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FRONTIERS IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00324
Keywords
orexin; orexin receptor 1 (OX1R); emotion; anxiety; social behavior; hypocretin
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- Government of Japan through its Funding Program for Next Generation of World-leading Researchers
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) of Japan
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25242078, 15J04054, 15H01297] Funding Source: KAKEN
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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.
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