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Date created
2010
Authors/Contributors
Author: Mistlberger, Ralph E.
Author: Hsu, Jennifer
Author: Yu, Lisa
Author: Bowman, Melody
Author: Tecott, Laurence
Author: Sullivan, Elinor
Abstract
The ability to entrain circadian rhythms to food availability is important for survival. Food-entrained circadian rhythms are characterized by increased locomotor activity in anticipation of food availability (food anticipatory activity). However, the molecular components and neural circuitry underlying the regulation of food anticipatory activity remain unclear. Here we show that serotonin2C receptor (5-HT2CR) null mutant mice subjected to a daytime restricted feeding schedule exhibit enhanced food anticipatory activity compared to wild-type littermates, without phenotypic differences in the impact of restricted feeding on food consumption, body weight loss, or blood glucose levels. Moreover, we show that the enhanced food anticipatory activity in 5-HT2CR null mutant mice develops independent of external light cues and persists during two days of total food deprivation, indicating that food anticipatory activity in 5-HT2CR null mutant mice reflects the locomotor output of a food-entrainable oscillator. Whereas restricted feeding induces c-fos expression to a similar extent in hypothalamic nuclei of wild-type and null mutant animals, it produces enhanced expression in the nucleus accumbens and other extrahypothalamic regions of null mutant mice relative to wild-type subjects. These data suggest that 5-HT2CRs gate food anticipatory activity through mechanisms involving extrahypothalamic neural pathways.
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Hsu JL, Yu L, Sullivan E, Bowman M, Mistlberger RE, et al. (2010) Enhanced Food Anticipatory Activity Associated with Enhanced Activation of Extrahypothalamic Neural Pathways in Serotonin2C Receptor Null Mutant Mice. PLoS ONE 5(7): e11802. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011802
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Publication title
PLoS ONE
Document title
Enhanced Food Anticipatory Activity Associated with Enhanced Activation of Extrahypothalamic Neural Pathways in Serotonin2C Receptor Null Mutant Mice
Date
2010
Volume
5
Issue
7
Publisher DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0011802
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Peer reviewed?
Yes
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Funder: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation
Language
English
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