acute (24-hours) food deprivation, compared to the non-deprived conditions. Overall, the findings from these experiments indicate that female rats work harder in order to obtain a sucrose pellet (under a Progressive Ratio (PR) schedule of reinforcement) and consume more sucrose pellets than males. However, while acute morphine administration causes similar increases on feeding in males and females, it does not alter motivation as measured by breakpoint on a PR schedule of reinforcement.
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- Melissa A Tapia
- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
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Morales I, Currie PJ, Hackenberg TD, Pastor R. Opioidergic and dopaminergic modulation of cost/benefit decision-making in Long Evans Rats. Physiol Behav 2017; 179:442-450. [DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2017.07.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2017] [Revised: 07/12/2017] [Accepted: 07/12/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Mosberger AC, de Clauser L, Kasper H, Schwab ME. Motivational state, reward value, and Pavlovian cues differentially affect skilled forelimb grasping in rats. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016; 23:289-302. [PMID: 27194796 PMCID: PMC4880147 DOI: 10.1101/lm.039537.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2015] [Accepted: 03/21/2016] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Motor skills represent high-precision movements performed at optimal speed and accuracy. Such motor skills are learned with practice over time. Besides practice, effects of motivation have also been shown to influence speed and accuracy of movements, suggesting that fast movements are performed to maximize gained reward over time as noted in previous studies. In rodents, skilled motor performance has been successfully modeled with the skilled grasping task, in which animals use their forepaw to grasp for sugar pellet rewards through a narrow window. Using sugar pellets, the skilled grasping task is inherently tied to motivation processes. In the present study, we performed three experiments modulating animals’ motivation during skilled grasping by changing the motivational state, presenting different reward value ratios, and displaying Pavlovian stimuli. We found in all three studies that motivation affected the speed of skilled grasping movements, with the strongest effects seen due to motivational state and reward value. Furthermore, accuracy of the movement, measured in success rate, showed a strong dependence on motivational state as well. Pavlovian cues had only minor effects on skilled grasping, but results indicate an inverse Pavlovian-instrumental transfer effect on movement speed. These findings have broad implications considering the increasing use of skilled grasping in studies of motor system structure, function, and recovery after injuries.
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- Alice C Mosberger
- Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Department of Health Sciences and Technology, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Department of Health Sciences and Technology, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Department of Health Sciences and Technology, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Department of Health Sciences and Technology, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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Individual differences in anticipatory activity to food rewards predict cue-induced appetitive 50-kHz calls in rats. Physiol Behav 2015; 149:107-18. [DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2015.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2014] [Revised: 05/13/2015] [Accepted: 05/15/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Intermittent feeding schedules--behavioural consequences and potential clinical significance. Nutrients 2014; 6:985-1002. [PMID: 24599157 PMCID: PMC3967173 DOI: 10.3390/nu6030985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2013] [Revised: 02/06/2014] [Accepted: 02/17/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Food availability and associated sensory cues such as olfaction are known to trigger a range of hormonal and behavioural responses. When food availability is predictable these physiological and behavioural responses can become entrained to set times and occur in anticipation of food rather than being dependent on the food-related cues. Here we summarise the range of physiological and behavioural responses to food when the time of its availability is unpredictable, and consider the potential to manipulate feeding patterns for benefit in metabolic and mental health.
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Ahrens AM, Nobile CW, Page LE, Maier EY, Duvauchelle CL, Schallert T. Individual differences in the conditioned and unconditioned rat 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations elicited by repeated amphetamine exposure. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2013; 229:687-700. [PMID: 23700082 PMCID: PMC3935796 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-013-3130-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2012] [Accepted: 04/22/2013] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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RATIONALE Adult rats often produce 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs), particularly the frequency-modulated varieties, in appetitive situations. These calls are thought by some to reflect positive affective states and the reinforcing value of drugs such as amphetamine and cocaine. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine whether the number of unconditioned 50-kHz USVs elicited by amphetamine predicts the development and/or magnitude of drug-conditioned motivation. METHODS In three experiments, we recorded USVs before and after injections of 1 mg/kg amphetamine (i.v. or i.p.) administered once per session. Rats were categorized as "high callers" or "low callers" according to individual differences in the number of 50-kHz USVs elicited by their first amphetamine injection. We examined the conditioned appetitive behavior and conditioned place preference (CPP) that emerged in high and low callers after repeated pairings of amphetamine with specific contexts. We also examined whether amphetamine-induced calling was affected by treatment within an unfamiliar (test chamber) versus familiar (home cage) context. RESULTS Within an unfamiliar environment, the high callers consistently produced more amphetamine-induced 50-kHz USVs than the low callers. Compared to the low callers, high callers showed significantly greater amphetamine CPP as well as enhanced conditioned 50-kHz USVs and locomotor activity during anticipation of amphetamine. Individual differences were stable when amphetamine was administered in test chambers, but when it was administered in home cages, low callers showed an increase in 50-kHz calling that matched the high callers. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that individual differences in drug-induced USVs can reveal environment-sensitive traits involved in drug-related appetitive motivation.
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- Allison M. Ahrens
- Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- College of Pharmacy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Effects of signalled reward type, food status and a μ-opioid receptor antagonist on cue-induced anticipatory behaviour in laying hens (Gallus domesticus). Appl Anim Behav Sci 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2013.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Principles of motivation revealed by the diverse functions of neuropharmacological and neuroanatomical substrates underlying feeding behavior. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2013; 37:1985-98. [PMID: 23466532 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.02.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2012] [Revised: 02/12/2013] [Accepted: 02/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Circuits that participate in specific subcomponents of feeding (e.g., gustatory perception, peripheral feedback relevant to satiety and energy balance, reward coding, etc.) are found at all levels of the neural axis. Further complexity is conferred by the wide variety of feeding-modulatory neurotransmitters and neuropeptides that act within these circuits. An ongoing challenge has been to refine the understanding of the functional specificity of these neurotransmitters and circuits, and there have been exciting advances in recent years. We focus here on foundational work of Dr. Ann Kelley that identified distinguishable actions of striatal opioid peptide modulation and dopamine transmission in subcomponents of reward processing. We also discuss her work in overlaying these neuropharmacological effects upon anatomical pathways that link the telencephalon (cortex and basal ganglia) with feeding-control circuits in the hypothalamus. Using these seminal contributions as a starting point, we will discuss new findings that expand our understanding of (1) the specific, differentiable motivational processes that are governed by central dopamine and opioid transmission, (2) the manner in which other striatal neuromodulators, specifically acetylcholine, endocannabinoids and adenosine, modulate these motivational processes (including via interactions with opioid systems), and (3) the organization of the cortical-subcortical network that subserves opioid-driven feeding. The findings discussed here strengthen the view that incentive-motivational properties of food are coded by substrates and neural circuits that are distinguishable from those that mediate the acute hedonic experience of food reward. Striatal opioid transmission modulates reward processing by engaging frontotemporal circuits, possibly via a hypothalamic-thalamic axis, that ultimately impinges upon hypothalamic modules dedicated to autonomic function and motor pattern control. We will conclude by discussing implications for understanding disorders of "non-homeostatic" feeding.
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van der Plasse G, Merkestein M, Luijendijk MCM, van der Roest M, Westenberg HGM, Mulder AB, Adan RAH. Food cues and ghrelin recruit the same neuronal circuitry. Int J Obes (Lond) 2012; 37:1012-9. [PMID: 23069665 DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2012.174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2012] [Revised: 09/10/2012] [Accepted: 09/17/2012] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Cues that are associated with the availability of food are known to trigger food anticipatory activity (FAA). This activity is expressed as increased locomotor activity and enables an animal to prepare for maximal utilization of nutritional resources. Although the exact neural network that mediates FAA is still unknown, several studies have revealed that the medial hypothalamus is involved. Interestingly, this area is responsive to the anorexigenic hormone leptin and the orexigenic hormone ghrelin that have been shown to modulate FAA. However, how FAA is regulated by neuronal activity and how leptin and ghrelin modulate this activity is still poorly understood. OBJECTIVE We aimed to examine how the total neuronal population and individual neurons in the medial hypothalamus respond to cue-signaled food availability in awake, behaving rats. In addition, ghrelin and leptin were injected to investigate whether these hormones could have a modulatory role in the regulation of FAA. DESIGN Using in vivo electrophysiology, neuronal activity was recorded in the medial hypothalamus in freely moving rats kept on a random feeding schedule, in which a light cue signaled upcoming food delivery. Ghrelin and leptin were administered systemically following the behavioral paradigm. RESULTS The food-predictive cue induced FAA as well as a significant increase in neural activity on a population level. More importantly, a sub-population of medial hypothalamic neurons displayed highly correlated identical responses to both ghrelin and FAA, suggesting that these neurons are part of the network that regulates FAA. CONCLUSION This study reveals a role for ghrelin, but not leptin, signaling within medial hypothalamus in FAA on both a population level and in single cells, identifying a subset of neurons onto which cue information and ghrelin signaling converge, possibly to drive FAA.
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- G van der Plasse
- Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Souza da Silva C, van den Borne JJ, Gerrits WJ, Kemp B, Bolhuis JE. Effects of dietary fibers with different physicochemical properties on feeding motivation in adult female pigs. Physiol Behav 2012; 107:218-30. [DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2012] [Revised: 06/20/2012] [Accepted: 07/03/2012] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Verhagen LAW, Luijendijk MCM, de Groot JW, van Dommelen LPG, Klimstra AG, Adan RAH, Roeling TAP. Anticipation of meals during restricted feeding increases activity in the hypothalamus in rats. Eur J Neurosci 2011; 34:1485-91. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07880.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Rasmussen EB, Reilly W, Hillman C. Demand for sucrose in the genetically obese Zucker (fa/fa) rat. Behav Processes 2010; 85:191-7. [PMID: 20674704 DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2009] [Revised: 07/02/2010] [Accepted: 07/21/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Obese Zucker rats (fa/fa) eat more food than lean controls in free-feeding conditions, which strongly influences their phenotypic expression. Few studies, however, characterize their food consumption in environments that are more representative of foraging conditions, e.g., how effort plays a role in food procurement. This study examined the reinforcing efficacy of sucrose in obese Zucker rats by varying the responses required to obtain single sucrose pellets. Male Zucker rats (15 lean, 14 obese) lever-pressed under eight fixed ratio (FR) schedules of sucrose reinforcement, in which the number of lever-presses required to gain access to a single sucrose pellet varied from 1 to 300. Linear and exponential demand equations, which characterize the value of a reinforcer by its sensitivity to price (FR), were fit to the number of food reinforcers and responses made. Free food consumption was also examined. Obese Zuckers, compared to leans, consumed more food under free-feeding conditions. Moreover, they had higher levels of consumption and response output, but only at low FR values. Both groups were equally sensitive to price increases at higher FR values. This suggests that environmental conditions may interact with genes in the expression of food reinforcer efficacy.
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- Erin B Rasmussen
- Idaho State University, Department of Psychology, Mail Stop 8112, Pocatello, ID 83209-8112, United States.
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Peciña S, Smith KS. Hedonic and motivational roles of opioids in food reward: implications for overeating disorders. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2010; 97:34-46. [PMID: 20580734 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2010.05.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2009] [Revised: 05/11/2010] [Accepted: 05/14/2010] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Food reward can be driven by separable mechanisms of hedonic impact (food 'liking') and incentive motivation (food 'wanting'). Brain mu-opioid systems contribute crucially to both forms of food reward. Yet, opioid signals for food 'liking' and 'wanting' diverge in anatomical substrates, in pathways connecting these sites, and in the firing profiles of single neurons. Divergent neural control of hedonic and motivational processes raises the possibility for joint or separable modulation of food intake in human disorders associated with excessive eating and obesity. Early findings confirm an important role for 'liking' and 'wanting' in human appetitive behaviors, and suggest the intriguing possibility that exaggerated signals for 'wanting,' and perhaps 'liking,' may contribute to forms of overeating.
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- Susana Peciña
- Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI 48128, USA.
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Feeding association between the nucleus of the solitary tract and the ventral tegmental area. Appetite 2009; 53:457-60. [DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2009.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2009] [Revised: 08/31/2009] [Accepted: 09/06/2009] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Smirnov MS, Kiyatkin EA. Phasic and tonic fluctuations in brain, muscle, and skin temperatures during motivated drinking behavior in rats: physiological correlates of motivation and reward. Brain Res 2009; 1310:87-102. [PMID: 19932691 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.11.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2009] [Revised: 11/15/2009] [Accepted: 11/17/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Since brain metabolism is accompanied by heat production, measurement of brain temperature offers a method for assessing global alterations in metabolic neural activity. This approach, high-resolution (5-s bin) temperature recording from the nucleus accumbens (NAcc), temporal muscle, and facial skin, was used to study motivated drinking behavior in rats. Experienced animals were presented with a cup containing 5-ml of Coca-Cola(R) (Coke) beverage that resulted, within certain latencies, in initiation of a continuous chain of licking until all liquid was fully consumed. While cup presentation induced rapid, gradual NAcc temperature increase peaking at the start of drinking, temperatures slowly decreased during Coke consumption, but phasically increased again in the post-consumption period when rats were hyperactive, showing multiple interactions with an empty cup. Muscle temperatures followed a similar pattern, but the changes were weaker and delayed compared to those in the brain. Skin temperature rapidly dropped after cup presentation, steadily maintained at low levels during consumption, and slowly restored during the post-consumption period. Substitution of the expected Coke with either sugar-free Diet Coke(R) or water resulted in numerous drinking attempts but ultimately no consumption. During these tests, locomotor activation was much greater and more prolonged, brain and muscle temperatures increased monophasically, and their elevation was significantly greater than that with regular Coke tests. Food deprivation decreased drinking latencies, did not change the pattern of temperature fluctuations during Coke consumption, but temperature elevations were greater than in controls. Our data suggest sustained neural activation triggered by appetitive stimuli and associated with activational (seeking) aspects of appetitive motivated behavior. This seeking-related activation is rapidly ceased following consumption, suggesting this change as a neural correlate of reward. In contrast, inability to obtain an expected reward maintains neural activation and seeking behavior, resulting in larger deviations in physiological parameters.
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- Michael S Smirnov
- Behavioral Neuroscience Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse-Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, 333 Cassell Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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Rivalan M, Ahmed SH, Dellu-Hagedorn F. Risk-prone individuals prefer the wrong options on a rat version of the Iowa Gambling Task. Biol Psychiatry 2009; 66:743-9. [PMID: 19482266 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2009] [Revised: 04/01/2009] [Accepted: 04/04/2009] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Decision making in complex and conflicting situations, as measured in the widely used Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), can be profoundly impaired in psychiatric disorders, such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, drug addiction, and also in healthy individuals for whom immediate gratification prevails over long-term gain. The cognitive processes underlying these deficits are poorly understood, in part due to a lack of suitable animal models assessing complex decision making with good construct validity. METHODS We developed a rat gambling task analogous to the IGT that tracks, for the first time, the ongoing decision process within a single session in an operant cage. Rats could choose between various options. Disadvantageous options, as opposed to advantageous ones, offered bigger immediate food reward but were followed by longer, unpredictable penalties (time-out). RESULTS The majority of rats can evaluate and deduce favorable options more or less rapidly according to task complexity, whereas others systematically choose disadvantageously. These interindividual differences are stable over time and do not depend on task difficulty or on the level of food restriction. We find that poor decision making does not result from a failure to acquire relevant information but from hypersensitivity to reward and higher risk taking in anxiogenic situations. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that rats, as well as human poor performers, share similar traits to those observed in decision-making related psychiatric disorders. These traits could constitute risk factors of developing such disorders. The rapid identification of poor decision makers using the rat gambling task should promote the discovery of the specific brain dysfunctions that cause maladapted decision making.
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- Marion Rivalan
- CNRS UMR 5227, Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux Cedex, France
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Stockburger J, Schmälzle R, Flaisch T, Bublatzky F, Schupp HT. The impact of hunger on food cue processing: An event-related brain potential study. Neuroimage 2009; 47:1819-29. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.04.071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2008] [Revised: 03/23/2009] [Accepted: 04/18/2009] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Koizumi M, Cagniard B, Murphy NP. Endogenous nociceptin modulates diet preference independent of motivation and reward. Physiol Behav 2009; 97:1-13. [PMID: 19138695 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2008.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2008] [Revised: 12/04/2008] [Accepted: 12/10/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Previous studies show that the opioid peptide nociceptin stimulates food intake. Here, we studied nociceptin receptor knockout (NOP KO) mice in various behavioral paradigms designed to differentiate psychological and physiological loci at which endogenous nociceptin might control feeding. When presented a choice under food restriction, NOP KO mice displayed reduced preference for high sucrose diet, but lower intake of high fat diet under no-choice conditions. These responses were absent under ad libitum feeding conditions. Conditioned place preference to high fat diet under food-deprived conditions was unaltered in NOP KO mice, suggesting no difference in reward responses. Furthermore, operant food self-administration under a variety of conditions showed no genotype-dependent differences, suggesting no differences in the motivational properties of food. Taste reactivity to sucrose was unchanged in NOP KO mice, though NOP KO mice had altered aversive reactions to quinine solutions under ad libitum feeding, suggesting minor differences in the affective impact of palatable and unpalatable tastants. Although NOP KO mice re-fed following food-deprivation showed normal increases in plasma glucose and insulin, multidimensional scaling analysis showed that the relationship between these measures, body weight and plasma leptin was substantially disrupted in NOP KO, particularly in fasted mice. Additionally, the typical positive relationship between body weight and plasma leptin was considerably weaker in NOP KO mice. Together, these findings suggest that endogenous nociceptin differentially modulates diet preference depending on macronutrient content and homeostatic state, independently of the motivating, rewarding or orosensory properties of food, but may involve metabolic or postingestive processes.
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- Miwako Koizumi
- Molecular Neuropathology Group, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wakoshi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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Involvement of dopamine and opioids in the motivation to eat: influence of palatability, homeostatic state, and behavioral paradigms. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2009; 203:475-87. [PMID: 19015837 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-008-1390-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2008] [Accepted: 10/21/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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RATIONALE Motivation for food depends on several variables including food palatability, the homeostatic state of the organism, and the nature of the behavior required to obtain the reward. However, few studies to date have tried to evaluate motivation for food considering all these variables at the same time. Since dopamine and opioids have been deeply involved in the regulation of feeding, it is of interest to investigate their role considering all the mentioned variables. OBJECTIVES In this study, we evaluated the involvement of dopamine and endogenous opioids on food consumption and food motivation using behavioral paradigms that differ in the motor requirement to gain access to the reward, when food palatability and homeostatic state were taken into account. MATERIALS AND METHODS Pellets differentiated on palatability were offered to sated and restricted rats in consummatory tests and in different behavioral paradigms measuring motivational state, but requiring different motor outputs (runway and an operant progressive ratio 3 task). Peripheral injections of naloxone or flupenthixol were administered when these tasks were learned and stable. RESULTS Naloxone decreased food intake when pellets were palatable, while flupenthixol was without any effect. When considering motivation, naloxone decreased performances in both the runway and progressive ratio tests while flupenthixol was only effective in the progressive ratio test. CONCLUSIONS Impairing the opioid neurotransmission diminishes motivation to obtain food, possibly through a decrease in the perceived palatability of the food reward. The dopaminergic system appears to be more involved in the modulation of motivation to obtain food in a cost/benefit-related manner.
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Alsiö J, Pickering C, Roman E, Hulting AL, Lindblom J, Schiöth HB. Motivation for sucrose in sated rats is predicted by low anxiety-like behavior. Neurosci Lett 2009; 454:193-7. [PMID: 19429082 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.03.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2008] [Revised: 02/20/2009] [Accepted: 03/12/2009] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Anxiety has been implicated in obesity and in the overconsumption of highly palatable foods such as those high in fat, sugar, or both. Also, the novelty-seeking trait has been associated with failure in weight-loss programs. The aim of this study was to investigate the associations of experimental anxiety and the self-administration of sucrose and high fat pellets in non-food deprived rats across different operant schedules. Male Wistar rats were subjected to the elevated plus-maze test (EPM) of anxiety-like behavior. The rats were tested for fixed ratio 5 (FR5) and progressive ratio (PR) operant responding for 50% sucrose, 95% sucrose, and high-fat pellets. PR active lever press response for 95% sucrose, but not the other pellet types, was correlated to % time spent on open arms (P=0.019) in the EPM. On the FR5 schedule, activity (closed arm entries) was correlated to the self-administration of 50% sucrose (P=0.027) and high-fat (P=0.002). This indicates an association of novelty-induced activity and self-administration of palatable food in sated rats, as well as a specific association of PR lever press response for 95% sucrose and low anxiety-like behavior. It has been argued that such active lever press response on PR may be interpreted as craving for the reinforcer; thus, our findings indicate an inverse relationship of experimental anxiety and craving for sucrose. This connection may have implications for human situations, since anxiety and novelty-seeking have been associated with obesity and failure in weight-loss programs.
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- Johan Alsiö
- Department of Neuroscience, Functional Pharmacology, Uppsala University, BMC, Box 593, 751 24 Uppsala, Sweden
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Lattemann DF. Endocrine links between food reward and caloric homeostasis. Appetite 2008; 51:452-5. [PMID: 18638514 PMCID: PMC2576410 DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2008.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2008] [Accepted: 06/20/2008] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Both intrinsic and extrinsic (endocrine) inputs to the central nervous system (CNS) modulate motivation for feeding. Endocrine inputs such as insulin and leptin can have very rapid effects, but also the potential for chronic actions to decrease rewarding attributes of food. Future studies should elucidate the neural and cellular mechanisms which underlie these endocrine actions in the CNS.
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Geurden I, Corraze G, Boujard T. Self-feeding behaviour of rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, offered diets with distinct feed oils. Appl Anim Behav Sci 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2006.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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An increasing proportion of human food consumption appears to be driven by pleasure, not just by the need for calories. In addition to its effects on body mass and health, the food environment in affluent societies may be creating an appetitive counterpart to the psychological effects of other hedonically-driven activities such as drug use and compulsive gambling. This phenomenon is referred to here as "hedonic hunger." Animal literature is reviewed indicating that brain-based homeostatic and hedonic eating motives overlap but are nonetheless dissociable. In humans there is evidence that obese individuals prefer and consume high palatability foods more than those of normal weight. Among normal weight individuals it has long been assumed that the appetitive anomalies associated with restrained eating are due to diet-induced challenges to the homeostatic system, but we review evidence suggesting that they more likely stem from hedonic hunger (i.e., eating less than wanted rather than less than needed). Finally, a recently-developed measure (the Power of Food Scale; PFS) of individual differences in appetitive responsiveness to rewarding properties of the food environment is described. Preliminary evidence indicates that the PFS is reliable and valid and is related to clinically-relevant variables such as food cravings and binge eating. This measure, combined with environmental manipulations of food availability and palatability, may constitute a useful approach to studying hedonic hunger.
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- Michael R Lowe
- Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA.
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Barbano MF, Cador M. Opioids for hedonic experience and dopamine to get ready for it. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2007; 191:497-506. [PMID: 17031710 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-006-0521-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 188] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2006] [Accepted: 07/16/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE More than two decades ago, Wise proposed his "anhedonia hypothesis" to explain the role of dopamine in motivated behaviors. The hypothesis posits that dopamine mediates the pleasure experienced by reward obtainment. However, some experimental findings have contested this hypothesis and several authors have proposed alternative functions for dopamine with regard to motivation. Brain dopamine has been suggested to rather code for the preparatory aspects of behavior, while brain opioids seem to mediate the perception of the hedonic properties of rewards. OBJECTIVES The main goal of this review is to reexamine dopamine and opioids involvement in feeding when different aspects such as the anticipatory, motivational and consummatory components of this behavior are taken into account, but also when the physiologic state of the organism and the palatability of the food are considered. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS Altogether, the data presented point out for an implication of dopamine in the anticipatory/preparatory aspects of feeding more than on the motivational and consummatory aspects. However, dopamine involvement in the anticipatory/preparatory component of feeding seems specifically related to very relevant stimuli, such as highly palatable foods. On the other hand, our data, as well as those present in the literature, strongly suggest a role for opioids in food intake through their modulation of the hedonic perception of food. As a consequence, opioids are involved in those aspects of motivation driven by food palatability rather than by food homeostatic need.
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- M Flavia Barbano
- Laboratoire de Neuropsychobiologie des Désadaptations, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5541, Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, 146, rue Léo Saignat-BP 31, 33076, Bordeaux Cedex, France.
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la Fleur SE, Vanderschuren LJMJ, Luijendijk MC, Kloeze BM, Tiesjema B, Adan RAH. A reciprocal interaction between food-motivated behavior and diet-induced obesity. Int J Obes (Lond) 2007; 31:1286-94. [PMID: 17325683 DOI: 10.1038/sj.ijo.0803570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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OBJECTIVES One of the main causes of obesity is overconsumption of diets high in fat and sugar. We studied the metabolic changes and food-motivated behavior when rats were subjected to a choice diet with chow, lard and a 30% sucrose solution (high fat high sugar (HFHS)-choice diet). Because rats showed considerable variations in the feeding response to HFHS-choice diet and in food-motivated behavior, we investigated whether the motivation to obtain a sucrose reward correlated with the development of obesity when rats were subsequently subjected to HFHS-choice diet. METHOD We first studied feeding, locomotor activity and body temperature, fat weights and hormonal concentrations when male Wistar rats were subjected to HFHS-choice diet for 1 week. Second, we studied sucrose-motivated behavior, using a progressive ratio (PR) schedule of reinforcement in rats that were subjected to the HFHS-choice diet for at least 2 weeks, compared to control rats on a chow diet. Third, we measured motivation for sucrose under a PR schedule of reinforcement in rats that were subsequently subjected to HFHS-choice diet or a chow diet for 4 weeks. Fat weights were measured and correlated with the motivation to obtain sucrose pellets. RESULTS One week on the HFHS-choice diet increased plasma concentrations of glucose and leptin, increased fat stores, but did not alter body temperature or locomotor activity. Moreover, consuming the HFHS-choice diet for several weeks increased the motivation to work for sucrose pellets. Furthermore, the motivation to obtain sucrose pellets correlated positively with abdominal fat stores in rats subsequently subjected to the HFHS-choice diet, whereas this correlation was not found in rats fed on a chow diet. CONCLUSION Our data suggest that the motivation to respond for palatable food correlates with obesity due to an obesogenic environment. Conversely, the HFHS-choice diet, which results in obesity, also increased the motivation to work for sucrose. Thus, being motivated to work for sucrose results in obesity, which, in turn, increases food-motivated behavior, resulting in a vicious circle of food motivation and obesity.
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- S E la Fleur
- Department of Pharmacology and Anatomy, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Barbano MF, Cador M. Differential regulation of the consummatory, motivational and anticipatory aspects of feeding behavior by dopaminergic and opioidergic drugs. Neuropsychopharmacology 2006; 31:1371-81. [PMID: 16205784 DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1300908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Various aspects of feeding behavior (eg consumption, motivation and anticipation) are regulated by homeostatic and hedonic systems, and are modulated by dopaminergic and opioid brain systems. Here, we have studied the modulation of these aspects of feeding behavior by opioid and dopaminergic neurotransmission while taking into account food palatability and homeostatic state. Foods that varied in palatability were presented to either food sated or food restricted rats following injections of different doses of naloxone, an opioid receptor antagonist, or flupenthixol, a dopaminergic receptor antagonist, in behavioral paradigms that measured different aspects of feeding. Naloxone decreased food intake in a dose-dependent manner in sated rats given access to palatable food, without modifying food intake in food restricted rats. Flupenthixol did not have any effect on food intake. With regard to motivation, which was tested in a straight alley, naloxone increased the latency to reach the food only in sated rats presented with palatable food. Flupenthixol did not modify the latency of any group. Conditioned locomotor activity to repeated food presentation, a measure of anticipation, is expressed only in food restricted rats. Naloxone did not modify anticipatory activity, whereas flupenthixol decreased it only in food restricted rats presented with palatable food. These results reinforce the idea that the opioid system regulates feeding through the modulation of the perceived palatability of food. The dopaminergic system seems to be more important for the regulation of anticipatory activity related to motivationally relevant stimuli.
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- Maria Flavia Barbano
- Laboratoire de Neuropsychobiologie des Désadaptations, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5541, Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France.
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Pecoraro N. A near hat trick for Harlow (1953) with further thoughts on drive: theoretical comment on Barbano and Cador (2005). Behav Neurosci 2006; 119:1403-5. [PMID: 16300447 DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.5.1403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Norman Pecoraro
- Department of Physiology, University of California, 415 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0444, USA.
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