Centrifugal regulation of olfactory function by melanin-concentrating hormone

黑色素浓缩激素对嗅觉功能的离心调节

基本信息

批准号：
10610404
负责人：
Karina Alvina
金额：
$ 31.68万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-04-01 至 2026-03-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10610404
关键词：
Ablation Acute Address Affect Animals Anterior Area Axon Behavior Behavioral Biochemical Biological Assay Brain Brain region Cells Central Nervous System Chemicals Cilia Detection Discrimination Eating Environment Excision Feeding behaviors Food Food deprivation (experimental)Functional disorder Future Gene Expression Genes Genetic Goals Grant Health Human Hunger Hypothalamic structure Image Immediate-Early Genes Interneurons Lateral MCHR1 gene Maps Mediating Modeling Molecular Monitor Mus Mutant Strains Mice Nasal cavity Neurons Neuropeptides Neurophysiology - biologic function Obesity Odors Olfactory Epithelium Olfactory Pathways Olfactory tubercle Organelles Organism Pathway interactions Patients Peptides Phenotype Physiological Play Population Process Quality of life REM Sleep Regulation Research Role Satiation Sensory Signal Pathway Signal Transduction Site Sleep Sleep Deprivation Smell Perception Techniques Testing Viral Volatilization Wakefulness Western Blotting Whole Body Plethysmography behavior test behavioral outcome behavioral response cellular targeting ciliopathy circadian design experimental study feeding food restriction genetic manipulation glutamatergic signaling habituation hormonal signals insight melanin-concentrating hormone melanin-concentrating hormone receptor mitral cell mouse model mutant neuroregulation olfactory bulb olfactory nuclei olfactory sensory neurons open field behavior pharmacologic piriform cortex receptor response sensory mechanism sensory system sleep pattern transmission process

项目摘要

Project Summary The sense of smell is essential for maintaining full human health and quality of life. It plays an important role in the detection of environmental dangers as well guiding decisions such as what foods to eat. However, olfactory processing is influenced by the physiological state of an organism. Both sleep deprivation and changes in satiety are connected with changes in the function of the olfactory system. Physiological changes such as these are integrated in the hypothalamus, where different neuropeptides are expressed by specific populations of neurons. These peptides can regulate transitions between wakefulness and sleep, or promote feeding behaviors. One peptide that functions in both promoting feeding and sleep is melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH). Neurons expressing MCH project to several areas of the brain including the olfactory bulb (OB), where the MCH receptor, MCHR1, is expressed. This connection represents a previously understudied pathway providing a potential mechanism for sleep or satiety induced changes in olfactory function. The proposed research will investigate the role of MCH signaling and hypothalamic MCH neurons in contributing to odor processing. The aims of this proposal will test the central hypothesis centrifugal MCH neurons integrate physiological states and regulate olfactory function. Aim 1 will use molecular and biochemical techniques to investigate changes in MCH levels in the OB in response to food restriction. It will also use complementary mouse models to determine the cellular targets of hypothalamic MCH neurons in olfactory regions. Aim 2 will investigate the effects of MCH on the activity of mitral cells in the olfactory bulb, and how changes in MCH effect odor threshold detection and cross-habituation in animals that lack components of the MCH signaling pathway. It will also test how activation of hypothalamic MCH neurons modulates these behaviors. Using AAV mediated approaches, we will target MCHR1 removal specifically in the OB to isolate its contribution to regulating behavioral changes. Finally, in Aim 3 we will investigate how disruption of primary cilia, the cellular site of MCHR1 localization, on neurons in the OB impacts an animal's ability to detect and discriminate odors. Completion of the proposed studies will provide new mechanistic insight into the role of the lateral hypothalamus in regulating olfactory function. The results from the proposed research will be important for understanding how changes in satiety or in wakefulness can impact the sense of smell. It will also provide insight into mechanisms of sensory dysfunction that occur in some ciliopathy patients. Completion of this project will establish future experiments to address the molecular mechanisms of MCH modulation in the OB.

项目概要嗅觉对于维持人类的健康和生活质量至关重要。它扮演一个在检测环境危险以及指导决策方面发挥着重要作用，例如吃的食物。然而，嗅觉处理受到生物体生理状态的影响。睡眠不足和饱腹感的变化都与大脑功能的变化有关。嗅觉系统。诸如此类的生理变化被整合到下丘脑中，其中不同的神经肽由特定的神经元群表达。这些肽可以调节清醒和睡眠之间的过渡，或促进进食行为。一种肽黑色素浓缩激素（MCH）具有促进进食和睡眠的作用。表达 MCH 的神经元投射到大脑的多个区域，包括嗅球 (OB)、其中表达 MCH 受体 MCHR1。该连接代表先前的正在研究的途径为睡眠或饱腹感引起的变化提供了潜在的机制嗅觉功能。拟议的研究将调查 MCH 信号传导的作用和下丘脑 MCH 神经元参与气味处理。该提案的目标将测试中心假设离心MCH神经元整合生理状态并调节嗅觉功能。目标 1 将使用分子和生化技术来研究 OB 中的 MCH 水平对食物限制的反应。它还将使用互补鼠标确定嗅觉区域下丘脑 MCH 神经元细胞靶标的模型。目的 2 将研究 MCH 对嗅球二尖瓣细胞活性的影响，以及如何影响 MCH 的变化影响气味阈值检测和缺乏气味的动物的交叉习惯 MCH 信号通路的组成部分。它还将测试下丘脑 MCH 的激活如何神经元调节这些行为。使用 AAV 介导的方法，我们将针对 MCHR1 特别是在 OB 中去除，以隔离其对调节行为变化的贡献。最后，在目标 3 中，我们将研究如何破坏初级纤毛（MCHR1 的细胞位点） OB 神经元上的定位会影响动物检测和辨别气味的能力。完成拟议的研究将为横向作用提供新的机制见解下丘脑调节嗅觉功能。拟议研究的结果将是对于理解饱腹感或清醒度的变化如何影响感觉很重要闻。它还将深入了解某些疾病中发生的感觉功能障碍的机制。纤毛病患者。该项目的完成将建立未来的实验来解决 OB 中 MCH 调节的分子机制。