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A pause in nucleus accumbens neuron firing is required to initiate and maintain feeding.


ABSTRACT: Nucleus accumbens (NAc) inactivation increases food intake, indicating that NAc neurons exert ongoing inhibition of feeding. We previously described a subpopulation of NAc neurons that pause during sucrose licking and proposed that the pause permits consumption. We tested this hypothesis by first recording NAc neurons during sucrose consumption, and then electrically stimulating through the same electrodes. A large proportion of NAc shell and core neurons were inhibited during sucrose consumption, and local electrical stimulation abruptly interrupted licking. Effective stimulation sites were more anterior than ineffective sites in NAc. At low stimulus intensities, licking resumed immediately on stimulation offset. The latency to lick resumption from NAc neuron inhibition onset ( approximately 460 ms) was very similar to that after electrical stimulation offset ( approximately 440 ms). These results directly support the hypothesis that a significant subpopulation of NAc neurons inhibit palatable food consumption and that a pause in their firing is required to initiate and maintain consumption.

SUBMITTER: Krause M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2878763 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A pause in nucleus accumbens neuron firing is required to initiate and maintain feeding.

Krause Michael M   German P Walter PW   Taha Sharif A SA   Fields Howard L HL  

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20100301 13


Nucleus accumbens (NAc) inactivation increases food intake, indicating that NAc neurons exert ongoing inhibition of feeding. We previously described a subpopulation of NAc neurons that pause during sucrose licking and proposed that the pause permits consumption. We tested this hypothesis by first recording NAc neurons during sucrose consumption, and then electrically stimulating through the same electrodes. A large proportion of NAc shell and core neurons were inhibited during sucrose consumptio  ...[more]

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