Does obestatin modulate the hypothalamic appetite-regulating network in peripubertal sheep?

Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition
Michał SzlisAnna Wójcik-Gładysz

Abstract

The participation of peripheral peptides in the processes regulating the food intake (energy homeostasis) at the central nervous system level remains unclear. This study focuses on the role of obestatin in neuronal activity within the hypothalamic appetite-regulating network in ruminants. The animals (n = 28) were randomly divided into two groups. The sheep in the control group received intracerebroventricular infusions of the Ringer-Locke solution, and the sheep in obestatin group were infused with obestatin (diluted in the Ringer-Locke solution) at 25 μg per 120 μl/hr. The series of four 1-hr infusions on 3 consecutive days were performed, and immediately after the experiment, the sheep were decapitated. Selected brain regions were fixed in situ for further immunohistochemical analysis, while the remaining ones were frozen for real-time RT-qPCR analysis. Obestatin infusion elicited changes in the neuropeptide Y (NPY) neuronal network in the hypothalamus. The results obtained show that exogenous obestatin evoked an increase in npy and agrpmRNA expression in the mediobasal hypothalamus (MBH), while the immunoreactivity for NPY was decreased in the arcuate and periventricular nuclei. The increase in cart and pomcmRNA expression ...Continue Reading

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Apr 20, 2021·Hormones and Behavior·Bartosz Jarosław PrzybyłAnna Wójcik-Gładysz
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