Growth hormone secretagogue receptor in dopamine neurons controls appetitive and consummatory behaviors towards high-fat diet in ad-libitum fed mice

Growth hormone secretagogue receptor (GHSR), the receptor for ghrelin, is expressed in key brain nuclei that regulate food intake. The dopamine (DA) pathways have long been recognized to play key roles mediating GHSR effects on feeding behaviors. Here, we aimed to determine the role of GHSR in DA ne...

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Autores principales: Cornejo, María Paula, Barrile, Franco, Cassano, Daniela Alejandra, Aguggia, Julieta Paola, Romero, Guadalupe Garcia, Reynaldo, Mirta Beatriz, Andreoli, Maria Florencia, De Francesco, Pablo Nicolás, Perelló, Mario Carlos
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Publicado: 2020
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/133814
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topic Medicina
GHSR
dopamine
high-fat
mesocorticolimbic pathway
ghrelin
appetite
spellingShingle Medicina
GHSR
dopamine
high-fat
mesocorticolimbic pathway
ghrelin
appetite
Cornejo, María Paula
Barrile, Franco
Cassano, Daniela Alejandra
Aguggia, Julieta Paola
Romero, Guadalupe Garcia
Reynaldo, Mirta Beatriz
Andreoli, Maria Florencia
De Francesco, Pablo Nicolás
Perelló, Mario Carlos
Growth hormone secretagogue receptor in dopamine neurons controls appetitive and consummatory behaviors towards high-fat diet in ad-libitum fed mice
topic_facet Medicina
GHSR
dopamine
high-fat
mesocorticolimbic pathway
ghrelin
appetite
description Growth hormone secretagogue receptor (GHSR), the receptor for ghrelin, is expressed in key brain nuclei that regulate food intake. The dopamine (DA) pathways have long been recognized to play key roles mediating GHSR effects on feeding behaviors. Here, we aimed to determine the role of GHSR in DA neurons controlling appetitive and consummatory behaviors towards high fat (HF) diet. For this purpose, we crossed reactivable GHSR-deficient mice with DA transporter (DAT)-Cre mice, which express Cre recombinase under the DAT promoter that is active exclusively in DA neurons, to generate mice with GHSR expression limited to DA neurons (DAT-GHSR mice). We found that DAT-GHSR mice show an increase of c-Fos levels in brain areas containing DA neurons after ghrelin treatment, in a similar fashion as seen in wild-type mice; however, they did not increase food intake or locomotor activity in response to systemically- or centrally-administered ghrelin. In addition, we found that satiated DAT-GHSR mice displayed both anticipatory activity to scheduled HF diet exposure and HF intake in a binge-like eating protocol similar to those in wild-type mice, whereas GHSR-deficient mice displayed impaired responses. We conclude that GHSR expression in DA neurons is sufficient to both mediate increased anticipatory activity to a scheduled HF diet exposure and fully orchestrate binge-like HF intake, but it is insufficient to restore the acute orexigenic or locomotor effects of ghrelin treatment. Thus, GHSR in DA neurons affects appetitive and consummatory behaviors towards HF diet that take place in the absence of caloric needs.
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author Cornejo, María Paula
Barrile, Franco
Cassano, Daniela Alejandra
Aguggia, Julieta Paola
Romero, Guadalupe Garcia
Reynaldo, Mirta Beatriz
Andreoli, Maria Florencia
De Francesco, Pablo Nicolás
Perelló, Mario Carlos
author_facet Cornejo, María Paula
Barrile, Franco
Cassano, Daniela Alejandra
Aguggia, Julieta Paola
Romero, Guadalupe Garcia
Reynaldo, Mirta Beatriz
Andreoli, Maria Florencia
De Francesco, Pablo Nicolás
Perelló, Mario Carlos
author_sort Cornejo, María Paula
title Growth hormone secretagogue receptor in dopamine neurons controls appetitive and consummatory behaviors towards high-fat diet in ad-libitum fed mice
title_short Growth hormone secretagogue receptor in dopamine neurons controls appetitive and consummatory behaviors towards high-fat diet in ad-libitum fed mice
title_full Growth hormone secretagogue receptor in dopamine neurons controls appetitive and consummatory behaviors towards high-fat diet in ad-libitum fed mice
title_fullStr Growth hormone secretagogue receptor in dopamine neurons controls appetitive and consummatory behaviors towards high-fat diet in ad-libitum fed mice
title_full_unstemmed Growth hormone secretagogue receptor in dopamine neurons controls appetitive and consummatory behaviors towards high-fat diet in ad-libitum fed mice
title_sort growth hormone secretagogue receptor in dopamine neurons controls appetitive and consummatory behaviors towards high-fat diet in ad-libitum fed mice
publishDate 2020
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/133814
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