抄録
Intracerebroventricular (ICV) administration of melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) inhibits food intake in goldfish, unlike the orexigenic action in rodents, via the melanocortin system with suppression of neuropeptide Y (NPY) mRNA expression. We therefore investigated the neuronal relationship between MCH- and NPY-containing neurons in the goldfish brain, using a double-immunofluorescence method and confocal laser scanning microscopy. MCH- and NPY-like immunoreactivities were distributed throughout the brain. In particular, MCH-containing nerve fibers or endings lay in close apposition to NPY-containing neurons in a specific region of the hypothalamus, the nucleus posterioris periventricularis (NPPv). These observations suggest that MCH-containing neurons provide direct input to NPY-containing neurons in the NPPv of goldfish, and that MCH plays a crucial role in the regulation of feeding behavior as an anorexigenic neuropeptide, inhibiting the orexigenic activity of NPY.
本文言語 | 英語 |
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ページ(範囲) | 3-7 |
ページ数 | 5 |
ジャーナル | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -Part A : Molecular and Integrative Physiology |
巻 | 153 |
号 | 1 |
DOI | |
出版ステータス | 出版済み - 2009/05 |
ASJC Scopus 主題領域
- 生化学
- 生理学
- 水圏科学
- 動物科学および動物学
- 分子生物学