Relationship between melanin-concentrating hormone- and neuropeptide Y-containing neurons in the goldfish hypothalamus

Kouhei Matsuda*, Kenji Kojima, Sei Ichi Shimakura, Tohru Miura, Minoru Uchiyama, Seiji Shioda, Hironori Ando, Akiyoshi Takahashi

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研究成果: ジャーナルへの寄稿学術論文査読

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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
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
153
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

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