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NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
Volume 45, Issue 1, Pages 17-23Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(02)00191-8
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body temperature; haloperidol; orexin A; rat; sympathetic activity
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This experiment tested the effect of haloperidol on the sympathetic and thermogenic effects induced by orexin A. The firing rates of the sympathetic nerves to interscapular brown adipose tissue (BAT), along with IBAT and colonic temperatures and heart rate were monitored in urethane-anesthetized male Sprague-Dawley rats before and 5 h after an injection of orexin A (1.5 nmol) into the lateral cerebral ventricle. The same variables were monitored in rats with an intraperitoneal administration of haloperidol (1 mg/kg bw), a D-2 receptor antagonist. The results show that orexin A increases the sympathetic firing rate, IBAT and colonic temperatures and heart rate. This increase is reduced by the haloperidol. These findings suggest that dopaminergic system is activated during the orexin A-induced hyperthermia. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd and the Japan Neuroscience Society. All rights reserved.
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