title: Responses of hepatic and celiac vagal afferents to intraportal mercaptoacetate in rats fed a high-fat or low-fat diet.
abstract: Responses of either hepatic or celiac vagal afferents to intraportal hepatic vein administration of 2-mercaptoacetate (MA) were examined in rats maintained on either a high-fat or low-fat diet. Afferent activity in both hepatic and celiac vagal afferents significantly increased after administration of MA, but the magnitude of these increases did not differ as a function of either diet. Responses of hepatic vagal afferents were highly variable across individual rats, whereas those of celiac vagal afferents were remarkably consistent across individual rats. These data suggest that MA-induced enhanced feeding in rats given a fat-enriched diet does not depend on a stronger hepatic and/or celiac vagal afferent response than that of rats given a low-fat diet.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294, USA.
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Randich
authors.forename: D Seth
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Spraggins
authors.forename: Stephen T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Meller
authors.forename: Gary R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Kelm
authors.forename: James E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Cox
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D000344:Afferent Pathways / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D018752:Diet, Fat-Restricted; D004041:Dietary Fats / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D005728:Ganglia, Sympathetic / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D006503:Hepatic Veins / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D007262:Infusions, Intravenous / Q000379:methods; D008099:Liver / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000294:innervation / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013864:Thioglycolates / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014630:Vagus Nerve / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D004041:Dietary Fats; D013864:Thioglycolates; C017487:2-mercaptoacetate