title: Differential effect of orexins (hypocretins) on serotonin release in the dorsal and median raphe nuclei of freely behaving rats.
abstract: Orexin (hypocretin)-containing neurons in the perifornical hypothalamus project to widespread regions of the brain, including the dorsal and median raphe nuclei [Peyron C, Tighe DK, van den Pol AN, de Lecea L, Heller HC, Sutcliffe JG, Kilduff TS (1998) Neurons containing hypocretin (orexin) project to multiple neuronal systems. J Neurosci 18:9996-10015; Wang QP, Koyama Y, Guan JL, Takahashi K, Kayama Y, Shioda S (2005) The orexinergic synaptic innervation of serotonin- and orexin 1-receptor-containing neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus. Regul Pept 126:35-42]. Orexin-A or orexin-B was infused by reverse microdialysis into the dorsal raphe nucleus or median raphe nucleus of freely behaving rats, and extracellular serotonin was simultaneously collected by microdialysis and analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography. We have found that orexin-A produced a dose-dependent increase of serotonin in the dorsal raphe nucleus, but not in the median raphe nucleus. However, orexin-B elicited a small but significant effect in both the dorsal raphe nucleus and median raphe nucleus. Orexins may have regionally selective effects on serotonin release in the CNS, implying a unique interaction between orexins and serotonin in the regulation of activities including sleep-wakefulness.
authors.affiliation: Boston VA Healthcare/Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Laboratory of Neuroscience, 940 Belmont Street, Brockton, MA 02301, USA. rtao@fau.edu
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tao
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: McKenna
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Thakkar
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Winston
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Strecker
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: McCarley
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D017551:Microdialysis / Q000379:methods; D009479:Neuropeptides / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000068797:Orexins; D011903:Raphe Nuclei / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012701:Serotonin / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D009479:Neuropeptides; D000068797:Orexins; D012701:Serotonin