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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1 Pt 1
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-12-3
pubmed:abstractText
A single intracerebroventricular injection of dexamethasone (DEX) rapidly (within 30 min) suppresses brown adipose tissue thermogenesis and increases plasma insulin concentrations in adrenal-ectomized (ADX) ob/ob mice but not in ADX lean mice. Intracerebroventricular neuropeptide Y (NPY) administered intracerebroventricularly causes these same metabolic changes within 30 min in both ob/ob and lean ADX mice. We therefore hypothesized that DEX exerts these rapid-onset metabolic actions in ob/ob mice via a phenotype-specific enhancement of NPY secretion within the central nervous system. In support of this hypothesis, DEX (a type II glucocorticoid receptor agonist) administered intracerebroventricularly selectively lowered NPY concentrations in the whole hypothalamus of ADX ob/ob mice by 35% and in the arcuate nucleus region by approximately 70% within 30 min but not in the brain stem or hippocampus or in any of these regions of lean mice. DEX also functioned in vitro to enhance depolarization-dependent release of NPY from hypothalamic blocks of ADX ob/ob mice but not of ADX lean mice. Thus DEX acts in the hypothalamus of ob/ob mice in a phenotype-specific manner to evoke rapid transport of NPY from cell bodies within the arcuate nucleus to terminal regions including the dorsomedial and ventromedial hypothalamic regions for release.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0002-9513
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
271
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
E151-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8760093-Adrenal Glands, pubmed-meshheading:8760093-Adrenalectomy, pubmed-meshheading:8760093-Aldosterone, pubmed-meshheading:8760093-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:8760093-Arcuate Nucleus, pubmed-meshheading:8760093-Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone, pubmed-meshheading:8760093-Dexamethasone, pubmed-meshheading:8760093-Electrophysiology, pubmed-meshheading:8760093-Hypothalamus, pubmed-meshheading:8760093-Injections, Intraventricular, pubmed-meshheading:8760093-Male, pubmed-meshheading:8760093-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:8760093-Mice, Obese, pubmed-meshheading:8760093-Neuropeptide Y, pubmed-meshheading:8760093-Obesity, pubmed-meshheading:8760093-Osmolar Concentration, pubmed-meshheading:8760093-Potassium Chloride, pubmed-meshheading:8760093-Receptors, Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone, pubmed-meshheading:8760093-Reference Values
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Dexamethasone rapidly increases hypothalamic neuropeptide Y secretion in adrenalectomized ob/ob mice.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824-1224, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't