Expression of neuropeptide Y and cholecystokinin in the rat brain by chronic mild stress
| Autor: | Sun Young Cho, Kwang Ho Pyun, Dae Hyun Hahm, Insop Shim, Hyun Kim, Wei Whan Whang, Hyejung Lee, Hyun Young Kim |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Central nervous system Neuropeptide Biology Eating Arcuate nucleus Parvocellular cell Internal medicine medicine Animals Neuropeptide Y Chronic stress Molecular Biology Cholecystokinin Brain Chemistry Depression General Neuroscience Body Weight digestive oral and skin physiology Neuropeptide Y receptor Immunohistochemistry humanities Rats medicine.anatomical_structure Endocrinology Hypothalamus Neurology (clinical) Stress Psychological hormones hormone substitutes and hormone antagonists Developmental Biology |
| Zdroj: | Brain Research. 983:201-208 |
| ISSN: | 0006-8993 |
| Popis: | Neuropeptide Y (NPY) and cholecystokinin (CCK) are known to play important roles in the response to stress and the control of anxiety. In order to investigate the role of NPY and CCK in chronic mild stress (CMS), an animal model of depression, we examined the effects of CMS on sucrose intake as a measure of anhedonia, and expression of NPY and CCK in the rat brain utilizing immunohistochemistry. Sprague-Dawley rats were exposed to a variety of chronic unpredictable mild stressors for 8 weeks. CMS rats significantly reduced the consumption of sucrose intake and gained body weight more slowly, compared to control rats. CMS dramatically produced a decrease in NPY expression in several diencephalic regions including the parvocellular subregion of the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus (PVN), the periventricular hypothalamic nucleus (PE), the paraventricular thalamic nucleus (PV) and the arcuate nucleus (ACN). In contrast, CCK-like immunoreactivity throughout these areas was substantially increased in chronic mild stressed rats. These results clearly demonstrated that exposure of chronic mild stress upregulated CCK synthesis and downregulated NPY synthesis within the hypothalamus. The present results demonstrated that there was an inverse relationship between NPY and CCK in mediating stress response in an animal model of depression. These findings suggest that CCK and NPY systems may play important roles in expressing the symptopathology of the chronic stress responses such as depression, abnormality of food intake or anxiety-related disorders. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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