Abstract
Orexin (hypocretin)-containing neurons in the perifornical hypothalamus project to widespread regions of the brain, including the dorsal and median raphe nuclei [Peyron C, Tighe DK, van den Pol AN, de Lecea L, Heller HC, Sutcliffe JG, Kilduff TS (1998) Neurons containing hypocretin (orexin) project to multiple neuronal systems. J Neurosci 18:9996–10015; Wang QP, Koyama Y, Guan JL, Takahashi K, Kayama Y, Shioda S (2005) The orexinergic synaptic innervation of serotonin- and orexin 1-receptor-containing neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus. Regul Pept 126:35–42]. Orexin-A or orexin-B was infused by reverse microdialysis into the dorsal raphe nucleus or median raphe nucleus of freely behaving rats, and extracellular serotonin was simultaneously collected by microdialysis and analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography. We have found that orexin-A produced a dose-dependent increase of serotonin in the dorsal raphe nucleus, but not in the median raphe nucleus. However, orexin-B elicited a small but significant effect in both the dorsal raphe nucleus and median raphe nucleus. Orexins may have regionally selective effects on serotonin release in the CNS, implying a unique interaction between orexins and serotonin in the regulation of activities including sleep–wakefulness.
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