Abstract
The endogenous opioid system has been implicated in the mediation of food intake elicited by such regulatory challenges as glucoprivation induced by 2-deoxy- d-glucose (2DG) or food deprivation in rodents. Administration of the free fatty acid oxidation inhibitor, mercaptoacetate (MA), produces a potent short-term increase in feeding in rats, the mechanisms of which have been dissociated from that elicited by 2DG. The present study evaluated whether MA-induced feeding in rats was mediated by the endogenous opioid system through systemic administration of the general opioid antagonist, naltrexone, through central administration of either general, μ, μ 1, κ 1 or δ opioid antagonists, and through central administration of antisense oligodeoxynucleotide (AS ODN) probes directed against specific exons of either the μ (MOR-1), κ (KOR-1), κ 3 (KOR-3/ORL-1) or δ (DOR-1) opioid receptor clones. MA-induced feeding was significantly and dose-dependently reduced by systemic naltrexone (0.005–5 mg/kg); these ingestive effects were quite selective since neither total, ambulatory nor stereotypic activity was affected by either MA itself or MA paired with naltrexone. MA-induced feeding was significantly reduced by central pretreatment with either naltrexone (0.1–20 μg) or μ-selective (β-funaltrexamine, 0.1–20 μg), μ 1-selective (naloxonazine, 1–20 μg), κ 1-selective (nor-binaltorphamine, 0.1–20 μg), or δ-selective (naltrindole, 1–20 μg) opioid receptor antagonists. MA-induced feeding was significantly reduced by AS ODN probes directed against either exons 1, 2 or 3, but not exon 4 of the MOR-1 clone, exon 3, but not exons 1 or 2 of the KOR-1 clone, exons 1 or 2, but not exon 3 of the KOR-3/ORL-1 clone, and exon 1, but not exons 2 or 3 of the DOR-1 clone. These data are discussed in terms of opioid mediation of ingestive responses related to fat, and in terms of potential central sites of action at which lipoprivic ingestive responses might act.
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