Differential effects of a centrally acting fatty acid synthase inhibitor in lean and obese mice
AUTOR(ES)
Kumar, Monica V.
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
C75 is a potent inhibitor of fatty acid synthase that acts centrally to reduce food intake and body weight in mice; a single dose causes a rapid (>90%) decrease of food intake. These effects are associated with inhibition of fasting-induced up-regulation and down-regulation, respectively, of the expression of orexigenic (NPY and AgRP) and anorexigenic (POMC and CART) neuropeptide messages in the hypothalamus. Repeated administration of C75 at a submaximal level, however, differentially affected food intake of lean and obese mice. With lean mice, C75 suppressed food intake by ≈50% and, with obese mice (ob/ob and dietary-induced obesity), by 85–95% during the first day of treatment. Lean mice, however, became tolerant/resistant to C75 over the next 2–5 days of treatment, with food intake returning to near normal and rebound hyperphagia occurring on cessation of treatment. In contrast, ob/ob obese mice responded to C75 with a >90% suppression of food intake throughout the same period with incipient tolerance becoming evident only after substantial weight loss had occurred. Dietary-induced obese mice exhibited intermediate behavior. In all cases, a substantial loss of body weight resulted. Pair-fed controls lost 24–50% less body weight than C75-treated mice, indicating that, in addition to suppressing food intake, C75 may increase energy expenditure. The decrease in body weight by ob/ob mice was due primarily to loss of body fat. In contrast to the short-term effects of C75 on “fasting-induced” changes of hypothalamic orexigenic and anorexigenic neuropeptide mRNAs, repeated administration of C75 either had the inverse or no effect as tolerance developed.
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