He, Zhi-Gang, Liu, Bao-Wen, Li, Zhi-Xiao, Tian, Xuebi, Liu, San-Guang, Manyande, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8257-0722, Zhang, Ding-Yu and Xiang, Hong-Bing (2017) The caudal pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus may be involved in the regulation of skeletal muscle activity by melanocortin-sympathetic pathway: a virally mediated trans-synaptic tracing study in spinally transected transgenic mice. Oncotarget, 8 (42). pp. 71859-71866. ISSN 1949-2553

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Abstract

Understanding neuroanatomical sympathetic circuitry and neuronal connections from the caudal pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus to skeletal muscle is important to the study of possible mechanisms of pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (PPTg) and cuneiform nucleus (CnF) that are involved in the regulation of skeletal muscle activity of the sympathetic pathway. The aim of this study was to use virus PRV-614 to trace the melanocortin-sympathetic neural pathways from PPTg and CnF to a hindlimb muscle (gastrocnemius) in spinally transected MC4R-GFP transgenic mice. PRV-614 was injected into the gastrocnemius muscle after receiving a complete spinal cord transection below the L2 level. PRV-614/MC4R-GFP and PRV-614/TPH dual-labeled neurons were found in the dissipated parts of PPTg (dpPPTg), but not between the compact parts of PPTg (cpPPTg) and CnF. It is proposed that a hierarchical pathway of neurons within the caudal pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus sends projections to the RVLM, which in turn projects onto the IML sympathetic preganglionic neurons that regulate muscle blood flow through melanocortin-sympathetic signals. Our results collectively indicate that MC4Rs expressed in caudal pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus may be involved in skeletal muscle activity of melanocortin-sympathetic pathways.

Item Type:	Article
Identifier:	10.18632/oncotarget.17983
Additional Information:	Copyright: He et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords:	Pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus; Melanocortin-4 receptor; skeletal muscle; Pseudorabies virus; Mouse
Subjects:	Medicine and health Medicine and health > Physiology Psychology
Depositing User:	Anne Manyande
Date Deposited:	30 Mar 2017 08:46
Last Modified:	06 Feb 2024 15:52
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/3246

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