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Ding X, Yin L, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Zha T, Zhang W, Gui B. Diabetes accelerates Alzheimer's disease progression in the first year post mild cognitive impairment diagnosis. Alzheimers Dement 2024. [PMID: 38865281 DOI: 10.1002/alz.13882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2023] [Revised: 02/28/2024] [Accepted: 03/18/2024] [Indexed: 06/14/2024]
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BACKGROUND Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) heightens Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk, with diabetes mellitus (DM) potentially exacerbating this vulnerability. This study identifies the optimal intervention period and neurobiological targets in MCI to AD progression using the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative dataset. METHODS Analysis of 980 MCI patients, categorized by DM status, used propensity score matching and inverse probability treatment weighting to assess rate of conversion from MCI to AD, neuroimaging, and cognitive changes. RESULTS DM significantly correlates with cognitive decline and an increased risk of progressing to AD, especially within the first year of MCI follow-up. It adversely affects specific brain structures, notably accelerating nucleus accumbens atrophy, decreasing gray matter volume and sulcal depth. DISCUSSION Findings suggest the first year after MCI diagnosis as the critical window for intervention. DM accelerates MCI-to-AD progression, targeting specific brain areas, underscoring the need for early therapeutic intervention. HIGHLIGHTS Diabetes mellitus (DM) accelerates mild cognitive impairment (MCI)-to-Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression within the first year after MCI diagnosis. DM leads to sharper cognitive decline within 12 months of follow-up. There is notable nucleus accumbens atrophy observed in MCI patients with DM. DM causes significant reductions in gray matter volume and sulcal depth. There are stronger correlations between cognitive decline and brain changes due to DM.
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- Xiahao Ding
- Department of Anesthesiology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Medical Imaging Center, the Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
- Institute of Medical Imaging and Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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Deng X, Peng D, Yao Y, Huang K, Wang J, Ma Z, Fu J, Xu Y. Optogenetic therapeutic strategies for diabetes mellitus. J Diabetes 2024; 16:e13557. [PMID: 38751366 PMCID: PMC11096815 DOI: 10.1111/1753-0407.13557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2023] [Revised: 02/28/2024] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024] Open
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Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a common chronic disease affecting humans globally. It is characterized by abnormally elevated blood glucose levels due to the failure of insulin production or reduction of insulin sensitivity and functionality. Insulin and glucagon-like peptide (GLP)-1 replenishment or improvement of insulin resistance are the two major strategies to treat diabetes. Recently, optogenetics that uses genetically encoded light-sensitive proteins to precisely control cell functions has been regarded as a novel therapeutic strategy for diabetes. Here, we summarize the latest development of optogenetics and its integration with synthetic biology approaches to produce light-responsive cells for insulin/GLP-1 production, amelioration of insulin resistance and neuromodulation of insulin secretion. In addition, we introduce the development of cell encapsulation and delivery methods and smart bioelectronic devices for the in vivo application of optogenetics-based cell therapy in diabetes. The remaining challenges for optogenetics-based cell therapy in the clinical translational study are also discussed.
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- Xin Deng
- Department of EndocrinologyChildren's Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child HealthHangzhouChina
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, MOE Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Cardio‐Cerebral Vascular Detection Technology and Medicinal Effectiveness Appraisal, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Clinical Evaluation and Translational ResearchZhejiang UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Department of EndocrinologyChildren's Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child HealthHangzhouChina
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, MOE Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Cardio‐Cerebral Vascular Detection Technology and Medicinal Effectiveness Appraisal, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Clinical Evaluation and Translational ResearchZhejiang UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Department of EndocrinologyChildren's Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child HealthHangzhouChina
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- Department of EndocrinologyChildren's Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child HealthHangzhouChina
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, MOE Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Cardio‐Cerebral Vascular Detection Technology and Medicinal Effectiveness Appraisal, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Clinical Evaluation and Translational ResearchZhejiang UniversityHangzhouChina
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- Department of EndocrinologyChildren's Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child HealthHangzhouChina
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- Department of EndocrinologyChildren's Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child HealthHangzhouChina
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, MOE Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Cardio‐Cerebral Vascular Detection Technology and Medicinal Effectiveness Appraisal, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Clinical Evaluation and Translational ResearchZhejiang UniversityHangzhouChina
- Binjiang Institute of Zhejiang UniversityHangzhouChina
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Chen W, Chen Q, Huang J, Shen X, Zhang L, Jiang G, Wu T, Wang F, Cheng X. Huanglian-banxia promotes gastric motility of diabetic rats by modulating brain-gut neurotransmitters through MAPK signaling pathway. Neurogastroenterol Motil 2024; 36:e14779. [PMID: 38488234 DOI: 10.1111/nmo.14779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2023] [Revised: 11/13/2023] [Accepted: 03/02/2024] [Indexed: 04/25/2024]
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BACKGROUND Gastric motility disorder is an increasingly common problem among people with diabetes. Neurotransmitters have been recognized as critical regulators in the process of gastric motility. Previous study has shown that herb pair huanglian-banxia (HL-BX) can improve gastric motility, but the underlying mechanism is still unclear. The aim of this study was to further investigate the role of HL-BX in modulating brain-gut neurotransmission to promote gastric motility in diabetic rats, and to explore its possible mechanism. METHODS The diabetic rats were divided into five groups. Gastric emptying rate, intestinal propulsion rate, body weight, and average food intake were determined. Substance P (SP), 5- hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), and glucagon-like peptide -1 (GLP-1) in the serum were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Dopamine (DA) and norepinephrine (NE) in the brain were analyzed by high-pressure liquid chromatography with a fluorescence detector. Protein expression of the tissues in the stomach and brain was determined by Western blot. KEY RESULTS HL-BX reduced average food intake significantly, increased body weight, and improved gastric emptying rate and intestinal propulsion rate. HL-BX administration caused a significant increase in SP, GLP-1, and 5-HT, but a significant decrease in DA and NE. Interestingly, HL-BX regulated simultaneously the different expressions of MAPK and its downstream p70S6K/S6 signaling pathway in the stomach and brain. Moreover, berberine exhibited a similar effect to HL-BX. CONCLUSIONS These results indicated that HL-BX promoted gastric motility by regulating brain-gut neurotransmitters through the MAPK signaling pathway. HL-BX and MAPK provide a potential therapeutic option for the treatment of gastroparesis.
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- Wei Chen
- Central Laboratory, Suzhou TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Clinical Pharmaceutical Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Suzhou Academy of Wumen Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Suzhou TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Clinical Pharmaceutical Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Suzhou Academy of Wumen Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Suzhou TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Clinical Pharmaceutical Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Suzhou Academy of Wumen Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Suzhou TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Suzhou TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Clinical Pharmaceutical Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Suzhou Academy of Wumen Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Suzhou TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Clinical Pharmaceutical Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Suzhou Academy of Wumen Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Suzhou TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Suzhou TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Clinical Pharmaceutical Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Suzhou Academy of Wumen Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Suzhou TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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Xie Y, Wu Z, Qian Q, Yang H, Ma J, Luan W, Shang S, Li X. Apple polyphenol extract ameliorates sugary-diet-induced depression-like behaviors in male C57BL/6 mice by inhibiting the inflammation of the gut-brain axis. Food Funct 2024; 15:2939-2959. [PMID: 38406886 DOI: 10.1039/d3fo04606k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/27/2024]
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To explore whether apple polyphenol extract (APE) ameliorates sugary-diet-induced depression-like behaviors, thirty male C57BL/6 mice (3-4 weeks old) were assigned to three groups randomly to receive different treatments for 8 consecutive weeks: (1) control group (CON), (2) S-HSD group (60% high sucrose diet feeding with 0.1 mg mL-1 sucralose solution as drinking water), and (3) S-APE group (S-HSD feeding with 500 mg per (kg bw day) APE solution gavage). The S-HSD group showed significant depression-like behaviors compared with the CON group, which was manifested by an increased number of buried marbles in the marble burying test, prolonged immobility time in both the tail suspension test and forced swimming test, and cognitive impairment based on the Morris water maze test. However, APE intervention significantly improved the depression-like behaviors by reducing serum levels of corticosterone and adrenocorticotropic hormone, and increasing the serum level of IL-10. Moreover, APE intervention inhibited the activation of the NF-κB inflammatory pathway, elevated colonic MUC-2 protein expression, and elevated the colonic and hippocampal tight junction proteins of occludin and ZO-1. Furthermore, APE intervention increased the richness and diversity of gut microbiota by regulating the composition of microbiota, with increased relative abundance of Firmicutes and Bacteroidota, decreased relative abundance of Verrucomicrobiota at the phylum level, significantly lowered relative abundance of Akkermansia at the genus level, and rebalanced abnormal relative abundance of Muribaculaceae_unclassified, Coriobacteriaceae_UCG-002, and Lachnoclostridium induced by S-HSD feeding. Thus, our study supports the potential application of APE as a dietary intervention for ameliorating depression-like behavioral disorders.
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- Yisha Xie
- School of Public Health, Suzhou Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, PR China.
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- School of Public Health, Suzhou Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, PR China.
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- School of Public Health, Suzhou Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, PR China.
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- School of Public Health, Suzhou Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, PR China.
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- School of Public Health, Suzhou Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, PR China.
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- School of Public Health, Suzhou Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, PR China.
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- School of Public Health, Suzhou Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, PR China.
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- School of Public Health, Suzhou Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, PR China.
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Preventive and Translational Medicine for Geriatric Diseases, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, PR China
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Bonifazi A, Ellenberger M, Farino ZJ, Aslanoglou D, Rais R, Pereira S, Mantilla-Rivas JO, Boateng CA, Eshleman AJ, Janowsky A, Hahn MK, Schwartz GJ, Slusher BS, Newman AH, Freyberg Z. Development of novel tools for dissection of central versus peripheral dopamine D 2-like receptor signaling in dysglycemia. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.02.21.581451. [PMID: 38529497 PMCID: PMC10962703 DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.21.581451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/27/2024]
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Dopamine (DA) D2-like receptors in both the central nervous system (CNS) and the periphery are key modulators of metabolism. Moreover, disruption of D2-like receptor signaling is implicated in dysglycemia. Yet, the respective metabolic contributions of CNS versus peripheral D2-like receptors including D2 (D2R) and D3 (D3R) receptors remain poorly understood. To address this, we developed new pharmacological tools, D2-like receptor agonists with diminished and delayed blood-brain barrier capability, to selectively manipulate D2R/D3R signaling in the periphery. We designated bromocriptine methiodide (BrMeI), a quaternary methiodide analogue of D2/3R agonist and diabetes drug bromocriptine, as our lead compound based on preservation of D2R/D3R binding and functional efficacy. We then used BrMeI and unmodified bromocriptine to dissect relative contributions of CNS versus peripheral D2R/D3R signaling in treating dysglycemia. Systemic administration of bromocriptine, with unrestricted access to CNS and peripheral targets, significantly improved both insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance in obese, dysglycemic mice in vivo. In contrast, metabolic improvements were attenuated when access to bromocriptine was restricted either to the CNS through intracerebroventricular administration or delayed access to the CNS via BrMeI. Our findings demonstrate that the coordinated actions of both CNS and peripheral D2-like receptors are required for correcting dysglycemia. Ultimately, the development of a first-generation of drugs designed to selectively target the periphery provides a blueprint for dissecting mechanisms of central versus peripheral DA signaling and paves the way for novel strategies to treat dysglycemia.
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- Alessandro Bonifazi
- Medicinal Chemistry Section, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Medicinal Chemistry Section, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Drug Discovery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Medicinal Chemistry Section, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Research Service, VA Portland Health Care System, Portland, Oregon, USA
- Departments of Behavioral Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Research Service, VA Portland Health Care System, Portland, Oregon, USA
- Departments of Behavioral Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
- Methamphetamine Abuse Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Banting & Best Diabetes Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- The Fleischer Institute for Diabetes and Metabolism, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Drug Discovery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Medicinal Chemistry Section, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Lead Contact
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Wu Q, Long Y, Peng X, Song C, Xiao J, Wang X, Liu F, Xie P, Yang J, Shi Z, Hu Z, McCaig C, St Clair D, Lang B, Wu R. Prefrontal cortical dopamine deficit may cause impaired glucose metabolism in schizophrenia. Transl Psychiatry 2024; 14:79. [PMID: 38320995 PMCID: PMC10847097 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-024-02800-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Revised: 11/04/2023] [Accepted: 01/22/2024] [Indexed: 02/08/2024] Open
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The brain neurotramsmitter dopamine may play an important role in modulating systemic glucose homeostasis. In seven hundred and four drug- naïve patients with first-episode schizophrenia, we provide robust evidence of positive associations between negative symptoms of schizophrenia and high fasting blood glucose. We then show that glucose metabolism and negative symptoms are improved when intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) on prefrontal cortex (PFC) is performed in patients with predominantly negative symptoms of schizophrenia. These findings led us to hypothesize that the prefrontal cortical dopamine deficit, which is known to be associated with negative symptoms, may be responsible for abnormal glucose metabolism in schizophrenia. To explore this, we optogenetically and chemogenetically inhibited the ventral tegmental area (VTA)-medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) dopamine projection in mice and found both procedures caused glucose intolerance. Moreover, microinjection of dopamine two receptor (D2R) neuron antagonists into mPFC in mice significantly impaired glucose tolerance. Finally, a transgenic mouse model of psychosis named Disc1tr exhibited depressive-like symptoms, impaired glucose homeostasis, and compared to wild type littermates reduced D2R expression in prefrontal cortex.
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- Qiongqiong Wu
- National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, and Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, 410011, Hunan, China
- Affiliated Mental Health Centre & Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310013, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, and Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, 410011, Hunan, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, and Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, 410011, Hunan, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, and Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, 410011, Hunan, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, and Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, 410011, Hunan, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, and Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, 410011, Hunan, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, and Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, 410011, Hunan, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, and Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, 410011, Hunan, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, and Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, 410011, Hunan, China
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- Key Laboratory for Quality Evaluation of Bulk Herbs of Hunan Province, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Hunan Key Laboratory of Molecular Precision Medicine, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410008, China
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- School of Medical Sciences, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK
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- School of Medical Sciences, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK
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- National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, and Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, 410011, Hunan, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, and Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, 410011, Hunan, China.
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Diepenbroek C, Rijnsburger M, van Irsen AAS, Eggels L, Kisner A, Foppen E, Unmehopa UA, Berland C, Dólleman S, Hardonk M, Cruciani-Guglielmacci C, Faust RP, Wenning R, Maya-Monteiro CM, Kalsbeek A, Aponte Y, Luquet S, Serlie MJM, la Fleur SE. Dopamine in the nucleus accumbens shell controls systemic glucose metabolism via the lateral hypothalamus and hepatic vagal innervation in rodents. Metabolism 2024; 150:155696. [PMID: 37804881 DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2023.155696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2023] [Revised: 09/06/2023] [Accepted: 10/04/2023] [Indexed: 10/09/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Growing evidence demonstrates the role of the striatal dopamine system in the regulation of glucose metabolism. Treatment with dopamine antagonists is associated with insulin resistance and hyperglycemia, while dopamine agonists are used in treatment of type 2 diabetes. The mechanism underlying striatal dopamine effects in glucose metabolism, however is not fully understood. Here, we provide mechanistic insights into the role of nucleus accumbens shell (sNAc) dopaminergic signaling in systemic glucose metabolism. METHODS Endogenous glucose production (EGP), blood glucose and mRNA expression in the lateral hypothalamic area (LHA) in male Wistar rats were measured following infusion of vanoxerine (VNX, dopamine reuptake inhibitor) in the sNAc. Thereafter, we analyzed projections from sNAc Drd1-expressing neurons to LHA using D1-Cre male Long-Evans rats, Cre-dependent viral tracers and fluorescence immunohistochemistry. Brain slice electrophysiology in adult mice was used to study spontaneous excitatory postsynaptic currents of sNAc Drd1-expressing neurons following VNX application. Finally, we assessed whether GABAergic LHA activity and hepatic vagal innervation were required for the effect of sNAc-VNX on glucose metabolism by combining infusion of sNAc-VNX with LHA-bicuculline, performing vagal recordings and combining infusion of sNAc-VNX with hepatic vagal denervation. RESULTS VNX infusion in the sNAc strongly decreased endogenous glucose production, prevented glucose increases over time, reduced Slc17A6 and Hcrt mRNA in LHA, and increased vagal activity. Furthermore, sNAc Drd1-expressing neurons increased spontaneous firing following VNX application, and viral tracing of sNAc Drd1-expressing neurons revealed direct projections to LHA with on average 67 % of orexin cells directly targeted by sNAc Drd1-expressing neurons. Importantly, the sNAc-VNX-induced effect on glucose metabolism was dependent on GABAergic signaling in the LHA and on intact hepatic vagal innervation. CONCLUSIONS We show that sNAc dopaminergic signaling modulates hepatic glucose metabolism through GABAergic inputs to glutamatergic LHA cells and hepatic vagal innervation. This demonstrates that striatal control of glucose metabolism involves a dopaminergic sNAc-LHA-liver axis and provides a potential explanation for the effects of dopamine agonists and antagonists on glucose metabolism.
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- Charlene Diepenbroek
- Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Laboratory of Endocrinology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Amsterdam Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism, Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Laboratory of Endocrinology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Amsterdam Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism, Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Laboratory of Endocrinology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Amsterdam Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism, Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Laboratory of Endocrinology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, Neuronal Circuits and Behavior Unit, National Institutes of Health, Biomedical Research Center, 251 Bayview Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Laboratory of Endocrinology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Laboratory of Endocrinology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Université Paris Cité, BFA, UMR 8251, CNRS, F-75013 Paris, France
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- Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Laboratory of Endocrinology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Laboratory of Endocrinology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, UvA, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Laboratory of Endocrinology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Laboratory of Endocrinology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Laboratory of Immunopharmacology, Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Laboratory of Endocrinology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Amsterdam Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism, Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, Neuronal Circuits and Behavior Unit, National Institutes of Health, Biomedical Research Center, 251 Bayview Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Université Paris Cité, BFA, UMR 8251, CNRS, F-75013 Paris, France
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- Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism, Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Endocrinology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
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- Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Laboratory of Endocrinology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Amsterdam Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism, Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Douglass JD, Ness KM, Valdearcos M, Wyse-Jackson A, Dorfman MD, Frey JM, Fasnacht RD, Santiago OD, Niraula A, Banerjee J, Robblee M, Koliwad SK, Thaler JP. Obesity-associated microglial inflammatory activation paradoxically improves glucose tolerance. Cell Metab 2023; 35:1613-1629.e8. [PMID: 37572666 PMCID: PMC10528677 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2023.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2022] [Revised: 06/09/2023] [Accepted: 07/19/2023] [Indexed: 08/14/2023]
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Hypothalamic gliosis associated with high-fat diet (HFD) feeding increases susceptibility to hyperphagia and weight gain. However, the body-weight-independent contribution of microglia to glucose regulation has not been determined. Here, we show that reducing microglial nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) signaling via cell-specific IKKβ deletion exacerbates HFD-induced glucose intolerance despite reducing body weight and adiposity. Conversely, two genetic approaches to increase microglial pro-inflammatory signaling (deletion of an NF-κB pathway inhibitor and chemogenetic activation through a modified Gq-coupled muscarinic receptor) improved glucose tolerance independently of diet in both lean and obese rodents. Microglial regulation of glucose homeostasis involves a tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α)-dependent mechanism that increases activation of pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) and other hypothalamic glucose-sensing neurons, ultimately leading to a marked amplification of first-phase insulin secretion via a parasympathetic pathway. Overall, these data indicate that microglia regulate glucose homeostasis in a body-weight-independent manner, an unexpected mechanism that limits the deterioration of glucose tolerance associated with obesity.
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- John D Douglass
- UW Medicine Diabetes Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- UW Medicine Diabetes Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- The Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- UW Medicine Diabetes Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- UW Medicine Diabetes Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- UW Medicine Diabetes Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- UW Medicine Diabetes Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- UW Medicine Diabetes Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- UW Medicine Diabetes Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- UW Medicine Diabetes Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- The Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- The Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
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- UW Medicine Diabetes Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
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Montalban E, Walle R, Castel J, Ansoult A, Hassouna R, Foppen E, Fang X, Hutelin Z, Mickus S, Perszyk E, Petitbon A, Berthelet J, Rodrigues-Lima F, Cebrian-Serrano A, Gangarossa G, Martin C, Trifilieff P, Bosch-Bouju C, Small DM, Luquet S. The Addiction-Susceptibility TaqIA/Ankk1 Controls Reward and Metabolism Through D 2 Receptor-Expressing Neurons. Biol Psychiatry 2023; 94:424-436. [PMID: 36805080 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2022] [Revised: 01/21/2023] [Accepted: 02/09/2023] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND A large body of evidence highlights the importance of genetic variants in the development of psychiatric and metabolic conditions. Among these, the TaqIA polymorphism is one of the most commonly studied in psychiatry. TaqIA is located in the gene that codes for the ankyrin repeat and kinase domain containing 1 kinase (Ankk1) near the dopamine D2 receptor (D2R) gene. Homozygous expression of the A1 allele correlates with a 30% to 40% reduction of striatal D2R, a typical feature of addiction, overeating, and other psychiatric pathologies. The mechanisms by which the variant influences dopamine signaling and behavior are unknown. METHODS Here, we used transgenic and viral-mediated strategies to reveal the role of Ankk1 in the regulation of activity and functions of the striatum. RESULTS We found that Ankk1 is preferentially enriched in striatal D2R-expressing neurons and that Ankk1 loss of function in the dorsal and ventral striatum leads to alteration in learning, impulsivity, and flexibility resembling endophenotypes described in A1 carriers. We also observed an unsuspected role of Ankk1 in striatal D2R-expressing neurons of the ventral striatum in the regulation of energy homeostasis and documented differential nutrient partitioning in humans with or without the A1 allele. CONCLUSIONS Overall, our data demonstrate that the Ankk1 gene is necessary for the integrity of striatal functions and reveal a new role for Ankk1 in the regulation of body metabolism.
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- Enrica Montalban
- Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Unité de Biologie Fonctionnelle et Adaptative, Paris, France.
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- Université Bordeaux, INRAE, Bordeaux INP, NutriNeuro, UMR 1286, Bordeaux, France
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- Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Unité de Biologie Fonctionnelle et Adaptative, Paris, France
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- Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Unité de Biologie Fonctionnelle et Adaptative, Paris, France
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- Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Unité de Biologie Fonctionnelle et Adaptative, Paris, France
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- Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Unité de Biologie Fonctionnelle et Adaptative, Paris, France
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- Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center, New Haven, Connecticut; Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center, New Haven, Connecticut; Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center, New Haven, Connecticut; Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center, New Haven, Connecticut; Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Université Bordeaux, INRAE, Bordeaux INP, NutriNeuro, UMR 1286, Bordeaux, France
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- Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Unité Epigenetique et Destin Cellulaire, Paris, France
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- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Diabetes Center (HDC), Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Unité de Biologie Fonctionnelle et Adaptative, Paris, France
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- Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Unité de Biologie Fonctionnelle et Adaptative, Paris, France
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- Université Bordeaux, INRAE, Bordeaux INP, NutriNeuro, UMR 1286, Bordeaux, France
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- Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center, New Haven, Connecticut; Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Unité de Biologie Fonctionnelle et Adaptative, Paris, France; Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center, New Haven, Connecticut.
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Cincotta AH. Brain Dopamine-Clock Interactions Regulate Cardiometabolic Physiology: Mechanisms of the Observed Cardioprotective Effects of Circadian-Timed Bromocriptine-QR Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes Subjects. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:13255. [PMID: 37686060 PMCID: PMC10487918 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241713255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Revised: 07/19/2023] [Accepted: 07/27/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023] Open
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Despite enormous global efforts within clinical research and medical practice to reduce cardiovascular disease(s) (CVD), it still remains the leading cause of death worldwide. While genetic factors clearly contribute to CVD etiology, the preponderance of epidemiological data indicate that a major common denominator among diverse ethnic populations from around the world contributing to CVD is the composite of Western lifestyle cofactors, particularly Western diets (high saturated fat/simple sugar [particularly high fructose and sucrose and to a lesser extent glucose] diets), psychosocial stress, depression, and altered sleep/wake architecture. Such Western lifestyle cofactors are potent drivers for the increased risk of metabolic syndrome and its attendant downstream CVD. The central nervous system (CNS) evolved to respond to and anticipate changes in the external (and internal) environment to adapt survival mechanisms to perceived stresses (challenges to normal biological function), including the aforementioned Western lifestyle cofactors. Within the CNS of vertebrates in the wild, the biological clock circuitry surveils the environment and has evolved mechanisms for the induction of the obese, insulin-resistant state as a survival mechanism against an anticipated ensuing season of low/no food availability. The peripheral tissues utilize fat as an energy source under muscle insulin resistance, while increased hepatic insulin resistance more readily supplies glucose to the brain. This neural clock function also orchestrates the reversal of the obese, insulin-resistant condition when the low food availability season ends. The circadian neural network that produces these seasonal shifts in metabolism is also responsive to Western lifestyle stressors that drive the CNS clock into survival mode. A major component of this natural or Western lifestyle stressor-induced CNS clock neurophysiological shift potentiating the obese, insulin-resistant state is a diminution of the circadian peak of dopaminergic input activity to the pacemaker clock center, suprachiasmatic nucleus. Pharmacologically preventing this loss of circadian peak dopaminergic activity both prevents and reverses existing metabolic syndrome in a wide variety of animal models of the disorder, including high fat-fed animals. Clinically, across a variety of different study designs, circadian-timed bromocriptine-QR (quick release) (a unique formulation of micronized bromocriptine-a dopamine D2 receptor agonist) therapy of type 2 diabetes subjects improved hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, immune sterile inflammation, and/or adverse cardiovascular event rate. The present review details the seminal circadian science investigations delineating important roles for CNS circadian peak dopaminergic activity in the regulation of peripheral fuel metabolism and cardiovascular biology and also summarizes the clinical study findings of bromocriptine-QR therapy on cardiometabolic outcomes in type 2 diabetes subjects.
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Neurotransmitters in Type 2 Diabetes and the Control of Systemic and Central Energy Balance. Metabolites 2023; 13:metabo13030384. [PMID: 36984824 PMCID: PMC10058084 DOI: 10.3390/metabo13030384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2023] [Revised: 02/10/2023] [Accepted: 02/13/2023] [Indexed: 03/08/2023] Open
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Efficient signal transduction is important in maintaining the function of the nervous system across tissues. An intact neurotransmission process can regulate energy balance through proper communication between neurons and peripheral organs. This ensures that the right neural circuits are activated in the brain to modulate cellular energy homeostasis and systemic metabolic function. Alterations in neurotransmitters secretion can lead to imbalances in appetite, glucose metabolism, sleep, and thermogenesis. Dysregulation in dietary intake is also associated with disruption in neurotransmission and can trigger the onset of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and obesity. In this review, we highlight the various roles of neurotransmitters in regulating energy balance at the systemic level and in the central nervous system. We also address the link between neurotransmission imbalance and the development of T2D as well as perspectives across the fields of neuroscience and metabolism research.
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Valente EEL, Klotz JL, Egert-McLean AM, Costa GW, May JB, Harmon DL. Influence of intra-abomasal administration of L-DOPA on circulating catecholamines and feed intake in cattle. FRONTIERS IN ANIMAL SCIENCE 2023. [DOI: 10.3389/fanim.2023.1127575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023] Open
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Dopamine has multiple physiological functions including feed intake control in which it can act as an anorectic or orexigenic agent. This study had the objective to evaluate intra-abomasal administration of L-DOPA (levodopa; L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine) from -Mucuna pruriens on circulating catecholamines, indicators of energy metabolism and feed intake in cattle. Eight Holstein steers (340 ± 20 kg) fitted with ruminal cannula were used in a replicated 4 x 4 Latin Square design experiment. Intra-abomasal infusion of L-DOPA at 0, 0.5, 1 and 2 mg/kg BW was carried out for seven days and blood samples were collected at 0, 30, 60, 120, 240 and 480 min from L-DOPA infusion on day 7. The area under the curve (AUC) of plasma L-DOPA and free dopamine increased quadratically with the administration of L-DOPA. However, the AUC of plasma total dopamine had a positive linear response with the increase of L-DOPA. Conversely, the serum 5-hydroxytriptophan (5-HTP), plasma serotonin, serum serotonin, serum tyrosine, plasma glucose and plasma free fatty acids were not affected by the intra-abomasal infusion of L-DOPA. The circulating concentration of the epinephrine, norepinephrine, serotonin, glucose and free fatty acids did not change with L-DOPA infusion. It can be concluded that intra-abomasal L-DOPA administration produced a strong increase in circulating dopamine with no change in energy metabolites and feed intake in cattle.
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Ye D, Huang J, Wu J, Xie K, Gao X, Yan K, Zhang P, Tao Y, Li Y, Zang S, Rong X, Li J, Guo J. Integrative metagenomic and metabolomic analyses reveal gut microbiota-derived multiple hits connected to development of gestational diabetes mellitus in humans. Gut Microbes 2023; 15:2154552. [PMID: 36550785 PMCID: PMC9794004 DOI: 10.1080/19490976.2022.2154552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is characterized by the development of hyperglycemia and insulin resistance during the second or third trimester of pregnancy, associated with considerable risks to both the mother and developing fetus. Although emerging evidence suggests an association between the altered gut microbiota and GDM, remarkably little is known about the microbial and metabolic mechanisms that link the dysbiosis of the gut microbiota to the development of GDM. In this study, a metagenome-wide association study and serum metabolomics profiling were performed in a cohort of pregnant women with GDM and pregnant women with normal glucose tolerance (NGT). We identified gut microbial alterations associated with GDM and linked to the changes in circulating metabolites. Blood metabolite profiles revealed that GDM patients exhibited a marked increase in 2-hydroxybutyric acid and L-alpha-aminobutyric acid, but a decrease in methionine sulfoxide, allantoin, and dopamine and dopaminergic synapse, when compared with those in NGT controls. Short-chain fatty acid-producing genera, including Faecalibacterium, Prevotella, and Streptococcus, and species Bacteroides coprophilus, Eubacterium siraeum, Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, Prevotella copri, and Prevotella stercorea, were significantly reduced in GDM patients relative to those in NGT controls. Bacterial co-occurrence network analysis revealed that pro-inflammatory bacteria were over-represented as the core species in GDM patients. These microbial and metabolic signatures are closely associated with clinical parameters of glucose metabolism in GDM patients and NGT controls. In conclusion, we identified circulating dopamine insufficiency, imbalanced production of SCFAs, and excessive metabolic inflammation as gut microbiota-driven multiple parallel hits linked to GDM development. This work might explain in part the mechanistic link between altered gut microbiota and GDM pathogenesis, and suggest that gut microbiota may serve as a promising target to intervene in GDM.
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- Dewei Ye
- Key Laboratory of Glucolipid Metabolic Diseases of the Ministry of Education, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,Guangdong Metabolic Disease Research Center of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,Guangdong TCM Key Laboratory for Metabolic Diseases, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,Key Laboratory of Metabolic Phenotyping in Model Animals, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Glucolipid Metabolic Diseases of the Ministry of Education, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,Guangdong Metabolic Disease Research Center of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,Guangdong TCM Key Laboratory for Metabolic Diseases, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,Shenzhen Research Institute, City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
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- Key Laboratory of Glucolipid Metabolic Diseases of the Ministry of Education, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,Guangdong Metabolic Disease Research Center of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,Guangdong TCM Key Laboratory for Metabolic Diseases, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,Key Laboratory of Metabolic Phenotyping in Model Animals, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Glucolipid Metabolic Diseases of the Ministry of Education, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,Guangdong Metabolic Disease Research Center of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Glucolipid Metabolic Diseases of the Ministry of Education, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,Guangdong Metabolic Disease Research Center of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Glucolipid Metabolic Diseases of the Ministry of Education, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,Guangdong Metabolic Disease Research Center of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,Guangdong TCM Key Laboratory for Metabolic Diseases, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,Key Laboratory of Metabolic Phenotyping in Model Animals, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Glucolipid Metabolic Diseases of the Ministry of Education, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,Guangdong Metabolic Disease Research Center of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,Guangdong TCM Key Laboratory for Metabolic Diseases, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,Key Laboratory of Metabolic Phenotyping in Model Animals, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital/School of Clinical Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital/School of Clinical Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Shanghai Fifth People’s Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Glucolipid Metabolic Diseases of the Ministry of Education, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,Guangdong Metabolic Disease Research Center of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,Guangdong TCM Key Laboratory for Metabolic Diseases, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Shenzhen Research Institute, City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China,Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China,School of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Key Laboratory of Glucolipid Metabolic Diseases of the Ministry of Education, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,Guangdong Metabolic Disease Research Center of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,Guangdong TCM Key Laboratory for Metabolic Diseases, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China,CONTACT Jiao Guo Science and Technology Building, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega, 280 Waihuan East Road, Room 403, 4th Floor, Guangzhou, China
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Microbiome–Gut Dissociation in the Neonate: Autism-Related Developmental Brain Disease and the Origin of the Placebo Effect. GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/gidisord4040028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
While the importance of the intestinal microbiome has been realised for a number of years, the significance of the phrase microbiota–gut–brain axis is only just beginning to be fully appreciated. Our recent work has focused on the microbiome as if it were a single entity, modifying the expression of the genetic inheritance of the individual by the generation of interkingdom signalling molecules, semiochemicals, such as dopamine. In our view, the purpose of the microbiome is to convey information about the microbial environment of the mother so as to calibrate the immune system of the new-born, giving it the ability to distinguish harmful pathogens from the harmless antigens of pollen, for example, or to help distinguish self from non-self. In turn, this requires the partition of nutrition between the adult and its microbiome to ensure that both entities remain viable until the process of reproduction. Accordingly, the failure of a degraded microbiome to interact with the developing gut of the neonate leads to failure of this partition in the adult: to low faecal energy excretion, excessive fat storage, and concomitant problems with the immune system. Similarly, a weakened gut–brain axis distorts interoceptive input to the brain, increasing the risk of psychiatric diseases such as autism. These effects account for David Barker’s 1990 suggestion of “the fetal and infant origins of adult disease”, including schizophrenia, and David Strachan’s 1989 observation of childhood immune system diseases, such as hay fever and asthma. The industrialisation of modern life is increasing the intensity and scale of these physical and psychiatric diseases and it seems likely that subclinical heavy metal poisoning of the microbiome contributes to these problems. Finally, the recent observation of Harald Brüssow, that reported intestinal bacterial composition does not adequately reflect the patterns of disease, would be accounted for if microbial eukaryotes were the key determinant of microbiome effectiveness. In this view, the relative success of “probiotic” bacteria is due to their temporary immune system activation of the gut–brain axis, in turn suggesting a potential mechanism for the placebo effect.
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Martins-Oliveira M, Akerman S, Holland PR, Tavares I, Goadsby PJ. Pharmacological modulation of ventral tegmental area neurons elicits changes in trigeminovascular sensory processing and is accompanied by glycemic changes: Implications for migraine. Cephalalgia 2022; 42:1359-1374. [PMID: 36259130 DOI: 10.1177/03331024221110111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Imaging migraine premonitory studies show increased midbrain activation consistent with the ventral tegmental area, an area involved in pain modulation and hedonic feeding. We investigated ventral tegmental area pharmacological modulation effects on trigeminovascular processing and consequent glycemic levels, which could be involved in appetite changes in susceptible migraine patients. METHODS Serotonin and pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide receptors immunohistochemistry was performed in ventral tegmental area parabrachial pigmented nucleus of male Sprague Dawley rats. In vivo trigeminocervical complex neuronal responses to dura mater nociceptive electrical stimulation, and facial mechanical stimulation of the ophthalmic dermatome were recorded. Changes in trigeminocervical complex responses following ventral tegmental area parabrachial pigmented nucleus microinjection of glutamate, bicuculline, naratriptan, pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide-38 and quinpirole were measured, and blood glucose levels assessed pre- and post-microinjection. RESULTS Glutamatergic stimulation of ventral tegmental area parabrachial pigmented nucleus neurons reduced nociceptive and spontaneous trigeminocervical complex neuronal firing. Naratriptan, pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide-38 and quinpirole inhibited trigeminovascular spontaneous activity, and trigeminocervical complex neuronal responses to dural-evoked electrical and mechanical noxious stimulation. Trigeminovascular sensory processing through modulation of the ventral tegmental area parabrachial pigmented nucleus resulted in reduced circulating glucose levels. CONCLUSION Pharmacological modulation of ventral tegmental area parabrachial pigmented nucleus neurons elicits changes in trigeminovascular sensory processing. The interplay between ventral tegmental area parabrachial pigmented nucleus activity and the sensory processing by the trigeminovascular system may be relevant to understand associated sensory and homeostatic symptoms in susceptible migraine patients.
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- Margarida Martins-Oliveira
- Headache Group, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Disease, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.,Department of Nutrition and Metabolism, NOVA Medical School
- Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, NMS
- FCM, Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Lisboa, Portugal.,Department of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.,Institute of Investigation and Innovation in Health (i3S), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Neural and Pain Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Headache Group, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Disease, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK
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- Department of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.,Institute of Investigation and Innovation in Health (i3S), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Headache Group, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Disease, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.,Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA USA
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Feeding Our Microbiota: Stimulation of the Immune/Semiochemical System and the Potential Amelioration of Non-Communicable Diseases. LIFE (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 12:life12081197. [PMID: 36013376 PMCID: PMC9410320 DOI: 10.3390/life12081197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2022] [Revised: 07/30/2022] [Accepted: 08/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Non-communicable diseases are those conditions to which causative infectious agents cannot readily be assigned. It is increasingly likely that at least some of these conditions are due to the breakdown of the previously mutualistic intestinal microbiota under the influence of a polluted, biocide-rich, environment. Following the mid-20th century African studies of Denis Burkitt, the environmental cause of conditions such as obesity has been ascribed to the absence of sufficient fibre in the modern diet, however in itself that is insufficient to explain the parallel rise of problems with both the immune system and of mental health. Conversely, Burkitt himself noted that the Maasai, a cattle herding people, remained healthy even with their relatively low intake of dietary fibre. Interestingly, however, Burkitt also emphasised that levels of non-communicable disease within a population rose as faecal weight decreased significantly, to about one third of the levels found in healthy populations. Accordingly, a more cogent explanation for all the available facts is that the fully functioning, adequately diverse microbiome, communicating through what has been termed the microbiota–gut–brain axis, helps to control the passage of food through the digestive tract to provide itself with the nutrition it needs. The method of communication is via the production of semiochemicals, interkingdom signalling molecules, potentially including dopamine. In turn, the microbiome aids the immune system of both adult and, most importantly, the neonate. In this article we consider the role of probiotics and prebiotics, including fermented foods and dietary fibre, in the stimulation of the immune system and of semiochemical production in the gut lumen. Finally, we reprise our suggestion of an ingestible sensor, calibrated to the detection of such semiochemicals, to assess both the effectiveness of individual microbiomes and methods of amelioration of the associated non-communicable diseases.
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Grassi G, Figee M, Pozza A, Dell'Osso B. Obsessive-compulsive disorder, insulin signaling and diabetes - A novel form of physical health comorbidity: The sweet compulsive brain. Compr Psychiatry 2022; 117:152329. [PMID: 35679658 DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2022.152329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2021] [Revised: 05/03/2022] [Accepted: 05/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND While a growing body of research highlights a bi-directional link between diabetes and mood disorders, little is known about the relationship between diabetes and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The aim of the present review is to investigate current evidence linking OCD, insulin-signaling and diabetes. METHODS A PubMed search was conducted to review all the available studies assessing diabetes, glucose metabolism and insulin-signaling in OCD patients and vice versa. RESULTS Some clinical and epidemiological studies show a higher prevalence of diabetes in OCD and vice versa compared to the general population. Animal and genetic studies suggest a possible role of insulin-signaling in the pathophysiology of OCD. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) studies suggest that abnormal dopaminergic transmission in the striatum may contribute to impaired insulin sensitivity in OCD. While DBS seems to increase insulin sensitivity, a possible protective role of serotonin reuptake-inhibitors on diabetic risk needs further studies. CONCLUSION Despite their preliminary nature, these data highlight the importance of further investigations aimed at assessing metabolic features in OCD patients and OCD symptoms in diabetes patients to understand the impact of each condition on the pathophysiology and course of the other. Understanding the role of insulin in the obsessive-compulsive brain could open new treatment pathways for OCD.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn Medical School at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- University of Milan, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences Luigi Sacco, Ospedale Sacco-Polo Universitario, ASST Fatebenefratelli-Sacco, Milan, Italy
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Doucette WT, Smedley EB, Ruiz-Jaquez M, Khokhar JY, Smith KS. Chronic Chemogenetic Manipulation of Ventral Pallidum Targeted Neurons in Male Rats Fed an Obesogenic Diet. Brain Res 2022; 1784:147886. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2022.147886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2021] [Revised: 02/14/2022] [Accepted: 03/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The Enclosed Intestinal Microbiome: Semiochemical Signals from the Precambrian and Their Disruption by Heavy Metal Pollution. Life (Basel) 2022; 12:life12020287. [PMID: 35207574 PMCID: PMC8879143 DOI: 10.3390/life12020287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2021] [Revised: 02/07/2022] [Accepted: 02/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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It is increasingly likely that many non-communicable diseases of humans and associated animals are due to the degradation of their intestinal microbiomes, a situation often referred to as dysbiosis. An analysis of the resultant diseases offers an opportunity to probe the function of these microbial partners of multicellular animals. In our view, it now seems likely that vertebrate animals and their microbiomes have coevolved throughout the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition and beyond, operating by semiochemical messaging between the multicellular host and its microbial community guest. A consideration of the overall role of the mutualistic intestinal microbiome as an enclosed bioreactor throws up a variety of challenging concepts. In particular: the significance of the microbiome with respect to the immune system suggests that microeukaryotes could act as microbial sentinel cells; the ubiquity of bacteriophage viruses implies the rapid turnover of microbial composition by a viral-shunt mechanism; and high microbial diversity is needed to ensure that horizontal gene transfer allows valuable genetic functions to be expressed. We have previously postulated that microbes of sufficient diversity must be transferred from mother to infant by seemingly accidental contamination during the process of natural birth. We termed this maternal microbial inheritance and suggested that it operates alongside parental genetic inheritance to modify gene expression. In this way, the adjustment of the neonate immune system by the microbiome may represent one of the ways in which the genome of a vertebrate animal interacts with its microbial environment. The absence of such critical functions in the neonate may help to explain the observation of persistent immune-system problems in affected adults. Equally, granted that the survival of the guest microbiome depends on the viability of its host, one function of microbiome-generated semiochemicals could be to facilitate the movement of food through the digestive tract, effectively partitioning nutrition between host and guest. In the event of famine, downregulation of microbial growth and therefore of semiochemical production would allow all available food to be consumed by the host. Although it is often thought that non-communicable diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, are caused by consumption of food containing insufficient dietary fibre, our hypothesis suggests that poor-quality food is not the prime cause but that the tendency for disease follows the degradation of the intestinal microbiome, when fat build-up occurs because the relevant semiochemicals can no longer be produced. It is the purpose of this paper to highlight the possibility that the origins of the microbiome lie in the Precambrian and that the disconnection of body and microbiome gives rise to non-communicable disease through the loss of semiochemical signalling. We further surmise that this disconnect has been largely brought about by heavy metal poisoning, potentially illuminating a facet of the exposome, the sum total of environmental insults that influence the expression of the genetic inheritance of an animal.
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Glezer A, Santana MR, Bronstein MD, Donato J, Jallad RS. The interplay between prolactin and cardiovascular disease. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2022; 13:1018090. [PMID: 36704037 PMCID: PMC9871591 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2022.1018090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2022] [Accepted: 12/20/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Hyperprolactinemia can be caused by several conditions and its effects on the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis are understood in more detail. Nevertheless, in recent decades, other metabolic effects have been studied and data pointed to a potential increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. A recent study showed a decrease in total and LDL- cholesterol only in men with prolactinoma treated with dopamine agonists (DA) supporting the previous results of a population study with increased CVD risk in men harboring prolactinoma. However, other population studies did not find a correlation between prolactin (PRL) levels and CVD risk or mortality. There is also data pointing to an increase in high-density lipoprotein levels, and decreases in triglycerides, carotid-intima-media thickness, C-reactive protein, and homocysteine levels in patients with prolactinoma on DA treatment. PRL was also implicated in endothelial dysfunction in pre and postmenopausal women. Withdrawal of DA resulted in negative changes in vascular parameters and an increase in plasma fibrinogen. It has been shown that PRL levels were positively correlated with blood pressure and inversely correlated with dilatation of the brachial artery and insulin sensitivity, increased homocysteine levels, and elevated D-dimer levels. Regarding possible mechanisms for the association between hyperprolactinemia and CVD risk, they include a possible direct effect of PRL, hypogonadism, and even effects of DA treatment, independently of changes in PRL levels. In conclusion, hyperprolactinemia seems to be associated with impaired endothelial function and DA treatment could improve CVD risk. More studies evaluating CVD risk in hyperprolactinemic patients are important to define a potential indication of treatment beyond hypogonadism.
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- Andrea Glezer
- Neuroendocrine Unit, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Endocrinology LIM-25, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
- *Correspondence: Andrea Glezer,
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- Neuroendocrine Unit, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Neuroendocrine Unit, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Endocrinology LIM-25, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Neuroendocrine Unit, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Endocrinology LIM-25, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Pignalosa FC, Desiderio A, Mirra P, Nigro C, Perruolo G, Ulianich L, Formisano P, Beguinot F, Miele C, Napoli R, Fiory F. Diabetes and Cognitive Impairment: A Role for Glucotoxicity and Dopaminergic Dysfunction. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms222212366. [PMID: 34830246 PMCID: PMC8619146 DOI: 10.3390/ijms222212366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2021] [Revised: 11/09/2021] [Accepted: 11/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia, responsible for the onset of several long-term complications. Recent evidence suggests that cognitive dysfunction represents an emerging complication of DM, but the underlying molecular mechanisms are still obscure. Dopamine (DA), a neurotransmitter essentially known for its relevance in the regulation of behavior and movement, modulates cognitive function, too. Interestingly, alterations of the dopaminergic system have been observed in DM. This review aims to offer a comprehensive overview of the most relevant experimental results assessing DA’s role in cognitive function, highlighting the presence of dopaminergic dysfunction in DM and supporting a role for glucotoxicity in DM-associated dopaminergic dysfunction and cognitive impairment. Several studies confirm a role for DA in cognition both in animal models and in humans. Similarly, significant alterations of the dopaminergic system have been observed in animal models of experimental diabetes and in diabetic patients, too. Evidence is accumulating that advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and their precursor methylglyoxal (MGO) are associated with cognitive impairment and alterations of the dopaminergic system. Further research is needed to clarify the molecular mechanisms linking DM-associated dopaminergic dysfunction and cognitive impairment and to assess the deleterious impact of glucotoxicity.
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- Francesca Chiara Pignalosa
- Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy; (F.C.P.); (A.D.); (P.M.); (C.N.); (G.P.); (L.U.); (P.F.); (F.B.); (R.N.); (F.F.)
- URT “Genomic of Diabetes”, Institute of Experimental Endocrinology and Oncology, National Research Council, 80131 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy; (F.C.P.); (A.D.); (P.M.); (C.N.); (G.P.); (L.U.); (P.F.); (F.B.); (R.N.); (F.F.)
- URT “Genomic of Diabetes”, Institute of Experimental Endocrinology and Oncology, National Research Council, 80131 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy; (F.C.P.); (A.D.); (P.M.); (C.N.); (G.P.); (L.U.); (P.F.); (F.B.); (R.N.); (F.F.)
- URT “Genomic of Diabetes”, Institute of Experimental Endocrinology and Oncology, National Research Council, 80131 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy; (F.C.P.); (A.D.); (P.M.); (C.N.); (G.P.); (L.U.); (P.F.); (F.B.); (R.N.); (F.F.)
- URT “Genomic of Diabetes”, Institute of Experimental Endocrinology and Oncology, National Research Council, 80131 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy; (F.C.P.); (A.D.); (P.M.); (C.N.); (G.P.); (L.U.); (P.F.); (F.B.); (R.N.); (F.F.)
- URT “Genomic of Diabetes”, Institute of Experimental Endocrinology and Oncology, National Research Council, 80131 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy; (F.C.P.); (A.D.); (P.M.); (C.N.); (G.P.); (L.U.); (P.F.); (F.B.); (R.N.); (F.F.)
- URT “Genomic of Diabetes”, Institute of Experimental Endocrinology and Oncology, National Research Council, 80131 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy; (F.C.P.); (A.D.); (P.M.); (C.N.); (G.P.); (L.U.); (P.F.); (F.B.); (R.N.); (F.F.)
- URT “Genomic of Diabetes”, Institute of Experimental Endocrinology and Oncology, National Research Council, 80131 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy; (F.C.P.); (A.D.); (P.M.); (C.N.); (G.P.); (L.U.); (P.F.); (F.B.); (R.N.); (F.F.)
- URT “Genomic of Diabetes”, Institute of Experimental Endocrinology and Oncology, National Research Council, 80131 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy; (F.C.P.); (A.D.); (P.M.); (C.N.); (G.P.); (L.U.); (P.F.); (F.B.); (R.N.); (F.F.)
- URT “Genomic of Diabetes”, Institute of Experimental Endocrinology and Oncology, National Research Council, 80131 Naples, Italy
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +39-081-746-3248
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- Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy; (F.C.P.); (A.D.); (P.M.); (C.N.); (G.P.); (L.U.); (P.F.); (F.B.); (R.N.); (F.F.)
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- Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy; (F.C.P.); (A.D.); (P.M.); (C.N.); (G.P.); (L.U.); (P.F.); (F.B.); (R.N.); (F.F.)
- URT “Genomic of Diabetes”, Institute of Experimental Endocrinology and Oncology, National Research Council, 80131 Naples, Italy
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Impact of Nutritional Intervention on Taste Perception-A Scoping Review. Foods 2021; 10:foods10112747. [PMID: 34829027 PMCID: PMC8625746 DOI: 10.3390/foods10112747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2021] [Revised: 11/04/2021] [Accepted: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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The aim of the present scoping review was to evaluate the impact of experimental meal loads or observational diet changes/habits on taste tests in both healthy subjects and patients. A systematic search performed in PubMed, Scopus, and Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Science electronic databases retrieved, respectively 2981, 6258, and 7555 articles from January 2000 to December 2020. A total of 17 articles were included for full-text review. Literature results were stratified according to the observational/interventional approach, the involvement of healthy subjects or patients, the taste test, and the meal/dietary changes. The present scoping review reinforced the notions postulating that certain taste tests (for example focusing on fatty acid, salt, or sugar) might be specifically influenced by the nutritional intervention and that other ones might be susceptible to a wide span of changes beyond the extent of tastant included in the specific food changes. This could also depend on the inhomogeneity of literature trend: The short duration of the intervention or the random type of meal load, unsuitability of the taste test chosen, and the presence of underlying disorders. Future studies for a better comprehension of taste tests reliability in relation to specific food changes are thus to be fostered.
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Liang G, Zhang L, Jiang G, Chen X, Zong Y, Wang F. Effects and Components of Herb Pair Huanglian-Banxia on Diabetic Gastroparesis by Network Pharmacology. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2021; 2021:8257937. [PMID: 34708128 PMCID: PMC8545519 DOI: 10.1155/2021/8257937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2021] [Revised: 08/30/2021] [Accepted: 09/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Diabetic gastroparesis (DGP) is a serious and chronic complication of long-standing diabetes mellitus, which brings a heavy burden to individuals and society. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is considered a complementary and alternative therapy for DGP patients. Huanglian (Coptidis Rhizoma, HL) and Banxia (Pinelliae Rhizoma, BX) combined as herb pair have been frequently used in TCM prescriptions, which can effectively treat DGP in China. In this article, a practical application of TCM network pharmacological approach was used for the research on herb pair HL-BX in the treatment of DGP. Firstly, twenty-seven potential active components of HL-BX were screened from the TCMSP database, and their potential targets were also retrieved. Then, the compound-target network and PPI network were constructed from predicted common targets, and several key targets were found based on the degree of the network. Next, GO and KEGG enrichment analyses were conducted to obtain several significantly enriched terms. Finally, the experimental verification was made. The results demonstrated that network pharmacological approach was a powerful means for identifying bioactive ingredients and mechanisms of action for TCM. Network pharmacology provided an effective strategy for TCM modern research.
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- Guoqiang Liang
- Central Laboratory, Suzhou TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, 215000 Jiangsu, China
- Clinical Pharmaceutical Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Suzhou Academy of Wumen Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, 215000 Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Suzhou TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, 215000 Jiangsu, China
- Clinical Pharmaceutical Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Suzhou Academy of Wumen Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, 215000 Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Suzhou TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, 215000 Jiangsu, China
- Clinical Pharmaceutical Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Suzhou Academy of Wumen Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, 215000 Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Gynecology, Suzhou TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, 215000 Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Suzhou TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, 215000 Jiangsu, China
- Clinical Pharmaceutical Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Suzhou Academy of Wumen Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, 215000 Jiangsu, China
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- Central Laboratory, Suzhou TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, 215000 Jiangsu, China
- Clinical Pharmaceutical Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Suzhou Academy of Wumen Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, 215000 Jiangsu, China
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The reduction of excessive weight remains a major public health challenge, with control currently limited to a calorie reduction strategy. Currently, attempts are being made at revisiting the fibre hypothesis based on the African studies of Denis Burkitt, that the lack of dietary fibre in the modern diet was responsible for the occurrence of obesity and many of the other non-communicable diseases of what he called “Western civilization”. However, the dilemma is that Burkitt himself stressed that other peoples of his day, such as the Maasai, remained healthy without consuming such high fibre diets. Equally, the present obesity epidemic is accompanied by diseases of a malfunctioning immune system and of poor mental health that do not seem to be adequately explained simply by a deficiency of dietary fibre. Though unknown in Burkitt’s day, an increasing degradation of a mutualistic intestinal microbiome would offer a better fit to the observed epidemiology, especially if the microbiome is not effectively passed on from mother to child at birth. Taking the broader view, in this article we posit a view of the microbiome as a cofactor of mammalian evolution, in which a maternal microbial inheritance complements the parental genetic inheritance of the animal, both engaging epigenetic processes. As this would require the microbiome to be fully integrated with the animal as it develops into an adult, so we have a meaningful evolutionary role for the microbiome–gut–brain axis. By a failure to correctly establish a microbiome–gut interface, the inhibition of maternal microbial inheritance sets the scene for the future development of non-communicable disease: compromised immune system function on the one hand and dysfunctional gut–brain communication on the other. The basic principle is that the fully functioning, diverse, microbiome achieves interkingdom communication by the generation of messenger chemicals, semiochemicals. It is envisaged that the in situ detection of these as yet ill-defined chemical entities by means of an ingestible sensor would indicate the severity of disease and provide a guide as to its amelioration.
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Kullmann S, Blum D, Jaghutriz BA, Gassenmaier C, Bender B, Häring HU, Reischl G, Preissl H, la Fougère C, Fritsche A, Reimold M, Heni M. Central Insulin Modulates Dopamine Signaling in the Human Striatum. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2021; 106:2949-2961. [PMID: 34131733 DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgab410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Activity in the dopaminergic pathways of the brain is highly sensitive to body weight and metabolic states. Animal studies show that dopamine neurons are important targets for the metabolic hormone insulin with abolished effects in the insulin-resistant state, leading to increases in body weight and food intake. In humans, the influence of central acting insulin on dopamine and effects of their interplay are still elusive. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We investigated whether central administered insulin influences dopaminergic activity in striatal regions and whole-brain neural activity. Using a positron emission tomography (PET)/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) hybrid scanner, we simultaneously performed [11C]-raclopride-PET and resting-state functional MRI in 10 healthy normal-weight men after application of intranasal insulin or placebo on 2 separate days in a randomized, placebo-controlled, blinded, crossover trial. RESULTS In response to central insulin compared with placebo administration, we observed greater [11C]-raclopride binding potential in the bilateral ventral and dorsal striatum. This suggests an insulin-induced reduction in synaptic dopamine levels. Resting-state striatal activity was lower 15 and 30 minutes after nasal insulin compared with placebo. Functional connectivity of the mesocorticolimbic circuitry associated with differences in dopamine levels: individuals with a stronger insulin-induced effect on dopamine levels showed a stronger increase in functional connectivity 45 minutes after intranasal insulin. CONCLUSIONS This study indicates that central insulin modulates dopaminergic tone in the striatum, which may affect regional brain activity and connectivity. Our results deepen the understanding of the insulin-dopamine interaction and the complex network that underlies the regulation of whole-body metabolism.
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- Stephanie Kullmann
- Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Tübingen, Germany
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Nephrology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Clinical Molecular Imaging, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Tübingen, Germany
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Nephrology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology, Oncology, Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Tübingen, Germany
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Nephrology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Tübingen, Germany
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Nephrology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Diabetes Center at Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany
- Department of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Clinical Molecular Imaging, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies", University of Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Tübingen, Germany
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Nephrology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Clinical Molecular Imaging, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) "Image Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies", University of Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Tübingen, Germany
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Nephrology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, Department for Diagnostic Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Sauerzopf U, Weidenauer A, Dajic I, Bauer M, Bartova L, Meyer B, Nics L, Philippe C, Pfaff S, Pichler V, Mitterhauser M, Wadsak W, Hacker M, Kasper S, Lanzenberger R, Pezawas L, Praschak-Rieder N, Willeit M. Disrupted relationship between blood glucose and brain dopamine D2/3 receptor binding in patients with first-episode schizophrenia. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2021; 32:102813. [PMID: 34544031 PMCID: PMC8455866 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2021.102813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2021] [Revised: 08/29/2021] [Accepted: 08/30/2021] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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An elemental function of brain dopamine is to coordinate cognitive and motor resources for successful exploitation of environmental energy sources. Dopamine transmission, goal-directed behavior, and glucose homeostasis are altered in schizophrenia patients prior to and after initiation of pharmacological treatment. Thus, we investigated the relationship between blood glucose levels and brain dopamine signaling in drug-naïve patients with first-episode psychosis. We quantified blood glucose levels and binding of the dopamine D2/3 receptor agonist radioligand (+)-[11C]-PHNO in 15 medication-naïve patients and 27 healthy volunteers employing positron emission tomography. Whole-brain voxel-wise linear model analysis identified two clusters of significant interaction between blood glucose levels and diagnosis on (+)-[11C]-PHNO binding-potential values. We observed positive relationships between blood glucose levels and binding-potential values in healthy volunteers but negative ones in patients with first episode psychosis in a cluster surviving rigorous multiple testing correction located in the in the right ventral tegmental area. Another cluster of homologous behavior, however at a lower level of statistical significance, comprised the ventral striatum and pallidum. Extracellular dopamine levels are a major determinant of (+)-[11C]-PHNO binding in the brain. In line with the concept that increased dopamine signaling occurs when goal-directed behavior is needed for restoring energy supply, our data indicate that in healthy volunteers, extracellular dopamine levels are high when blood glucose levels are low and vice-versa. This relationship is reversed in patients with first-episode psychosis, possibly reflecting an underlying pathogenic alteration that links two seemingly unrelated aspects of the illness: altered dopamine signaling and dysfunctional glucose homeostasis.
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- U Sauerzopf
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Division of General Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Division of General Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Division of General Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Division of General Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Austria; Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Division of General Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Division of General Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Austria; Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute Applied Diagnostics, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Austria; Center for Biomarker Research in Medicine CBmed, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Division of General Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Austria; Centre for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Division of General Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Division of General Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Division of General Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Division of General Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
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Koekkoek LL, Kool T, Eggels L, van der Gun LL, Lamuadni K, Slomp M, Diepenbroek C, Serlie MJ, Kalsbeek A, la Fleur SE. Activation of nucleus accumbens μ-opioid receptors enhances the response to a glycaemic challenge. J Neuroendocrinol 2021; 33:e13036. [PMID: 34528311 PMCID: PMC9286654 DOI: 10.1111/jne.13036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2021] [Revised: 08/10/2021] [Accepted: 08/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Opioids are known to affect blood glucose levels but their exact role in the physiological control of glucose metabolism remains unclear. Although there are numerous studies investigating the peripheral effects of opioid stimulation, little is known about how central opioids control blood glucose and which brain areas are involved. One brain area possibly involved is the nucleus accumbens because, as well as being a key site for opioid effects on food intake, it has also been implicated in the control of blood glucose levels. Within the nucleus accumbens, μ-opioid receptors are most abundantly expressed. Therefore, in the present study, we investigated the role of μ-opioid receptors in the nucleus accumbens in the control of glucose metabolism. We show that infusion of the μ-opioid receptor agonist [d-Ala2 , N-MePhe4 , Gly-ol]-enkephalin (DAMGO) in the nucleus accumbens by itself does not affect blood glucose levels, but it enhances the glycaemic response after both an insulin tolerance test, as well as a glucose tolerance test. These findings indicate that the nucleus accumbens plays a role in the central effects of opioids on glucose metabolism, and highlight the possibility of nucleus accumbens μ-opioid receptors as a therapeutic target for enhancing the counter-regulatory response.
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- Laura L. Koekkoek
- Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMCLaboratory of EndocrinologyDepartment of Clinical ChemistryAmsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and MetabolismUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMCDepartment of Endocrinology and MetabolismAmsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and MetabolismUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Metabolism and Reward GroupAn Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesNetherlands Institute for NeuroscienceAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMCLaboratory of EndocrinologyDepartment of Clinical ChemistryAmsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and MetabolismUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMCDepartment of Endocrinology and MetabolismAmsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and MetabolismUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Metabolism and Reward GroupAn Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesNetherlands Institute for NeuroscienceAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMCLaboratory of EndocrinologyDepartment of Clinical ChemistryAmsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and MetabolismUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMCDepartment of Endocrinology and MetabolismAmsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and MetabolismUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Metabolism and Reward GroupAn Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesNetherlands Institute for NeuroscienceAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMCLaboratory of EndocrinologyDepartment of Clinical ChemistryAmsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and MetabolismUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMCDepartment of Endocrinology and MetabolismAmsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and MetabolismUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Metabolism and Reward GroupAn Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesNetherlands Institute for NeuroscienceAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMCLaboratory of EndocrinologyDepartment of Clinical ChemistryAmsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and MetabolismUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMCDepartment of Endocrinology and MetabolismAmsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and MetabolismUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Metabolism and Reward GroupAn Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesNetherlands Institute for NeuroscienceAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMCLaboratory of EndocrinologyDepartment of Clinical ChemistryAmsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and MetabolismUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMCDepartment of Endocrinology and MetabolismAmsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and MetabolismUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Metabolism and Reward GroupAn Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesNetherlands Institute for NeuroscienceAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMCLaboratory of EndocrinologyDepartment of Clinical ChemistryAmsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and MetabolismUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMCDepartment of Endocrinology and MetabolismAmsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and MetabolismUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Metabolism and Reward GroupAn Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesNetherlands Institute for NeuroscienceAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMCDepartment of Endocrinology and MetabolismAmsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and MetabolismUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMCLaboratory of EndocrinologyDepartment of Clinical ChemistryAmsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and MetabolismUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMCDepartment of Endocrinology and MetabolismAmsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and MetabolismUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Hypothalamic Integration MechanismsAn Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesNetherlands Institute for NeuroscienceAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMCLaboratory of EndocrinologyDepartment of Clinical ChemistryAmsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and MetabolismUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMCDepartment of Endocrinology and MetabolismAmsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and MetabolismUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Metabolism and Reward GroupAn Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesNetherlands Institute for NeuroscienceAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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Lucido MJ, Bekhbat M, Goldsmith DR, Treadway MT, Haroon E, Felger JC, Miller AH. Aiding and Abetting Anhedonia: Impact of Inflammation on the Brain and Pharmacological Implications. Pharmacol Rev 2021; 73:1084-1117. [PMID: 34285088 PMCID: PMC11060479 DOI: 10.1124/pharmrev.120.000043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Exogenous administration of inflammatory stimuli to humans and laboratory animals and chronic endogenous inflammatory states lead to motivational deficits and ultimately anhedonia, a core and disabling symptom of depression present in multiple other psychiatric disorders. Inflammation impacts neurotransmitter systems and neurocircuits in subcortical brain regions including the ventral striatum, which serves as an integration point for reward processing and motivational decision-making. Many mechanisms contribute to these effects of inflammation, including decreased synthesis, release and reuptake of dopamine, increased synaptic and extrasynaptic glutamate, and activation of kynurenine pathway metabolites including quinolinic acid. Neuroimaging data indicate that these inflammation-induced neurotransmitter effects manifest as decreased activation of ventral striatum and decreased functional connectivity in reward circuitry involving ventral striatum and ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Neurocircuitry changes in turn mediate nuanced effects on motivation that include decreased willingness to expend effort for reward while maintaining the ability to experience reward. Taken together, the data reveal an inflammation-induced pathophysiologic phenotype that is agnostic to diagnosis. Given the many mechanisms involved, this phenotype represents an opportunity for development of novel and/or repurposed pharmacological strategies that target inflammation and associated cellular and systemic immunometabolic changes and their downstream effects on the brain. To date, clinical trials have failed to capitalize on the unique nature of this transdiagnostic phenotype, leaving the field bereft of interpretable data for meaningful clinical application. However, novel trial designs incorporating established targets in the brain and/or periphery using relevant outcome variables (e.g., anhedonia) are the future of targeted therapy in psychiatry. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT: Emerging understanding of mechanisms by which peripheral inflammation can affect the brain and behavior has created unprecedented opportunities for development of pharmacological strategies to treat deficits in motivation including anhedonia, a core and disabling symptom of depression well represented in multiple psychiatric disorders. Mechanisms include inflammation and cellular and systemic immunometabolism and alterations in dopamine, glutamate, and kynurenine metabolites, revealing a target-rich environment that nevertheless has yet to be fully exploited by current clinical trial designs and drugs employed.
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- Michael J Lucido
- Emory Behavioral Immunology Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia (M.J.L., M.B., D.R.G., E.H., J.C.F., A.H.M.); and Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (M.T.T.)
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- Emory Behavioral Immunology Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia (M.J.L., M.B., D.R.G., E.H., J.C.F., A.H.M.); and Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (M.T.T.)
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- Emory Behavioral Immunology Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia (M.J.L., M.B., D.R.G., E.H., J.C.F., A.H.M.); and Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (M.T.T.)
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- Emory Behavioral Immunology Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia (M.J.L., M.B., D.R.G., E.H., J.C.F., A.H.M.); and Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (M.T.T.)
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- Emory Behavioral Immunology Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia (M.J.L., M.B., D.R.G., E.H., J.C.F., A.H.M.); and Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (M.T.T.)
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- Emory Behavioral Immunology Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia (M.J.L., M.B., D.R.G., E.H., J.C.F., A.H.M.); and Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (M.T.T.)
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- Emory Behavioral Immunology Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia (M.J.L., M.B., D.R.G., E.H., J.C.F., A.H.M.); and Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (M.T.T.)
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Zhang S, Lachance BB, Mattson MP, Jia X. Glucose metabolic crosstalk and regulation in brain function and diseases. Prog Neurobiol 2021; 204:102089. [PMID: 34118354 DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2021.102089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2020] [Revised: 04/08/2021] [Accepted: 06/01/2021] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Brain glucose metabolism, including glycolysis, the pentose phosphate pathway, and glycogen turnover, produces ATP for energetic support and provides the precursors for the synthesis of biological macromolecules. Although glucose metabolism in neurons and astrocytes has been extensively studied, the glucose metabolism of microglia and oligodendrocytes, and their interactions with neurons and astrocytes, remain critical to understand brain function. Brain regions with heterogeneous cell composition and cell-type-specific profiles of glucose metabolism suggest that metabolic networks within the brain are complex. Signal transduction proteins including those in the Wnt, GSK-3β, PI3K-AKT, and AMPK pathways are involved in regulating these networks. Additionally, glycolytic enzymes and metabolites, such as hexokinase 2, acetyl-CoA, and enolase 2, are implicated in the modulation of cellular function, microglial activation, glycation, and acetylation of biomolecules. Given these extensive networks, glucose metabolism dysfunction in the whole brain or specific cell types is strongly associated with neurologic pathology including ischemic brain injury and neurodegenerative disorders. This review characterizes the glucose metabolism networks of the brain based on molecular signaling and cellular and regional interactions, and elucidates glucose metabolism-based mechanisms of neurological diseases and therapeutic approaches that may ameliorate metabolic abnormalities in those diseases.
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- Shuai Zhang
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, United States
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- Program in Trauma, Department of Neurology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, United States; Department of Orthopedics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, United States; Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, United States; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, United States; Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, United States.
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Kaneko K, Lin HY, Fu Y, Saha PK, De la Puente-Gomez AB, Xu Y, Ohinata K, Chen P, Morozov A, Fukuda M. Rap1 in the VMH regulates glucose homeostasis. JCI Insight 2021; 6:142545. [PMID: 33974562 PMCID: PMC8262364 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.142545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2020] [Accepted: 05/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The hypothalamus is a critical regulator of glucose metabolism and is capable of correcting diabetes conditions independently of an effect on energy balance. The small GTPase Rap1 in the forebrain is implicated in high-fat diet–induced (HFD-induced) obesity and glucose imbalance. Here, we report that increasing Rap1 activity selectively in the medial hypothalamus elevated blood glucose without increasing the body weight of HFD-fed mice. In contrast, decreasing hypothalamic Rap1 activity protected mice from diet-induced hyperglycemia but did not prevent weight gain. The remarkable glycemic effect of Rap1 was reproduced when Rap1 was specifically deleted in steroidogenic factor-1–positive (SF-1–positive) neurons in the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus (VMH) known to regulate glucose metabolism. While having no effect on body weight regardless of sex, diet, and age, Rap1 deficiency in the VMH SF1 neurons markedly lowered blood glucose and insulin levels, improved glucose and insulin tolerance, and protected mice against HFD-induced neural leptin resistance and peripheral insulin resistance at the cellular and whole-body levels. Last, acute pharmacological inhibition of brain exchange protein directly activated by cAMP 2, a direct activator of Rap1, corrected glucose imbalance in obese mouse models. Our findings uncover the primary role of VMH Rap1 in glycemic control and implicate Rap1 signaling as a potential target for therapeutic intervention in diabetes.
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- Kentaro Kaneko
- Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.,Division of Food Science and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan
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- Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.,Department of Molecular Medicine and Metabolism, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.,Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Division of Food Science and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Women's Guild Lung Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Unit on Behavioral Genetics, Laboratory of Molecular Pathophysiology, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Maryland, USA.,Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech Carilion, Roanoke, Virginia, USA
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- Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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Ezrokhi M, Zhang Y, Luo S, Cincotta AH. Time-of-Day-Dependent Effects of Bromocriptine to Ameliorate Vascular Pathology and Metabolic Syndrome in SHR Rats Held on High Fat Diet. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22116142. [PMID: 34200262 PMCID: PMC8201259 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22116142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2021] [Revised: 05/28/2021] [Accepted: 06/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The treatment of type 2 diabetes patients with bromocriptine-QR, a unique, quick release micronized formulation of bromocriptine, improves glycemic control and reduces adverse cardiovascular events. While the improvement of glycemic control is largely the result of improved postprandial hepatic glucose metabolism and insulin action, the mechanisms underlying the drug's cardioprotective effects are less well defined. Bromocriptine is a sympatholytic dopamine agonist and reduces the elevated sympathetic tone, characteristic of metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes, which potentiates elevations of vascular oxidative/nitrosative stress, known to precipitate cardiovascular disease. Therefore, this study investigated the impact of bromocriptine treatment upon biomarkers of vascular oxidative/nitrosative stress (including the pro-oxidative/nitrosative stress enzymes of NADPH oxidase 4, inducible nitric oxide (iNOS), uncoupled endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), the pro-inflammatory/pro-oxidative marker GTP cyclohydrolase 1 (GTPCH 1), and the pro-vascular health enzyme, soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) as well as the plasma level of thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS), a circulating marker of systemic oxidative stress), in hypertensive SHR rats held on a high fat diet to induce metabolic syndrome. Inasmuch as the central nervous system (CNS) dopaminergic activities both regulate and are regulated by CNS circadian pacemaker circuitry, this study also investigated the time-of-day-dependent effects of bromocriptine treatment (10 mg/kg/day at either 13 or 19 h after the onset of light (at the natural waking time or late during the activity period, respectively) among animals held on 14 h daily photoperiods for 16 days upon such vascular biomarkers of vascular redox state, several metabolic syndrome parameters, and mediobasal hypothalamic (MBH) mRNA expression levels of neuropeptides neuropeptide Y (NPY) and agouti-related protein (AgRP) which regulate the peripheral fuel metabolism and of mRNA expression of other MBH glial and neuronal cell genes that support such metabolism regulating neurons in this model system. Such bromocriptine treatment at ZT 13 improved (reduced) biomarkers of vascular oxidative/nitrosative stress including plasma TBARS level, aortic NADPH oxidase 4, iNOS and GTPCH 1 levels, and improved other markers of coupled eNOS function, including increased sGC protein level, relative to controls. However, bromocriptine treatment at ZT 19 produced no improvement in either coupled eNOS function or sGC protein level. Moreover, such ZT 13 bromocriptine treatment reduced several metabolic syndrome parameters including fasting insulin and leptin levels, as well as elevated systolic and diastolic blood pressure, insulin resistance, body fat store levels and liver fat content, however, such effects of ZT 19 bromocriptine treatment were largely absent versus control. Finally, ZT 13 bromocriptine treatment reduced MBH NPY and AgRP mRNA levels and mRNA levels of several MBH glial cell/neuronal genes that code for neuronal support/plasticity proteins (suggesting a shift in neuronal structure/function to a new metabolic control state) while ZT 19 treatment reduced only AgRP, not NPY, and was with very little effect on such MBH glial cell genes expression. These findings indicate that circadian-timed bromocriptine administration at the natural circadian peak of CNS dopaminergic activity (that is diminished in insulin resistant states), but not outside this daily time window when such CNS dopaminergic activity is naturally low, produces widespread improvements in biomarkers of vascular oxidative stress that are associated with the amelioration of metabolic syndrome and reductions in MBH neuropeptides and gene expressions known to facilitate metabolic syndrome. These results of such circadian-timed bromocriptine treatment upon vascular pathology provide potential mechanisms for the observed marked reductions in adverse cardiovascular events with circadian-timed bromocriptine-QR therapy (similarly timed to the onset of daily waking as in this study) of type 2 diabetes subjects and warrant further investigations into related mechanisms and the potential application of such intervention to prediabetes and metabolic syndrome patients as well.
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Gill H, Gill B, Lipsitz O, Rodrigues NB, Cha DS, El-Halabi S, Mansur RB, Rosenblat JD, Cooper DH, Lee Y, Nasri F, McIntyre RS. The impact of overweight/obesity on monetary reward processing: A systematic review. J Psychiatr Res 2021; 137:456-464. [PMID: 33798972 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.03.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2020] [Revised: 02/04/2021] [Accepted: 03/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Converging evidence suggests abnormalities in monetary reward processing may underlie the shared pathophysiology between major depressive disorder and obesity. As such, there is a need to parse deficits in specific subcomponents of monetary reward functioning (i.e., valuation, learning and anticipation). METHODS PsycINFO, Google Scholar and PubMed databases were searched for English-language articles published between database inception to June 6th, 2020. Studies were identified using the following medical search heading (MeSH) terms and search strings: (reward (valuation OR motivation OR anticipation OR learning OR functioning OR decision-making OR reinforcement)) AND ((obesity OR overweight OR obese). RESULTS Findings were reviewed from 11 studies evaluating the association between obesity and monetary reward processing. Four studies found significant differences in reward learning in individuals with obesity compared to normal-weight participants. Five studies found body mass index (BMI) to be predictive of willingness to expend effort (i.e., valuation) for a monetary reward. Three studies found changes in neural activations in the ventral striatum during anticipatory phases preceding receipt of a monetary reward in participants with obesity. CONCLUSIONS Participants with obesity demonstrated significantly poorer performance in task-based measures of reward learning, valuation, and anticipation, resulting in lower monetary reward outcomes across all studies compared to healthy controls. Notably, participants with obesity and comorbid depression performed worse than participants with no comorbid depression. LIMITATIONS There persists heterogeneity between studies with regards to inclusion of mood disorder populations and exclusion of psychiatric comorbidities in groups with obesity.
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- Hartej Gill
- Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Canadian Rapid Treatment Center of Excellence, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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- Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Canadian Rapid Treatment Center of Excellence, Mississauga, ON, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Canadian Rapid Treatment Center of Excellence, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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- Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Canadian Rapid Treatment Center of Excellence, Mississauga, ON, Canada; Department of Pharmacology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Brain and Cognition Discovery Foundation, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Tsur AM, Hershkovich S, Zucker I, Lutski M, Pinhas-Hamiel O, Vivante A, Fischman M, Amir O, Rotchild J, Gerstein HC, Cukierman-Yaffe T, Friedensohn L, Mosenzon O, Derazne E, Tzur D, Tirosh A, Afek A, Raz I, Twig G. Stuttering and Incident Type 2 Diabetes: A Population-Based Study of 2.2 Million Adolescents. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2021; 106:978-987. [PMID: 33449080 DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgaa988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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PURPOSE To investigate the association between stuttering in adolescence and incident type 2 diabetes in young adulthood. METHODS This nationwide population-based study included 2 193 855 adolescents of age 16 to 20 years who were assessed for military service between 1980 and 2013. Diagnoses of stuttering in adolescence were confirmed by a speech-language pathologist. Diabetes status for each individual as of December 31, 2016, was determined by linkage to the Israeli National Diabetes Registry. Relationships were analyzed using regression models adjusted for socioeconomic variables, cognitive performance, coexisting morbidities, and adolescent body mass index. RESULTS Analysis was stratified by sex (Pinteraction = 0.035). Of the 4443 (0.4%) adolescent men with stuttering, 162 (3.7%) developed type 2 diabetes, compared with 25 678 (2.1%) men without stuttering (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 1.3; 95% CI, 1.1-1.6). This relationship persisted when unaffected brothers of men with stuttering were used as the reference group (adjusted OR = 1.5; 95% CI, 1.01-2.2), or when the analysis included only adolescents with unimpaired health at baseline (adjusted OR = 1.4; 95% CI, 1.1-1.7). The association was stronger in later birth cohorts, with an adjusted OR of 2.4 (1.4-4.1) for cases of type 2 diabetes before age 40. Of the 503 (0.1%) adolescent women with stuttering 7 (1.4%) developed type 2 diabetes, compared with 10 139 (1.1%) women without stuttering (OR = 2.03; 95% CI, 0.48-2.20). CONCLUSIONS Adolescent stuttering is associated with an increased risk for early-onset type 2 diabetes among men.
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- Avishai M Tsur
- The Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Department of Military Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel
- Department of Medicine "B," Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- The Israel Center for Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- The Israel Center for Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Pediatric Endocrine and Diabetes Unit, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, 5266202, Israel
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Military Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- The Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- The Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- The Diabetes Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- The Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- Central Management, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- The Diabetes Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
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- The Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Department of Military Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel
- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel
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Mannal N, Kleiner K, Fauler M, Dougalis A, Poetschke C, Liss B. Multi-Electrode Array Analysis Identifies Complex Dopamine Responses and Glucose Sensing Properties of Substantia Nigra Neurons in Mouse Brain Slices. Front Synaptic Neurosci 2021; 13:635050. [PMID: 33716704 PMCID: PMC7952765 DOI: 10.3389/fnsyn.2021.635050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2020] [Accepted: 01/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Dopaminergic (DA) midbrain neurons within the substantia nigra (SN) display an autonomous pacemaker activity that is crucial for dopamine release and voluntary movement control. Their progressive degeneration is a hallmark of Parkinson's disease. Their metabolically demanding activity-mode affects Ca2+ homeostasis, elevates metabolic stress, and renders SN DA neurons particularly vulnerable to degenerative stressors. Accordingly, their activity is regulated by complex mechanisms, notably by dopamine itself, via inhibitory D2-autoreceptors and the neuroprotective neuronal Ca2+ sensor NCS-1. Analyzing regulation of SN DA neuron activity-pattern is complicated by their high vulnerability. We studied this activity and its control by dopamine, NCS-1, and glucose with extracellular multi-electrode array (MEA) recordings from midbrain slices of juvenile and adult mice. Our tailored MEA- and spike sorting-protocols allowed high throughput and long recording times. According to individual dopamine-responses, we identified two distinct SN cell-types, in similar frequency: dopamine-inhibited and dopamine-excited neurons. Dopamine-excited neurons were either silent in the absence of dopamine, or they displayed pacemaker-activities, similar to that of dopamine-inhibited neurons. Inhibition of pacemaker-activity by dopamine is typical for SN DA neurons, and it can undergo prominent desensitization. We show for adult mice, that the number of SN DA neurons with desensitized dopamine-inhibition was increased (~60–100%) by a knockout of NCS-1, or by prevention of NCS-1 binding to D2-autoreceptors, while time-course and degrees of desensitization were not altered. The number of neurons with desensitized D2-responses was also higher (~65%) at high glucose-levels (25 mM), compared to lower glucose (2.5 mM), while again desensitization-kinetics were unaltered. However, spontaneous firing-rates were significantly higher at high glucose-levels (~20%). Moreover, transient glucose-deprivation (1 mM) induced a fast and fully-reversible pacemaker frequency reduction. To directly address and quantify glucose-sensing properties of SN DA neurons, we continuously monitored their electrical activity, while altering extracellular glucose concentrations stepwise from 0.5 mM up to 25 mM. SN DA neurons were excited by glucose, with EC50 values ranging from 0.35 to 2.3 mM. In conclusion, we identified a novel, common subtype of dopamine-excited SN neurons, and a complex, joint regulation of dopamine-inhibited neurons by dopamine and glucose, within the range of physiological brain glucose-levels.
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- Nadja Mannal
- Institute of Applied Physiology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Physiology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Physiology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.,Linacre and New College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Luo S, Ezrokhi M, Cominos N, Tsai TH, Stoelzel CR, Trubitsyna Y, Cincotta AH. Experimental dopaminergic neuron lesion at the area of the biological clock pacemaker, suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) induces metabolic syndrome in rats. Diabetol Metab Syndr 2021; 13:11. [PMID: 33485386 PMCID: PMC7825247 DOI: 10.1186/s13098-021-00630-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2020] [Accepted: 01/13/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The daily peak in dopaminergic neuronal activity at the area of the biological clock (hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nuclei [SCN]) is diminished in obese/insulin resistant vs lean/insulin sensitive animals. The impact of targeted lesioning of dopamine (DA) neurons specifically at the area surrounding (and that communicate with) the SCN (but not within the SCN itself) upon glucose metabolism, adipose and liver lipid gene expression, and cardiovascular biology in normal laboratory animals has not been investigated and was the focus of this study. METHODS Female Sprague-Dawley rats received either DA neuron neurotoxic lesion by bilateral intra-cannula injection of 6-hydroxydopamine (2-4 μg/side) or vehicle treatment at the area surrounding the SCN at 20 min post protriptyline ip injection (20 mg/kg) to protect against damage to noradrenergic and serotonergic neurons. RESULTS At 16 weeks post-lesion relative to vehicle treatment, peri-SCN area DA neuron lesioning increased weight gain (34.8%, P < 0.005), parametrial and retroperitoneal fat weight (45% and 90% respectively, P < 0.05), fasting plasma insulin, leptin and norepinephrine levels (180%, 71%, and 40% respectively, P < 0.05), glucose tolerance test area under the curve (AUC) insulin (112.5%, P < 0.05), and insulin resistance (44%-Matsuda Index, P < 0.05) without altering food consumption during the test period. Such lesion also induced the expression of several lipid synthesis genes in adipose and liver and the adipose lipolytic gene, hormone sensitive lipase in adipose (P < 0.05 for all). Liver monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (a proinflammatory protein associated with metabolic syndrome) gene expression was also significantly elevated in peri-SCN area dopaminergic lesioned rats. Peri-SCN area dopaminergic neuron lesioned rats were also hypertensive (systolic BP rose from 157 ± 5 to 175 ± 5 mmHg, P < 0.01; diastolic BP rose from 109 ± 4 to 120 ± 3 mmHg, P < 0.05 and heart rate increase from 368 ± 12 to 406 ± 12 BPM, P < 0.05) and had elevated plasma norepinephrine levels (40% increased, P < 0.05) relative to controls. CONCLUSIONS These findings indicate that reduced dopaminergic neuronal activity in neurons at the area of and communicating with the SCN contributes significantly to increased sympathetic tone and the development of metabolic syndrome, without effect on feeding.
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- Shuqin Luo
- VeroScience LLC, 1334 Main Road, Tiverton, RI, 02878, USA
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Siebner TH, Fugl Madelung C, Bendtsen F, Løkkegaard A, Hove JD, Siebner HR. Postprandial Increase in Mesenteric Blood Flow is Attenuated in Parkinson's Disease: A Dynamic PC-MRI Study. JOURNAL OF PARKINSONS DISEASE 2021; 11:545-557. [PMID: 33427695 PMCID: PMC8150484 DOI: 10.3233/jpd-202341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Background: Gastrointestinal dysfunction and related clinical symptoms are common in Parkinson’s disease (PD), but the underlying mechanisms are still poorly understood. Objective: In this study, we investigated how PD affects the postprandial vascular response in the splanchnic circulation. Methods: 23 patients with PD in the “ON-medication” state and 23 age- and sex-matched healthy control participants underwent serial phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (PC-MRI) to measure the postprandial blood flow response in the superior mesenteric artery (SMA). Participants ingested a standardized liquid test meal (∼400 kcal) and underwent four PC-MRI runs within the following hour. Each PC-MRI run consisted of six consecutive measurements of SMA blood flow. Results: In both groups, standardized food intake triggered an increase of blood flow in the SMA, but absolute and relative increases in blood flow were attenuated in patients compared to the control group (p < 0.001). While baseline blood flow in the SMA was comparable in both groups, the postprandial maximum blood flow was attenuated in patients (p = 0.03). The temporal dynamics of the postprandial blood flow did not differ between groups. Postprandial SMA blood flow increase in patients correlated neither with subjective reports of non-motor symptoms or upper gastrointestinal complaints, nor with levodopa equivalent daily dose or disease duration. Blood glucose measurements in between the PC-MRI runs showed a smaller postprandial increase in blood glucose in the patient group (p = 0.006). Conclusion: This study provides first-time evidence that patients with PD have an attenuated postprandial blood flow response in the SMA, indicating an impaired functional regulation of gastrointestinal perfusion in response to food intake in PD.
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- Thomas Hartwig Siebner
- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark.,Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark.,Department of Neurology, Copenhagen University Hospital Bispebjerg, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Gastrounit, Medical Division, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Neurology, Copenhagen University Hospital Bispebjerg, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark.,Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark.,Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Neurology, Copenhagen University Hospital Bispebjerg, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Yu J, Liao X, Zhong Y, Wu Y, Lai X, Jiao H, Yan M, Zhang Y, Ma C, Wang S. The Candidate Schizophrenia Risk Gene Tmem108 Regulates Glucose Metabolism Homeostasis. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2021; 12:770145. [PMID: 34690937 PMCID: PMC8531597 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2021.770145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2021] [Accepted: 09/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a severe psychiatric disease affected by genetic factors and environmental contributors, and premorbid abnormality of glucose metabolism is one of the SCZ characteristics supposed to contribute to the disease's pathological process. Transmembrane protein 108 (Tmem108) is a susceptible gene associated with multiple psychiatric diseases, including SCZ. Moreover, Tmem108 mutant mice exhibit SCZ-like behaviors in the measurement of sensorimotor gating. However, it is unknown whether Tmem108 regulates glucose metabolism homeostasis while it involves SCZ pathophysiological process. RESULTS In this research, we found that Tmem108 mutant mice exhibited glucose intolerance, insulin resistance, and disturbed metabolic homeostasis. Food and oxygen consumption decreased, and urine production increased, accompanied by weak fatigue resistance in the mutant mice. Simultaneously, the glucose metabolic pathway was enhanced, and lipid metabolism decreased in the mutant mice, consistent with the elevated respiratory exchange ratio (RER). Furthermore, metformin attenuated plasma glucose levels and improved sensorimotor gating in Tmem108 mutant mice. CONCLUSIONS Hyperglycemia occurs more often in SCZ patients than in control, implying that these two diseases share common biological mechanisms, here we demonstrate that the Tmem108 mutant may represent such a comorbid mechanism.
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- Jianbo Yu
- Laboratory of Synaptic Development and Plasticity, Institute of Life Science & School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Laboratory of Synaptic Development and Plasticity, Institute of Life Science & School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Laboratory of Synaptic Development and Plasticity, Institute of Life Science & School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
- Department of Biology, Senior Middle School of Yongfeng, Ji’an, China
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- Laboratory of Synaptic Development and Plasticity, Institute of Life Science & School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Laboratory of Synaptic Development and Plasticity, Institute of Life Science & School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Laboratory of Synaptic Development and Plasticity, Institute of Life Science & School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Laboratory of Synaptic Development and Plasticity, Institute of Life Science & School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
- *Correspondence: Chaolin Ma, ; Shunqi Wang,
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- Laboratory of Synaptic Development and Plasticity, Institute of Life Science & School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
- *Correspondence: Chaolin Ma, ; Shunqi Wang,
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Diabetes in late-life schizophrenia: Prevalence, factors, and association with clinical symptoms. J Psychiatr Res 2021; 132:44-49. [PMID: 33038565 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.09.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2020] [Revised: 08/25/2020] [Accepted: 09/26/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The prevalence of diabetes mellitus has been found to be higher in patients with schizophrenia. Older patients are the fastest-growing segment of the schizophrenia population. However, few studies have explored diabetes in older patients with schizophrenia. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the prevalence and characteristics of factors associated with diabetes in Chinese patients with late-life schizophrenia (LLS), which has not been reported in previous studies. METHODS A total of 289 inpatients aged 60 or above who met the DSM-IV criteria for schizophrenia were recruited. The severity of psychopathology was assessed by the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS). Diabetes was diagnosed by fasting blood glucose tests, or oral glucose tolerance tests. RESULTS The overall prevalence of diabetes in LLS patients was 25.3%. The prevalence of diabetes in female patients was significantly higher than that in male patients (35% vs. 21.53%). Other factors associated with diabetes included higher BMI, greater waistline (only for males), higher levels of triglyceride, and more severe positive symptoms. CONCLUSION These results indicate that the prevalence of diabetes in LLS patients is similar to that in the age-matched general population. Female gender, excess weight and abdominal obesity, dyslipidemia, and clinical symptoms can be potential risk factors of diabetes in the LLS patient group.
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Hartstra AV, Schüppel V, Imangaliyev S, Schrantee A, Prodan A, Collard D, Levin E, Dallinga-Thie G, Ackermans MT, Winkelmeijer M, Havik SR, Metwaly A, Lagkouvardos I, Nier A, Bergheim I, Heikenwalder M, Dunkel A, Nederveen AJ, Liebisch G, Mancano G, Claus SP, Benítez-Páez A, la Fleur SE, Bergman JJ, Gerdes V, Sanz Y, Booij J, Kemper E, Groen AK, Serlie MJ, Haller D, Nieuwdorp M. Infusion of donor feces affects the gut-brain axis in humans with metabolic syndrome. Mol Metab 2020; 42:101076. [PMID: 32916306 PMCID: PMC7536740 DOI: 10.1016/j.molmet.2020.101076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2020] [Revised: 08/31/2020] [Accepted: 09/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Increasing evidence indicates that intestinal microbiota play a role in diverse metabolic processes via intestinal butyrate production. Human bariatric surgery data suggest that the gut-brain axis is also involved in this process, but the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. METHODS We compared the effect of fecal microbiota transfer (FMT) from post-Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) donors vs oral butyrate supplementation on (123I-FP-CIT-determined) brain dopamine transporter (DAT) and serotonin transporter (SERT) binding as well as stable isotope-determined insulin sensitivity at baseline and after 4 weeks in 24 male and female treatment-naïve metabolic syndrome subjects. Plasma metabolites and fecal microbiota were also determined at these time points. RESULTS We observed an increase in brain DAT after donor FMT compared to oral butyrate that reduced this binding. However, no effect on body weight and insulin sensitivity was demonstrated after post-RYGB donor feces transfer in humans with metabolic syndrome. Increases in fecal levels of Bacteroides uniformis were significantly associated with an increase in DAT, whereas increases in Prevotella spp. showed an inverse association. Changes in the plasma metabolites glycine, betaine, methionine, and lysine (associated with the S-adenosylmethionine cycle) were also associated with altered striatal DAT expression. CONCLUSIONS Although more and larger studies are needed, our data suggest a potential gut microbiota-driven modulation of brain dopamine and serotonin transporters in human subjects with obese metabolic syndrome. These data also suggest the presence of a gut-brain axis in humans that can be modulated. NTR REGISTRATION 4488.
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- Annick V Hartstra
- Department of Internal and Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Chair of Nutrition and Immunology, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
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- Department of Internal and Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Internal and Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Internal and Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Internal and Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Internal and Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Endocrinology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Internal and Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Internal and Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Chair of Nutrition and Immunology, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
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- ZIEL-Institute for Food and Health, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences, Molecular Nutritional Science, University of Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences, Molecular Nutritional Science, University of Vienna, Austria
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- German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Chronic Inflammation and Cancer, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
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- Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology, Spanish National Research Council (IATA-CSIC), Valencia, Spain
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- Laboratory of Endocrinology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Internal and Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology, Spanish National Research Council (IATA-CSIC), Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Internal and Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Chair of Nutrition and Immunology, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany; ZIEL-Institute for Food and Health, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
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- Department of Internal and Vascular Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Goldsmith DR, Bekhbat M, Le NA, Chen X, Woolwine BJ, Li Z, Haroon E, Felger JC. Protein and gene markers of metabolic dysfunction and inflammation together associate with functional connectivity in reward and motor circuits in depression. Brain Behav Immun 2020; 88:193-202. [PMID: 32387344 PMCID: PMC7415617 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2020.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2020] [Revised: 05/04/2020] [Accepted: 05/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Bidirectional relationships between inflammation and metabolic dysfunction may contribute to the pathophysiology of psychiatric illnesses like depression. Metabolic disturbances drive inflammation, which in turn exacerbate metabolic outcomes including insulin resistance. Both inflammatory (e.g. endotoxin, vaccination) and metabolic challenges (e.g. glucose ingestion) have been shown to affect activity and functional connectivity (FC) in brain regions that subserve reward and motor processing. We previously reported relationships between elevated concentrations of endogenous inflammatory markers including C-reactive protein (CRP) and low corticostriatal FC, which correlated with symptoms of anhedonia and motor slowing in major depression (MD). Herein, we examined whether similar relationships were observed between plasma markers related to glucose metabolism (non-fasting concentrations of glucose, insulin, leptin, adiponectin and resistin) in 42 medically-stable, unmedicated MD outpatients who underwent fMRI. A targeted, hypothesis-driven approach was used to assess FC between seeds in subdivisions of the ventral and dorsal striatum and a region in ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VS-vmPFC), which was previously found to correlate with both inflammation and symptoms of anhedonia and motor slowing. Associations between FC and gene expression signatures were also explored. A composite score of all 5 glucose-related markers (with increasing values reflecting higher concentrations) was negatively correlated with both ventral striatum (VS)-vmPFC (r = -0.33, p < 0.05) and dorsal caudal putamen (dcP)-vmPFC (r = -0.51, p < 0.01) FC, and remained significant after adjusting for covariates including body mass index (p < 0.05). Moreover, an interaction between the glucose-related composite score and CRP was observed for these relationships (F[2,33] = 4.3, p < 0.05) whereby significant correlations between the glucose-related metabolic markers and FC was found only in patients with high plasma CRP (>3 mg/L; r = -0.61 to -0.81, p < 0.05). Insulin and resistin were the individual markers most predictive of VS-vmPFC and dcP-mPFC FC, respectively, and insulin, resistin and CRP clustered together and in association with both LV-vmPFC and dcP-vmPFC in principal component analyses. Exploratory whole blood gene expression analyses also confirmed that gene probes negatively associated with FC were enriched for both inflammatory and metabolic pathways (FDR p < 0.05). These results provide preliminary evidence that inflammation and metabolic dysfunction contribute jointly to deficits in reward and motor circuits in MD. Future studies using fasting samples and longitudinal and interventional approaches are required to further elucidate the respective contributions of inflammation and metabolic dysfunction to circuits and symptoms relevant to motivation and motor activity, which may have treatment implications for patients with psychiatric illnesses like depression.
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- David R Goldsmith
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States
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- Biomarker Core Laboratory, Foundation for Atlanta Veterans Education and Research, Atlanta VAHSC, Decatur, GA 30033, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States
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- School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, China; Center for Brain Disorders and Cognitive Neuroscience, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518060, China.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States; The Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States; The Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States.
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Kong Y, Zhou H, Feng H, Zhuang J, Wen T, Zhang C, Sun B, Wang J, Guan Y. Elucidating the Relationship Between Diabetes Mellitus and Parkinson's Disease Using 18F-FP-(+)-DTBZ, a Positron-Emission Tomography Probe for Vesicular Monoamine Transporter 2. Front Neurosci 2020; 14:682. [PMID: 32760240 PMCID: PMC7372188 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2020] [Accepted: 06/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Diabetes mellitus (DM) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) have been and will continue to be two common chronic diseases globally that are difficult to diagnose during the prodromal phase. Current molecular genetics, cell biological, and epidemiological evidences have shown the correlation between PD and DM. PD shares the same pathogenesis pathways and pathological factors with DM. In addition, β-cell reduction, which can cause hyperglycemia, is a striking feature of DM. Recent studies indicated that hyperglycemia is highly relevant to the pathologic changes in PD. However, further correlation between DM and PD remains to be investigated. Intriguingly, polycystic monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2), which is co-expressed in dopaminergic neurons and β cells, is responsible for taking up dopamine into the presynaptic vesicles and can specifically bind to the β cells. Furthermore, we have summarized the specific molecular and diagnostic functions of VMAT2 for the two diseases reported in this review. Therefore, VMAT2 can be applied as a target probe for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging to detect β-cell and dopamine level changes, which can contribute to the diagnosis of DM and PD during the prodromal phase. Targeting VMAT2 with the molecular probe 18F-FP-(+)-DTBZ can be an entry point for the β cell mass (BCM) changes in DM at the molecular level, to clarify the potential relationship between DM and PD. VMAT2 has promising clinical significance in investigating the pathogenesis, early diagnosis, and treatment evaluation of the two diseases.
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- Yanyan Kong
- PET Center, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Laboratory of Molecular Neural Biology, School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
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- Laboratory of Molecular Neural Biology, School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
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- Laboratory of Molecular Neural Biology, School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
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- Laboratory of Molecular Neural Biology, School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Laboratory of Molecular Neural Biology, School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
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- PET Center, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Stoelzel CR, Zhang Y, Cincotta AH. Circadian-timed dopamine agonist treatment reverses high-fat diet-induced diabetogenic shift in ventromedial hypothalamic glucose sensing. Endocrinol Diabetes Metab 2020; 3:e00139. [PMID: 32704560 PMCID: PMC7375120 DOI: 10.1002/edm2.139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2020] [Accepted: 03/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Within the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH), glucose inhibitory (GI) neurons sense hypoglycaemia while glucose excitatory (GE) neurons sense hyperglycaemia to initiate counter control mechanisms under normal conditions. However, potential electrophysiological alterations of these two neuronal types in vivo in insulin-resistant states have never been simultaneously fully documented. Further, the anti-diabetic effect of dopamine agonism on this VMH system under insulin resistance has not been studied. METHODS This study examined the impact of a high-fat diet (HFD) on in vivo electrophysiological recordings from VMH GE and GI neurons and the ability of circadian-timed dopamine agonist therapy to reverse any adverse effect of the HFD on such VMH activities and peripheral glucose metabolism. RESULTS HFD significantly inhibited VMH GE neuronal electrophysiological response to local hyperglycaemia (36.3%) and augmented GI neuronal excitation response to local hypoglycaemia (47.0%). Bromocriptine (dopamine agonist) administration at onset of daily activity (but not during the daily sleep phase) completely reversed both VMH GE and GI neuronal aberrations induced by HFD. Such timed treatment also normalized glucose intolerance and insulin resistance. These VMH and peripheral glucose metabolism effects of circadian-timed bromocriptine may involve its known effect to reduce elevated VMH noradrenergic activity in insulin-resistant states as local VMH administration of norepinephrine was observed to significantly inhibit VMH GE neuronal sensing of local hyperglycaemia in insulin-sensitive animals on regular chow diet (52.4%). CONCLUSIONS HFD alters VMH glucose sensing in a manner that potentiates hyperglycaemia and this effect on the VMH can be reversed by appropriately circadian-timed dopamine agonist administration.
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Bralten J, Widomska J, Witte WD, Yu D, Mathews CA, Scharf JM, Buitelaar J, Crosbie J, Schachar R, Arnold P, Lemire M, Burton CL, Franke B, Poelmans G. Shared genetic etiology between obsessive-compulsive disorder, obsessive-compulsive symptoms in the population, and insulin signaling. Transl Psychiatry 2020; 10:121. [PMID: 32341337 PMCID: PMC7186226 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-020-0793-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2019] [Revised: 03/11/2020] [Accepted: 03/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS) in the population have been linked to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in genetic and epidemiological studies. Insulin signaling has been implicated in OCD. We extend previous work by assessing genetic overlap between OCD, population-based OCS, and central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral insulin signaling. We conducted genome-wide association studies (GWASs) in the population-based Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort (PNC, 650 children and adolescents) of the total OCS score and six OCS factors from an exploratory factor analysis of 22 questions. Subsequently, we performed polygenic risk score (PRS)-based analysis to assess shared genetic etiologies between clinical OCD (using GWAS data from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium), the total OCS score and OCS factors. We then performed gene-set analyses with a set of OCD-linked genes centered around CNS insulin-regulated synaptic function and PRS-based analyses for five peripheral insulin signaling-related traits. For validation purposes, we explored data from the independent Spit for Science population cohort (5,047 children and adolescents). In the PNC, we found a significant shared genetic etiology between OCD and 'guilty taboo thoughts'. In the Spit for Science cohort, we additionally observed genetic sharing between 'symmetry/counting/ordering' and 'contamination/cleaning'. The CNS insulin-linked gene-set also associated with 'symmetry/counting/ordering' in the PNC. Further, we identified genetic sharing between peripheral insulin signaling-related traits: type 2 diabetes with 'aggressive taboo thoughts', and levels of fasting insulin and 2 h glucose with OCD. In conclusion, OCD, OCS in the population and insulin-related traits share genetic risk factors, indicating a common etiological mechanism underlying somatic and psychiatric disorders.
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- Janita Bralten
- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Karakter Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Neurosciences & Mental Health Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Neurosciences & Mental Health Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Genetics & Genome Biology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Departments of Psychiatry & Medical Genetics; Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Neurosciences & Mental Health Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Neurosciences & Mental Health Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Dalenberg JR, Patel BP, Denis R, Veldhuizen MG, Nakamura Y, Vinke PC, Luquet S, Small DM. Short-Term Consumption of Sucralose with, but Not without, Carbohydrate Impairs Neural and Metabolic Sensitivity to Sugar in Humans. Cell Metab 2020; 31:493-502.e7. [PMID: 32130881 PMCID: PMC7784207 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2020.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2019] [Revised: 11/07/2019] [Accepted: 01/28/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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There is a general consensus that overconsumption of sugar-sweetened beverages contributes to the prevalence of obesity and related comorbidities such as type 2 diabetes (T2D). Whether a similar relationship exists for no- or low-calorie "diet" drinks is a subject of intensive debate and controversy. Here, we demonstrate that consuming seven sucralose-sweetened beverages with, but not without, a carbohydrate over 10 days decreases insulin sensitivity in healthy human participants, an effect that correlates with reductions in midbrain, insular, and cingulate responses to sweet, but not sour, salty, or savory, taste as assessed with fMRI. Taste perception was unaltered and consuming the carbohydrate alone had no effect. These findings indicate that consumption of sucralose in the presence of a carbohydrate rapidly impairs glucose metabolism and results in longer-term decreases in brain, but not perceptual sensitivity to sweet taste, suggesting dysregulation of gut-brain control of glucose metabolism.
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- Jelle R Dalenberg
- Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center (MDPRC), Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; Department of Neurology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center (MDPRC), Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; Division of Endocrinology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Unite de Biologie Fonctionnelle et Adaptative, Centre National la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 8251, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75205 Paris, France
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- Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center (MDPRC), Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center (MDPRC), Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; The UTokyo Center for Integrative Science of Human Behavior, Tokyo, Japan
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- Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center (MDPRC), Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; Department of Neuroendocrinology, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Unite de Biologie Fonctionnelle et Adaptative, Centre National la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 8251, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75205 Paris, France
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- Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center (MDPRC), Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen, Otfried Müller Strasse 47, Tübingen 72076, Germany.
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Lietzau G, Magni G, Kehr J, Yoshitake T, Candeias E, Duarte AI, Pettersson H, Skogsberg J, Abbracchio MP, Klein T, Nyström T, Ceruti S, Darsalia V, Patrone C. Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors and sulfonylureas prevent the progressive impairment of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system induced by diabetes during aging. Neurobiol Aging 2020; 89:12-23. [PMID: 32143981 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2020.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2019] [Revised: 01/07/2020] [Accepted: 01/10/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The nigrostriatal dopaminergic system (NDS) controls motor activity, and its impairment during type 2 diabetes (T2D) progression could increase Parkinson's disease risk in diabetics. If so, whether glycemia regulation prevents this impairment needs to be addressed. We investigated whether T2D impairs the NDS and whether dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibition (DPP-4i; a clinical strategy against T2D but also neuroprotective in animal models) prevents this effect, in middle-aged mice. Neither T2D (induced by 12 months of high-fat diet) nor aging (14 months) changed striatal dopamine content assessed by high-performance liquid chromatography. However, T2D reduced basal and amphetamine-stimulated striatal extracellular dopamine, assessed by microdialysis. Both the DPP-4i linagliptin and the sulfonylurea glimepiride (an antidiabetic comparator unrelated to DPP-4i) counteracted these effects. The functional T2D-induced effects did not correlate with NDS neuronal/glial alterations. However, aging itself affected striatal neurons/glia, and the glia effects were counteracted mainly by DPP-4i. These findings show NDS functional pathophysiology in T2D and suggest the preventive use of two unrelated anti-T2D drugs. Moreover, DPP-4i counteracted striatal age-related glial alterations suggesting striatal rejuvenation properties.
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- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Internal Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Pronexus Analytical AB, Bromma, Sweden; Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Internal Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co KG, Biberach, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Internal Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Internal Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Internal Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Subramaniam M, Abdin E, Vaingankar J, Shafie S, Chang S, Seow E, Chua BY, Jeyagurunathan A, Heng D, Kwok KW, Chong SA. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Singapore: Prevalence, Comorbidity, Quality of Life and Social Support. ANNALS OF THE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, SINGAPORE 2020. [DOI: 10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.2019185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Introduction: Using data from Singapore Mental Health Study 2016 (SMHS 2016), we
examined the prevalence of lifetime and 12-month obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD),its sociodemographics correlates and association with comorbid psychiatric disorders and physical conditions, perceived social support and quality of life. Materials and Methods: The World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview (version 3.0) was administered by trained interviewers to 6126 residents aged ≥18 years old to assess OCD prevalence and that of other select psychiatric disorders. Details on sociodemographics, perceived social support and health-related quality of life were obtained. Results: Lifetimeand 12-month prevalence of OCD was 3.6% and 2.9%, respectively. Adjusted regression analysis showed that those with OCD had significantly higher odds of major depressive disorder (odds ratio [OR], 5.4), bipolar disorder (OR, 8.9), generalised anxiety disorder (OR, 7.3) and alcohol abuse (OR, 2.7). OCD was significantly associated with suicidal ideation and suicidality (OR, 5.1). OCD subjects also had higher odds of chronic pain (OR, 2.4) and diabetes (OR, 3.1). Finally, OCD subjects had lower mean mental composite summary scores than controls (respondents without any of the psychiatric disorders and physical conditions included in SMHS 2016) and those with other lifetime psychiatric disorders and physical conditions. Conclusion: OCD prevalence in Singapore is high. Most people with OCD do not seek treatment despite experiencing significant comorbidity and loss of quality of life.
Key words: Composite International Diagnostic Interview, Epidemiology, Multi-ethnic,
Psychiatric disorder, Survey
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- Mythily Subramaniam
- Institute of Mental Health, Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Exercise-Induced Adaptations to the Mouse Striatal Adenosine System. Neural Plast 2020; 2020:5859098. [PMID: 32399024 PMCID: PMC7204111 DOI: 10.1155/2020/5859098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2019] [Revised: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 12/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Adenosine acts as a key regulator of striatum activity, in part, through the antagonistic modulation of dopamine activity. Exercise can increase adenosine activity in the brain, which may impair dopaminergic functions in the striatum. Therefore, long-term repeated bouts of exercise may subsequently generate plasticity in striatal adenosine systems in a manner that promotes dopaminergic activity. This study investigated the effects of long-term voluntary wheel running on adenosine 1 (A1R), adenosine 2A (A2AR), dopamine 1 (D1R), and dopamine 2 (D2R) receptor protein expression in adult mouse dorsal and ventral striatum structures using immunohistochemistry. In addition, equilibrative nucleoside transporter 1 (ENT1) protein expression was examined after wheel running, as ENT1 regulates the bidirectional flux of adenosine between intra- and extracellular space. The results suggest that eight weeks of running wheel access spared age-related increases of A1R and A2AR protein concentrations across the dorsal and ventral striatal structures. Wheel running mildly reduced ENT1 protein levels in ventral striatum subregions. Moreover, wheel running mildly increased D2R protein density within striatal subregions in the dorsal medial striatum, nucleus accumbens core, and the nucleus accumbens shell. However, D1R protein expression in the striatum was unchanged by wheel running. These data suggest that exercise promotes adaptations to striatal adenosine systems. Exercise-reduced A1R and A2AR and exercise-increased D2R protein levels may contribute to improved dopaminergic signaling in the striatum. These findings may have implications for cognitive and behavioral processes, as well as motor and psychiatric diseases that involve the striatum.
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Across the world there is an increasingly heavy burden of noncommunicable diseases related to obesity, mental health, and atopic disease. In a previous publication, we followed the developing idea that that these conditions arise as our microbiome loses diversity, but there seems to be no generally applicable way to assess the significance of this loss. Our work revisited the findings of the African studies by Denis Burkitt who reported that the frequency of what he called Western diseases were inversely proportional to the average faecal volumes of affected populations. Although he ascribed this to fibre in the diet, it now seems more likely that the drop in faecal volume with the onset of disease is due to the loss of a fully functioning microbiome. We suggested that the microbiome could be considered to be a single mutualistic microbial community interacting with our body by two complementary sets of semiochemicals, i.e., allomones to feed the microbiota by facilitating the efficient transfer of nutrition through the gut and kairomones to calibrate our immune system by an as yet unknown mechanism. The bioactive compounds, dopamine and serotonin, are known to be present in the gut lumen under the influence of intestinal microbiota and we suggest that these are part of this allomone-like system. In light of this possibility, it is of critical importance to develop a method of quantifying the microbiome effectiveness. Ingestible sensors consist of a miniaturized detector and transmitter packed into a capsule that is swallowed and tracked through the intestine. The aim of this article is to explore the possible development of such ingestible detectors for these or other compounds that can act as a surrogate marker for microbiome effectiveness. We consider that the ability to provide real-time quantitative information on the interaction of the microbiome with different nutrients promises to be a valuable new tool to unravel the mystery of these noncommunicable illnesses, i.e., microbiome-function deficiency diseases.
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Chamarthi B, Vinik A, Ezrokhi M, Cincotta AH. Circadian-timed quick-release bromocriptine lowers elevated resting heart rate in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Endocrinol Diabetes Metab 2020; 3:e00101. [PMID: 31922028 PMCID: PMC6947713 DOI: 10.1002/edm2.101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2019] [Revised: 09/09/2019] [Accepted: 10/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Sympathetic nervous system (SNS) overactivity is a risk factor for insulin resistance and cardiovascular disease (CVD). We evaluated the impact of bromocriptine-QR, a dopamine-agonist antidiabetes medication, on elevated resting heart rate (RHR) (a marker of SNS overactivity in metabolic syndrome), blood pressure (BP) and the relationship between bromocriptine-QR's effects on RHR and HbA1c in type 2 diabetes subjects. DESIGN AND SUBJECTS RHR and BP changes were evaluated in this post hoc analysis of data from a randomized controlled trial in 1014 type 2 diabetes subjects randomized to bromocriptine-QR vs placebo added to standard therapy (diet ± ≤2 oral antidiabetes medications) for 24 weeks without concomitant antihypertensive or antidiabetes medication changes, stratified by baseline RHR (bRHR). RESULTS In subjects with bRHR ≥70 beats/min, bromocriptine-QR vs placebo reduced RHR by -3.4 beats/min and reduced BP (baseline 130/79; systolic, diastolic, mean arterial BP reductions [mm Hg]: -3.6 [P = .02], -1.9 [P = .05], -2.5 [P = .02]). RHR reductions increased with higher baseline HbA1c (bHbA1c) (-2.7 [P = .03], -5 [P = .002], -6.1 [P = .002] with bHbA1c ≤7, >7, ≥7.5%, respectively] in the bRHR ≥70 group and more so with bRHR ≥80 (-4.5 [P = .07], -7.8 [P = .015], -9.9 [P = .005]). Subjects with bRHR <70 had no significant change in RHR or BP. With bHbA1c ≥7.5%, %HbA1c reductions with bromocriptine-QR vs placebo were -0.50 (P = .04), -0.73 (P = .005) and -1.22 (P = .008) with bRHR <70, ≥70 and ≥80, respectively. With bRHR ≥70, the magnitude of bromocriptine-QR-induced RHR reduction was an independent predictor of bromocriptine-QR's HbA1c lowering effect. CONCLUSION Bromocriptine-QR lowers elevated RHR with concurrent decrease in BP and hyperglycaemia. These findings suggest a potential sympatholytic mechanism contributing to bromocriptine-QR's antidiabetes effect and potentially its previously demonstrated effect to reduce CVD events.
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- Eastern Virginia Medical School Strelitz Diabetes CenterNorfolkVirginia
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Mansur RB, Subramaniapillai M, Zuckerman H, Park C, Iacobucci M, Lee Y, Tuineag M, Hawco C, Frey BN, Rasgon N, Brietzke E, McIntyre RS. Effort-based decision-making is affected by overweight/obesity in major depressive disorder. J Affect Disord 2019; 256:221-227. [PMID: 31181378 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2019.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2019] [Revised: 04/09/2019] [Accepted: 06/02/2019] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND Anhedonia and abnormalities in reward behavior are core features of major depressive disorder (MDD). Convergent evidence indicates that overweight/obesity (OW), a highly prevalent condition in MDD, is independently associated with reward disturbances. We therefore aimed to investigate the moderating effect of OW on the willingness to expend efforts for reward in individuals with MDD and healthy controls (HC). METHODS Forty-one adults (HC n = 20, MDD n = 21) completed the Effort Expenditure for Rewards Task (EEfRT), clinical and cognitive measures. Anthropometric parameters were assessed in all participants, and an additional evaluation of laboratorial parameters were conducted solely on those with MDD. Individuals with MDD were all on vortioxetine monotherapy (10-20 mg/day). RESULTS Interactions between reward magnitude, group and OW were observed (χ2 = 9.192, p = 0.010); the OW-MDD group chose the hard task significantly less than normal weight (NW)-HC (p = 0.033) and OW-HC (p = 0.034), whereas there were no differences between NW-MDD and HCs. Within individuals with MDD, the proportion of hard task choices was more strongly correlated with body mass index (BMI) (r = -0.456, p = 0.043) and insulin resistance (HOMA2-IR) (r = -0.467, p = 0.038), than with depressive symptoms (r = 0.290, p = 0.214). CONCLUSIONS OW significantly moderated the association between MDD and willingness to make efforts for rewards. These findings offer novel evidence on the potential role of metabolic factors on the basis of anhedonia, and for the heuristic models proposing a pathophysiological connection between mood and metabolic disorders.
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- Rodrigo B Mansur
- Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, M5T 2S8, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T 2S8, Canada.
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- Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, M5T 2S8, Canada
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- Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, M5T 2S8, Canada
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- Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, M5T 2S8, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T 2S8, Canada
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- Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, M5T 2S8, Canada
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- Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, M5T 2S8, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T 2S8, Canada
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- Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, M5T 2S8, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T 2S8, Canada; Campbell Family Mental Health Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 250 College St., Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Ontario, Canada
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- Center for Neuroscience in Women's Health, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
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- Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, M5T 2S8, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 7X3, Canada; Research Group in Molecular and Behavioral Neurosciences of Mood Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 04038-000, Brazil
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- Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, M5T 2S8, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5T 2S8, Canada; Research Group in Molecular and Behavioral Neurosciences of Mood Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 04038-000, Brazil; Brain and Cognition Discovery Foundation, Mississauga, ON L5C 4E, Canada
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