Central action of CART induces neuronal activation in the paraventricular and dorsomedial hypothalamus of diet-induced obese and lean mice

Autor(es)

Romeu, Deborah de Paula ^[1] ; Ribeiro, Luciene Maria ^[1] ; Antunes, Vagner Roberto ^[1]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Biomed Sci, Dept Physiol & Biophys, 1524 Prof Lineu Prestes Ave, BR-05508900 Sao Paulo - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: Neuroscience Letters; v. 686, p. 175-180, NOV 1 2018.
• Citações Web of Science: 1

Resumo

The cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) is a peptide commonly studied in the feeding behavior, but it exerts an important role in the autonomic and cardiovascular control as well. It is known that exogenous administration of CART in the central nervous system can elicit increase in blood pressure of both conscious and anesthetized rodents, but little is known whether these central effects might differ between lean and obese animals. We have recently shown that diet-induced obese mice that developed hypertension presented an upregulation of CART levels in the dorsomedial nucleus of hypothalamus, while obese normotensive ones had not. Herein we investigate whether the central action of CART could activate differently the hypothalamic nuclei of diet-induced obese mice compared to the lean counterparts by using Fos protein expression, C57BL/6 mice were randomly assigned to two cohorts, one fed with a high-fat diet for 8 weeks (obese), and the other fed with regular rodent chow (lean). Both groups received an ICV injection of CART at the dose of 400 mu M, 1 mM or vehicle. Subsequently, the brains were processed for Fos protein immunohistochemical in order to identify hypothalamic neuronal activation. Significantly greater numbers of Fos-positive neurons were observed in the PVN and DMH of obese mice that received CART 1 mM, when compared to the lean control. These results indicate that the central action of CART induces neuronal activation in the hypothalamic nuclei of obese and lean mice, and this could be relevant to the different autonomic and cardiovascular adjustments that an organism exposed to different diet and metabolic condition. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 15/07944-0 - Estudo dos efeitos da ação central do CART nas variáveis cardiovasculares de camundongos submetidos à dieta hiperlipídica
• Beneficiário: Deborah de Paula Romeu
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Iniciação Científica
• Processo FAPESP: 16/21991-3 - Hipertensão secundária à alta ingestão de sal: estudo da sinalização purinérgica em células neuronais do hipotálamo e sua influência na atividade do sistema nervoso autônomo e pressão arterial
• Beneficiário: Vagner Roberto Antunes
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Regular
• Processo FAPESP: 13/06206-0 - Estudo da expressão gênica de neuropeptídeos e mediadores inflamatórios em núcleos do eixo hipotálamo-tronco cerebral envolvidos no controle neural da pressão arterial de animais submetidos a dieta obesogênica
• Beneficiário: Vagner Roberto Antunes
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Regular