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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 262: R39-R45, 1992;
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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 262, Issue 1 39-R45, Copyright © 1992 by American Physiological Society

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Caudal brain stem systems mediate effects of bombesin-like peptides on intake in rats

F. W. Flynn
Department of Psychology, University of Wyoming, Laramie 82071.

Intraoral intakes of sucrose (SI; 0.1 M) and distilled water (WI) were measured in tube-fed neurologically intact and tube-fed chronic supracollicular decerebrate (CD) rats after intraperitoneal injections of saline and bombesin (BN) and gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) in concentrations of 1, 2.5, 5, and 10 micrograms/kg. Also, to determine whether BN and GRP administration interacted with taste processing, oral motor responses during the 1st min of the intraoral infusion were videotaped and subsequently analyzed to determine the number of ingestive and aversive taste reactivity (TR) responses. Injections of greater than or equal to 2.5 micrograms/kg BN reliably suppressed SI similarly in both control and CD rats. In response to GRP, the only group difference was that injections of 1 microgram/kg GRP reliably suppressed SI in control but not CD rats. Administration of greater than or equal to 2.5 micrograms/kg GRP suppressed SI similarly in both control and CD rats. Although SI was suppressed by peripheral administration of BN and GRP, these treatments had no effect on the TR responses elicited by sucrose in either group. To determine whether the effects of BN and GRP were selective for sweet nutritive stimuli, intraoral WI was also measured in control rats after the same treatments. Injections of 5 and 10 micrograms/kg BN and 10 micrograms/kg GRP reliably suppressed WI, but lower doses had no effect. BN and GRP had no reliable effect on the pattern of TR responses elicited by water. Intraoral WI by CD rats was minimal (less than 1 ml) after injections of saline, BN, and GRP, and hence peptide effects could not be reliably assessed.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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