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Diet composition, not calorie intake, rapidly alters intrinsic excitability of hypothalamic AgRP/NPY neurons in mice
- Source :
- Scientific Reports
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015.
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Abstract
- Obesity is a chronic condition resulting from a long-term pattern of poor diet and lifestyle. Long-term consumption of high-fat diet (HFD) leads to persistent activation and leptin resistance in AgRP neurons in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (ARH). Here, for the first time, we demonstrate acute effects of HFD on AgRP neuronal excitability and highlight a critical role for diet composition. In parallel with our earlier finding in obese, long-term HFD mice, we found that even brief HFD feeding results in persistent activation of ARH AgRP neurons. However, unlike long-term HFD-fed mice, AgRP neurons from short-term HFD-fed mice were still leptin-sensitive, indicating that the development of leptin-insensitivity is not a prerequisite for the increased firing rate of AgRP neurons. To distinguish between diet composition, caloric intake and body weight, we compared acute and long-term effects of HFD and CD in pair-fed mice on AgRP neuronal spiking. HFD consumption in pair-fed mice resulted in a significant increase in AgRP neuronal spiking despite controls for weight gain and caloric intake. Taken together, our results suggest that diet composition may be more important than either calorie intake or body weight for electrically remodeling arcuate AgRP/NPY neurons.
- Subjects :
- Leptin
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Action Potentials
Mice, Obese
Mice, Transgenic
Biology
Diet, High-Fat
Article
Mice
Arcuate nucleus
Internal medicine
medicine
Animals
Agouti-Related Protein
Neuropeptide Y
Neurons
2. Zero hunger
Multidisciplinary
digestive, oral, and skin physiology
Arcuate Nucleus of Hypothalamus
food and beverages
Neuropeptide Y receptor
medicine.disease
Dietary Fats
Obesity
Calorie intake
Mice, Inbred C57BL
Endocrinology
Gene Expression Regulation
nervous system
Hypothalamus
Signal transduction
medicine.symptom
Energy Intake
Weight gain
hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists
Signal Transduction
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20452322
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scientific Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d3bc3f1655926e7d0e48a46dc480465b