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Studies were undertaken to determine rational dosages of vitamin B1 and B6 during long-term intravenous hyperalimentation, using more sensitive techniques than formerly used to evaluate B1 and B6 status. A standard vitamin combination, type A, (usually commercially available products) has been used up to now because of convenience, disregarding the effects of long-term administration. This combination lacks biotin, folic acid, and vitamin E and contains from 10 to 100 times the dietary allowances of such vitamins as B1, B2, B6, B12, and C. In response to the possibility of vitamin overdose, two new vitamin combinations, type B (from commercial products) and type C (a convenient and easily administered combination produced at the hospital) were developed in order to provide the normal dietary allowances and at the same time eliminate any harmful side-effects. From the results obtained, 5 mg/day for thiamin HCl and 3 mg/day for pyridoxine HCl in type B and type C were found to be a sufficient and safe level as opposed to 55 mg/day for thiamin HCl and 102 mg/day for pyridoxine HCl in type A.
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PMID:Thiamin and pyridoxine requirements during intravenous hyperalimentation. 10 22

A boy referred at the age of 4 years because of obesity and under observation for 16 years, was found to be suffering from a hypothalamic syndrome of unknown origin characterized by progressive obesity, polyphagia, deficiency of growth and thyroid hormone, hyperprolactinemia, hypodipsia, hypernatremia and hyperosmolality without diabetes insipidus. At ages 11 and 16 there were 3 day episodes of spontaneous muscular weakness, hypersomnolence and hypothermia associated with central sleep apnea and severe bradycardia. Subsequently, decreased ventilatory responsiveness to carbon dioxide (CO2) was found as a consequence of blunted neural drive. Therapy with clomipramine HCl (Anafranil Ciba-Geigy) for 6 months led to a normalization of serum sodium levels, pulse rate, ventilatory response to dioxide with no recurrence of the central apnea within 4 following years.
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PMID:Recurrent hypothermia, hypersomnolence, central sleep apnea, hypodipsia, hypernatremia, hypothyroidism, hyperprolactinemia and growth hormone deficiency in a boy--treatment with clomipramine. 346 79

Physiological factors that affect food intake have been shown to influence taste-evoked activity in the rat's central nervous system. Insulin appears to have a bimodal effect on feeding, inhibiting intake when its rise is within the normal physiological range, but, with further increases, causing hyperphagia. We studied the effect of low intravenous doses (0.5 U/kg) of regular insulin on taste-evoked responses in the nucleus tractus solitarius. Taste activity was elicited by application to the tongue of glucose, fructose, NaCl, HCl, and quinine. We monitored responses before and after intrajugular injections of insulin or a control vehicle. Taste responsiveness to glucose and fructose was significantly reduced for the period 7-22 min following the injection. Activity representing NaCl, HCl, and quinine was unaffected. The suppression of responsiveness to sweet stimuli could decrease the hedonic appeal of tastants and so serve as a mechanism by which physiological doses of insulin could contribute to a reduction in feeding.
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PMID:Intravenous insulin infusions in rats decrease gustatory-evoked responses to sugars. 355 22

Neuropeptide Y (NPY) injected into the hypothalamus stimulates feeding and affects pituitary secretion. Insulin-deficient diabetes and food deprivation markedly increase hypothalamic NPY and NPY mRNA levels, suggesting increased activity of NPYergic pathways in the hypothalamus, which could account for hyperphagia and neuroendocrine changes in these conditions. To clarify these changes, NPY receptor characteristics were compared amongst rats with 3-weeks' untreated streptozotocin diabetes, insulin-treated normoglycemic diabetics, and non-diabetics, and also in food-deprived (72 h), food-deprived then refed, and in freely fed rats. Hypothalamic tissue homogenates (pooled from 3 rats; n = 9 per group) in Tris/HCl buffer were incubated with 30 pM [125I]porcine NPY and unlabeled NPY (range, 1 pM to 1 microM) for 1 h. Bound and free fractions were separated by vacuum filtration. Scatchard analysis revealed both high-affinity (Kd 0.3-0.8 nM) and low-affinity (Kd 14-40 nM) NPY receptor populations. Compared with nondiabetics, diabetic rats showed significantly reduced numbers (Bmax) of both high-affinity receptors (10 +/- 2 vs. 57 +/- 2 pmol/mg protein; p < 0.001) and low-affinity receptors (113 +/- 25 vs. 544 +/- 48 pmol/mg protein; p < 0.001). Insulin treatment partially restored Bmax of both high- and low-affinity receptors (24 +/- 1 and 334 +/- 60 pmol/mg protein, respectively; p < 0.01 vs. both other groups). Food deprivation also reduced Bmax of high-affinity (36 +/- 2 vs. 56 +/- 7 pmol/mg protein in freely fed; p < 0.05) and low-affinity receptors (288 +/- 6 vs. 457 +/- 17 pmol/mg protein; p < 0.05).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Neuropeptide Y receptor numbers are reduced in the hypothalamus of streptozotocin-diabetic and food-deprived rats: further evidence of increased activity of hypothalamic NPY-containing pathways. 828 70

In a previous report, it has been shown that water deprivation significantly affects the two-bottle taste preferences and one-bottle taste acceptance in rats when no food was available during tests. Since no food was available, the course of drinking was never interrupted by eating. Theoretically, if a rat faces a simultaneous choice between food and fluid, and if the course of drinking is interrupted by eating, these conditions might interfere with taste preferences, total fluid intake and eating in thirsty rats. The aims of the present experiments were: to ascertain whether food intake during both two-bottle preference and one-bottle acceptance tests in thirsty rats might be influenced by the palatability of the solutions; to verify whether the availability of food during tests influences taste preference and acceptance, and total fluid intake; to detect variations induced by dehydration on body weight and some plasma and urinary parameters that might interfere with food and fluid intake, taste preference and acceptance. Using naive rats, five groups of rats showing the same taste preferences for one of four prototypical tastes and water were selected. Then, both two-bottle preference (Expt 1) and one-bottle acceptance tests (Expt 2) were performed in rats deprived of water for either 12, 24, 36 or 48 h. The results showed that in both Expt 1 and Expt 2, inhibition of feeding and decrease of body weight during dehydration was very similar in all rats. The presence of food during the tests did not affect taste preference and acceptance. During Expt 1, after severe water deprivation (36 and 48 h), food intake was related to the palatability of the solution paired with water. When rats drank either NaCl or sucrose, they ate less food than rats drinking HCl, quinine, or water. In Expt 2, rats drinking NaCl solution as the only source of fluid ate significantly less food than all other groups. The intake of sucrose and/or NaCl solutions be may explained by two different post-ingestion effects (energetic and osmotic). Since rats drinking either sucrose or NaCl ate less food but drank more fluid, they had a significantly higher fluid/food intake ratio than that of rats who drank water, quinine, or HCl, who ate more food but drank less fluid. The increase of the fluid/food intake ratio in rats drinking sucrose or NaCl was directly correlated with the length of dehydration. Self-denial of food during dehydration may be responsible for overeating and overdrinking during the recovery period after tests. After dehydration lasting for 24 and 48 h, plasma [Na(+)], [protein], osmolality and haematocrit values increased but [K(+)] decreased. Urinary volume decreased but urinary [Na(+)] increased. These results are related to food and fluid intake, taste preference and acceptance after dehydration periods. Experimental Physiology (2001) 86.4, 489-498.
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PMID:Sapid solutions and food intake in repeated dehydration and rehydration periods in rats. 1144 28

Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima fatty (OLETF) rats lack the CCK-1 receptor, are hyperphagic, progressively become obese, and develop type-2 diabetes. We recently demonstrated an increased preference for both real and sham feeding of sucrose in this strain, suggesting altered orosensory sensitivity. To investigate taste functions, we used an automated gustometer with 10-s access to different concentrations of various sapid stimuli. Tests were repeated at 10 and 18 wk of age to assess the early and advanced stages of prediabetes, respectively. Compared with age-matched, nonmutant controls, the OLETF rats showed higher avidity for sucrose at both ages. This difference increased as a function of age and tastant concentration. An exaggerated response also occurred for saccharin, alanine, and fructose, but not for Polycose. Similarly, OLETF rats consumed monosodium-glutamate more at the lower concentrations compared with controls, an effect that age also accentuated. In contrast, there was no statistical strain or age differences in responses to NaCl, MgCl2, citric acid, quinine-HCl, and the trigeminal stimulus capsaicin. These findings demonstrate that compared with controls, OLETF rats differ in their gustatory functions with an overall augmented sensitivity for sweet that progresses during prediabetes. This effect explains their overconsumption of sweet solutions and may contribute to the overall hyperphagia and obesity in this strain.
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PMID:Altered taste sensitivity in obese, prediabetic OLETF rats lacking CCK-1 receptors. 1608 77

Hyperphagia is a reported side effect of anxiolytic benzodiazepines such as chlordiazepoxide (CDP). Prior research has focused primarily on the ingestive responses to sweet or solid foods. We examined CDP effects on licking for normally accepted and avoided taste solutions across a range of concentrations. The effect of CDP (10 mg/kg) versus saline on the licking patterns of water-restricted rats for water and 3 concentrations of sucrose, saccharin, NaCl, monosodium glutamate (MSG), citric acid, and quinine (Q-HCl) solutions was evaluated during 1 h tests. CDP increased meal size for all tastants except citric acid. Analysis of licking microstructure revealed 3 dissociable effects of CDP. CDP affected oromotor coordination as indicated by a uniform increase in the modal interlick interval for all stimuli. CDP increased meal size as indicated by shorter pauses during consumption of water, MSG, and weaker saccharin concentrations, and by fewer long interlick intervals (250-2000 ms) for normally avoided tastants. CDP also increased meal size by increasing burst size, burst duration, and the initial rate of licking for most solutions, suggesting increased hedonic taste evaluation. CDP did not affect variables associated with postingestive feedback such as meal duration or number of bursts, and the results also suggest that CDP did not enhance the perceived taste intensity. We hypothesize that the reduction of pause duration is consistent with an increased motivation to sample the stimulus that synergizes with changes in taste-mediated responsiveness to some but not all stimuli to yield increases in the consumption of both normally accepted and avoided taste stimuli.
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PMID:Multiple processes underlie benzodiazepine-mediated increases in the consumption of accepted and avoided stimuli. 2224 57