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Article Dans Une Revue Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience Année : 2018

fMRI-based brain responses to quinine and sucrose gustatory stimulation for nutrition research in the minipig model: a proof-of-concept study

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The minipig model is of high interest for brain research in nutrition and associated pathologies considering the similarities to human nutritional physiology, brain structures, and functions. In the context of a gustatory stimulation paradigm, fMRI can provide crucial information about the sensory, cognitive, and hedonic integration of exteroceptive stimuli in healthy and pathological nutritional conditions. Our aims were (i) to validate the experimental setup, i.e., fMRI acquisition and SPM-based statistical analysis, with a visual stimulation; (ii) to implement the fMRI procedure in order to map the brain responses to different gustatory stimulations, i.e., sucrose (5%) and quinine (10 mM), and (ii) to investigate the differential effects of potentially aversive (quinine) and appetitive/ pleasant (sucrose) oral stimulation on brain responses, especially in the limbic and reward circuits. Six Yucatan minipigs were imaged on an Avanto 1.5-T MRI under isoflurane anesthesia and mechanical ventilation. BOLD signal was recorded during visual or gustatory (artificial saliva, sucrose, or quinine) stimulation with a block paradigm. With the visual stimulation, brain responses were detected in the visual cortex, thus validating our experimental and statistical setup. Quinine and sucrose stimulation promoted different cerebral activation patterns that were concordant, to some extent, to results from human studies. The insular cortex (i.e., gustatory cortex) was activated with both sucrose and quinine, but other regions were specifically activated by one or the other stimulation. Gustatory stimulation combined with fMRI analysis in large animals such as minipigs is a promising approach to investigate the integration of gustatory stimulation in healthy or pathological conditions such as obesity, eating disorders, or dysgeusia. To date, this is the first intent to describe gustatory stimulation in minipigs using fMRI.
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hal-01856969 , version 1 (13-08-2018)

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Nicolas Coquery, Paul Meurice, Regis Janvier, Eric Bobillier-Chaumont, Stéphane Quellec, et al.. fMRI-based brain responses to quinine and sucrose gustatory stimulation for nutrition research in the minipig model: a proof-of-concept study. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2018, 12, pp.151. ⟨10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00151⟩. ⟨hal-01856969⟩
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