Abstract
Recent findings from our lab indicate that metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) activation elicits eating, and the goal of the current study was to specify whether the lateral hypothalamus (LH) is the actual brain site mediating this effect. To examine this issue we injected the selective mGluR group I agonist (S)-3,5-dihydroxyphenylglycine (DHPG) unilaterally into the LH and surrounding regions (n=5–8 subjects/brain site) of satiated adult male Sprague–Dawley rats and measured elicited feeding. We determined that 1.0nmol elicited food intake only within the LH. Increasing the dose to 10 or 25nmol produced a more sustained effect in the LH, and also elicited eating in several other brain sites. These results, demonstrating that the LH mediates the eating elicited by low doses of DHPG, suggest that the LH may contain mGluR whose activation can produce eating behavior.
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