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Differential effects of relaxin-3 and a selective relaxin-3 receptor agonist on food and water intake and hypothalamic neuronal activity in rats.

The neuropeptide relaxin-3 (RLN3) binds with high affinity to its cognate receptor, relaxin-family peptide receptor 3 (RXFP3), and with lower affinity to RXFP1, the cognate receptor for relaxin. Intracerebroventricular (icv) administration of RLN3 in rats strongly increases food and water intake and alters the activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) and gonadal (HPG) axes, but the relative involvement of RXFP3 and RXFP1 in these effects is not known. Therefore, the effects of icv administration of equimolar (1.1 nmol) amounts of RLN3 and the RXFP3-selective agonist RXFP3-A2 on food and water intake, plasma levels of corticosterone, testosterone, and oxytocin and c-fos mRNA expression in key hypothalamic regions in male rats were compared. Food intake was increased by both RLN3 and RXFP3-A2, but the orexigenic effects of RXFP3-A2 were significantly stronger than RLN3, 30 and 60min after injection. Water intake and plasma corticosterone and testosterone levels were significantly increased by RLN3, but not by RXFP3-A2. Conversely, RXFP3-A2 but not RLN3 decreased oxytocin plasma levels. RLN3, but not RXFP3-A2, increased c-fos mRNA levels in the parvocellular (PVNp) and magnocellular (PVNm) paraventricular and supraoptic (SON) hypothalamic nuclei, in the ventral medial preoptic area (MPAv), and in the organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis (OVLT). A significant increase in c-fos mRNA expression was induced in the perifornical lateral hypothalamic area (LHApf) by RLN3 and RXFP3-A2. These results suggest that RXFP1 is involved in the RLN3 stimulation of water intake and activation of the HPA and HPG axes. The reduced food intake stimulation by RLN3 compared to RXFP3-A2 may relate to activation of both orexigenic and anorexigenic circuits by RLN3.

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