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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 263: R885-R890, 1992;
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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 263, Issue 4 885-R890, Copyright © 1992 by American Physiological Society

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Clonidine in the prepyriform cortex blocked anorectic response to amino acid imbalance

D. W. Gietzen and J. L. Beverly 3rd
Department of Physiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis 95616.

Ingestion of imbalanced amino acid diets (IMB) has been associated with a decrease in norepinephrine (NE) concentration in the prepyriform cortex (PPC), an area essential for the anorectic response to IMB. Decreased NE could result from activity-induced release (and subsequent metabolism) of the transmitter. If activity of the NE system is important in the rat's anorectic response to IMB, reduced NE activity should result in increased IMB intake. Therefore, the feeding response to IMB was measured after injecting clonidine (Clon) into the PPC to inhibit NE release. At 3 and 6 h after Clon (1.0 and 1.5 micrograms/rat) injections, IMB intake was increased from 69 (the usual response to IMB in untreated animals) to > 100% of control intake. Effective injection sites did not include the gustatory neocortex, an area important for conditioned taste aversions. Thus activation of the NE system in the PPC may be associated with the initial reduced intake of IMB, suggesting that NE activity in the PPC has a role in the neural mechanisms that subserve recognition of amino acid deficiency.


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