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The Journal of Neuroscience, December 1, 2001, 21(23):9273-9279
Orexin/Hypocretin Excites the Histaminergic Neurons of the
Tuberomammillary Nucleus
Krister S.
Eriksson,
Olga
Sergeeva,
Ritchie E.
Brown, and
Helmut L.
Haas
Institute for Neurophysiology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität,
D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
The hypothalamic orexin (hypocretin) neuropeptides are associated
with the regulation of sleep and feeding, and disturbances in
orexinergic neurotransmission lead to a narcoleptic phenotype. Histamine has also been shown to play a role in the regulation of sleep
and feeding. Therefore, we studied the relationship between the orexin
and histamine systems of the CNS using electrophysiology, immunocytochemistry, and the reverse transcriptase (RT)-PCR method.
Both orexin-A and orexin-B depolarized the histaminergic
tuberomammillary neurons and increased their firing rate via an action on postsynaptic receptors. The depolarization was associated with a
small decrease in input resistance and was likely caused by activation
of both the electrogenic Na+/Ca2+
exchanger and a Ca2+ current. In a single-cell
RT-PCR study using primers for the two orexin receptors, we found that
most tuberomammillary neurons express both receptors and that the
expression of the orexin-2 receptor is stronger than that of the
orexin-1 receptor. Immunocytochemical studies show that the histamine
and orexin neurons are often located very close to each other. The
contacts between these two types of neurons seem to be reciprocal,
because the orexin neurons are heavily innervated by histaminergic
axons. These results suggest a functional connection between the two
populations of hypothalamic neurons and that they may cooperate in the
regulation of rapid-eye-movement sleep and feeding.
Key words:
orexin; orexin receptors; histamine; tuberomammillary; electrophysiology; PCR
Copyright © 2001 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/01/21239273-07$05.00/0
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