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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-7-7
pubmed:abstractText
The anorexia (anx) mutation causes reduced food intake in preweanling mice, resulting in death from starvation within 3-4 weeks. In wild-type rodents, starvation induces increased neuropeptide Y (NPY) mRNA levels in the arcuate nucleus that promotes compensatory hyperphagia. Despite severely decreased body weight and food intake at 3-weeks age, anx/anx mice do not show elevated NPY mRNA levels in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus compared to wild-type/heterozygous littermates. The NPY mRNA levels can be upregulated in normal mice at this chronological age, because 24-h food deprivation increased arcuate NPY mRNA in wild-type littermates. The unresponsiveness of NPY expression in the arcuate of anx/anx mice was paralleled by serotonergic hyperinnervation of the arcuate nucleus, comparable to the serotonergic hyperinnervation previously reported in the rest of the anx/anx brain. This result is consistent with the hypothesis that wasting disorders are accompanied by disregulation of NPY mRNA expression in the arcuate nucleus, and suggests that reduced food intake, the primary behavioral phenotype of the anx/anx mouse, may be the result of altered hypothalamic mechanisms that normally regulate feeding.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0006-8993
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
790
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
67-73
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9593828-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:9593828-Anorexia, pubmed-meshheading:9593828-Arcuate Nucleus, pubmed-meshheading:9593828-Body Weight, pubmed-meshheading:9593828-DNA, Complementary, pubmed-meshheading:9593828-Eating, pubmed-meshheading:9593828-Failure to Thrive, pubmed-meshheading:9593828-Female, pubmed-meshheading:9593828-Food Deprivation, pubmed-meshheading:9593828-Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, pubmed-meshheading:9593828-In Situ Hybridization, pubmed-meshheading:9593828-Male, pubmed-meshheading:9593828-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:9593828-Mice, Mutant Strains, pubmed-meshheading:9593828-Nerve Fibers, pubmed-meshheading:9593828-Neuropeptide Y, pubmed-meshheading:9593828-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:9593828-Serotonin, pubmed-meshheading:9593828-Weaning
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Neuropeptide Y mRNA and serotonin innervation in the arcuate nucleus of anorexia mutant mice.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, Burke Medical Research Institute, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, White Plains, NY 10605, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.