title: Comprehensive Behavioral Analysis of Male Ox1r (-/-) Mice Showed Implication of Orexin Receptor-1 in Mood, Anxiety, and Social Behavior.
abstract: Neuropeptides orexin A and orexin B, which are exclusively produced by neurons in the lateral hypothalamic area, play an important role in the regulation of a wide range of behaviors and homeostatic processes, including regulation of sleep/wakefulness states and energy homeostasis. The orexin system has close anatomical and functional relationships with systems that regulate the autonomic nervous system, emotion, mood, the reward system, and sleep/wakefulness states. Recent pharmacological studies using selective antagonists have suggested that orexin receptor-1 (OX1R) is involved in physiological processes that regulate emotion, the reward system, and autonomic nervous system. Here, we examined Ox1r (-/-) mice with a comprehensive behavioral test battery to screen additional OX1R functions. Ox1r (-/-) mice showed increased anxiety-like behavior, altered depression-like behavior, slightly decreased spontaneous locomotor activity, reduced social interaction, increased startle response, and decreased prepulse inhibition. These results suggest that OX1R plays roles in social behavior and sensory motor gating in addition to roles in mood and anxiety.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Neuroscience and Integrative Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kanazawa University Kanazawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Md G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Abbas
authors.affiliation: Division of Systems Medical Science, Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science, Fujita Health University Toyoake, Japan.
authors.forename: Hirotaka
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shoji
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Neuroscience and Integrative Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kanazawa University Kanazawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Shingo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Soya
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Neuroscience and Integrative Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kanazawa University Kanazawa, Japan ; International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan.
authors.forename: Mari
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hondo
authors.affiliation: Division of Systems Medical Science, Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science, Fujita Health University Toyoake, Japan ; Section of Behavior Patterns, Center for Genetic Analysis of Behavior, National Institute for Physiological Sciences Okazaki, Japan.
authors.forename: Tsuyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miyakawa
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Neuroscience and Integrative Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kanazawa University Kanazawa, Japan ; International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan.
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sakurai
keywords: anxiety; emotion; hypocretin; orexin; orexin receptor 1 (OX1R); social behavior