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Provedor de dados: | 19
País: | Japan
Título: | Neuropeptide Y signaling in the dorsal raphe nucleus inhibits male sexual behavior in mice
Autores: | Inaba, A.; Komori, Y.; Muroi, Y.; Kinoshita, K.; Ishii, T.
Data: | 2016-04-21
Ano: | 2016
Palavras-chave: | Male sexual behavior; Neuropeptide Y; Dorsal raphe nucleus; Serotonin.
Resumo: | Animals change their biological activities depending on their nutritional state. Reproductive functions, including sexual behavior, are suppressed under low-energy conditions; however, the underlying neuronal mechanism is poorly understood. Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is an orexigenic molecule released in response to low-energy conditions and has an inhibitory effect on sexual behavior. We examined how NPY is involved in energy state-dependent regulation of male sexual behavior. Mounting, intromission, and ejaculation were evaluated as parameters of sexual behavior. Almost all parameters indicated that fasting for 24 h suppressed male sexual behavior. Intracerebroventricular injection of NPY inhibited sexual behavior in males that free-fed for 8 h following 24-h fasting (fed males). We next examined whether the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN), in which serotonergic (5-HT) neurons are distributed, is involved in NPY-mediated inhibition of male sexual behavior. NPY-positive processes immunoreactive for a presynaptic marker, synaptophysin, were distributed in the DRN of both fed and fasted males. Expression of the NPY Y1 receptor in 5-HT neurons was also observed. Direct injection of NPY or 8-OH-DPAT (a 5-HT1A receptor agonist that inhibits the activity of 5-HT neurons) into the DRN inhibited male sexual behavior in fed males. In contrast, injection of BIBP-3226, a NPY Y1 receptor antagonist, or (+)-DOI hydrochloride (DOI), a 5-HT2A/2C receptor agonist that activates 5-HT neurons, into the DRN partially recovered male sexual behavior in 24-h fasted males. These results suggest that NPY inhibits serotonergic neuronal activity via the Y1 receptor in the DRN, resulting in suppression of male sexual behavior in low-energy conditions.
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

http://ir.obihiro.ac.jp/dspace/handle/10322/4445

info:doi/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.01.069

Editor: | Elsevier
Fonte: | This accepted manuscript is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) License. &lt;http://creativecommons.org/lisenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&gt;