Article ; Online: Impairments in Analgesic, Hypothermic, and Glucoprivic Stress Responses following Neonatal Monosodium Glutamate
1984 Volume 38, Issue 6, Page(s) 438–446
Abstract: Neonatal administration of monosodium glutamate (MSG) produces in rats neurotoxic degeneration of the circumventricular system, including the medial-basal hypothalamus, depleting several neuropeptides and neurotransmitters in this area. In addition, a ... ...
| Abstract | Neonatal administration of monosodium glutamate (MSG) produces in rats neurotoxic degeneration of the circumventricular system, including the medial-basal hypothalamus, depleting several neuropeptides and neurotransmitters in this area. In addition, a number of behavioral and neuroendocrine responses are impaired, including a significant decrease in the analgesic response to cold-water swims (CWS). The present study examined whether the alterations in the analgesic responses following CWS and 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) induced by neonatal MSG treatment were due either to direct alterations in a pain-inhibitory system, or alternatively, to alterations in a system that processes the stressful consequences or properties of a stimulus. To accomplish this, the analgesic, hypothermic, and locomotor responses following CWS and the analgesic, hyperphagic, and locomotor responses following 2-DG were assessed in rats treated neonatally (days 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10) with either MSG or a vehicle solution. MSG-treated rats displayed significant reductions in both their analgesic and hypothermic responses following CWS, suggesting that MSG treatment impairs an animal’s ability to process sufficiently the stimulus properties of the swim as stressful. While MSG treatment potentiated 2-DG analgesia, it reduced 2-DG hyperphagia, suggesting that MSG treatment also impairs coping responses to glucoprivation. These data indicate the importance of the circumventricular system in the coding of stimuli as potential stressors and in the subsequent activation of requisite systems necessary to provide a sustained, coordinated, and synchronous coping response. |
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| Keywords | Monosodium glutamate ; Pain ; Stress ; Analgesia ; Hypothermia ; Glucoprivation ; Coping responses | |||||
| Language | English | |||||
| Publisher | S. Karger AG | |||||
| Publishing place | Basel | |||||
| Publishing country | Switzerland | |||||
| Document type | Article ; Online | |||||
| ZDB-ID | 123303-8 | |||||
| ISSN | 1423-0194 ; 0028-3835 ; 0028-3835 | |||||
| ISSN (online) | 1423-0194 | |||||
| ISSN | 0028-3835 | |||||
| DOI | 10.1159/000123932 | |||||
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| Database | Karger publisher's database |
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