Spontaneous feeding-related monoamine changes in rostromedial hypothalamus of the obese Zucker rat: a microdialysis study

Physiology & Behavior
M OroscoS Nicolaïdis

Abstract

Using microdialysis in freely moving rats, we have been able to observe changes in monoamines from the ventromedial and paraventricular hypothalamic nuclei before, during, and after spontaneous feeding. Because the genetically obese Zucker rat shows abnormalities related both to feeding and monoamines, it was of interest to investigate possible particularities in the monoaminergic variations around spontaneous feeding. The profile of changes in Zucker rats was grossly similar to that of Wistar rats: increases in 5-hydroxy-tryptamine (5-HT), 5-hydroxyindolacetic acid (5-HIAA), and dopamine (DA), and decrease in dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC). However, the release in monoamines (5-HT and DA) was more dramatic and longer-lasting than in Wistar rats, while the changes in the metabolites were proportionnally less pronounced. This suggests that high concentrations of these feeding-related amines are released and remain in the synaptic cleft of the obese rat, possibly because they are required in larger amounts to bring about satiety. The hyperphagia of the obese Zucker rat may therefore be the result of a resistance to these prandially released satiety-promoting neurosubstances.

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