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APPETITE, OBESITY AND METABOLISM

Oral sucrose stimulation increases accumbens dopamine in the rat

¹Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033; and ²Bourne Behavioral Research Laboratory, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, White Plains, New York 10605

Submitted 22 May 2003 ; accepted in final form 20 August 2003

Although taste can influence meal size and body weight, the neural substrate for these effects remains obscure. Dopamine, particularly in the nucleus accumbens, has been implicated in both natural and nonnatural rewards. To isolate the orosensory effects of taste from possible postingestive consequences, we investigated the quantitative relationship between sham feeding of sucrose and extracellular dopamine in the nucleus accumbens with microdialysis in rats. Sucrose intake linearly increased as a function of concentration (0.03 M, 18.07 ± 2.41 ml; 0.1 M, 30.92 ± 2.60 ml; 0.3 M, 43.28 ± 2.88 ml). Sham feeding also stimulated accumbens dopamine overflow as a function of sucrose solution concentration (0.03 M, 120.76 ± 2.6%; 0.1 M, 140.28 ± 7.8%; 0.3 M, 146.27 ± 5.05%). A second experiment used the same protocol but clamped the amount of sucrose ingested and revealed a similar, concentration-dependent dopamine activation in the nucleus accumbens. This is the first demonstration of a quantitative relationship between the concentration-dependent rewarding effect of orosensory stimulation by sucrose during eating and the overflow of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens. This finding provides new and strong support for accumbens dopamine in the rewarding effect of sucrose.

orosensory positive feedback; control of food intake; motivation

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