A comparison of the motor behaviours produced by the intrathecal administration of thyrotrophin-releasing hormone and thyrotrophin-releasing hormone analogues in the conscious rat

Neuroscience
J V JohnsonC A Marsden

Abstract

The behaviours evoked by the intrathecal injection of thyrotrophin-releasing hormone and a variety of analogues (RX77368, CG3509 and CG3703) were examined in conscious rats and the spread of injectate at the peak of the behavioural response was determined using 14C-labelled RX77368. The number of wet-dog shakes observed following intrathecal injection of thyrotrophin-releasing hormone, RX77368, CG3509 and CG3703 was linearly related to log10 dose (0.01-200 micrograms) in the first 6 min with the relative potencies being 1:7:10:60 respectively. The thyrotrophin-releasing hormone analogues also produced a marked forepaw-licking behaviour, but this did not increase with dose. Intrathecal or intraperitoneal pretreatment with prazosin (0.5 microgram and 1 or 2 mg/kg, respectively) attenuated both the wet-dog shake and forepaw-licking behaviours normally produced by the thyrotrophin-releasing hormone peptides. Following intrathecal [14C]RX77368 the radioactivity was principally restricted to the spinal cord with only limited amounts rostral to the rhombencephalon. These results imply that a tonically active bulbospinal noradrenergic pathway facilitates both thyrotrophin-releasing hormone-induced behaviours via alpha 1-adrenoceptors.

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