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Boutagouga Boudjadja M, Culotta I, De Paula GC, Harno E, Hunter J, Cavalcanti-de-Albuquerque JP, Luckman SM, Hepworth M, White A, Aviello G, D'Agostino G. Hypothalamic AgRP neurons exert top-down control on systemic TNF-α release during endotoxemia. Curr Biol 2022; 32:4699-4706.e4. [PMID: 36182699 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2022] [Revised: 07/21/2022] [Accepted: 09/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Loss of appetite and negative energy balance are common features of endotoxemia in all animals and are thought to have protective roles by reducing nutrient availability to host and pathogen metabolism. Accordingly, fasting and caloric restriction have well-established anti-inflammatory properties. However, in response to reduced nutrient availability at the cellular and organ levels, negative energy balance also recruits distinct energy-sensing brain circuits, but it is not known whether these neuronal systems have a role in its anti-inflammatory effects. Here, we report that hypothalamic AgRP neurons-a critical neuronal population for the central representation of negative energy balance-have parallel immunoregulatory functions. We found that when endotoxemia occurs in fasted mice, the activity of AgRP neurons remains sustained, but this activity does not influence feeding behavior and endotoxemic anorexia. Furthermore, we found that endotoxemia acutely desensitizes AgRP neurons, which also become refractory to inhibitory signals. Mimicking this sustained AgRP neuron activity in fed mice by chemogenetic activation-a manipulation known to recapitulate core behavioral features of fasting-results in reduced acute tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) release during endotoxemia. Mechanistically, we found that endogenous glucocorticoids play an important role: glucocorticoid receptor deletion from AgRP neurons prevents their endotoxemia-induced desensitization, and importantly, it counteracts the fasting-induced suppression of TNF-α release, resulting in prolonged sickness. Together, these findings provide evidence directly linking AgRP neuron activity to the acute response during endotoxemia, suggesting that these neurons are a functional component of the immunoregulatory effects associated with negative energy balance and catabolic metabolism.
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- Mehdi Boutagouga Boudjadja
- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; The Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- The Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK; Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; The Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
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Perry RJ, Resch JM, Douglass AM, Madara JC, Rabin-Court A, Kucukdereli H, Wu C, Song JD, Lowell BB, Shulman GI. Leptin's hunger-suppressing effects are mediated by the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis in rodents. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:13670-13679. [PMID: 31213533 PMCID: PMC6613139 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1901795116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Leptin informs the brain about sufficiency of fuel stores. When insufficient, leptin levels fall, triggering compensatory increases in appetite. Falling leptin is first sensed by hypothalamic neurons, which then initiate adaptive responses. With regard to hunger, it is thought that leptin-sensing neurons work entirely via circuits within the central nervous system (CNS). Very unexpectedly, however, we now show this is not the case. Instead, stimulation of hunger requires an intervening endocrine step, namely activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis. Increased corticosterone then activates AgRP neurons to fully increase hunger. Importantly, this is true for 2 forms of low leptin-induced hunger, fasting and poorly controlled type 1 diabetes. Hypoglycemia, which also stimulates hunger by activating CNS neurons, albeit independently of leptin, similarly recruits and requires this pathway by which HPA axis activity stimulates AgRP neurons. Thus, HPA axis regulation of AgRP neurons is a previously underappreciated step in homeostatic regulation of hunger.
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- Rachel J Perry
- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215;
- Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520;
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520
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Hoekstra M, Ouweneel AB, Nahon JE, van der Geest R, Kröner MJ, van der Sluis RJ, Van Eck M. ATP-binding cassette transporter G1 deficiency is associated with mild glucocorticoid insufficiency in mice. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2019; 1864:443-451. [PMID: 30633988 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2019.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2018] [Revised: 12/06/2018] [Accepted: 01/07/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Since cholesterol is the sole precursor for glucocorticoid synthesis, it is hypothesized that genetic defects in proteins that impact the cellular cholesterol pool may underlie glucocorticoid insufficiency in humans. In the current study, we specifically focused on the cholesterol efflux mediator ATP-binding cassette transporter G1 (ABCG1) as gene candidate. METHODS The adrenal transcriptional response to fasting stress was measured in wild-type mice to identify putative novel gene candidates. Subsequently, the adrenal glucocorticoid function was compared between ABCG1 knockout mice and wild-type controls. RESULTS Overnight food deprivation induced a change in relative mRNA expression levels of cholesterol metabolism-related proteins previously linked to steroidogenesis, i.e. scavenger receptor class B type I (+149%; P < 0.001), LDL receptor (-70%; P < 0.001) and apolipoprotein E (-41%; P < 0.01). Strikingly, ABCG1 transcript levels were also markedly decreased (-61%; P < 0.05). In contrast to our hypothesis that decreasing cholesterol efflux would increase the adrenal cholesterol pool and enhance glucocorticoid output, ABCG1 knockout mice as compared to wild-type mice exhibited a reduced ability to secrete corticosterone in response to an ACTH challenge (two-way ANOVA: P < 0.001 for genotype) or fasting stress. As a result, glucocorticoid target gene expression levels in liver and hypothalamus were reduced and blood lymphocyte concentrations and spleen weights increased in ABCG1 knockout mice under fasting stress conditions. This was paralleled by a 48% reduction in adrenal cholesteryl ester stores and stimulation of adrenal NPC intracellular cholesterol transporter 2 (+37%; P < 0.05) and apolipoprotein E (+59%; P < 0.01) mRNA expression. CONCLUSION ABCG1 deficiency is associated with mild glucocorticoid insufficiency in mice.
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- Menno Hoekstra
- Division of BioTherapeutics, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Einsteinweg 55, 2333CC Leiden, the Netherlands.
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- Division of BioTherapeutics, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Einsteinweg 55, 2333CC Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Division of BioTherapeutics, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Einsteinweg 55, 2333CC Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Division of BioTherapeutics, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Einsteinweg 55, 2333CC Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Division of BioTherapeutics, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Einsteinweg 55, 2333CC Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Division of BioTherapeutics, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Einsteinweg 55, 2333CC Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Division of BioTherapeutics, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Einsteinweg 55, 2333CC Leiden, the Netherlands
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Davies S, Deviche P. Regulation of feeding behavior and plasma testosterone in response to central neuropeptide Y administration in a songbird. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 323:478-86. [DOI: 10.1002/jez.1943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2015] [Revised: 04/20/2015] [Accepted: 04/22/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Scott Davies
- School of Life Sciences; Arizona State University; Tempe Arizona
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- School of Life Sciences; Arizona State University; Tempe Arizona
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Effects of maternal separation on the dietary preference and behavioral satiety sequence in rats. J Dev Orig Health Dis 2015; 5:219-28. [PMID: 24901662 DOI: 10.1017/s204017441400018x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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This study investigated the effects of maternal separation on the feeding behavior of rats. A maternal separation model was used on postnatal day 1 (PND1), forming the following groups: in the maternal separation (MS) group, pups were separated from their mothers each day from PND1 to PND14, whereas in the control (C) group pups were kept with their mothers. Subgroups were formed to study the effects of light and darkness: control with dark and light exposure, female and male (CF and CM), and maternal separation with dark and light exposure, female and male (SDF, SDM, SLF and SLM). Female rats had higher caloric intake relative to body weight compared with male controls in the dark period only (CF=23.3±0.5 v. CM=18.2±0.7, P<0.001). Macronutrient feeding preferences were observed, with male rats exhibiting higher caloric intake from a protein diet as compared with female rats (CF=4.1±0.7, n=8 v. CM=7.0±0.5, n=8, P<0.05) and satiety development was not interrupted. Female rats had a higher adrenal weight as compared with male rats independently of experimental groups and exhibited a higher concentration of serum triglycerides (n=8, P<0.001). The study indicates possible phenotypic adjustments in the structure of feeding behavior promoted by maternal separation, especially in the dark cycle. The dissociation between the mother's presence and milk intake probably induces adjustments in feeding behavior during adulthood.
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- Sherifa Ahmed Hamed
- Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University Hospital, Floor # 4, Room # 4, P.O.Box 71516, Assiut, Egypt
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Davies S, Deviche P. At the crossroads of physiology and ecology: food supply and the timing of avian reproduction. Horm Behav 2014; 66:41-55. [PMID: 24727023 DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2014.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2013] [Revised: 04/01/2014] [Accepted: 04/05/2014] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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This article is part of a Special Issue “Energy Balance”. The decision of when to breed is crucial to the reproductive success and fitness of seasonally breeding birds. The availability of food for adults prior to breeding has long been thought to play a critical role in timing the initiation of seasonal reproductive events, in particular laying. However, unequivocal evidence for such a role remains limited and the physiological mechanisms by which an increase in food availability results in seasonal activation of the reproductive system are largely speculative. This lack of mechanistic information partly reflects a lack of integration of ecological and physiological approaches to study seasonal reproduction. Indeed, most work pertaining to the role of food availability for adults on the timing of avian reproduction has been ecological and has focused almost exclusively on female traits associated with reproductive timing (e.g., lay date and clutch size). By contrast, most work on the physiological bases of the relationship between food availability and the timing of reproduction has investigated male traits associated with reproductive development (e.g., reproductive hormones and gonadal development). To advance our understanding of these topics, we review the role of proximate factors including food availability, social factors, and ambient temperature in the control of breeding decisions, and discuss the role of three potential candidates (leptin, glucocorticoids, and GnIH-neuropeptide Y) that may mediate the effects of food availability on these decisions. We emphasize that future progress in this area is heavily contingent upon the use of physiology-based approaches and their integration into current ecological frameworks.
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- Scott Davies
- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4501, USA.
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- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4501, USA.
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Uchoa ET, Silva LECM, de Castro M, Antunes-Rodrigues J, Elias LLK. Glucocorticoids are required for meal-induced changes in the expression of hypothalamic neuropeptides. Neuropeptides 2012; 46:119-24. [PMID: 22425130 DOI: 10.1016/j.npep.2012.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2011] [Revised: 01/17/2012] [Accepted: 02/16/2012] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Glucocorticoid deficiency is associated with a decrease of food intake. Orexigenic peptides, neuropeptide Y (NPY) and agouti related protein (AgRP), and the anorexigenic peptide proopiomelanocortin (POMC), expressed in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (ARC), are regulated by meal-induced signals. Orexigenic neuropeptides, melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) and orexin, expressed in the lateral hypothalamic area (LHA), also control food intake. Thus, the present study was designed to test the hypothesis that glucocorticoids are required for changes in the expression of hypothalamic neuropeptides induced by feeding. Male Wistar rats (230-280 g) were subjected to ADX or sham surgery. ADX animals received 0.9% NaCl in the drinking water, and half of them received corticosterone in the drinking water (B: 25 mg/L, ADX+B). Six days after surgery, animals were fasted for 16 h and they were decapitated before or 2 h after refeeding for brain tissue and blood collections. Adrenalectomy decreased NPY/AgRP and POMC expression in the ARC in fasted and refed animals, respectively. Refeeding decreased NPY/AgRP and increased POMC mRNA expression in the ARC of sham and ADX+B groups, with no effects in ADX animals. The expression of MCH and orexin mRNA expression in the LHA was increased in ADX and ADX+B groups in fasted condition, however there was no effect of refeeding on the expression of MCH and orexin in the LHA in the three experimental groups. Refeeding increased plasma leptin and insulin levels in sham and ADX+B animals, with no changes in leptin concentrations in ADX group, and insulin response to feeding was lower in this group. Taken together, these data demonstrated that circulating glucocorticoids are required for meal-induced changes in NPY, AgRP and POMC mRNA expression in the ARC. The lower leptin and insulin responses to feeding may contribute to the altered hypothalamic neuropeptide expression after adrenalectomy.
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- Ernane Torres Uchoa
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto, University of Sao Paulo, Avenida Bandeirantes 3900, 14049-900 Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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Bennett KA, Moss SE, Pomeroy P, Speakman JR, Fedak MA. Effects of handling regime and sex on changes in cortisol, thyroid hormones and body mass in fasting grey seal pups. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2012; 161:69-76. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2011.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2011] [Revised: 09/09/2011] [Accepted: 09/11/2011] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Yoo SB, Ryu V, Park EY, Kim BT, Kang DW, Lee JH, Jahng JW. The arcuate NPY, POMC, and CART expressions responding to food deprivation are exaggerated in young female rats that experienced neonatal maternal separation. Neuropeptides 2011; 45:343-9. [PMID: 21821286 DOI: 10.1016/j.npep.2011.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2011] [Revised: 06/08/2011] [Accepted: 07/13/2011] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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This study was conducted to examine the effect of neonatal maternal separation on the hypothalamic feeding peptides expression in young female offspring. Sprague-Dawley pups were separated from dam for 3h daily during PND 1-14 (MS), or left undisturbed except routine cage cleaning (NH). Weanling female pups were housed in group and the arcuate mRNA levels of neuropeptide Y (NPY), proopiomelanocortin (POMC), and cocaine-amphetamine regulated transcript (CART) were examined at two months of age with or without food deprivation. The basal arcuate expression levels of these peptides did not differ between NH and MS group. However, a 48 h of food deprivation significantly increased NPY mRNA level, and decreased POMC and CART, in the arcuate nucleus of MS females, but not in NH females. Fasting-induced elevation of the plasma corticosterone tended to be greater in MS group than in NH, but the basal levels did not differ between the groups. Plasma leptin levels were decreased in MS females compared with NH, and food deprivation significantly suppressed the leptin levels both in NH and MS groups. Results suggest that MS experience may increase stress vulnerability in female rats and exaggerate the feeding peptides expression in the arcuate nucleus responding to metabolic stress food deprivation.
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- S B Yoo
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Dental Research Institute, Seoul National University School of Dentistry, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Changes in the responsiveness of serum leptin and hypothalamic neuropeptide Y mRNA levels to food deprivation in developing rats. Int J Dev Neurosci 2011; 29:377-80. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2011.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2011] [Revised: 03/22/2011] [Accepted: 03/22/2011] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Jahng JW. An animal model of eating disorders associated with stressful experience in early life. Horm Behav 2011; 59:213-20. [PMID: 21093444 DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2010] [Revised: 10/28/2010] [Accepted: 11/10/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Experience of childhood abuse is prevalent among patients with eating disorders, and dysfunction of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is implicated in its pathophysiology. Neonatal maternal separation is considered as an animal model of stressful experience early in life. Many of studies have demonstrated its impact both on the activity of HPA axis and the development of psycho-emotional disorders later in life. In this paper, a series of our researches on developing an animal model of eating disorders is reviewed. An animal model of neonatal maternal separation was used; Sprague-Dawley pups were separated from dam daily for 180 min during the first 2 weeks of life (MS) or undisturbed. Anxiety-/depression-like behaviors were observed in MS rats at the age of two months with decreased serotonergic activity in the hippocampus and the raphe. Post-weaning social isolation promoted food intake and weight gain of adolescent MS pups, with impacts on anxiety-like behaviors. Sustained hyperphagia was observed in the MS pups subjected to a fasting/refeeding cycle repeatedly during adolescence, with increased plasma corticosterone levels. Anhedonia, major symptom of depression, to palatable food was observed in adolescent MS pups with blunted response of the mesolimbic dopaminergic activity to stress. Results suggest that neonatal maternal separation lead to the development of eating disorders when it is challenged with social or metabolic stressors later in life, in which dysfunctions in the HPA axis and the brain monoaminergic systems may play important roles.
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- Jeong Won Jahng
- Dental Research Institute, Seoul National University School of Dentistry, Seoul, 110-768, Republic of Korea.
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Moon YW, Choi SH, Yoo SB, Lee JH, Jahng JW. 5-hydroxy-L-tryptophan Suppressed Food Intake in Rats Despite an Increase in the Arcuate NPY Expression. Exp Neurobiol 2010; 19:132-9. [PMID: 22110352 PMCID: PMC3214782 DOI: 10.5607/en.2010.19.3.132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2010] [Accepted: 10/26/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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This study was conducted to define the underlying mechanism of hypophagia induced by increased central serotonergic action. Rats received 3 daily injections of 5-hydroxy-L-tryptophan (5-HTP), a serotonin precursor, at a dose of 100 mg/kg/10 ml saline at 1 h before lights off. A significant suppression in food intake was observed shortly after the 5-HTP injection and persisted during 3 daily 5-HTP injections. Neuropeptide Y (NPY) expression in the arcuate nucleus increased after 3 days of 5-HTP treatment, as high as in the pair-fed group. Immunoreactivity of phosphorylated extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase (pERK1/2) in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) was increased markedly by 3 days of 5-HTP treatment, but not by 3 days of pair-fed. mRNA expression levels of serotonin reuptake transporter (5-HTT) was increased in the dorsal raphe nucleus of the 5-HTP treated rats, but not in the pair-fed group. Results suggest that increased pERK1/2 in the PVN of 5-HTP injected rats may be a part of serotonergic anorectic signaling, perhaps blunting the orectic action of NPY; i.e., 5-HTP injected rats showed hypophagia despite of increased NPY expression in the arcuate nucleus.
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- Young Wha Moon
- Department of Natural Science, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Seoul 137-701, Korea
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Lee JH, Cha MJ, Yoo SB, Moon YW, Noh SJ, Jahng JW. Leptin blocks the fasting-induced increase of pERK1/2 in the paraventricular nucleus of rats. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010; 162:122-8. [PMID: 20346990 DOI: 10.1016/j.regpep.2010.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2010] [Revised: 02/26/2010] [Accepted: 03/16/2010] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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This study was conducted to define molecular mechanisms by which food deprivation increases phosphorylated extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase (pERK1/2) in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of rats. pERK1/2 immunoreactivity (-ir) is markedly increased in the paraventricular nucleus by 48h of food deprivation. Treatment with RU486, glucocorticoid antagonists, during food deprivation did not affect the fasting-induced increase of pERK1/2-ir in the paraventricular nucleus, but intracerebroventricular (icv) leptin blocked the increase of pERK1/2-ir by food deprivation. Fasting-induced increases of neuropeptide Y (NPY) expression both in the arcuate nucleus and the paraventricular nucleus were also blunted by icv leptin; however, the icv NPY to satiated rats did not increase pERK1/2 in the paraventricular nucleus. These results suggest that the fasting-induced increase of pERK1/2 in the paraventricular nucleus may not be mediated either by plasma corticosterone or the hypothalamic NPY, but require leptin dis-inhibition.
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- Jong-Ho Lee
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Dental Research Institute, Seoul National University School of Dentistry, Seoul, 110-768, Republic of Korea
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Kokavec A. Is decreased appetite for food a physiological consequence of alcohol consumption? Appetite 2008; 51:233-43. [DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2008.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2007] [Revised: 03/02/2008] [Accepted: 03/26/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Johansson A, Fredriksson R, Winnergren S, Hulting AL, Schiöth HB, Lindblom J. The relative impact of chronic food restriction and acute food deprivation on plasma hormone levels and hypothalamic neuropeptide expression. Peptides 2008; 29:1588-95. [PMID: 18550224 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2008.04.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2008] [Revised: 04/30/2008] [Accepted: 04/30/2008] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Our understanding of the central regulation of food intake and body weight has increased tremendously through implication of a high number of neuropeptides. However, lack of all-embracing studies have made comparison difficult in the past. The objective of this study was to demonstrate the relative importance of the different neuropeptides in terms of involvement in appetite regulatory mechanisms. We quantified expression levels of 21 hypothalamic neuropeptides and circulating levels of leptin, insulin, corticosterone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, ghrelin and adiponectin in rats after acute food deprivation and chronic food restriction using validated quantitative real-time PCR and hormone measurements. Body weight, insulin and leptin were reduced whereas corticosterone was increased by both acute food deprivation and chronic food restriction. Our results confirmed the relative importance in body weight homeostasis of neuropeptide Y and proopiomelanocortin, which were increased and decreased as predicted. The expression of other neuropeptides previously attributed central roles in body weight homeostasis, e.g. melanin-concentrating hormone and orexin, appeared to be less affected by the treatments. Moreover, the expression of dynorphin, galanin-like peptide and neuropeptide B was dramatically reduced after both treatments. This suggests that the latter neuropeptides--although previously known to be involved in body weight homeostasis--may be of unexpected importance in states of negative energy balance.
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Beck B. Neuropeptide Y in normal eating and in genetic and dietary-induced obesity. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2007; 361:1159-85. [PMID: 16874931 PMCID: PMC1642692 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is one the most potent orexigenic peptides found in the brain. It stimulates food intake with a preferential effect on carbohydrate intake. It decreases latency to eat, increases motivation to eat and delays satiety by augmenting meal size. The effects on feeding are mediated through at least two receptors, the Y1 and Y5 receptors. The NPY system for feeding regulation is mostly located in the hypothalamus. It is formed of the arcuate nucleus (ARC), where the peptide is synthesized, and the paraventricular (PVN), dorsomedial (DMN) and ventromedial (VMN) nuclei and perifornical area where it is active. This activity is modulated by the hindbrain and limbic structures. It is dependent on energy availability, e.g. upregulation with food deprivation or restriction, and return to baseline with refeeding. It is also sensitive to diet composition with variable effects of carbohydrates and fats. Leptin signalling and glucose sensing which are directly linked to diet type are the most important factors involved in its regulation. Absence of leptin signalling in obesity models due to gene mutation either at the receptor level, as in the Zucker rat, the Koletsky rat or the db/db mouse, or at the peptide level, as in ob/ob mouse, is associated with increased mRNA abundance, peptide content and/or release in the ARC or PVN. Other genetic obesity models, such as the Otsuka-Long-Evans-Tokushima Fatty rat, the agouti mouse or the tubby mouse, are characterized by a diminution in NPY expression in the ARC nucleus and by a significant increase in the DMN. Further studies are necessary to determine the exact role of NPY in these latter models. Long-term exposure to high-fat or high-energy palatable diets leads to the development of adiposity and is associated with a decrease in hypothalamic NPY content or expression, consistent with the existence of a counter-regulatory mechanism to diminish energy intake and limit obesity development. On the other hand, an overactive NPY system (increased mRNA expression in the ARC associated with an upregulation of the receptors) is characteristic of rats or rodent strains sensitive to dietary-induced obesity. Finally, NPY appears to play an important role in body weight and feeding regulation, and while it does not constitute the only target for drug treatment of obesity, it may nevertheless provide a useful target in conjunction with others.
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- B Beck
- Université Henri Poincaré, Neurocal, Nancy, France.
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Sato I, Arima H, Ozaki N, Watanabe M, Goto M, Hayashi M, Banno R, Nagasaki H, Oiso Y. Insulin inhibits neuropeptide Y gene expression in the arcuate nucleus through GABAergic systems. J Neurosci 2006; 25:8657-64. [PMID: 16177033 PMCID: PMC6725519 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2739-05.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Neuropeptide Y (NPY) in the arcuate nucleus is an orexigenic hormone of which levels are regulated by humoral as well as neural signals. In this study, we examined the regulation of NPY gene expression in the arcuate nucleus in hypothalamic organotypic cultures. Dexamethasone (DEX) (10(-9) to 10(-7) M) significantly increased NPY mRNA expression, and the effects were not influenced by coincubation with the sodium channel blocker tetrodotoxin (TTX), indicating that the action of DEX is independent of action potentials. Conversely, insulin (10(-11) to 10(-9) M) significantly inhibited NPY expression stimulated by DEX, and the inhibitory action of insulin was abolished in the presence of TTX. Because GABA and its receptors are expressed in the arcuate nucleus in vivo, we examined whether GABAergic systems were involved in the insulin action. The GABAB agonist baclofen significantly inhibited NPY expression stimulated by DEX, and the inhibitory action of insulin was completely abolished in the presence of either the GABAA antagonist bicuculline or the GABAB antagonist CGP35348 (p-3-aminopropyl-p-diethoxymethyl phosphoric acid). Furthermore, increases in the GABA-synthesizing enzyme glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 (GAD65) mRNA expression preceded decreases in NPY mRNA expression in the arcuate nucleus in the cultures. Experiments in vivo also demonstrated that increases in GAD65 mRNA expression in the arcuate nucleus preceded decreases in the NPY mRNA expression in a fasting-refeeding paradigm and that intracerebroventricular injection of insulin increased GAD65 mRNA expression in the arcuate nucleus in fasted rats. These data suggest that insulin inhibits NPY gene expression in the arcuate nucleus through GABAergic systems.
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- Ikuko Sato
- Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Field of Internal Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan
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Kim HJ, Lee JH, Choi SH, Lee YS, Jahng JW. Fasting-induced increases of arcuate NPY mRNA and plasma corticosterone are blunted in the rat experienced neonatal maternal separation. Neuropeptides 2005; 39:587-94. [PMID: 16266747 DOI: 10.1016/j.npep.2005.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2005] [Accepted: 09/09/2005] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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This study was conducted to examine the effects of neonatal maternal separation on the hypothalamic expression of feeding peptides in later life. Pups in maternal separation (MS) groups were separated from their dam for 3 h daily from postnatal day (PND) 1-14, while pups in non-handled (NH) groups were left undisturbed. Rats were sacrificed on PND 60 to examine the gene expression of neuropeptide Y (NPY) and pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus by mRNA in situ hybridization. Half of the rats from each group were food-deprived for 48 h before sacrifice. POMC mRNA expression increased in the free fed MS group compared with the free fed NH group. Food deprivation significantly decreased the arcuate POMC mRNA level in both groups. Body weight gain, basal levels of plasma corticosterone, leptin, and arcuate NPY mRNA were not modulated by experience of neonatal maternal separation. However, fasting-induced increases of plasma corticosterone and arcuate NPY expression were blunted in MS rats. These results suggest that neonatal maternal separation may increase the basal expression level of arcuate POMC mRNA, while inhibit the fasting-induced expression of arcuate NPY mRNA, later in life. Lastly, the altered expression of arcuate NPY mRNA, but not of arcuate POMC mRNA, appeared to be related with altered activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal gland axis in offspring by neonatal maternal separation.
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- H J Kim
- Department of Pharmacology, BK21 Project for Medical Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Shin Chon Dong, Seo Dae Moon Ku, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Leibowitz SF, Sepiashvili K, Akabayashi A, Karatayev O, Davydova Z, Alexander JT, Wang J, Chang GQ. Function of neuropeptide Y and agouti-related protein at weaning: relation to corticosterone, dietary carbohydrate and body weight. Brain Res 2005; 1036:180-91. [PMID: 15725416 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2004.12.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2004] [Revised: 12/14/2004] [Accepted: 12/17/2004] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Neuropeptide Y (NPY) and agouti-related protein (AgRP), potent stimulants of feeding, have been linked in adult rats to both corticosterone (CORT) and dietary carbohydrate. To understand the significance of this relationship early in life, measurements were taken of these parameters at different ages around weaning, in rats given a choice of macronutrient diets or maintained on a carbohydrate-rich diet. The results demonstrate that, in both male and female rat pups, the expression and production of NPY and AgRP in the arcuate nucleus (ARC) peak on postnatal day 21 (P21), compared to P15 before weaning and P27 after weaning. These elevated levels of peptide were associated with peak levels of CORT and glucose and also a strong, natural preference for carbohydrate at weaning, which accounted for 55-65% of the pups' total diet. In subgroups defined by their body weight at these stages, rats with as little as 4% lower body weight (compared to higher weight pups) had 30-60% greater expression of NPY and AgRP in the ARC and elevated levels of CORT, with no difference in leptin or insulin. This response was significantly more pronounced at P21 than at P15 or P27. The importance of carbohydrate during this stage was suggested by additional results showing elevated NPY expression, CORT levels, body weight and inguinal fat pad weights in P27 pups raised on a 65% carbohydrate diet vs. 45% carbohydrate. These results suggest that hypothalamic NPY and AgRP, together with CORT, have glucoregulatory as well as feeding stimulatory functions that help mediate the transition from suckling of a fat-rich diet to independent feeding of a carbohydrate-rich diet. During this critical period, the carbohydrate together with the peptides and CORT provide the important signals, including elevated glucose, that promote de novo lipogenesis and enable weanling animals to survive periods of food deprivation.
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- Sarah F Leibowitz
- Laboratory of Behavioral Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA.
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The hypothalamus and other brain regions that control energy homeostasis contain neuronal populations that produce specific neuropeptides which have experimental effects on feeding behavior and body weight. Here, we describe examples of neuropeptides that exert 'anabolic' effects, notably stimulation of feeding and increased body weight. Neuropeptide Y (NPY) neurons in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus (ARC) are inhibited by leptin and insulin, and thus are stimulated in states of energy deficit and fat loss, e.g., underfeeding. NPY neuronal overactivity contributes to enhanced hunger and food-seeking activity under these conditions. The lateral hypothalamic area (LHA) contains specific neuronal populations that affect feeding in different ways. Neurons expressing the appetite-stimulating peptide orexin A are stimulated by starvation (but not food restriction) and by hypoglycemia, but only if food is withheld. Orexin neurons are apparently activated by low glucose but are promptly inhibited by visceral feeding signals, probably mediated via vagal sensory pathway and the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS); a short-term role in initiating feeding seems most likely. Other LHA neurons express melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH), which transiently increases food intake when injected centrally. MCH neurons may be regulated by leptin, insulin and glucose. Glucose-sensing neurons in the hypothalamus and elsewhere are sensitive to other cues of nutritional state, including visceral satiety signals (transmitted via the vagus) and orexin A. Thus, long- and short-term humoral and neural signals interact with each other to meet diverse nutritional needs, and anabolic neuropeptides are important in the overall integration of energy homeostasis. Clarifying the underlying mechanisms will be essential to understanding normal energy balance and the pathogenesis and treatment of disorders, such as obesity and cachexia.
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- Gareth Williams
- Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Group, Department of Medicine, University of Liverpool, Duncan Building, Daulby Street, Liverpool L69 3GA, UK.
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Makimura H, Mizuno TM, Isoda F, Beasley J, Silverstein JH, Mobbs CV. Role of glucocorticoids in mediating effects of fasting and diabetes on hypothalamic gene expression. BMC PHYSIOLOGY 2003; 3:5. [PMID: 12848900 PMCID: PMC179893 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6793-3-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2003] [Accepted: 07/09/2003] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Fasting and diabetes are characterized by elevated glucocorticoids and reduced insulin, leptin, elevated hypothalamic AGRP and NPY mRNA, and reduced hypothalamic POMC mRNA. Although leptin replacement can reverse changes in hypothalamic gene expression associated with fasting and diabetes, leptin also normalizes corticosterone; therefore the extent to which the elevated corticosterone contributes to the regulation of hypothalamic gene expression in fasting and diabetes remains unclear. To address if elevated corticosterone is necessary for hypothalamic responses to fasting and diabetes, we assessed the effects of adrenalectomy on hypothalamic gene expression in 48-hour-fasted or diabetic mice. To assess if elevated corticosterone is sufficient for the hypothalamic responses to fasting and diabetes, we assessed the effect of corticosterone pellets implanted for 48 hours on hypothalamic gene expression. RESULTS Fasting and streptozotocin-induced diabetes elevated plasma glucocorticoid levels and reduced serum insulin and leptin levels. Adrenalectomy prevented the rise in plasma glucocorticoids associated with fasting and diabetes, but not the associated reductions in insulin or leptin. Adrenalectomy blocked the effects of fasting and diabetes on hypothalamic AGRP, NPY, and POMC expression. Conversely, corticosterone implants induced both AGRP and POMC mRNA (with a non-significant trend toward induction of NPY mRNA), accompanied by elevated insulin and leptin (with no change in food intake or body weight). CONCLUSION These data suggest that elevated plasma corticosterone mediate some effects of fasting and diabetes on hypothalamic gene expression. Specifically, elevated plasma corticosterone is necessary for the induction of NPY mRNA with fasting and diabetes; since corticosterone implants only produced a non-significant trend in NPY mRNA, it remains uncertain if a rise in corticosterone may be sufficient to induce NPY mRNA. A rise in corticosterone is necessary to reduce hypothalamic POMC mRNA with fasting and diabetes, but not sufficient for the reduction of hypothalamic POMC mRNA. Finally, elevated plasma corticosterone is both necessary and sufficient for the induction of hypothalamic AGRP mRNA with fasting and diabetes.
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- Hideo Makimura
- Fishberg Center for Neurobiology, Neurobiology of Aging Laboratories, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, New York, USA 10029
- Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, New York, USA 10029
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- Fishberg Center for Neurobiology, Neurobiology of Aging Laboratories, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, New York, USA 10029
- Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, New York, USA 10029
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- Fishberg Center for Neurobiology, Neurobiology of Aging Laboratories, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, New York, USA 10029
- Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, New York, USA 10029
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- Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, New York, USA 10029
- Department of Anesthesiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, New York, USA 10029
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- Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, New York, USA 10029
- Department of Anesthesiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, New York, USA 10029
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- Fishberg Center for Neurobiology, Neurobiology of Aging Laboratories, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, New York, USA 10029
- Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, New York, USA 10029
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Savontaus E, Conwell IM, Wardlaw SL. Effects of adrenalectomy on AGRP, POMC, NPY and CART gene expression in the basal hypothalamus of fed and fasted rats. Brain Res 2002; 958:130-8. [PMID: 12468037 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(02)03674-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Glucocorticoids regulate body energy balance through both peripheral and central mechanisms. In order to understand the central mechanisms that mediate these effects of glucocorticoids we studied the effects of adrenalectomy (ADX) and food deprivation on the expression of four neuropeptide genes (measured by S1 nuclease protection assay) in the medial basal hypothalamus (MBH), which are known to regulate energy balance: pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC), agouti-related peptide (AGRP), neuropeptide Y (NPY), and cocaine and amphetamine regulated transcript (CART). Adult male rats were ADX or sham operated (SHAM), and studied 1-2 weeks later. In the first study effects of ADX and corticosterone replacement on POMC and AGRP expression were determined. ADX decreased POMC and AGRP gene expression in the MBH by 27 and 38%, respectively, compared to SHAM rats. Corticosterone treatment increased the expression of POMC by 87% and AGRP by 45% in ADX rats. The second study was designed to determine if glucocorticoids are necessary for the fasting induced changes in POMC, AGRP, NPY and CART in the MBH. ADX caused a 20-30% decrease in the expression of all four neuropeptide genes in the MBH. As expected, fasting suppressed POMC and CART expression and increased AGRP and NPY expression. The fasting-induced increases in AGRP and NPY persisted after ADX but no further significant decreases in POMC or CART were noted after fasting in ADX rats. Plasma leptin and insulin declined significantly after ADX and increased with corticosterone replacement; both leptin and insulin declined further in fasted, ADX animals. In conclusion, ADX decreases both anorexigenic, POMC and CART, and orexigenic, AGRP and NPY, neuropeptide gene expression in the MBH. AGRP and NPY decrease after ADX despite the fall in plasma leptin and insulin concentrations which in other situations would increase these neuropeptides. Furthermore, glucocorticoids are not required for fasting-induced upregulation of AGRP and NPY expression.
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- Eriika Savontaus
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 630 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA
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Lennie TA, Wortman MD, Seeley RJ. Activity of body energy regulatory pathways in inflammation-induced anorexia. Physiol Behav 2001; 73:517-23. [PMID: 11495655 DOI: 10.1016/s0031-9384(01)00480-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Previous research has shown that reductions in body weight prior to induction of acute inflammation can attenuate inflammation-induced anorexia in male rats. In the current study, potential mechanisms responsible for this observation were examined. Specifically, the effect of a 12% prior reduction in body weight on serum leptin, insulin, and corticosterone; levels of interleukin-1 (IL-1), interleukin-6 (IL-6) in the serum, liver, and spleen; neuropeptide Y (NPY) and POMC mRNA levels in the arcuate nucleus (ARC) of the hypothalamus were examined 8 h after induction of acute inflammation. Rats with prior weight reduction had significantly lower serum leptin levels and gene expression of POMC in the ARC than normal-weight rats. In contrast, prior weight reduction altered neither NPY mRNA in the ARC, nor IL-1alpha, IL-1beta, and IL-6 levels in the serum, liver, and spleen. These results suggest that the attenuation of inflammation-induced anorexia by prior weight reduction is not due to altered cytokine activity, but rather to changes in energy regulatory systems that moderate the anorexic actions of IL-1beta and IL-6. One potential change may be reduced activity of the CNS melanocortin system induced by decreased circulating leptin.
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- T A Lennie
- College of Nursing, Ohio State University, 1585 Neil Avenue, 43210-1289, Columbus OH, USA.
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Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is a potent feeding stimulant acting at the level of the hypothalamus. Amylin, a peptide co-released with insulin from pancreatic beta cells, inhibits feeding following peripheral or central administration. However, the mechanism by which amylin exerts its anorectic effect is controversial. This study investigated the acute effect of amylin on food intake induced by NPY, and the effect of chronic amylin administration on food intake and body weight in male Sprague Dawley rats previously implanted with intracerebroventricular (icv) cannulae. Rats received 1 nmol NPY, followed by amylin (0.05, 0.1, 0.5 nmol) or 2 microl saline. Increasing doses of amylin resulted in a dose-dependent inhibition of NPY-induced feeding by 31%, 74% and 99%, respectively (P < 0.05). To determine the chronic effects of i.c.v. amylin administration on feeding, rats received 0.5 nmol amylin or saline daily, 30 min before dark phase, over 6 days. Amylin significantly reduced food intake at 1, 4, 16 and 24 hours; after 6 days, amylin-treated rats showed a significant reduction in body weight, having lost 17.3 +/- 6.1 g, while control animals gained 7.7 +/- 5.1 g (P < 0.05). Brain NPY concentrations were not elevated, despite the reduced food intake, suggesting amylin may regulate NPY production or release. Thus, amylin potently inhibits NPY-induced feeding and attenuates normal 24 hour food intake, leading to weight loss.
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- M J Morris
- Department of Pharmacology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
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Wang J, Dourmashkin JT, Yun R, Leibowitz SF. Rapid changes in hypothalamic neuropeptide Y produced by carbohydrate-rich meals that enhance corticosterone and glucose levels. Brain Res 1999; 848:124-36. [PMID: 10612704 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(99)02040-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Prior studies have demonstrated that chronic consumption over several weeks of a high-carbohydrate (65%) diet, compared to a moderate-carbohydrate (45%) or low-carbohydrate (15%) diet, potentiates the expression, synthesis and release of hypothalamic NPY. This effect occurs specifically in neurons of the arcuate nucleus (ARC) which project to the paraventricular nucleus (PVN). In the present experiments, tests involving acute manipulations were conducted to determine whether such diet-induced changes in NPY can occur rapidly, perhaps within 1-2 h, and whether these effects can be linked to specific changes in circulating glucoregulatory hormones or glucose itself., In adult, albino rats maintained on lab chow, the acute manipulations included the presentation of either a high-carbohydrate, moderate-carbohydrate or high-fat diet for 90 min at the onset of the natural feeding cycle. They also involved manipulations of glucose itself, either through the ingestion of a glucose (20%) solution in a drinking tube or intraperitoneal injection of a glucose solution (10%). After a high-carbohydrate meal compared to a moderate-carbohydrate or high-fat meal, NPY gene expression examined via in situ hybridization is found to be significantly enhanced in the ARC. The high-carbohydrate meal also potentiates NPY immunoreactivity in the ARC and PVN but has little effect on NPY in other hypothalamic areas examined and actually causes a reduction in the feeding-stimulatory peptide, galanin, specifically in the PVN. The meal-induced increase in NPY is associated with specific endocrine patterns, as revealed by measurements in serum collected from trunk blood or from rats implanted with a chronic jugular catheter. After a high-carbohydrate meal, levels of glucose, together with corticosterone and insulin, are significantly elevated, while non-esterified fatty acids are reduced. A possible effect of circulating glucose on hypothalamic NPY is further suggested by the finding that the consumption or a single injection of a glucose solution at the onset of the feeding cycle similarly elevates NPY mRNA and peptide immunoreactivity in the ARC and PVN. These results demonstrate that hypothalamic NPY can change rapidly in response to dietary carbohydrate. They also suggest that this effect may be related to changes in circulating CORT as well as to the availability or utilization of glucose.
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- J Wang
- The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Solano JM, Jacobson L. Glucocorticoids reverse leptin effects on food intake and body fat in mice without increasing NPY mRNA. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1999; 277:E708-16. [PMID: 10516131 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.1999.277.4.e708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Glucocorticoid stimulation of appetite and leptin expression conflicts with leptin inhibition of food intake and suggests that glucocorticoids reduce sensitivity to leptin. To determine if glucocorticoids impair feeding and metabolic responses to leptin, we measured leptin-induced changes in food intake, body weight, hormones, carcass fat, and hypothalamic neuropeptide Y (NPY) mRNA in adrenalectomized mice with and without corticosterone replacement. Leptin infusion (0.5 microgram/h) significantly decreased food intake and body weight in adrenalectomized mice. Corticosterone replacement approximating normal 24-h mean levels restored food intake but did not permit weight gain equivalent to PBS-infused controls. Corticosterone levels comparable to stress-induced production completely reversed leptin-induced reductions in weight gain and body fat, despite significant attenuation by leptin of corticosterone-induced increases in plasma insulin levels. Glucocorticoid replacement increased food intake without reversing leptin inhibition of hypothalamic NPY mRNA levels. We conclude that glucocorticoid levels within the physiological range can interfere with leptin action and that glucocorticoid effects are at least partly independent of NPY.
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- J M Solano
- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Schwartz MW, Baskin DG, Kaiyala KJ, Woods SC. Model for the regulation of energy balance and adiposity by the central nervous system. Am J Clin Nutr 1999; 69:584-96. [PMID: 10197558 DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/69.4.584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 174] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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In 1995, we described a new model for adiposity regulation. Since then, data regarding the biology of body weight regulation has accumulated at a remarkable rate and has both modified and strengthened our understanding of this homeostatic system. In this review we integrate new information into a revised model for further understanding this important regulatory process. Our model of energy homeostasis proposes that long-term adiposity-related signals such as insulin and leptin influence the neuronal activity of central effector pathways that serve as controllers of energy balance.
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- M W Schwartz
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Harborview-Medical Center and the VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle 98108, USA.
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Kalra SP, Dube MG, Pu S, Xu B, Horvath TL, Kalra PS. Interacting appetite-regulating pathways in the hypothalamic regulation of body weight. Endocr Rev 1999; 20:68-100. [PMID: 10047974 DOI: 10.1210/edrv.20.1.0357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 245] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Various aspects of the complex spatio-temporal patterning of hypothalamic signaling that leads to the development of synchronized nocturnal feeding in the rat are critically examined. Undoubtedly, as depicted in Fig. 7, a distinct ARN in the hypothalamus is involved in the control of nocturnal appetite. At least four basic elements operate within this ARN. These are: 1) A discrete appetite-driving or orexigenic network of NPY, NE, GABA, GAL, EOP, and orexin transduces and releases appetite-stimulating signals. 2) Similarly, anorexigenic signal-producing pathways (e.g., CRH, GLP-1, alpha MSH, and CART) orchestrate neural events for dissipation of appetite and to terminate feeding, possibly by interrupting NPY efflux and action at a postsynaptic level within the hypothalamus. It is possible that some of these may represent the physiologically relevant "off" switches under the influence of GABA alone, or AgrP alone, or in combination with NPY released from the NPY-, GABA-, and AgrP-coproducing neurons. 3) Recent evidence shows that neural elements in the VMN-DMN complex tonically restrain the orexigenic signals during the intermeal interval; the restraint is greatly aided by leptin's action via diminution of orexigenic (NPY) and augmentation of anorexigenic (GLP-1, alpha MSH, and CART) signals. Since interruption of neurotransmission in the VMN resulted in hyperphagia and development of leptin resistance, it seems likely that the VMN is an effector site for the restraint exercised by leptin. The daily rhythms in leptin synthesis and release are temporally dissociable because the onset of daily rise in leptin gene expression in adipocytes precedes that in leptin secretion. Nevertheless, these rhythms are in phase with daily ingestive behavior because the peak in circulating leptin levels occurs during the middle of the feeding period. These observations, coupled with the fact that circulating levels of leptin are directly related to adiposity, pose a new challenge for elucidating the precise role of leptin in daily patterning of feeding in the rat. 4) A neural timing mechanism also operates upstream from the ARN in the daily management of energy homeostasis. Although the precise anatomical boundaries are not clearly defined, this device is likely to be composed of a group of neurons that integrate incoming internal and external information for the timely onset of the drive to eat. Evidently, this network operates independently in primates, but it is entrained to the circadian time keeper in the SCN of rodents. Apart from its role in the onset of drive to eat, the circadian patterns of gene expression of NPY, GAL, and POMC denote independent control of the timing device on the synthesis and availability for release of orexigenic signals. The VMN-DMN-PVN complex is apparently an integrated constituent of the timing mechanism in this context, because lesions in each of these sites result in loss of regulated feeding. The accumulated evidence points to the PVN and surrounding neural sites within this framework as the primary sites of release and action of various orexigenic and anorexigenic signals. A novel finding is the identification of the interconnected wiring of the DMN-mPVN axis that may mediate leptin restraint on NPY-induced feeding. The chemical phenotypes of leptin and NPY target neurons in this axis remain to be identified. These multiple orexigenic and anorexigenic pathways in the hypothalamic ARN appear to represent redundancy, a characteristic of regulated biological systems to provide a "fail-safe" neural mechanism to meet an organism's constant energy needs for growth and maintenance. Within this formulation, the coexisting orexigenic signals (NPY, NE, GAL, GABA, and AgrP) represent either another level of redundancy or it is possible that these signals operate within the ARN as reinforcing agents to varying degrees under different circumstances. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED)
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- S P Kalra
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville 32610, USA.
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Chance WT, Sheriff S, Kasckow JW, Regmi A, Balasubramaniam A. NPY messenger RNA is increased in medial hypothalamus of anorectic tumor-bearing rats. REGULATORY PEPTIDES 1998; 75-76:347-53. [PMID: 9802428 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-0115(98)00087-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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Previous investigations suggest that neuropeptide Y (NPY) feeding mechanisms and corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) are altered in anorectic tumor-bearing (TB) rats. To better determine the relationship of NPY and CRF synthesis to cancer anorexia we measured mRNA for these peptides in medial and lateral hypothalamus of TB and control rats. NPY and CRF mRNA were reliably detected by Northern blot analysis only in medial hypothalamus, where NPY message was elevated significantly in TB rats. CRF mRNA tended to be reduced in both pair-fed (PF) and TB rats, but did not reach statistical significance. Concentrations of NPY or CRF were not altered significantly in either the lateral or medial hypothalamus of TB or PF rats. These results suggest that the transcription of NPY is elevated in PF rats and is increased further in anorectic TB rats. The lack of significant increases in levels of peptides may be related to dilution, due to measuring a relatively large block of hypothalamic tissue. Alternatively, translation of the signal for NPY production may be inhibited, or degradation of peptide levels may be increased.
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- W T Chance
- Medical Research Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA.
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Wang J, Akabayashi A, Dourmashkin J, Yu HJ, Alexander JT, Chae HJ, Leibowitz SF. Neuropeptide Y in relation to carbohydrate intake, corticosterone and dietary obesity. Brain Res 1998; 802:75-88. [PMID: 9748512 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(98)00551-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is known to stimulate eating behavior and to be related to behavioral patterns of carbohydrate ingestion. The present report investigates this relationship further to: (1) characterize the specific NPY projection activated in different dietary paradigms; (2) understand associated changes in circulating hormones that may mediate dietary effects on NPY neurons; and (3) determine whether endogenous NPY in conditions with macronutrient diets can be linked to body fat. Male albino Sprague-Dawley rats were tested in two feeding paradigms, one in which the rats were given a choice of the macronutrients, carbohydrate, fat or protein, or the other involving a single diet varying in carbohydrate of fat content. These studies consistently demonstrated a close association between the ingestion of carbohydrate and NPY levels, specifically in the arcuate nucleus (ARC) and medial portion of the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus. In addition to revealing increased NPY activity in animals that naturally select high carbohydrate when given a choice of macronutrients, a single diet with 65% carbohydrate (10% fat), compared to a control diet with 45% carbohydrate (30% fat), significantly potentiates NPY gene expression and NPY-immunoreactivity, as determined by in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry. A further lowering of carbohydrate to 15% has little effect on NPY. Studies of medial hypothalamic fragments in vitro also reveal enhanced NPY release from hypothalamic tissue taken from rats maintained on high-carbohydrate diet. Together with NPY, circulating corticosterone (CORT) levels are also highest in a high-carbohydrate condition and positively correlated with NPY in the ARC. An association between NPY and adiposity in these dietary conditions is indicated by significantly higher levels of NPY in the medial PVN in rats with high body fat, whether consuming a high-carbohydrate of high-fat diet. This evidence, linking NPY to carbohydrate intake and circulating CORT, suggests a role for this peptide in glucose homeostasis that is normally exhibited under conditions when carbohydrate stores are low. Disturbances in this homeostatic process, associated with hyperinsulinemia and higher levels of NPY, become evident with only a moderate rise in body fat on a high-carbohydrate as well as high-fat diet.
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- J Wang
- Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Feeding behavior is critical for survival. In addition to providing all of the body's macronutrients (carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins) and most micronutrients (minerals and vitamins), feeding behavior is a fundamental aspect of energy homeostasis, the process by which body fuel stored in the form of adipose tissue is held constant over long intervals. For this process to occur, the amount of energy consumed must match precisely the amount of energy expended. This review focuses on the molecular signals that modulate food intake while integrating the body's immediate and long-term energy needs.
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- S C Woods
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Post Office Box 670559, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0559, USA.
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Leal AM, Moreira AC. Food and the circadian activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. Braz J Med Biol Res 1997; 30:1391-405. [PMID: 9686157 DOI: 10.1590/s0100-879x1997001200003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Temporal organization is an important feature of biological systems and its main function is to facilitate adaptation of the organism to the environment. The daily variation of biological variables arises from an internal time-keeping system. The major action of the environment is to synchronize the internal clock to a period of exactly 24 h. The light-dark cycle, food ingestion, barometric pressure, acoustic stimuli, scents and social cues have been mentioned as synchronizers or "zeitgebers". The circadian rhythmicity of plasma corticosteroids has been well characterized in man and in rats and evidence has been accumulated showing daily rhythmicity at every level of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Studies of restricted feeding in rats are of considerable importance because they reveal feeding as a major synchronizer of rhythms in HPA axis activity. The daily variation of the HPA axis stress response appears to be closely related to food intake as well as to basal activity. In humans, the association of feeding and HPA axis activity has been studied under physiological and pathological conditions such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia, malnutrition, obesity, diabetes mellitus and Cushing's syndrome. Complex neuroanatomical pathways and neurochemical circuitry are involved in feeding-associated HPA axis modulation. In the present review we focus on the interaction among HPA axis rhythmicity, food ingestion, and different nutritional and endocrine states.
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- A M Leal
- Divisão de Endocrinologia, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
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Schwartz MW, Strack AM, Dallman MF. Evidence that elevated plasma corticosterone levels are the cause of reduced hypothalamic corticotrophin-releasing hormone gene expression in diabetes. REGULATORY PEPTIDES 1997; 72:105-12. [PMID: 9652969 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-0115(97)01043-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus causes both a sustained activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and reduced expression of corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRH) mRNA in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN). To investigate the role of glucocorticoids in the regulation of CRH mRNA expression in the PVN of diabetic rats, we studied surgically adrenalectomized (ADX) and sham-operated male Sprague-Dawley rats 4 days after i.v. injection of streptozotocin (STZ; 65 mg/kg i.v.) or vehicle. Among sham-operated animals, AM plasma corticosterone levels were significantly increased in diabetic as compared to nondiabetic animals (1.46+/-0.54 vs. 0.22+/-0.05 microg/dl; P <0.05), and were positively correlated to both plasma ACTH levels (r = 0.74; P = 0.015) and adrenal gland weight (r = 0.70; P = 0.025). In contrast, CRH mRNA levels measured in the PVN by in situ hybridization were inversely related to the plasma corticosterone level (r = -0.68; P = 0.045). In a second experiment, both diabetic and nondiabetic ADX rats received a continuous subcutaneous infusion of either corticosterone at one of two doses or its vehicle for 4 days. Among vehicle-treated ADX animals, STZ diabetes raised hypothalamic CRH mRNA levels, in contrast to the tendency for diabetes to lower CRH mRNA in intact rats in the first experiment. Corticosterone administration lowered CRH mRNA comparably in both diabetic and nondiabetic ADX rats. In contrast, diabetes reduced arginine vasopressin (AVP) mRNA levels in the PVN of ADX rats and blunted the inhibitory effect of glucocorticoids on AVP mRNA levels in this setting. We conclude (1) glucocorticoids are necessary for the effect of diabetes to reduce hypothalamic CRH gene expression, since diabetes causes a paradoxical increase in CRH mRNA levels in adrenalectomized animals; (2) glucocorticoid inhibition of hypothalamic CRH gene expression is intact in diabetic rats; and (3) the activation of the HPA axis by diabetes is associated with a proportionate decrease in PVN CRH gene expression. These findings support a model in which hypothalamic factors additional to CRH activate the HPA axis in uncontrolled diabetes, and inhibit CRH gene expression indirectly by negative glucocorticoid feedback.
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- M W Schwartz
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington and Veterans Affairs Medical Center (151), Seattle 98108, USA.
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Schwartz MW, Seeley RJ. Seminars in medicine of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Neuroendocrine responses to starvation and weight loss. N Engl J Med 1997; 336:1802-11. [PMID: 9187072 DOI: 10.1056/nejm199706193362507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 179] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- M W Schwartz
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, USA
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Hanson ES, Levin N, Dallman MF. Elevated corticosterone is not required for the rapid induction of neuropeptide Y gene expression by an overnight fast. Endocrinology 1997; 138:1041-7. [PMID: 9048607 DOI: 10.1210/endo.138.3.4995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Fasting stimulates corticosterone (B) secretion and the expression and secretion of hypothalamic neuropeptide Y in rats. These studies tested the hypothesis that the rapid and marked fasting-induced increases in plasma B are responsible for stimulation of neuropeptide Y (NPY) gene expression. Plasma leptin and insulin were measured because they are also signals known to affect NPY messenger RNA (mRNA). Intact or adrenalectomized rats given a low fixed level of corticosterone (B replaced) were fasted for 48 h. NPY mRNA in the mediobasal hypothalamus, measured by nuclease protection assay, was elevated similarly above ad lib-fed controls in both intact and B replaced groups at 15 and 48 h after the onset of fasting. NPY immunoreactivity in the mediobasal hypothalamus increased between 3 and 48 h after onset of the fast in intact but not in B replaced groups. The fasting-induced decreases in leptin observed in intact rats at 48 h did not occur in B replaced rats. Fasting-induced decreases in insulin occurred in B replaced rats but not in intact rats. We conclude that: 1) elevated B is not required for fasting-induced increases in hypothalamic NPY gene expression; and 2) decreases in neither leptin nor insulin alone signal the changes that occur in NPY mRNA in fasted rats.
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- E S Hanson
- Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0444, USA.
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Mercer JG, Lawrence CB, Atkinson T. Hypothalamic NPY and CRF gene expression in the food-deprived Syrian hamster. Physiol Behav 1996; 60:121-7. [PMID: 8804651 DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(95)02255-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Because the Syrian hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, does not increase food intake in response to food deprivation, we investigated whether hypothalamic NPY gene expression in this species was sensitive to this imposed state of negative energy balance. In the rat, food deprivation for 48 h resulted in a 150% increase in total preproNPY gene expression in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (ARC). NPY gene expression in food-deprived Syrian hamsters did not differ significantly from that of ad lib-fed controls, although there was a trend towards increased mRNA levels in the fasted animals. However, food deprivation for 48 h was associated with a rise in preproCRF mRNA in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN) of 80-g, but not 150-g, hamsters. The expected reductions in plasma insulin accompanied food deprivation in the Syrian hamster, but cortisol titre was only elevated in the lower body weight group. NPY gene expression in the Syrian hamster appeared, however, to be sensitive to glucocorticoids; daily administration for 28 days of the synthetic glucocorticoid, dexamethasone, increased ARC NPY mRNA levels by 43%. The response of NPYergic and other hypothalamic neuropeptide systems to food deprivation, and the involvement of neuroendocrine substrates in energy homeostasis, may vary between species.
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- J G Mercer
- Molecular Neuroendocrinology Group, Rouett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Obesity results from an imbalance between nutrient ingestion and metabolism, with more calories being ingested than utilized. The brain plays an important role in coordinating these complex behavioral and physiological functions, operating through multiple neurochemical systems with distinct properties. This review focuses on two hypothalamic peptide systems, neuropeptide Y (NPY) and galanin (GAL), that illustrate how the brain operates through different mechanisms to control the body's nutrient stores, in different states or conditions. These peptides have different behavioral and physiological effects and are, themselves, differentially responsive to feedback signals from circulating steroids, peptides, and nutrients. They can be distinguished by their relation to natural feeding patterns and endogenous hormones and by their specificity of action in relation to natural biological rhythms. The neuroanatomical substrates involved in these actions of NPY and GAL are also distinct. The neurocircuit mediating NPY's actions originates in the arcuate nucleus and terminates in the medial portion of the paraventricular nucleus; the GAL-containing neurons, in contrast, are concentrated in the lateral portion of the paraventricular nucleus, in addition to the medial preoptic area, which contribute to local GAL innervation as well as projections to the median eminence. Regarding their distinct functions, the evidence suggests that the NPY system is more closely related to patterns of carbohydrate ingestion and carbohydrate utilization, channeling nutrients towards the synthesis of fat. It is most strongly activated at the start of the active feeding cycle or after weaning, in close association with the adrenal steroid, corticosterone. The GAL system, in contrast, is more closely associated with patterns of fat consumption and signals related to fat oxidation. This peptide system is most active during the middle of the feeding cycle or immediately after puberty, in close association with the gonadal steroids. The gene expression and synthesis of these peptides in their respective neuronal cell groups is inhibited by circulating insulin and altered by dietary nutrients. Disturbances in sensitivity to insulin and steroid feedback regulation in the brain are believed to be involved in producing abnormal patterns of peptide function that result in overeating and body weight gain.
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Hanson ES, Dallman MF. Neuropeptide Y (NPY) may integrate responses of hypothalamic feeding systems and the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis. J Neuroendocrinol 1995; 7:273-9. [PMID: 7647769 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.1995.tb00757.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is a powerful stimulus to food intake in the rat. Exogenous NPY given into the third ventricle or into the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus stimulates both food consumption as well as the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Presumably NPY activates the adrenocortical system through direct stimulation of CRF containing cells in the PVN. Food intake is also a major regulator of adrenocortical activation. Rhythms in HPA axis activity follow rhythms in food consumption, and rats that have been food deprived overnight have inhibited HPA axis responses to restraint stress and corticosteroid feedback the following morning. To investigate the interaction of NPY with both feeding and HPA axis activation three sets of experiments were performed: Animals fed ad lib were injected icv with NPY (2.5 micrograms) and allowed access to food or not post injection; animals were fasted overnight prior to NPY injection; finally, dose response experiments were performed to examine the relative sensitivities of feeding and HPA axis activation to exogenous NPY. Ad lib fed animals allowed access to food after NPY injection had slightly greater ACTH responses to NPY while glucocorticoid and insulin responses were not significantly different from ad lib fed animals not allowed access to food post injection. Animals allowed to eat post injection had significantly decreased food consumption the night following injection, however, total 24 h food consumption was not different between these animals and those given food 8 h post NPY injection. In overnight fasted animals NPY injections produced ACTH responses of equal magnitude to those in ad lib fed animals.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- E S Hanson
- Department of Physiology, University of California San Francisco 94143-0444, USA
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Watanabe Y, Akabayashi A, McEwen BS. Adrenal steroid regulation of neuropeptide Y (NPY) mRNA: differences between dentate hilus and locus coeruleus and arcuate nucleus. BRAIN RESEARCH. MOLECULAR BRAIN RESEARCH 1995; 28:135-40. [PMID: 7707867 DOI: 10.1016/0169-328x(94)00192-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Regulation by adrenal steroids of neuropeptide Y (NPY) mRNA was investigated in hilus of the dentate gyrus, arcuate nucleus of hypothalamus and locus coeruleus (LC) of the adult rat brain. Adrenalectomy (ADX) increased NPY mRNA in hilus but decreased NPY mRNA levels in arcuate nucleus and LC. Using a steroid replacement paradigm previously shown to discriminate between Type I and Type II adrenal steroid receptor mediated effects, it was shown that Type I receptor stimulation by aldosterone prevented the ADX-induced increase of NPY mRNA in hilus, whereas Type II receptor stimulation by Ru28362 prevented the ADX-induced decrease in NPY mRNA in arcuate nucleus and LC. The results for hilus are consistent with evidence for a role of Type I receptors in maintaining levels of a number of gene products associated with neurotransmission. The different regulation in hilus from that in arcuate and LC indicate, along with evidence for regulation of NYP expression by insulin, NGF and cyclic AMP and phorbol esters, that the adrenal steroid regulation of NPY gene expression is part of a complex set of regulatory mechanisms that depend on the brain region and cell type.
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- Y Watanabe
- Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021
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Akabayashi A, Watanabe Y, Wahlestedt C, McEwen BS, Paez X, Leibowitz SF. Hypothalamic neuropeptide Y, its gene expression and receptor activity: relation to circulating corticosterone in adrenalectomized rats. Brain Res 1994; 665:201-12. [PMID: 7895055 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(94)91339-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Previous evidence has suggested a possible relationship between the adrenal steroid, corticosterone (CORT) and neuropeptide Y (NPY) in the brain. To provide a more systematic analysis of this interaction, the present study employed a variety of techniques, including in situ hybridization to measure NPY gene expression, radioimmunoassay to examine peptide levels and radioligand [125I]peptide YY (PYY) binding for analysis of peptide receptors. The results show that adrenalectomy (ADX), which caused a decline in CORT to levels < 0.3 micrograms %, has generally little impact on the hypothalamic NPY projection system under normal, basal conditions. This includes peptide gene expression or content in the area of its cell bodies (arcuate nucleus, ARC), in addition to peptide binding at its receptor sites. While it also includes peptide content at most hypothalamic terminal sites, there are three notable exceptions, namely, the medial paraventricular (PVN) and dorsomedial nuclei and medial preoptic area, where NPY nerve terminals and glucocorticoid receptors are particularly dense and the decline in CORT through ADX markedly reduces NPY content. In contrast, evidence obtained from CORT replacement in ADX rats shows that this steroid has profound impact on all components of the hypothalamic NPY system. This peptide-steroid interaction is apparent at the level of the cell body (ARC), as well as at the nerve terminal or receptor site (PVN and ARC), where CORT levels > 10 micrograms % strongly potentiate NPY gene expression, peptide content and radioligand binding. These and other findings suggest that this CORT-NPY interaction in the hypothalamus occurs physiologically under conditions, e.g., at the onset of the active feeding cycle, when circulating CORT normally rises.
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Leibowitz SF. Specificity of hypothalamic peptides in the control of behavioral and physiological processes. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1994; 739:12-35. [PMID: 7530429 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1994.tb19804.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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This review summarizes two model systems for understanding how brain neurochemicals, in conjunction with peripheral endocrine and metabolic processes, may be active in controlling very different functions in relation to energy and nutrient balance. As proposed, these systems are unquestionably oversimplified; however, they generate testable hypotheses for future investigations that will help to advance and revise these working models, as well as those of other peptide systems in the brain. Under normal conditions, these peptide systems are behaviorally and endocrinologically specific, and they are activated at very different periods of the daily cycle and at different stages of development. However, under pathologic conditions, their specificity and rhythmicity may be greatly disturbed. This occurs in states involving hypercortisolemia along with hyperinsulinemia or insulin deficiency, when these peptide systems become chronically activated. To determine whether this increased activity actually contributes to conditions of hyperphagia and obesity, and, thus, whether a reversal of this neurochemical activity may help in the treatment of these conditions, critical studies with various pharmacological manipulations are required. Of equal importance are investigations examining the development of these pathologic conditions, from birth to maturity, and their associated disturbances in neurochemical and endocrine processes. A thorough understanding of gene expression in localized brain areas and the contribution of various transcription factors to this process should allow the identification and development of methods that are useful in the treatment, as well as prevention, of disturbed patterns of nutrient intake, fat deposition, and body weight gain.
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Dryden S, Frankish H, Wang Q, Williams G. Neuropeptide Y and energy balance: one way ahead for the treatment of obesity? Eur J Clin Invest 1994; 24:293-308. [PMID: 7916292 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2362.1994.tb01089.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Obesity is a vast and ever-expanding problem in affluent societies, which we have so far failed to confront. Over 20% of Western European and North American adults are overweight to a degree which may potentially shorten their life expectancy. Obesity has well-known associations with non-insulin-dependent diabetes (NIDDM), hypertension, dyslipidaemia and coronary heart disease, as well as less obvious links with diseases such as osteoarthrosis and various malignancies; it also causes considerable problems through reduced mobility and decreased quality of life. The overall financial burden of obesity is impossible to calculate precisely, but may account for 6-8% of total health-care expenditure in North America [1] (similar estimates probably apply to Western Europe). Obesity is difficult to treat and many patients remain obstinately overweight despite our best efforts. The available options range from behavioural therapy to gastrointestinal surgery and include numerous drugs designed to suppress appetite or increase energy expenditure. As in many other areas of medicine, the length and diversity of this list are reliable signs that effective treatment is still beyond our reach. This article argues that new anti-obesity drugs may emerge from recent advances in understanding the control of energy balance in rodents. The discussion is structured around neuropeptide Y (NPY), a major brain peptide which at present appears to be important in regulating energy balance and seems a promising candidate for therapeutic exploitation.
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- S Dryden
- Department of Medicine, University of Liverpool, UK
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Larsen PJ, Jessop DS, Chowdrey HS, Lightman SL, Mikkelsen JD. Chronic administration of glucocorticoids directly upregulates prepro-neuropeptide Y and Y1-receptor mRNA levels in the arcuate nucleus of the rat. J Neuroendocrinol 1994; 6:153-9. [PMID: 8049712 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.1994.tb00566.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The complete sequence of the cDNA encoding the neuropeptide Y (NPY) Y1-receptor has recently been deduced from a rat brain library, and the presence of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) encoding Y1-receptor protein has been demonstrated within the brain. Using quantitative in situ hybridization histochemistry, the content and distribution of Y1-receptor and preproNPY mRNAs have been investigated in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus of adrenalectomized rats receiving glucocorticoid replacement therapy for 12 days by means of either high doses of dexamethasone in their drinking water or by subcutaneous corticosterone pellets. Basal metabolic parameters such as weight gain or loss, blood glucose and plasma insulin were monitored: Dexamethasone treatment induced weight loss and a state of hyperinsulinemia with normoglycemia, while corticosterone treated animals displayed metabolic parameters identical to sham ADX animals. Within the arcuate nucleus of glucocorticoid treated animals, levels of Y1-receptor and preproNPY mRNAs were increased. In contrast, adrenalectomy itself had no effect upon Y1-receptor mRNA levels or preproNPY mRNA levels in the arcuate nucleus. These studies demonstrate that glucocorticoids exert a stimulatory action on levels of Y1-receptor mRNA and preproNPY mRNA levels in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus. This is the first evidence to suggest that the expression of a neuropeptide-receptor gene in the central nervous system may be directly sensitive to peripheral hormonal signals.
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- P J Larsen
- Department of Anatomy, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Young JK, McKenzie JC, Brady LS, Herkenham M. Hypothalamic lesions increase levels of neuropeptide Y mRNA in the arcuate nucleus of mice. Neurosci Lett 1994; 165:13-7. [PMID: 8015714 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(94)90698-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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A recent study demonstrated that hypothalamic lesions induced by goldthioglucose (GTG) in mice produced an increase in neuronal immunoreactivity for neuropeptide Y (NPY) in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus. Since NPY is a potent stimulator of feeding, this increase represented a potential explanation for the hyperphagia seen after GTG lesions. To examine whether or not this increase in NPY immunoreactivity was accompanied by an increase in the mRNA for NPY, in situ hybridization histochemistry for NPY mRNA in control and in lesioned mice was performed. A 47% increase in NPY mRNA levels in the arcuate nucleus was observed in lesioned mice compared with controls, suggesting that an increased expression of the gene for NPY contributes to elevations in hypothalamic NPY after lesioning. This elevation in NPY may, in turn, relate to mechanisms provoking hyperphagia.
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- J K Young
- Department of Anatomy, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059
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Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is a 36 amino acid peptide belonging to the pancreatic polypeptide family of neuroendocrine hormones. It is the most abundant peptide yet discovered in the mammalian brain and is widely expressed by neurons in the central and peripheral nervous systems as well as adrenal medullary cells. Recently, a large number of studies have focussed on the potential roles played by NPY within the hypothalamus and pituitary with respect to the control of food intake and energy homeostasis. It is now clear that NPY is a potent stimulator of food intake in models of hyperphagia, that hypothalamic NPY also regulates sympathetic neural activity and it appears that NPY may also influence the glucocorticoid, growth hormone and thyroid hormone axes. Taken together, current data suggest that hypothalamic and pituitary NPY-expressing cells represent an important and critical site of integration of peripheral hormonal signals with regulation of energy homeostasis.
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- J D White
- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, SUNY Stony Brook 11794-8154
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Herbert J. Peptides in the limbic system: neurochemical codes for co-ordinated adaptive responses to behavioural and physiological demand. Prog Neurobiol 1993; 41:723-91. [PMID: 7908139 DOI: 10.1016/0301-0082(93)90033-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- J Herbert
- Department of Anatomy, University of Cambridge, U.K
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Neuroendocrine control of feeding behavior is multifactorial, involving a variety of peripheral and central signals. Neuropeptides, catecholamines, and serotonin constitute the signals of the feeding circuitry acting primarily in the brain, especially at the hypothalamic level. In this review, an attempt is made to summarize the recent progress made in our continuing effort to understand the regulation of feeding behavior by neuropeptides, particularly those that stimulate feeding. A special emphasis has been placed on a neuropeptide of the pancreatic polypeptide family-neuropeptide Y (NPY).
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- A Sahu
- Abhiram Sahu and Satya P. Kalra are at the Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL 32610-0244, USA
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Camp P, Sahu A, Sanacora G, Ponsalle P, White JD. Gene expression of peptidergic signals: Effects of steroids. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/1058-6741(92)90022-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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