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Tetsuya Tachibana1, Shozo Tomonaga, Daichi Oikawa, Shin Saito, Tomo Takagi, Ei-Suke Saito, Tim Boswell, Mitsuhiro Furuse.
Abstract
Intracerebroventricular (ICV) injections of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide-38 (PACAP) and vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) inhibit feeding in chicks. However, the precise anorexigenic mechanisms have not been investigated, since both peptides activate the VPAC receptor in mammals. We investigated which receptor mediates the anorexigenic effects of these peptides in chicks. ICV co-injection of PACAP (6-38), a PAC1 receptor antagonist, attenuated the anorexigenic effect of PACAP but not VIP. On the other hand, ICV co-injection of [D-p-Cl-Phe6, Leu17]-VIP, a VPAC receptor antagonist, did not affect the effects of both peptides. Although these results imply that the effect of VIP was not specific, a subsequent experiment demonstrated that ICV injection of anti-chicken VIP antiserum stimulated feeding and suggested that endogenous VIP inhibits feeding in the chick brain. Collectively, the data suggest that the anorexigenic mechanism of PACAP is different from that of VIP and that an undiscovered VIP receptor may be present in the chicken brain.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID： 12893417 DOI： 10.1016/s0304-3940(03)00646-3
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurosci Lett ISSN： 0304-3940 Impact factor: 3.046