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Experience-dependent plasticity in hypocretin/orexin neurones: re-setting arousal threshold Gao XB; Wang AHActa Physiol (Oxf) 2010[Mar]; 198 (3): 251-62The neuropeptide hypocretin is synthesized exclusively in the lateral hypothalamus and participates in many brain functions critical for animal survival, particularly in the promotion and maintenance of arousal in animals - a core process in animal behaviours. Consistent with its arousal-promoting role in animals, the neurones synthesizing hypocretin receive extensive innervations encoding physiological, psychological and environmental cues and send final outputs to key arousal-promoting brain areas. The activity in hypocretin neurones fluctuates and correlates with the behavioural state of animals and intensive activity has been detected in hypocretin neurones during wakefulness, foraging for food and craving for addictive drugs. Therefore, it is likely that hypocretin neurones undergo experience-dependent changes resulting from intensive activations by stimuli encoding changes in the internal and external environments. This review summarizes the most recent evidence supporting experience-dependent plasticity in hypocretin neurones. Current data suggest that nutritional and behavioural factors lead to synaptic plasticity and re-organization of synaptic architecture in hypocretin neurones. This may be the substrate of enhanced levels of arousal resulting from behavioural changes in animals and may help to explain the mechanisms underlying the changes in arousal levels induced by physiological, psychological and environmental factors.|Animals[MESH]|Arousal/*physiology[MESH]|Behavior/*physiology[MESH]|Differential Threshold[MESH]|Humans[MESH]|Hypothalamus/physiology[MESH]|Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/*metabolism[MESH]|Neuronal Plasticity/*physiology[MESH]|Neurons/*physiology[MESH]|Neuropeptides/*metabolism[MESH]|Neurotransmitter Agents/*metabolism[MESH]|Nutritional Physiological Phenomena/*physiology[MESH]|Orexins[MESH]|Sleep/physiology[MESH]|Synaptic Transmission/physiology[MESH]|Wakefulness/physiology[MESH] |
