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APPETITE, OBESITY, DIGESTION, AND METABOLISM

Dehydration anorexia is attenuated in oxytocin-deficient mice

Departments of ¹Neuroscience, ²Pharmaceutical Sciences, and ³Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Submitted 22 December 2004 ; accepted in final form 17 February 2005

Evidence in rats suggests that central oxytocin (OT) signaling pathways contribute to suppression of food intake during dehydration (i.e., dehydration anorexia). The present study examined water deprivation-induced dehydration anorexia in wild-type and OT –/– mice. Mice were deprived of food alone (fasted, euhydrated) or were deprived of both food and water (fasted, dehydrated) for 18 h overnight. Fasted wild-type mice consumed significantly less chow during a 60-min refeeding period when dehydrated compared with their intake when euhydrated. Conversely, fasting-induced food intake was slightly but not significantly suppressed by dehydration in OT –/– mice, evidence for attenuated dehydration anorexia. In a separate experiment, mice were deprived of water (but not food) overnight for 18 h; then they were anesthetized and perfused with fixative for immunocytochemical analysis of central Fos expression. Fos was elevated similarly in osmo- and volume-sensitive regions of the basal forebrain and hypothalamus in wild-type and OT –/– mice after water deprivation. OT-positive neurons expressed Fos in dehydrated wild-type mice, and vasopressin-positive neurons were activated to a similar extent in wild-type and OT –/– mice. Conversely, significantly fewer neurons within the hindbrain dorsal vagal complex were activated in OT –/– mice after water deprivation compared with activation in wild-type mice. These findings support the view that OT-containing projections from the hypothalamus to the hindbrain are necessary for the full expression of compensatory behavioral and physiological responses to dehydration.

paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus; dorsal vagal complex; water deprivation; vasopressin

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