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Essential Amino Acids Affect Interstitial Dopamine Metabolites in the Anterior Piriform Cortex of Rats^{1 ,2}

Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, and the Food Intake Laboratory, University of California at Davis, Davis CA 95616, and ^* Department of Animal Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801

The anterior piriform cortex (APC) is essential for the anorectic reactions to an amino acid-imbalanced diet, and it also responds to repletion of the limiting amino acid. In the present study, we examine the dynamic changes of the interstitial dopamine metabolites in the APC following feeding of either an amino acid-corrected or -imbalanced diet. Microdialysates, collected from the APC, were analyzed using HPLC with electrochemical detection. The concentrations were 19.7 ± 4.8 µg/L for 3,4-dyhydroxyphenylacetic acid and 25.1 ± 4.4 µg/L for homovanillic acid, respectively, in the baseline dialysates. After diet treatments, no significant changes occurred in 3,4-dyhydroxyphenylacetic acid in the corrected (n = 7) or imbalanced (n = 9) groups vs. the basal group (n = 7). However, after feeding the threonine-corrected diet, the concentration of homovanillic acid was significantly less (P < 0.01) than after the basal and imbalanced diets. The homovanillic acid level in the corrected group was already significantly lower than in the basal group by 20 min (P < 0.05), and reached its lowest level at 70 min (P < 0.05). The concentrations of homovanillic acid in the corrected group remained at this low level until the end of the experiment. The present results introduce the idea that the dopaminergic system is involved in the feeding responses to essential amino acid repletion.

KEY WORDS: • aversion • feeding • microdialysis • monoamine • rats