INEFFECTIVENESS OF HYPOTHALAMIC SEROTONIN TO BLOCK NEUROPEPTIDE Y-INDUCED FEEDING

被引:15
作者
BROWN, CM
COSCINA, DV
机构
[1] UNIV TORONTO, CLARKE INST PSYCHIAT, BIOPSYCHOL SECT, TORONTO, ON, CANADA
[2] UNIV TORONTO, DEPT PSYCHOL, TORONTO, ON M5S 1A1, CANADA
[3] UNIV TORONTO, DEPT PSYCHIAT, TORONTO, ON, CANADA
关键词
FEEDING; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; SEROTONIN; FENFLURAMINE; PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; PERIFORNICAL HYPOTHALAMUS;
D O I
10.1016/0091-3057(94)00431-H
中图分类号
B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ; 030303 ; 04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
A variety of recent research has suggested that the feeding associated with enhanced neuropeptide Y (NPY) activity within the hypothalamus may operate in part by interacting antagonistically with other neural processes responsive to serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine or 5-HT). To test this possibility further, experiments were performed to determine if the magnitude of feeding produced by injecting NPY into the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) or the perifornical hypothalamus (PFH) was diminished by coinjections of 5-HT into these two sites or peripheral injections of the 5-HT agonist, d-fenfluramine. Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were implanted unilaterally with stainless steel cannulae aimed to terminate either in the PVN or the PFH. In both studies, NPY (235 pmol) produced significant feeding in both sites either 1 or 2 h after injection when compared to saline. This enhanced feeding response was significantly greater in the PFH 2 h after injection (40% in the central study; 70% in the peripheral study). Coinjection of 5-HT (6.3, 12.5, or 25.0 nmol) into either site had no effect on the induction of this NPY-induced feeding response. However, peripherally injected d-fenfluramine (0.32, 0.63, or 1.25 mg/kg) produced strong dose-dependent attenuation of both 1- and 2-h food intake elicited by 235 pmol NPY in either site, with the PFH being proportionately more sensitive to this effect. Viewed together, these results suggest that the feeding-suppressant effects of systemic fenfluramine on hypothalamic NPY-induced feeding may operate largely via peripheral mechanisms and/or central ones that have little to do with its 5-HT agonistic effects within the PVN or PFH.
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