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  • Title: Studies on bombesin-induced grooming in rats.
    Author: Gmerek DE, Cowan A.
    Journal: Peptides; 1983; 4(6):907-13. PubMed ID: 6143301.
    Abstract:
    The gross behavior induced by centrally administered bombesin in rats was compared to that elicited by ACTH-(1-24) and the somatostatin analog, des AA1,2,4,5,12,13[D-Trp8]-somatostatin (ODT8-SS). Bombesin (0.001-1 microgram, ICV) caused dose-related excessive scratching which was qualitatively different from that associated with the other two groom-inducing agents. Bombesin-induced grooming was not markedly affected by behaviorally nondepressant doses of haloperidol, morphine, naloxone or neurotensin. Bombesin was active in genetically hypotrichotic (essentially furless) rats; and, again in such animals, even after numbing the area caudal to the shoulders with lidocaine. Tolerance and cross-tolerance studies with bombesin and ODT8-SS indicated that they produce scratching through different mechanisms. Bombesin caused scratching when injected directly into the periaqueductal gray, but not when administered intravenously. Neither hypophysectomy nor adrenalectomy markedly affected bombesin-induced grooming. This behavior appears to be initiated in the central nervous system and is produced independently of the pituitary-adrenal axis.
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