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Sclafani A, Castillo A, Carata I, Pines R, Berglas E, Joseph S, Sarker J, Nashed M, Roland M, Arzayus S, Williams N, Glendinning JI, Bodnar RJ. Conditioned preference and avoidance induced in mice by the rare sugars isomaltulose and allulose. Physiol Behav 2023; 267:114221. [PMID: 37146897 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2023.114221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2023] [Revised: 04/30/2023] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Isomaltulose, a slowly digested isocaloric analog of sucrose, and allulose, a noncaloric fructose analog, are promoted as "healthful" sugar alternatives in human food products. Here we investigated the appetite and preference conditioning actions of these sugar analogs in inbred mouse strains. In brief-access lick tests (Experiment 1), C57BL/6 (B6) mice showed similar concentration dependent increases in licking for allulose and fructose, but less pronounced concentration-dependent increases in licking for isomaltulose than sucrose. In Experiment 2, B6 male were given one-bottle training with a CS+ flavor (e.g., grape) mixed with 8% isomaltulose or allulose and a CS- flavor (e.g., cherry) mixed in water followed by two-bottle CS flavor tests. The isomaltulose mice showed only a weak CS+ flavor preference but a strong preference for the sugar over water. The allulose mice strongly preferred the CS- flavor and water over the sugar. The allulose avoidance may be due to gut discomfort as reported in humans consuming high amounts of the sugar. Experiment 3 found that the preference for 8% sucrose over 8% isomaltulose could be reversed or blocked by adding different concentrations of a noncaloric sweetener mixture (sucralose + saccharin, SS) to the isomaltulose. Experiment 4 revealed that the preference of B6 or FVB/N mice for isomaltulose+0.01%SS or sucrose over 0.1%SS increased after separate experience with the sugars and SS. This indicates that isomaltulose, like sucrose, has postoral appetition effects that enhances the appetite for the sugar. In Experiments 5 and 6, the appetition actions of the two sugars were directly compared by giving mice isomaltulose+0.05%SS vs. sucrose choice tests before and after separate experience with the two sugars. In general, the initial preference the mice displayed for isomaltulose+0.05%SS was reduced or reversed after separate experience with the two sugars although some strain and sex differences were obtained. This indicates that isomaltulose has weaker postoral appetition effects than sucrose.
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Levine AS, Jewett DC, Kotz CM, Olszewski PK. Behavioral plasticity: Role of neuropeptides in shaping feeding responses. Appetite 2022; 174:106031. [PMID: 35395362 DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2022.106031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2021] [Revised: 03/12/2022] [Accepted: 03/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Behavioral plasticity refers to changes occurring due to external influences on an organism, including adaptation, learning, memory and enduring influences from early life experience. There are 2 types of behavioral plasticity: "developmental", which refers to gene/environment interactions affecting a phenotype, and "activational" which refers to innate physiology and can involve structural physiological changes of the body. In this review, we focus on feeding behavior, and studies involving neuropeptides that influence behavioral plasticity - primarily opioids, orexin, neuropeptide Y, and oxytocin. In each section of the review, we include examples of behavioral plasticity as it relates to actions of these neuropeptides. It can be concluded from this review that eating behavior is influenced by a number of external factors, including time of day, type of food available, energy balance state, and stressors. The reviewed work underscores that environmental factors play a critical role in feeding behavior and energy balance, but changes in eating behavior also result from a multitude of non-environmental factors, such that there can be no single mechanism or variable that can explain ingestive behavior.
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- Allen S Levine
- Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55113, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55414, USA; Geriatric, Research, Education and Clinical Center, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health, Minneapolis, MN, 55417, USA
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- Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55113, USA; Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55414, USA; Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Waikato, Hamilton, 3240, New Zealand
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Place preferences induced by electrical stimulation of the external lateral parabrachial subnucleus in a sequential learning task: Place preferences induced by NLPBe stimulation. Behav Brain Res 2020; 381:112442. [PMID: 31862469 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2019] [Revised: 12/16/2019] [Accepted: 12/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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It is known that electrical stimulation of the external lateral parabrachial nucleus (NLPBe) can sustain concurrent taste and place learning. Place preferences can be learned through different procedures. Previous studies demonstrated that electrical stimulation of the PBNLe can generate aversive and preference place learning using concurrent procedures. In the concurrent procedure, the animals can move freely in the maze, and intracranial electrical stimulation is associated with their voluntary stay in one of the two maze compartments. However, the rewarding properties of most stimuli, whether natural or drugs of abuse, have usually been investigated using the sequential procedure, in which animals are confined while receiving the unconditioned stimulus and then undergo a choice test without stimulation in a later phase. This study examined whether this stimulation can sustain place preference learning in sequential tasks. Results demonstrated that place preferences can also be induced by the electrical stimulation of the NLBe using sequential procedures. These findings suggest that the NLPBe may form part of a brain reward axis that shares certain characteristics with those observed in the processing of natural rewarding agents and especially of drugs of abuse.
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Bodnar RJ. Endogenous opioid modulation of food intake and body weight: Implications for opioid influences upon motivation and addiction. Peptides 2019; 116:42-62. [PMID: 31047940 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2019.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2018] [Revised: 03/04/2019] [Accepted: 04/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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This review is part of a special issue dedicated to Opioid addiction, and examines the influential role of opioid peptides, opioid receptors and opiate drugs in mediating food intake and body weight control in rodents. This review postulates that opioid mediation of food intake was an example of "positive addictive" properties that provide motivational drives to maintain opioid-seeking behavior and that are not subject to the "negative addictive" properties associated with tolerance, dependence and withdrawal. Data demonstrate that opiate and opioid peptide agonists stimulate food intake through homeostatic activation of sensory, metabolic and energy-related In contrast, general, and particularly mu-selective, opioid receptor antagonists typically block these homeostatically-driven ingestive behaviors. Intake of palatable and hedonic food stimuli is inhibited by general, and particularly mu-selective, opioid receptor antagonists. The selectivity of specific opioid agonists to elicit food intake was confirmed through the use of opioid receptor antagonists and molecular knockdown (antisense) techniques incapacitating specific exons of opioid receptor genes. Further extensive evidence demonstrated that homeostatic and hedonic ingestive situations correspondingly altered the levels and expression of opioid peptides and opioid receptors. Opioid mediation of food intake was controlled by a distributed brain network intimately related to both the appetitive-consummatory sites implicated in food intake as well as sites intimately involved in reward and reinforcement. This emergent system appears to sustain the "positive addictive" properties providing motivational drives to maintain opioid-seeking behavior.
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- Richard J Bodnar
- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, United States; Psychology Doctoral Program and CUNY Neuroscience Collaborative, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, United States.
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Iskhakov B, Bourie F, Shenouda M, Fazilov G, Buras A, Bhattacharjee D, Dohnalova P, Iskhakova J, Bodnar RJ. Murine genetic variance in muscarinic cholinergic receptor antagonism of acquisition and expression of sucrose-conditioned flavor preferences in three inbred mouse strains. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2018; 172:1-8. [PMID: 29969600 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2018.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2018] [Revised: 06/04/2018] [Accepted: 06/29/2018] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Conditioned flavor preferences (CFP) are elicited by sucrose relative to saccharin in inbred mice with both the robustness of the preferences and sensitivity to pharmacological receptor antagonists sensitive to genetic variance. Dopamine, opioid and N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor antagonists differentially interfere with the acquisition (learning) and expression (maintenance) of sucrose-CFP in BALB/c and SWR inbred mice. Further, the muscarinic cholinergic receptor antagonist, scopolamine (SCOP) more potently reduces both sucrose and saccharin intake in BALB/c and C57BL/6 relative to SWR inbred mice. The present study examined whether SCOP altered the expression and acquisition of sucrose-CFP in BALB/c, C57BL/6 and SWR mice. In expression experiments, food-restricted mice alternately consumed a flavored (CS+, e.g., cherry, 5 sessions) 16% sucrose solution and a differently-flavored (CS-, e.g., grape, 5 sessions) 0.05% saccharin solution. Two-bottle CS choice tests with the two flavors mixed in 0.2% saccharin solutions occurred following vehicle or SCOP at doses of 1 or 5 mg/kg. SCOP significantly reduced the magnitude of the expression of sucrose-CFP in BALB/c, but not either C57BL/6 or SWR mice. In acquisition experiments, separate groups of BALB/c, C57BL/6 and SWR mice were treated prior to acquisition training sessions with vehicle or 2.5 or 5 mg/kg SCOP doses that was followed by six two-bottle CS choice tests without injections. SCOP dose-dependently reduced (1 mg/kg) and eliminated (2.5 mg/kg) the acquisition of sucrose-CFP in BALB/c mice, and reduced the magnitude of acquisition of sucrose-CFP in SWR mice. In contrast, neither SCOP dose affected the acquisition of sucrose-CFP in C57BL/6 mice. Thus, muscarinic cholinergic receptor signaling is essential for the learning of sucrose-CFP in BALB/c mice, to a lesser degree in SWR mice, but not in C57BL/6 mice. Murine genetic variance differentially modulates muscarinic cholinergic receptor control of sweet intake per se relative to learned conditioned flavor preferences of sweets.
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- Ben Iskhakov
- Department of Psychology, Queens College, CUNY, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, CUNY, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, CUNY, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, CUNY, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, CUNY, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, CUNY, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, CUNY, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, CUNY, New York, NY, USA; CUNY Neuroscience Collaborative, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, USA.
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The convergence of psychology and neurobiology in flavor-nutrient learning. Appetite 2018; 122:36-43. [DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2017.03.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2016] [Revised: 03/27/2017] [Accepted: 03/30/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Bodnar RJ. Conditioned flavor preferences in animals: Merging pharmacology, brain sites and genetic variance. Appetite 2016; 122:17-25. [PMID: 27988368 DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2016.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2016] [Revised: 12/07/2016] [Accepted: 12/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The elucidation of the behavioral, neurochemical, neuroanatomical and genetic substrates mediating the development of conditioned flavor preferences (CFP) is one of the multi-faceted scientific contributions that Dr. Anthony Sclafani has made to the study of food intake. This review summarizes the results of thirty-five publications over nearly twenty years of collaborations between the Sclafani and Bodnar laboratories. This includes the different approaches employed to study the orosensory (flavor-flavor) and post-ingestive (flavor-nutrient) processes underlying CFP including its acquisition (learning) and expression. It describes how CFP is elicited by different sugars (sucrose, glucose, fructose) and fats (corn oil) in rats, and how strain-specific CFP effects can be observed through the use of inbred mouse strains to evaluate genetic variance. The roles of pharmacological substrates (dopamine, glutamate, opioids, acetylcholine, GABA, cannabinoids) mediating sugar- and fat-CFP acquisition and expression are elucidated. Finally, neuroanatomical sites of action (nucleus accumbens, amygdala, medial prefrontal and orbital frontal cortices, lateral hypothalamus) are evaluated at which dopamine signaling mediates acquisition and expression of different forms of CFP.
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- Richard J Bodnar
- Department of Psychology, Queens College and the Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Cluster of the Psychology Doctoral Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States.
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Multiple physiologic and neural systems contribute to the controls over what and how much we eat. These systems include signaling involved in the detection and signaling of nutrient availability, signals arising from consumed nutrients that provide feedback information during a meal to induce satiation, and signals related to the rewarding properties of eating. Each of these has a separate neural representation, but important interactions among these systems are critical to the overall controls of food intake.
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- Timothy H Moran
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 720 Rutland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; Global Obesity Prevention Center at Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 720 Rutland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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Rotella FM, Olsson K, Martinez N, Mordo A, Kohen I, Aminov A, Pagirsky J, Yu A, Vig V, Bodnar RJ. Muscarinic, nicotinic and GABAergic receptor signaling differentially mediate fat-conditioned flavor preferences in rats. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2016; 150-151:14-21. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2016.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2016] [Revised: 08/09/2016] [Accepted: 09/02/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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NMDA receptor antagonism differentially reduces acquisition and expression of sucrose- and fructose-conditioned flavor preferences in BALB/c and SWR mice. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2016; 148:76-83. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2016.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2016] [Revised: 05/18/2016] [Accepted: 06/14/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Sakamoto K, Matsumura S, Okafuji Y, Eguchi A, Lee S, Adachi SI, Fujitani M, Tsuzuki S, Inoue K, Fushiki T. Mechanisms Involved in Guiding the Preference for Fat Emulsion Differ Depending on the Concentration. J Nutr Sci Vitaminol (Tokyo) 2016; 61:247-54. [PMID: 26226962 DOI: 10.3177/jnsv.61.247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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High-fat foods tend to be palatable and can cause addiction in mice via a reinforcing effect. However, mice showed preference for low fat concentrations that do not elicit a reinforcing effect in a two-bottle choice test with water as the alternative. This behavior indicates the possibility that the mechanism underlying fat palatability may differ depending on the dietary fat content. To address this issue, we examined the influences of the opioid system and olfactory and gustatory transductions on the intake and reinforcing effects of various concentrations of a dietary fat emulsion (Intralipid). We found that the intake and reinforcing effects of fat emulsion were reduced by the administration of an opioid receptor antagonist (naltrexone). Furthermore, the action of naltrexone was only observed at higher concentrations of fat emulsion. The intake and the reinforcing effects of fat emulsion were also reduced by olfactory and glossopharyngeal nerve transections (designated ONX and GLX, respectively). In contrast to naltrexone, the effects of ONX and GLX were mainly observed at lower concentrations of fat emulsion. These results imply that the opioid system seems to have a greater role in determining the palatability of high-fat foods unlike the contribution of olfactory and glossopharyngeal nerves.
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- Kazuhiro Sakamoto
- Laboratory of Nutrition Chemistry, Division of Food Science and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
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Daniels S, Marshall P, Leri F. Alterations of naltrexone-induced conditioned place avoidance by pre-exposure to high fructose corn syrup or heroin in Sprague-Dawley rats. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2016; 233:425-33. [PMID: 26514556 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-015-4121-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2015] [Accepted: 10/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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RATIONALE It has been suggested that withdrawal from sugar produces a set of symptoms that resemble those observed following withdrawal from opiate drugs. OBJECTIVES This study explored naltrexone-induced withdrawal in animals pre-exposed to acute, chronic, and intermittent high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) or acute and chronic heroin administration. METHODS Experiment 1 examined conditioned place avoidance (CPA) induced by different doses of naltrexone (0.01-1 mg/kg) in naïve male Sprague-Dawley rats. In experiment 2, rats received continuous or intermittent home cage HFCS access (0 or 50 %) prior to conditioning with 1 mg/kg naltrexone. In experiment 3, HFCS ingestion was increased by food restriction and rats were conditioned with 3 mg/kg naltrexone. In experiment 4, the timing and quantity of HFCS ingestion (0, 0.5, 1, 2 g/kg) was controlled by intragastric administration, and rats were conditioned with 1 mg/kg naltrexone. In experiment 5, rats received acute (2 mg/kg) or chronic heroin (3.5 mg/kg/day) prior to conditioning with 1 mg/kg naltrexone. RESULTS Administration of naltrexone produced moderate conditioned place avoidance in naïve rats. Importantly, acute, continuous, and intermittent HFCS pre-exposure did not significantly amplify this effect, but acute and chronic heroin pre-exposure did. CONCLUSIONS As assessed by CPA, these results in rats fail to support the hypothesis that an opioid antagonist can precipitate similar affective withdrawal states following pre-exposure to sugars and opiates.
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- Stephen Daniels
- Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada.
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Kraft TT, Yakubov Y, Huang D, Fitzgerald G, Natanova E, Sclafani A, Bodnar RJ. Dopamine D1 and opioid receptor antagonists differentially reduce the acquisition and expression of fructose-conditioned flavor preferences in BALB/c and SWR mice. Physiol Behav 2015. [PMID: 26220464 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2015.07.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Sugar appetite is influenced by unlearned and learned preferences in rodents. The present study examined whether dopamine (DA) D1 (SCH23390: SCH) and opioid (naltrexone: NTX) receptor antagonists differentially altered the expression and acquisition of fructose-conditioned flavor preferences (CFPs) in BALB/c and SWR mice. In expression experiments, food-restricted mice alternately (10 sessions, 1h) consumed a flavored (e.g., cherry) 8% fructose+0.2% saccharin solution (CS+) and a differently-flavored (e.g., grape) 0.2% saccharin solution (CS-). Two-bottle CS choice tests (1h) occurred 0.5h following vehicle: SCH (200 or 800 nmol/kg) or NTX (1 or 5mg/kg). SCH, but not NTX significantly reduced CS+ preference in both strains. In acquisition experiments, 0.5h prior to 10 acquisition training sessions, vehicle, SCH (50 nmol/kg), NTX (1 mg/kg) or Limited Control vehicle treatments were administered, followed by two-bottle CS choice tests without injections. SCH and NTX reduced training intakes in both strains. BALB/c mice displayed hastened extinction of the fructose-CFP following training with SCH, but not NTX. SCH eliminated fructose-CFP acquisition in SWR mice, whereas NTX hastened extinction of the CFP. These results are compared to previous drug findings obtained with sucrose-CFPs in SWR and BALB/c mice, and are discussed in terms of differential effects of these sugars on oral and post-oral conditioning.
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- Tamar T Kraft
- Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Cluster of the Psychology Doctoral Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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- Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Cluster of the Psychology Doctoral Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA; Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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- Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Cluster of the Psychology Doctoral Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA; Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
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Sakamoto K, Okahashi T, Matsumura S, Okafuji Y, Adachi SI, Tsuzuki S, Inoue K, Fushiki T. The opioid system majorly contributes to preference for fat emulsions but not sucrose solutions in mice. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2014; 79:658-63. [PMID: 25516200 DOI: 10.1080/09168451.2014.991688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Rodents show a stronger preference for fat than sucrose, even if their diet is isocaloric. This implies that the preference mechanisms for fat and sucrose differ. To compare the contribution of the opioid system to the preference of fat and sucrose, we examined the effects of mu-, delta-, kappa-, and non-selective opioid receptor antagonists on the preference of sucrose and fat, assessed by a two-bottle choice test and a licking test, in mice naïve to sucrose and fat ingestion. Administration of non-selective and mu-selective opioid receptor antagonists more strongly inhibited the preference of fat than sucrose. While the preference of fat was reduced to the same level as water by the antagonist administration that of sucrose was still greater than water. Our results suggest that the preference of fat relies strongly on the opioid system, while that of sucrose is regulated by other mechanisms in addition to the opioid system.
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- Kazuhiro Sakamoto
- a Laboratory of Nutrition Chemistry, Division of Food Science and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agriculture , Kyoto University , Kyoto , Japan
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Dela Cruz JAD, Coke T, Icaza-Cukali D, Khalifa N, Bodnar RJ. Roles of NMDA and dopamine D1 and D2 receptors in the acquisition and expression of flavor preferences conditioned by oral glucose in rats. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2014; 114:223-30. [PMID: 25065714 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2014.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2014] [Revised: 06/02/2014] [Accepted: 07/11/2014] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Animals learn to prefer flavors associated with the intake of sugar (sucrose, fructose, glucose) and fat (corn oil: CO) solutions. Conditioned flavor preferences (CFP) have been elicited for sugars based on orosensory (flavor-flavor: e.g., fructose-CFP) and post-ingestive (flavor-nutrient: e.g., intragastric (IG) glucose-CFP) processes. Dopamine (DA) D1, DA D2 and NMDA receptor antagonism differentially eliminate the acquisition and expression of fructose-CFP and IG glucose-CFP. However, pharmacological analysis of fat (CO)-CFP, mediated by both flavor-flavor and flavor-nutrient processes, indicated that acquisition and expression of fat-CFP were minimally affected by systemic DA D1 and D2 antagonists, and were reduced by NMDA antagonism. Therefore, the present study examined whether systemic DA D1 (SCH23390), DA D2 (raclopride) or NMDA (MK-801) receptor antagonists altered acquisition and/or expression of CFP induced by oral glucose that should be mediated by both flavor-flavor and flavor-nutrient processes. Oral glucose-CFP was elicited following by training rats to drink one novel flavor (CS+, e.g., cherry) mixed in 8% glucose and another flavor (CS-, e.g., grape) mixed in 2% glucose. In expression studies, food-restricted rats drank these solutions in one-bottle sessions (2 h) over 10 days. Subsequent two-bottle tests with the CS+ and CS- flavors mixed in 2% glucose occurred 0.5 h after systemic administration of vehicle (VEH), SCH23390 (50-800 nmol/kg), raclopride (50-800 nmol/kg) or MK-801 (50-200 μg/kg). Rats displayed a robust CS+ preference following VEH treatment (94-95%) which was significantly though marginally attenuated by SCH23390 (67-70%), raclopride (77%) or MK-801 (70%) at doses that also markedly reduced overall CS intake. In separate acquisition studies, rats received VEH, SCH23390 (50-400 nmol/kg), raclopride (50-400 nmol/kg) or MK-801 (100 μg/kg) 0.5 h prior to ten 1-bottle training trials with CS+/8%G and CS-/2%G training solutions that was followed by six 2-bottle CS+ vs. CS- tests in 2% glucose conducted without injections. The significant and persistent CS+ preferences observed in the VEH (94-98%) group was significantly reduced by rats receiving SCH23390 at 400 nmol/kg (65-73%), raclopride at 200 or 400 nmol/kg (76-82%) or MK-801 at 100 μg/kg (68-69%). Thus, systemic DA D1 and DA D2 receptor antagonism produced smaller reductions in the expression of oral glucose-CFP relative to fructose-CFP or IG-glucose-CFP. Correspondingly, systemic DA D1, DA D2 and NMDA receptor antagonism also produced smaller reductions in the acquisition of oral glucose-CFP relative to fructose-CFP or IG-glucose-CFP. These data suggest, but do not prove, that the magnitude and persistence of these receptor antagonist effects upon sugar-CFP might depend upon the individual or combined engagement of flavor-flavor and flavor-nutrient processes.
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- J A D Dela Cruz
- Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Cluster, Psychology Doctoral Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, United States
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- Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Cluster, Psychology Doctoral Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States; Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, United States.
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Ackroff K, Sclafani A. Rapid post-oral stimulation of intake and flavor conditioning in rats by glucose but not a non-metabolizable glucose analog. Physiol Behav 2014; 133:92-8. [PMID: 24811140 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.04.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2014] [Accepted: 04/29/2014] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Mice adapted to drink a flavored saccharin solution (CS-) paired with intragastric (IG) self-infusions of water rapidly increase their intake of a new flavored solution (CS+) that is paired with IG glucose self-infusions. The present study extends this method to examine post-oral glucose appetition in rats. Food-restricted rats were trained to consume a CS- flavor (e.g., grape saccharin) paired with IG water in 5 daily 1-h tests. In the next 3 tests, they drank a CS+ (e.g., cherry saccharin) paired with IG glucose. Rats infused with 8% glucose increased intake significantly on CS+ Test 1, but those infused with 16% glucose showed only a small increase in intake, which may reflect a counteracting satiating effect. Both groups further increased CS+ intakes in Tests 2 and 3, and preferred (81%) the CS+ to the CS- in a two-bottle test without infusions. A second experiment investigated rats' responses to IG alpha-methyl-d-glucopyranoside (MDG), a non-metabolizable sugar analog which stimulates CS+ intake and preference in mice. The rats reduced their intake of the MDG-paired CS+ flavor over sessions, and preferred the CS- to the CS+ in the choice test. The glucose data show that rats, like mice, rapidly detect the sugar's positive post-oral effects that can stimulate intake within the first hour of exposure. The MDG avoidance may indicate a greater sensitivity to its post-oral inhibitory effects in rats than in mice, or perhaps slower clearance of MDG in rats. The test protocol described here can be used to investigate the peripheral and central processes involved in stimulation of intake by post-oral nutrients in rats.
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- Karen Ackroff
- Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA
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Role of NMDA, opioid and dopamine D1 and D2 receptor signaling in the acquisition of a quinine-conditioned flavor avoidance in rats. Physiol Behav 2014; 128:133-40. [DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2013] [Revised: 11/04/2013] [Accepted: 01/17/2014] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Evaluation of saccharin intake and expression of fructose-conditioned flavor preferences following opioid receptor antagonism in the medial prefrontal cortex, amygdala or lateral hypothalamus in rats. Neurosci Lett 2014; 564:94-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.02.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2013] [Revised: 02/04/2014] [Accepted: 02/08/2014] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Overlapping striatal sites mediate scopolamine-induced feeding suppression and mu-opioid-mediated hyperphagia in the rat. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2014; 231:919-28. [PMID: 24190586 PMCID: PMC3945211 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-013-3317-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2013] [Accepted: 09/29/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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RATIONALE Intra-striatal infusions of the muscarinic antagonist, scopolamine, markedly suppress feeding; however, the underlying mechanisms are unclear. Recent findings suggest that scopolamine influences opioid-dependent mechanisms of feeding modulation. Robust mu-opioid-mediated feeding responses are obtained in anterior, ventral sectors of the striatum with progressively weaker effects posteriorly and dorsally. One might therefore expect the effects of scopolamine to conform to similar boundaries, but a systematic mapping of scopolamine-induced feeding suppression has not yet been undertaken. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess the overlap between the striatal sites mediating scopolamine-induced feeding suppression and mu-opioid-induced hyperphagia. METHODS Dose-effect functions for scopolamine (0, 1, 5, and 10 μg) were obtained in the nucleus accumbens (Acb), anterior dorsal striatum (ADS), and posterior dorsal striatum (PDS) in three different groups of rats. In the same subjects, the mu-opioid receptor agonist (D-Ala2-N-MePhe4, Glyol)-enkephalin (DAMGO; 0.25 μg) was infused on a separate test day. The dependent variables were food and water intake, ambulation, and rearing. RESULTS The greatest dose sensitivity for scopolamine-induced feeding suppression was observed in the Acb. Only the highest dose was effective in the ADS, and no effects were seen in the PDS. Water intake and general motor activity were not altered by scopolamine in any site. DAMGO infusions produced hyperphagia only in the Acb. CONCLUSIONS These results support a model in which the behavioral effects of muscarinic blockade are limited by the same anatomical constraints that govern mu-opioid receptor-mediated control of feeding. These constraints are likely imposed by the topographic arrangement of feeding-related afferent inputs and efferent projections of the striatum.
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Kraft TT, Yakubov Y, Huang D, Fitzgerald G, Acosta V, Natanova E, Touzani K, Sclafani A, Bodnar RJ. Dopamine D1 and opioid receptor antagonism effects on the acquisition and expression of fat-conditioned flavor preferences in BALB/c and SWR mice. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2013; 110:127-36. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2013.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2013] [Revised: 06/19/2013] [Accepted: 06/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Dela Cruz JAD, Bae VS, Icaza-Cukali D, Sampson C, Bamshad D, Samra A, Singh S, Khalifa N, Touzani K, Sclafani A, Bodnar RJ. Critical role of NMDA but not opioid receptors in the acquisition of fat-conditioned flavor preferences in rats. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2012; 98:341-7. [PMID: 23103774 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2012.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2012] [Revised: 10/01/2012] [Accepted: 10/12/2012] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Animals learn to prefer flavors associated with the intake of dietary fats such as corn oil (CO) solutions. We previously reported that fat-conditioned flavor preferences in rats were relatively unaffected by systemic treatment with dopamine D1 and D2 antagonsits. The present study examined whether systemic opioid (naltrexone, NTX) or NMDA (MK-801) receptor antagonists altered the acquisition and/or expression of CO-CFP. The CFP was produced by training rats to drink one novel flavor (CS+, e.g., cherry) mixed in a 3.5% CO solution and another flavor (CS-, e.g., grape) in a 0.9% CO solution. In expression studies, food-restricted rats drank these solutions in one-bottle sessions (2 h) over 10 d. Subsequent two-bottle tests with the CS+ and CS- flavors mixed in 0.9% CO solutions occurred 0.5h after systemic administration of vehicle (VEH), NTX (0.1-5 mg/kg) or MK-801 (50-200 μg/kg). Rats displayed a robust CS+ preference following VEH treatment (85-88%) which was significantly though moderately attenuated by NTX (69-70%). The lower doses of MK-801 slightly reduced the CS+ preference; the high dose blocked the CS+ preference (49%) but also markedly reduced overall CS intake. In separate acquisition studies, rats received VEH or NTX (0.1, 0.5, 1mg/kg) or MK-801 (100 μg/kg) 0.5h prior to 1-bottle training trials with CS+/3.5% CO and CS-/0.9% CO training solutions. Additional Limited VEH groups were trained with intakes limited to that of the NTX and MK-801 groups. Subsequent two-bottle CS+ vs. CS- tests were conducted without injections. Significant and persistent CS+ preferences were observed in VEH (77-84%) and Limited VEH (88%) groups. NTX treatment during training failed to block the acquisition of CO-CFP although the magnitude of the CS+ preference was reduced by 0.5 (70%) and 1.0 (72%) mg/kg doses relative to the Limited VEH treatment (88%). In contrast, MK-801 (100 μg/kg) treatment during training blocked the acquisition of the CO-CFP. These data suggest a critical role for NMDA, but not opioid receptor signaling in the acquisition of a fat conditioned flavor preferences, and at best limited involvement of NMDA and opioid receptors in the expression of a previously learned preference.
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- J A D Dela Cruz
- Neuropsychology Doctoral Sub-Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
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Double-dissociation of D1 and opioid receptor antagonism effects on the acquisition of sucrose-conditioned flavor preferences in BALB/c and SWR mice. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2012; 103:26-32. [PMID: 22967990 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2012.07.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2012] [Revised: 07/03/2012] [Accepted: 07/31/2012] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Sugar appetite is influenced by unlearned attractions to sweet taste and learned responses to sugars' taste and post-ingestive actions. In rats, sugar-conditioned flavor preferences (CFP) are attenuated by dopamine D1 (SCH23390: SCH), but not by opioid (naltrexone: NTX), receptor antagonism. Sucrose-CFP occurs in BALB/c and SWR inbred mice that differ in their suppressive effects of SCH and NTX on sucrose intake. The present study examined whether SCH and NTX altered expression of previously learned sucrose-CFP and acquisition (learning) of sucrose-CFP in these strains. In Experiment 1, food-restricted mice were trained (10 one-bottle sessions) to drink a more-preferred flavored (e.g., cherry) 16% sucrose solution (CS+/Sucrose) on odd-numbered days, and a less-preferred flavored (e.g., grape) 0.05% saccharin solution (CS-/Saccharin) on even-numbered days. Two-bottle tests with the flavors mixed in 0.2% saccharin occurred 30 min following vehicle (Veh), SCH (50-800 nmol/kg) or NTX (1-5mg/kg) assessing preference expression. CS+ preference expression in BALB/c and SWR mice following Veh were significantly reduced by SCH and NTX. In Experiment 2, separate groups of BALB/c and SWR mice received Veh, SCH (50 nmol/kg) or NTX (1mg/kg) injections 30 min prior to daily one-bottle training sessions with the CS+/Sucrose and CS-/Saccharin solutions assessing preference acquisition. Subsequent two-bottle tests with the CS+ vs. CS- solutions were conducted without injections. CS+/Sucrose training intakes were reduced by SCH in both strains and by NTX in BALB/c mice. In the initial two-bottle test, sucrose-CFP acquisition was significantly reduced in BALB NTX (54%), but not in BALB SCH (77%) groups relative to the BALB Veh group (85%). In contrast, sucrose-CFP acquisition was significantly reduced in SWR SCH (61%), but not in SWR NTX (83%) groups relative to the SWR Veh group (86%). DA D1 and opioid receptor signaling modulate acquisition and/or expression of sucrose-CFP in mice with significant strain differences observed.
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Sclafani A, Ackroff K. Role of gut nutrient sensing in stimulating appetite and conditioning food preferences. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2012; 302:R1119-33. [PMID: 22442194 PMCID: PMC3362145 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00038.2012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2012] [Accepted: 03/14/2012] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The discovery of taste and nutrient receptors (chemosensors) in the gut has led to intensive research on their functions. Whereas oral sugar, fat, and umami taste receptors stimulate nutrient appetite, these and other chemosensors in the gut have been linked to digestive, metabolic, and satiating effects that influence nutrient utilization and inhibit appetite. Gut chemosensors may have an additional function as well: to provide positive feedback signals that condition food preferences and stimulate appetite. The postoral stimulatory actions of nutrients are documented by flavor preference conditioning and appetite stimulation produced by gastric and intestinal infusions of carbohydrate, fat, and protein. Recent findings suggest an upper intestinal site of action, although postabsorptive nutrient actions may contribute to flavor preference learning. The gut chemosensors that generate nutrient conditioning signals remain to be identified; some have been excluded, including sweet (T1R3) and fatty acid (CD36) sensors. The gut-brain signaling pathways (neural, hormonal) are incompletely understood, although vagal afferents are implicated in glutamate conditioning but not carbohydrate or fat conditioning. Brain dopamine reward systems are involved in postoral carbohydrate and fat conditioning but less is known about the reward systems mediating protein/glutamate conditioning. Continued research on the postoral stimulatory actions of nutrients may enhance our understanding of human food preference learning.
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- Anthony Sclafani
- Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA.
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Dela Cruz JAD, Icaza-Cukali D, Tayabali H, Sampson C, Galanopoulos V, Bamshad D, Touzani K, Sclafani A, Bodnar RJ. Roles of dopamine D1 and D2 receptors in the acquisition and expression of fat-conditioned flavor preferences in rats. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2012; 97:332-7. [PMID: 22390857 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2012.01.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2011] [Revised: 12/08/2011] [Accepted: 01/27/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Sugars and fats elicit innate and learned flavor preferences with the latter mediated by flavor-flavor (orosensory) and flavor-nutrient (post-ingestive) processes. Systemic dopamine (DA) D1 (SCH23390: SCH) and D2 (raclopride: RAC), but not opioid antagonists blocked the acquisition and expression of flavor-flavor preferences conditioned by sugars. In addition, systemic D1, but not D2 or opioid antagonists blocked the acquisition of flavor-nutrient preferences conditioned by intragastric (IG) sugar infusions. Given that DA antagonists reduce fat intake, the present study examined whether systemic D1 or D2 antagonists altered the acquisition and/or expression of conditioned flavor preferences (CFP) produced by pairing one novel flavor (CS+, e.g., cherry) with a 3.5% corn oil (CO: fat) solution relative to another flavor (CS-, e.g., grape) paired with a 0.9% CO solution. In an expression study, food-restricted rats were trained to drink either flavored 3.5% or 0.9% CO solutions on alternate days. Subsequent two-bottle tests with the CS+ and CS- flavors mixed in 0.9% CO solutions occurred 0.5h after systemic administration of vehicle (VEH), SCH (50-800 nmol/kg) or RAC (50-800 nmol/kg). The rats displayed a robust CS+ preference following VEH treatment (87-88%) the expression of which was attenuated by treatment with moderate doses of RAC, and to a lesser degree, SCH. In an acquisition study, six groups of rats received VEH, SCH (25, 50, 200 nmol/kg) or RAC (50, 200 nmol/kg) 0.5 h prior to 1-bottle training trials with CS+ flavored 3.5% and CS- flavored 0.9% (CS-) CO solutions. A seventh Limited VEH group was trained with its training intakes limited to that of the SCH and RAC groups. Subsequent two-bottle tests were conducted with the CS+ and CS- flavors presented in 0.9% CO without injections. Significant and persistent CS+ preferences were observed in VEH (75-82%), Limited VEH (70-88%), SCH25 (75-84%), SCH50 (64-87%), SCH200 (78-91%) and RAC200 (74-91%) groups. In contrast, the group trained with RAC50 displayed a significant initial CS+ preference (76%) which declined over testing to 61%. These data indicate limited DA D1 and D2 receptor signaling involvement in the expression and acquisition of a fat-CFP relative to previous robust effects for sugar-CFP.
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- J A D Dela Cruz
- Neuropsychology Doctoral Sub-Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
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Nogueiras R, Romero-Picó A, Vazquez MJ, Novelle MG, López M, Diéguez C. The opioid system and food intake: homeostatic and hedonic mechanisms. Obes Facts 2012; 5:196-207. [PMID: 22647302 DOI: 10.1159/000338163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2011] [Accepted: 08/09/2011] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Opioids are important in reward processes leading to addictive behavior such as self-administration of opioids and other drugs of abuse including nicotine and alcohol. Opioids are also involved in a broadly distributed neural network that regulates eating behavior, affecting both homeostatic and hedonic mechanisms. In this sense, opioids are particularly implicated in the modulation of highly palatable foods, and opioid antagonists attenuate both addictive drug taking and appetite for palatable food. Thus, craving for palatable food could be considered as a form of opioid-related addiction. There are three main families of opioid receptors (µ, ĸ, and δ) of which µ-receptors are most strongly implicated in reward. Administration of selective µ-agonists into the NAcc of rodents induces feeding even in satiated animals, while administration of µ-antagonists reduces food intake. Pharmacological studies also suggest a role for ĸ- and δ-opioid receptors. Preliminary data from transgenic knockout models suggest that mice lacking some of these receptors are resistant to high-fat diet-induced obesity.
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- Ruben Nogueiras
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Santiago de Compostela - Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Dwyer DM. Lesions of the basolateral, but not central, amygdala impair flavour-taste learning based on fructose or quinine reinforcers. Behav Brain Res 2011; 220:349-53. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2010] [Revised: 02/02/2011] [Accepted: 02/06/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Sclafani A, Touzani K, Bodnar RJ. Dopamine and learned food preferences. Physiol Behav 2011; 104:64-8. [PMID: 21549727 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.04.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2011] [Revised: 04/22/2011] [Accepted: 04/26/2011] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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An early study performed in Bart Hoebel's laboratory suggested that dopamine (DA) signaling in the nucleus accumbens was involved in learned flavor preferences produced by post-oral nutritive feedback. This paper summarizes our studies investigating the role of DA in flavor preference conditioning using selective DA receptor antagonists. Food-restricted rats were trained to prefer a flavored saccharin solution (CS+) paired with intragastric (IG) sugar infusions over a flavored saccharin solution (CS-) paired with water infusions. Systemic injections of a D1-like receptor antagonist (SCH23390), but not a D2-like receptor antagonist (raclopride) during training blocked flavor preference learning. Neither drug prevented the expression of an already learned preference except at high doses that greatly suppressed total intakes. Central sites of action were examined by local microinjections of SCH23390 (12 nmol) during flavor training or testing. Drug infusions in the nucleus accumbens, amygdala, medial prefrontal cortex, or lateral hypothalamus during training blocked or attenuated CS+ flavor conditioning by IG glucose infusions. The same drug dose did not suppress the expression of a learned CS+ preference. The findings suggest that DA signaling within different components of a distributed brain network is involved in sugar-based flavor preferences. A possible role of DA in conditioned increases in flavor acceptance is discussed.
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- Anthony Sclafani
- Cognition, Brain and Behavior Doctoral Subprogram, Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY, United States.
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Dwyer DM, Iordanova MD. The amygdala and flavour preference conditioning: Crossed lesions and inactivation. Physiol Behav 2010; 101:403-12. [DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2010] [Revised: 06/24/2010] [Accepted: 07/14/2010] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Bonacchi KB, Ackroff K, Touzani K, Bodnar RJ, Sclafani A. Opioid mediation of starch and sugar preference in the rat. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2010; 96:507-14. [PMID: 20655942 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2010.07.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2010] [Revised: 07/07/2010] [Accepted: 07/17/2010] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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In our prior studies, administration of the opioid receptor antagonist naltrexone did not block conditioned preferences for a flavor paired with a preferred sugar solution over a flavor paired with saccharin. This may be because both training solutions were sweet, and their attractiveness was reduced by naltrexone. The present study compared the effects of naltrexone on preferences for flavors paired with sugar or starch drinks that have distinctive tastes to rats. Experiment 1 assessed naltrexone's effect on the preference for unflavored 8% cornstarch and 8% sucrose aqueous solutions/suspensions. The food-restricted rats displayed a significant sucrose preference which increased following systemic treatment with naltrexone (1 or 3mg/kg) even though total intake of both solutions declined. In Experiment 2, rats were trained to drink flavored (cherry or grape) starch and sucrose solutions in separate one-bottle sessions. In a two-bottle choice test with both flavors presented in a sucrose-starch mixture, the rats significantly preferred the starch-paired flavor. Naltrexone treatment blocked the expression of this starch-conditioned preference. In Experiment 3, rats were treated with saline or naltrexone throughout one-bottle training with flavored sucrose and starch solutions. In a subsequent choice test, both the saline and naltrexone groups displayed significant preferences for the starch-paired flavor, indicating that opioid antagonism failed to alter the acquisition of this conditioned preference. In summary, novel outcomes of this study included the increased rather than the predicted decrease in sucrose preference produced by naltrexone. Also, starch unexpectedly conditioned the stronger flavor preference, although this can be explained by the differential post-oral reinforcing actions of starch and sucrose, and naltrexone blocked the expression, but not the acquisition, of this preference. These findings suggest that the reward value of starch in liquid form is more dependent upon opioid signaling than is that of sugar.
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- Kristine B Bonacchi
- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11210, USA
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Touzani K, Bodnar RJ, Sclafani A. Neuropharmacology of learned flavor preferences. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2010; 97:55-62. [PMID: 20600253 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2010.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2010] [Revised: 05/27/2010] [Accepted: 06/10/2010] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Innate and learned flavor preferences influence food and fluid choices in animals. Two primary forms of learned preferences involve flavor-flavor and flavor-nutrient associations in which a particular flavor element (e.g., odor) is paired with an innately preferred flavor element (e.g., sweet taste) or with a positive post-oral nutrient consequence. This review summarizes recent findings related to the neurochemical basis of learned flavor preferences. Systemic and central injections of dopamine receptor antagonists implicate brain dopamine signaling in both flavor-flavor and flavor-nutrient conditioning by the taste and post-oral effects of sugars. Dopamine signaling in the nucleus accumbens, amygdala and lateral hypothalamus is involved in one or both forms of conditioning and selective effects are produced by D1-like and D2-like receptor antagonism. Opioid receptor antagonism, despite its suppressive action on sugar intake and reward, has little effect on the acquisition or expression of flavor preferences conditioned by the sweet taste or post-oral actions of sugars. Other studies indicate that flavor preference conditioning by sugars is differentially influenced by glutamate receptor antagonism, cannabinoid receptor antagonism and benzodiazepine receptor activation.
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- Khalid Touzani
- Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, NY 11210, USA
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Bernal SY, Touzani K, Gerges M, Abayev Y, Sclafani A, Bodnar RJ. Opioid receptor antagonism in the nucleus accumbens fails to block the expression of sugar-conditioned flavor preferences in rats. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2009; 95:56-62. [PMID: 20006967 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2009.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2009] [Revised: 12/04/2009] [Accepted: 12/07/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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In our prior studies, systemic administration of the opioid receptor antagonist naltrexone (NTX) did not block flavor preference conditioning by the sweet taste or post-oral actions of sugar despite reducing intake. Because opioid signaling in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) is implicated in food reward, this study determined if NTX administered into the NAc would block the expression of sugar-conditioned preferences. In Experiment 1, food-restricted rats with bilateral NAc shell or core cannulae were trained to drink a fructose (8%)+saccharin (0.2%) solution mixed with one flavor (CS+) and a less-preferred 0.2% saccharin solution mixed with another flavor (CS-) during one-bottle sessions. Two-bottle tests with the two flavors mixed in saccharin solutions occurred 10 min following total bilateral NAc shell or core doses of 0, 1, 25 and 50 microg of NTX. The rats preferred the CS+ over CS- following vehicle (80%) and all NTX doses in the shell and core. The CS+ preference was reduced to 64% and 72% by 50 microg NTX in the shell and core, although only the core effect was significant. In Experiment 2, food-restricted rats were trained to drink one flavored saccharin solution (CS+) paired with an intragastic (IG) glucose (8%) infusion and a second flavored saccharin solution (CS-) paired with an IG water infusion. In subsequent two-bottle tests, the rats displayed significant preferences for the CS+ (81-91%) that were unaltered by any NTX dose in the shell or core. CS+ intake, however, was reduced by NTX in the shell, but not the core. These data indicate that accumbal opioid antagonism slightly attenuated, but did not block the expression of sugar-conditioned flavor preferences. Therefore, while opioid drugs can have potent effects on sugar intake they appear less effective in altering sugar-conditioned flavor preferences.
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- Sonia Y Bernal
- Neuropsychology Doctoral Subprogram, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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Role of amygdala dopamine D1 and D2 receptors in the acquisition and expression of fructose-conditioned flavor preferences in rats. Behav Brain Res 2009; 205:183-90. [PMID: 19573566 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.06.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2009] [Revised: 06/12/2009] [Accepted: 06/23/2009] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Systemic administration of dopamine D1-like (SCH23390) and, to a lesser degree D2-like (raclopride), receptor antagonists significantly reduce the acquisition and expression of fructose-conditioned flavor preferences (CFP) in rats. Given the role of dopamine in the amygdala (AMY) in the processing and learning of food reward, the present study examined whether dopamine D1-like or D2-like antagonists in this site altered acquisition and/or expression of a fructose-CFP. In Experiment 1, food-restricted rats with bilateral AMY cannulae were trained to drink a fructose (8%)+saccharin (0.2%) solution mixed with one flavor (e.g., grape, CS+/Fs) and a less-preferred 0.2% saccharin solution mixed with another flavor (e.g., cherry, CS-/s) during one-bottle (16 ml) sessions. Two-bottle tests with the two flavors mixed in saccharin solutions (CS+/s, CS-/s) occurred 10 min following total bilateral AMY doses of 0, 12, 24 and 48 nmol of SCH23390 or raclopride. Preference for CS+/s over CS-/s was significantly reduced relative to vehicle baseline by the 48 nmol doses of SCH23390 and raclopride (from 77% to 66% and 68%), but not lower doses. In Experiment 2, rats received bilateral AMY injections (12 nmol) of SCH23390 (D1 group) or raclopride (D2 group) 10 min prior to one-bottle training sessions with CS+/Fs and CS-/s. Yoked Control rats received vehicle and were limited to the CS intakes of the D1 and D2 groups; untreated controls were not injected or limited to drug group intakes during training. Subsequent two-bottle tests revealed initial preferences of CS+/s over CS-/s in all groups that remained stable in untreated and Yoked Controls, but were lost over the 6 tests sessions in the D1 group, but not in the D2 group. These data indicate that dopamine D1-like and D2-like antagonists significantly attenuated the expression of the previously acquired fructose-CFP, and did not block acquisition of the fructose-CFP. D1-like antagonism during training hastened extinction of the fructose-CFP. The results are similar to those produced by dopamine D1-like and D2-like antagonist injections into the nucleus accumbens shell which suggests that flavor conditioning involves a regionally distributed brain network.
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Dwyer DM. The effects of midazolam on the acquisition and expression of fructose- and maltodextrin-based flavour preferences. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2009; 91:503-10. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2008.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2008] [Revised: 08/07/2008] [Accepted: 09/04/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Dym CT, Pinhas A, Robak M, Sclafani A, Bodnar RJ. Genetic variance contributes to dopamine receptor antagonist-induced inhibition of sucrose intake in inbred and outbred mouse strains. Brain Res 2008; 1257:40-52. [PMID: 19135035 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.12.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2008] [Revised: 12/10/2008] [Accepted: 12/15/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Preference and intake of sucrose varies across inbred and outbred strains of mice. Pharmacological analyses revealed that the greatest sensitivity to naltrexone-induced inhibition of sucrose (10%) intake was observed in C57BL10/J and C57BL/6J strains, whereas 129P3/J, SWR/J and SJL/J strains displayed far less sensitivity to naltrexone-induced inhibition of sucrose intake. Given that dopamine D1 (SCH23390) and D2 (raclopride) receptor antagonism potently reduce sucrose intake in outbred rat and mouse strains, the present study examined the possibility of genetic variance in the dose-dependent (50-1600 nmol/kg) and time-dependent (5-120 min) effects of these antagonists upon sucrose (10%) intake in the eight inbred (BALB/cJ, C3H/HeJ, C57BL/6J, C57BL/10J, DBA/2J, SJL/J, SWR/J and 129P3/J) and one outbred (CD-1) mouse strains previously tested with naltrexone. SCH23390 significantly reduced sucrose intake across all five doses in 129P3/J and SJL/J mice, across four doses in C57BL/6J and BALB/cJ mice, across three doses in DBA/2J, SWR/J, C3H/HeJ and C57BL/10J mice, but only at the two highest doses in CD-1 mice. SCH23390 was 2-3-fold more potent in inhibiting sucrose intake in 129P3/J and SJL/J mice relative to CD-1 mice. In contrast, only the highest equimolar 1600 nmol/kg dose of raclopride significantly reduced sucrose intake in the BALB/cJ, C3H/HeJ, C57BL/6J, C57BL/10J, DBA/2J, SJL/J and 129P3/J, but not the SWR/J and CD-1 strains. The present and previous data demonstrate specific and differential patterns of genetic variability in inhibition of sucrose intake by dopamine and opioid antagonists, suggesting that distinct neurochemical mechanisms control sucrose intake across different mouse strains.
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- Cheryl T Dym
- Department of Psychology, Queens College, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
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Central mechanisms of taste: Cognition, emotion and taste-elicited behaviors. JAPANESE DENTAL SCIENCE REVIEW 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jdsr.2008.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Taste is unique among sensory systems in its innate association with mechanisms of reward and aversion in addition to its recognition of quality, e.g., sucrose is sweet and preferable, and quinine is bitter and aversive. Taste information is sent to the reward system and feeding center via the prefrontal cortices such as the mediodorsal and ventrolateral prefrontal cortices in rodents and the orbitofrontal cortex in primates. The amygdala, which receives taste inputs, also influences reward and feeding. In terms of neuroactive substances, palatability is closely related to benzodiazepine derivatives and beta-endorphin, both of which facilitate consumption of food and fluid. The reward system contains the ventral tegmental area, nucleus accumbens and ventral pallidum and finally sends information to the lateral hypothalamic area, the feeding center. The dopaminergic system originating from the ventral tegmental area mediates the motivation to consume palatable food. The actual ingestive behavior is promoted by the orexigenic neuropeptides from the hypothalamus. Even palatable food can become aversive and avoided as a consequence of a postingestional unpleasant experience such as malaise. The neural mechanisms of this conditioned taste aversion will also be elucidated.
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- T Yamamoto
- Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, 1-8 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
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Miner P, Abayev Y, Kandova E, Gerges M, Styler E, Wapniak R, Touzani K, Sclafani A, Bodnar RJ. Role of systemic endocannabinoid CB-1 receptor antagonism in the acquisition and expression of fructose-conditioned flavor-flavor preferences in rats. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2008; 90:318-24. [PMID: 18407342 PMCID: PMC4560860 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2008.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2008] [Revised: 02/27/2008] [Accepted: 03/05/2008] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Rats learn to prefer a flavor mixed into a fructose-saccharin solution over a different flavor mixed into a saccharin-only solution which is considered to be a form of flavor-flavor conditioning. Fructose-conditioned flavor preferences are impaired by systemic dopamine D1 and to a lesser degree, D2 receptor antagonism as well as by NMDA, but not opioid, receptor antagonism. Given the emerging role of the endocannabinoid system in mediating hedonically-driven food intake, the present study examined whether systemic administration of the inverse CB-1 receptor agonist, AM-251 would alter fructose-conditioned flavor preferences. In Experiment 1, food-restricted rats were trained over 10 sessions (30 min/day) to drink a fructose-saccharin solution mixed with one flavor (CS+/Fs) and a less-preferred saccharin-only solution mixed with another flavor (CS-/s). Subsequent two-bottle tests with the two flavors in saccharin (CS+/s, CS-/s) occurred 15 min following counterbalanced pairs of AM-251 doses of 0, 0.1, 1 or 3 mg/kg. Preference for CS+/s over CS-/s following vehicle treatment (74%) was significantly reduced by the 0.1 (67%) and 1 (65%) AM-251 doses, whereas CS+/s, but not CS-/s intake was significantly reduced by the 1 and 3 mg/kg AM-251 doses. In Experiment 2, rats received systemic injections of AM-251 (1 mg/kg) or vehicle prior to the 10 CS+/Fs and CS-/s training sessions. In subsequent two-bottle tests (drug-free) the AM-251 and control groups displayed similar preferences for the CS+ flavor (66% vs. 69%). Experiment 3 demonstrated that AM-251 significantly decreased chow intake (24 h), and 1-h intakes of fructose-saccharin and saccharin-only solutions in ad libitum-fed rats. These data indicate that functional CB-1 receptor antagonism significantly reduces the expression, but not the acquisition of fructose-conditioned flavor-flavor preferences. The endogenous endocannabinoid system is therefore implicated in the maintenance of this form of learned flavor preferences.
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- Patricia Miner
- Neuropsychology Doctoral Sub-Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, United States
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- Neuropsychology Doctoral Sub-Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States
- Cognition, Brain and Behavior Doctoral Sub-Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States
- Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, United States
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- Neuropsychology Doctoral Sub-Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States
- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, United States
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Bernal SY, Dostova I, Kest A, Abayev Y, Kandova E, Touzani K, Sclafani A, Bodnar RJ. Role of dopamine D1 and D2 receptors in the nucleus accumbens shell on the acquisition and expression of fructose-conditioned flavor-flavor preferences in rats. Behav Brain Res 2008; 190:59-66. [PMID: 18339434 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2007] [Revised: 01/16/2008] [Accepted: 02/04/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Systemic administration of dopamine D1 (SCH23390) and less so D2 (raclopride) receptor antagonists significantly reduce acquisition and expression of fructose-conditioned flavor preferences (CFP). Because dopamine in the nucleus accumbens shell (NAcS) is implicated in food reward, the present study examined whether NAcS D1 or D2 antagonists altered acquisition and/or expression of fructose-CFP. In Experiment 1, food-restricted rats with bilateral NAcS cannulae were trained to drink a fructose (8%)+saccharin (0.2%) solution mixed with one flavor (CS+/Fs) and a less-preferred 0.2% saccharin solution with mixed another flavor (CS-/s). Unlimited two-bottle tests with the two flavors in saccharin (0.2%: CS+/s, CS-/s) occurred 10 min following total bilateral NAcS doses of 0, 12, 24 or 48 nmol of SCH23390 or raclopride. Preference for CS+/s over CS-/s following vehicle treatment (76%) was significantly reduced by SCH23390 (48 nmol, 62%) and raclopride (24 nmol, 63%). In Experiment 2, rats received bilateral NAcS injections (12 nmol) of SCH23390 or raclopride on one-bottle training (16 ml) days. Yoked control rats received vehicle and were limited to the CS intakes of the D1 and D2 groups, whereas untreated controls without injections received their CS ration during training. Subsequent unlimited two-bottle tests revealed initial preferences of CS+/s over CS-/s in all groups that remained stable in untreated and yoked controls, but were lost over the six tests sessions in D1 and D2 groups. These data indicate that NAcS D1 and D2 antagonists significantly attenuated the expression of the fructose-CFP and did not block acquisition, but hastened extinction of fructose-CFP.
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- Sonia Y Bernal
- Neuropsychology Doctoral Subprogram, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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Yamamoto T. Neural substrates for the processing of cognitive and affective aspects of taste in the brain. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 69:243-55. [PMID: 17287579 DOI: 10.1679/aohc.69.243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Taste is unique among the sensory systems in that, besides its recognition of quality, it is innately associated with hedonic aspects of reward and aversion. This review of the literature will show how taste information is conveyed through the central gustatory pathways to the cortical gustatory area and is processed in terms of qualitative and quantitative aspects. Taste information is also sent to the reward system and feeding center via several brain sites including the prefrontal cortex, insular cortex, and amygdala. The reward system contains the ventral tegmental area, nucleus accumbens, and ventral pallidum; it finally sends information to the lateral hypothalamic area, the feeding center. The dopamine system originating from the ventral tegmental area mediates the motivation to consume palatable food. The actual ingestive behavior is promoted by the orexigenic neuropeptides from the hypothalamus. In the last section, the neural substrate of learning and memory of taste is introduced and the biological mechanisms are elucidated.
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- Takashi Yamamoto
- Department of Behavioral Physiology, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan.
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Dym CT, Pinhas A, Ginzberg M, Kest B, Bodnar RJ. Genetic variance contributes to naltrexone-induced inhibition of sucrose intake in inbred and outbred mouse strains. Brain Res 2007; 1135:136-45. [PMID: 17204254 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2006] [Revised: 11/30/2006] [Accepted: 12/06/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The study of genetic variance in opioid receptor antagonism of sucrose and other forms of sweet intake has been limited to reductions in sweet intake in mice that are opioid receptor-deficient or lacking either pre-pro-enkephalin or beta-endorphin. Marked genetic variance in inbred mouse strains has been observed for sucrose intake across a wide array of concentrations in terms of sensitivity, magnitude, percentages of kilocalories consumed as sucrose and compensatory chow intake. The present study examined potential genetic variance in systemic naltrexone's dose-dependent (0.01-5 mg/kg) and time-dependent (5-120 min) ability to decrease sucrose (10%) intake in eleven inbred (A/J, AKR/J, BALB/cJ, CBA/J, C3H/HeJ, C57BL/6J, C57BL/10J, DBA/2J, SJL/J, SWR/J, 129P3/J) and one outbred (CD-1) mouse strains. A minimum criterion sucrose intake (1 ml) under vehicle treatment, designed to avoid "floor effects" of antagonist treatment was not achieved in three (A/J, AKR/J, CBA/J) inbred mouse strains. Marked genetic variance in naltrexone's ability to inhibit sucrose intake was observed in the remaining strains with the greatest sensitivity observed in the C57BL/10J and C57BL/6J strains, intermediate sensitivity in BALB/cJ, C3H/HeJ, CD-1 and DBA/2J mice, and the least sensitivity in 129P3/J, SWR/J and SJL/J strains with a 7.5-36.5 fold range of greater effects in the ID(50) of naltrexone-induced inhibition in C57BL/10J relative to the three less-sensitive strains across the time course. Naltrexone primarily affected the maintenance, rather than the initiation of intake in BALB/cJ, CD-1, C3H/HeJ, DBA/2J and SJL/J mice, but significantly reduced sucrose intake at higher doses across the time course in C57BL/6J, C57BL/10J and 129P3/J mice. Whereas SWR/J mice failed to display any significant reduction in sucrose intake at any time point following any of the naltrexone doses, naltrexone's maximal magnitude of inhibitory effects was small (35-40%) in 129P3/J and SJL/J mice, moderate ( approximately 50%) in BALB/cJ, C3H/HeJ, CD-1 and DBA2/J mice, and profound (70-80%) in C57BL/6J and C57BL/10J mice. Indeed, the latter two strains displayed significantly greater percentages of naltrexone-induced inhibition of sucrose intake than virtually all other strains. These data indicate the importance of genetic variability in opioid modulation of sucrose intake.
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- Cheryl T Dym
- Department of Psychology, Queens College, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Flushing NY 11367, USA
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Levine AS. The animal model in food intake regulation: Examples from the opioid literature. Physiol Behav 2006; 89:92-6. [PMID: 16563444 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2006.01.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2006] [Accepted: 01/23/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Animal models allow us to investigate the basic mechanisms by which food intake is regulated. There are a host of neuroregulators distributed across a complex central network that control eating behavior. The opioid peptides represent one family of such regulators that have been studied extensively in animals. Using anatomical, biochemical and behavioral methods investigators have found that opioids play an important role in reward-related eating. In this brief review we summarize representative animal studies that utilize a variety of experimental techniques to help explain the role of opioids in ingestive behavior.
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- Allen S Levine
- University of Minnesota, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, 1334 Eckles Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, United States.
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Cota D, Tschöp MH, Horvath TL, Levine AS. Cannabinoids, opioids and eating behavior: the molecular face of hedonism? ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 51:85-107. [PMID: 16364446 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresrev.2005.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 266] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2005] [Revised: 10/13/2005] [Accepted: 10/17/2005] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Obesity represents nowadays one of the most devastating health threats. Published reports even project a decline in life expectancy of US citizens due to the rapidly increasing prevalence of obesity. This alarming increase is intimately linked with recent changes of environment and lifestyle in western countries. In this context, the rewarding or even addictive properties of popular food may represent one of the most serious obstacles to overcome for an effective anti-obesity therapy. Therefore, in addition to molecular networks controlling energy homeostasis, now researchers are starting to define central nervous mechanisms governing hedonic and addictive components of food intake. A recently emerging body of data suggests that the endogenous cannabinoid and opioid systems both represent key circuits responding to the rewarding value of food. This review focuses on the role of these two systems for the homeostatic and hedonic aspects of eating behavior and includes their anatomical and functional interactions. Independent from the degree to which eating can be considered an addiction, cannabinoid and opioid receptor antagonists are promising anti-obesity drugs, since they are targeting both hedonic and homeostatic components of energy balance control.
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- Daniela Cota
- Obesity Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati-Genome Research Institute, 2170 E Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, OH 45237, USA.
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Levine AS, Billington CJ. Opioids as agents of reward-related feeding: a consideration of the evidence. Physiol Behav 2004; 82:57-61. [PMID: 15234591 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2004.04.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2004] [Accepted: 04/02/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Gerard Smith was one of the pioneers in the field of neuropeptidergic control of food intake. He established methodology and criteria used to determine whether a neuropeptide acts as an endogenous satiety factor. More recently, he theorized that there are direct and indirect controls of meal size. Direct controls include those that depend upon contact of food with preabsorptive receptors from the tip of the tongue to the end of the small intestine, and indirect controls include those that do not depend upon direct contact of mucosal receptors, such as learning and metabolism. In this review, we consider the evidence that opioids are mediators of reward-related feeding. We address these issues adopting Smith's approach to problem solving, including an evaluation of the opioids as controllers of the meal. We also present a novel concept of "hedonic restriction," resulting in a change in opioid gene expression. Overall, we believe the evidence supporting opioid participation in reward-driven and other types of ingestion is very strong, but much work remains before we understand how opioids contribute to the widely distributed neural network that controls ingestive behavior.
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- Allen S Levine
- Minnesota Obesity Center, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA.
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Baker RW, Li Y, Lee MG, Sclafani A, Bodnar RJ. Naltrexone does not prevent acquisition or expression of flavor preferences conditioned by fructose in rats. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2004; 78:239-46. [PMID: 15219763 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2004.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2003] [Revised: 02/25/2004] [Accepted: 03/15/2004] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The effects of the general opioid antagonist, naltrexone, on the acquisition and expression of flavor preferences conditioned by the sweet taste of fructose were examined. Food-restricted rats were trained over eight daily alternating one-bottle sessions (2 h) to drink an 8% fructose solution containing one novel flavor (CS+/F) and a less preferred 0.2% saccharin solution containing a different flavor (CS-/S). Four groups of rats were treated daily with either saline (control group) or naltrexone doses of 0.1, 1.0, or 5.0 mg/kg during training. Preferences were assessed in two-bottle tests with the CS+/S and CS-/S flavors presented in 0.2% saccharin solutions following saline injections. Naltrexone dose-dependently reduced fructose and saccharin intakes during training, confirming the drug's well-known suppressive effect on the intake of sweet solutions. Despite their reduced training intakes, the naltrexone groups displayed preferences for the CS+/S over the CS-/S (72-86%) that were similar to that of the control group (78%). The effect of naltrexone on the expression of the CS+/S flavor preference was evaluated by treating control rats with naltrexone (0.1-5 mg/kg) prior to CS+/S vs. CS-/S choice tests. The drug doses produced a dose-dependent reduction in CS+/S intake but did not significantly attenuate the CS+/S preference. These data are consistent with the relative inability of naltrexone to reduce flavor-flavor conditioning by sucrose in sham-feeding rats and flavor-nutrient conditioning in rats receiving intragastric sucrose infusions. In contrast, dopamine antagonists reduce both sucrose- and fructose-conditioned flavor preferences, which indicates the sensitivity of these conditioning paradigms to neuropharmacological manipulations. These data indicate that the endogenous opioid system, unlike the dopamine system, does not play a major role in either the acquisition or expression of flavor preference learning as measured in two-bottle choice tests.
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- Robert W Baker
- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, CUNY, 65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
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Bodnar RJ. Endogenous opioids and feeding behavior: a 30-year historical perspective. Peptides 2004; 25:697-725. [PMID: 15165728 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2004.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2004] [Revised: 01/15/2004] [Accepted: 01/16/2004] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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This invited review, based on the receipt of the Third Gayle A. Olson and Richard D. Olson Prize for the publication of the outstanding behavioral article published in the journal Peptides in 2002, examines the 30-year historical perspective of the role of the endogenous opioid system in feeding behavior. The review focuses on the advances that this field has made over the past 30 years as a result of the timely discoveries that were made concerning this important neuropeptide system, and how these discoveries were quickly applied to the analysis of feeding behavior and attendant homeostatic processes. The discoveries of the opioid receptors and opioid peptides, and the establishment of their relevance to feeding behavior were pivotal in studies performed in the 1970s. The 1980s were characterized by the establishment of opioid receptor subtype agonists and antagonists and their relevance to the modulation of feeding behavior as well as by the use of general opioid antagonists in demonstrating the wide array of ingestive situations and paradigms involving the endogenous opioid system. The more recent work from the 1990s to the present, utilizes the advantages created by the cloning of the opioid receptor genes, the development of knockout and knockdown techniques, the systematic utilization of a systems neuroscience approach, and establishment of the reciprocity of how manipulations of opioid peptides and receptors affect feeding behavior with how feeding states affect levels of opioid peptides and receptors. The role of G-protein effector systems in opioid-mediated feeding responses, which was the subject of the prize-winning article, is then reviewed.
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- Richard J Bodnar
- Department of Psychology and Neuropsychology Doctoral Subprogram, Queens College, City University of New York, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, NY 11367, USA.
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Baker RM, Shah MJ, Sclafani A, Bodnar RJ. Dopamine D1 and D2 antagonists reduce the acquisition and expression of flavor-preferences conditioned by fructose in rats. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2003; 75:55-65. [PMID: 12759113 DOI: 10.1016/s0091-3057(03)00039-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The effects of dopamine (DA) D(1) and D(2) receptor antagonists on the acquisition and expression of flavor-preferences conditioned by the sweet taste of fructose were examined. Food-restricted rats were trained over eight alternating one-bottle sessions to drink an 8% fructose solution containing one novel flavor (CS+) and a less preferred 0.2% saccharin solution containing a different flavor (CS-). Three groups of rats were treated daily with either vehicle (control group), SCH23390 (200 nmol/kg; D(1) group), or raclopride (200 nmol/kg; D(2) group) during training. Additional groups of vehicle-treated rats had their daily training intakes matched to that of the D(1) and D(2) groups. Preferences were assessed in two-bottle tests with the CS+ and CS- flavors presented in 0.2% saccharin solutions following doses of 0, 50, 200, 400, or 800 nmol/kg of either D(1) or D(2) antagonists. The D(1) and D(2) groups, unlike the control and yoked-control groups, failed to display a significant CS+ preference in the two-bottle tests following vehicle treatment. In addition, treatment with SCH23390 prior to the two-bottle tests blocked the expression of the CS+ preference in the control groups. Pretest raclopride treatment attenuated the CS+ preference at some dose levels. Raclopride also attenuated the preference for fructose in rats given two-bottle training with the CS+/fructose (CS+/F) and CS-/saccharin (CS-/S) solutions. These findings indicate that D(1) and D(2) antagonists block flavor-preference conditioning by sweet taste and that D(1), and to a lesser extent D(2), receptor antagonists attenuate the expression of a previously acquired preference.
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- Robert M Baker
- Neuropsychology Doctoral Subprogram, Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, 65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Flushing, New York, NY 11367, USA
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Frisina PG, Sclafani A. Naltrexone suppresses the late but not early licking response to a palatable sweet solution: opioid hedonic hypothesis reconsidered. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2002; 74:163-72. [PMID: 12376164 DOI: 10.1016/s0091-3057(02)00995-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Opioid antagonists suppress the intake of sweet solutions, but typically have little effect on the initial rate of drinking. The lack of an early drug response was investigated in the present study because it questions the general idea that opioid antagonists reduce the hedonic response to sweets. The first experiment, which measured the rat's licking response to a sucrose+saccharin (S+s) solution, revealed that naltrexone suppressed S+s intake but not initial lick rates. Experiment 2A indicated that the drug's delayed behavioral effect was not due to the 10-min injection-test interval used. Increasing the interval to 20 min did not reduce the latency of drug action. Experiment 2B tested the idea that rats require several minutes to detect that naltrexone has reduced the hedonic value of the S+s solution. The S+s solution was presented either for 30 min without interruption or for 3 min followed, after a 6-min delay, by another 27-min access. In both test conditions, naltrexone did not suppress S+s licking until 7-9 min of drinking had occurred. However, the drug blocked an "appetizer effect"; a post-delay increase in licking rate produced by the split-session test procedure. Microstructure analysis indicated that in all cases, naltrexone reduced S+s licking by reducing the number of lick clusters rather than lick cluster size. In contrast to these drug effects, Experiment 2C showed that reducing the concentration of the S+s solution decreased initial lick rates. Together, these findings suggest that opioid antagonists do not affect all aspects of flavor hedonics, but may primarily alter the intake-maintaining action of palatable flavors.
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- Pasquale G Frisina
- Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College and the Graduate School, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA
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Levine AS, Grace MK, Cleary JP, Billington CJ. Naltrexone infusion inhibits the development of preference for a high-sucrose diet. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2002; 283:R1149-54. [PMID: 12376408 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00040.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We hypothesized that the opioid antagonist naltrexone would inhibit the redevelopment of a preference for a high-sucrose diet after an abstention period from this diet. Rats that chose between a starch or sucrose diet for 10 days preferred the sucrose diet. Rats were then given access to the starch diet alone for another 10-day period. A miniosmotic pump containing saline or naltrexone was then implanted (70 microg/h; 1.7 mg/day) for approximately 10 days. During the saline infusion, 77% of the total energy came from the sucrose diet, whereas during the naltrexone infusion, 33% of the total energy came from the sucrose diet. We repeated this study in another group of rats but did not restrict the sucrose diet. In this case naltrexone failed to decrease preference for the sucrose diet. Thus naltrexone infusion inhibited redevelopment of a preference for a sucrose diet after a period of restriction to a starch diet for 10 days but had no effect on preference if both diets were present throughout the study.
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- Allen S Levine
- Minnesota Obesity Center, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis 55417, USA.
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This paper is the twenty-third installment of the annual review of research concerning the opiate system. It summarizes papers published during 2000 that studied the behavioral effects of the opiate peptides and antagonists, excluding the purely analgesic effects, although stress-induced analgesia is included. The specific topics covered this year include stress; tolerance and dependence; learning, memory, and reward; eating and drinking; alcohol and other drugs of abuse; sexual activity, pregnancy, and development; mental illness and mood; seizures and other neurological disorders; electrical-related activity; general activity and locomotion; gastrointestinal, renal, and hepatic function; cardiovascular responses; respiration and thermoregulation; and immunological responses.
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- A L Vaccarino
- Department of Psychology, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148, USA.
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