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BRAIN RESEARCH
Volume 1107, Issue -, Pages 52-57Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.05.099
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neurotrophin; food intake control; autonomic nervous system; brainstern; anorexigenic signaling
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The dorsal vagal complex (DVC) is the satiety reflex-integrating center of adult mammals. Immobilization stress (IS) is known to elicit anorexia and to up-regulate BDNF expression in adult rat forebrain; intra-DVC delivery of BDNF was shown to elicit anorexia. Therefore, we addressed here whether IS would increase BDNF signaling in rat DVC by using PCR and western-blot on microdissected tissue extracts. Significant variations of BDNF expression in DVC after IS include exon V mRNA increase at 3 h, decreases of both protein and exon III mRNA at 24 h, and exon I mRNA decrease at 72 h. At the receptor level, IS elicited a highly significant induction of both full-length and truncated-1 TrkB mRNAs at 24 h after IS. In vivo recruitment of BDNF signaling in DVC during stress thus differs from hypothalamus, the relevance of which to anorexia is discussed. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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