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The Journal of Neuroscience, March 1, 2001, 21(5):1656-1662
Fos Expression in Orexin Neurons Varies with Behavioral State
Ivy V.
Estabrooke1,
Marie T.
McCarthy1,
Emily
Ko2,
Thomas C.
Chou3,
Richard M.
Chemelli4,
Masashi
Yanagisawa4,
Clifford B.
Saper1, 3, and
Thomas E.
Scammell1
1 Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, 2 Department of Psychology, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, 3 Program in Neuroscience,
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, and
4 Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75235
The neuropeptide orexin (also known as hypocretin) is hypothesized
to play a critical role in the regulation of sleep-wake behavior. Lack
of orexin produces narcolepsy, which is characterized by poor
maintenance of wakefulness and intrusions of rapid eye movement
(REM) sleep or REM sleep-like phenomena into wakefulness. Orexin
neurons heavily innervate many aminergic nuclei that promote wakefulness and inhibit REM sleep. We hypothesized that orexin neurons
should be relatively active during wakefulness and inactive during
sleep. To determine the pattern of activity of orexin neurons, we
recorded sleep-wake behavior, body temperature, and locomotor activity
under various conditions and used double-label immunohistochemistry to
measure the expression of Fos in orexin neurons of the perifornical region. In rats maintained on a 12 hr light/dark cycle, more orexin neurons had Fos immunoreactive nuclei during the night period; in
animals housed in constant darkness, this activation still occurred
during the subjective night. Sleep deprivation or treatment with
methamphetamine also increased Fos expression in orexin neurons. In
each of these experiments, Fos expression in orexin neurons correlated
positively with the amount of wakefulness and correlated negatively
with the amounts of non-REM and REM sleep during the preceding 2 hr. In
combination with previous work, these results suggest that activation
of orexin neurons may contribute to the promotion or maintenance of
wakefulness. Conversely, relative inactivity of orexin neurons may
allow the expression of sleep.
Key words:
orexin; hypocretin; Fos; wake; wakefulness; sleep; REM; lateral hypothalamus; perifornical region; hypothalamus; thermoregulation; rat
Copyright © 2001 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/01/2151656-07$05.00/0
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