Abstract
Glucocorticoids are potent and widely used medicines but often cause metabolic side effects. A murine model of corticosterone treatment resulted in increased hypothalamic expression of the melanocortin antagonist AgRP in parallel with obesity and hyperglycemia. We investigated how these adverse effects develop over time, with particular emphasis on hypothalamic involvement. Wild-type and Agrp-/- male mice were treated with corticosterone for 3 weeks. Phenotypic, biochemical, protein, and mRNA analyses were undertaken on central and peripheral tissues, including white and brown adipose tissue, liver, and muscle, to determine the metabolic consequences. Corticosterone treatment induced hyperphagia within 1 day in wild-type mice, which persisted for 3 weeks. Despite this early increase in food intake, the body weight only started to increase after 10 days. Hyperinsulinemia occurred at day 1. Also, although after 2 days, alterations were present in the genes often associated with insulin resistance in several peripheral tissues, hyperglycemia only developed at 3 weeks. Throughout, sustained elevation in hypothalamic Agrp expression was present. Mice with Agrp deleted [using clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats ...Continue Reading
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