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Title: | NPY mRNA and peptide immunoreactivity in the arcuate nucleus are increased by osmotic stimuli: correlation with dehydration anorexia. | Austin Authors: | O'Shea, R D;Gundlach, Andrew L | Affiliation: | University of Melbourne Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Unit, Department of Medicine, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia | Issue Date: | 16-May-1995 | Publication information: | Peptides; 16(6): 1117-25 | Abstract: | The role of neuropeptide Y (NPY) in the central control of appetite and energy balance is now established, but its involvement in the control of drinking and fluid homeostasis is less well characterized. Central administration of NPY stimulates drinking in rats, an effect believed to be independent of its orexigenic effects. Recent studies have demonstrated increased preproneuropeptide Y (preproNPY) mRNA in the arcuate nucleus (ARC) of the rat following food deprivation (FD) or water deprivation (WD). Because WD also suppresses food intake, it was not clear whether the osmotic or the anorectic effects of this stimulus were responsible for increased ARC preproNPY mRNA. In an attempt to distinguish between these possibilities, the present study further examined the effects of hyperosmotic stimuli on preproNPY mRNA in the ARC. Salt loading (4 or 7 days) and WD (4 days) both increased the abundance of preproNPY mRNA in the ARC. These increases were proportional to the severity and duration of treatment and were related to the degree of anorexia and weight loss. In a separate study WD, FD, or combined food and water deprivation (4 days) all produced similar decreases in body weight, but WD produced a smaller increase in ARC preproNPY mRNA. All of these treatments resulted in the appearance of NPY-like immunoreactivity in ARC neuronal perikarya. Together these findings suggest that NPY neuron activity in the ARC may be regulated by decreases in food intake rather than changes in body weight per se or increased osmolarity and support other data implicating NPY in the central regulation of energy homeostasis. | Gov't Doc #: | 8532596 | URI: | https://ahro.austin.org.au/austinjspui/handle/1/13400 | Journal: | Peptides | URL: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8532596 | Type: | Journal Article | Subjects: | Animals Anorexia.genetics.metabolism Arcuate Nucleus of Hypothalamus.metabolism Dehydration.genetics.metabolism Food Deprivation.physiology Immunohistochemistry In Situ Hybridization Male Neuropeptide Y.genetics.metabolism Osmosis.physiology Protein Precursors.genetics RNA, Messenger.genetics.metabolism Rats Rats, Sprague-Dawley Water Deprivation.physiology |
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