Impact of obesity on the growth hormone axis: evidence for a direct inhibitory effect of hyperinsulinemia on pituitary function

Endocrinology
Raul M Luque, Rhonda D Kineman

Abstract

There is a negative relationship between obesity and GH. However, it is not known how metabolic changes, associated with obesity, lead to a reduction in GH output. This study examined the GH axis of two mouse models of obesity, the leptin-deficient (ob/ob) mouse and the diet-induced obese (DIO; high-fat fed) mouse. Both models displayed hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia with reduced expression of GH as well as reduced expression of pituitary receptors important for GH synthesis and release [GHRH receptor (DIO only) and the ghrelin receptor (ob/ob and DIO)]. These pituitary changes were not accompanied by changes in hypothalamic expression of GHRH or somatostatin; suggesting that alterations in pituitary function may be precipitated in part by direct effects of systemic signals. Of the metabolic and hormonal parameters examined (insulin, glucose, corticosterone, free fatty acids, ghrelin, and IGF-I), only insulin/glucose showed a significant, and negative, correlation with pituitary expression. Pituitaries of DIO mice remained responsive to the acute in vivo actions of insulin, as assessed by phosphorylation of Akt, despite systemic (skeletal muscle and fat) insulin resistance. In addition, treating primary pituitary cell cultu...Continue Reading

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