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What are the 3 mechanisms through which thirst is regulated?

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→ body fluid osmolality
→ blood volume is reduced
→ blood pressure is reduced

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Which of the mechanisms is most potent?

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→ plasma osmolality
→ change of 2-3% induces strong desire to drink
→ decrease of 10-15% in blood volume or arterial pressure is required to produce the same

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What regulates osmolality?

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ADH (anti-diuretic hormone) or vasopressin

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What does ADH do?

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acts on kidneys to regulate volume + osmolality of urine

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Where in the kidneys does ADH act?

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collecting duct, aquaporin 2 channel

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How does low plasma ADH affect urine volume?

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large volume of urine is excreted (water diuresis)

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How does high plasma ADH affect urine volume?

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small volume of urine is excreted (anti diuresis)

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What receptors detect osmolality?

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osmoreceptors

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What are osmoreceptors?

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Sensory receptors
Osmoregulation
Found in the hypothalamus

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Where are osmoreceptors found?

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in hypothalamus:
→ Organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis (OVLT)
→ Subfornical Organ (SFO)

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How do osmorecepetors stimulate ADH release?

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→ Cells shrink when plasma more concentrated
→ Proportion of cation channels increases – membrane depolarizes
→ Send signals to the ADH producing cells to increase ADH
→ Fluid retention, Invokes drinking

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How do osmorecepetors inhibit ADH release?

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→ Cells are turgid/normal when plasma less concentrated
→ Proportion of cation channels decreases – membrane hype-polarises
→ No signals are sent to ADH producing cells, so ADH stays low

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How is the sensation of thirst satisfied?

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→ decreased by drinking even before sufficient water has been absorbed by the GI tract to correct plasma osmolality
→ Receptors in mouth, pharynx, oesophagus are involved
→ Relief of thirst sensation via these receptors is short lived.
→ Thirst is only completely satisfied once plasma osmolality is decreased or blood volume or arterial pressure corrected

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Where is ADH stored?

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posterior pituitary

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What change in BP triggers the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system?

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decrease in blood pressure

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What happens when BP decreases?

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decrease in blood pressure causes JUXTAGLOMERULAR CELLS of renal afferent arterioles to produce RENIN

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What does renin do?

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renin is an enzyme that converts:
angiotensinogen —> angiotensin I
in the liver

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What does angiotensin I do?

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gets converted into angiotensin II by ACE in the lungs

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What does angiotensin II cause?

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→ vasoconstriction, increase in sympathetic activity
→ ADH secretion
→ H2O retention via Na+CL- absorption + K+ excretion
→ causes aldosterone to be released
→ Thirst

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What else can stimulate aldosterone release?

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increased potassium, decreased sodium levels

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How is aldosterone released via angiotensin II? From where?

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→ angiotensin II binds to intraglomerular messenger cells
→ cells contract + blood vessels around them contract
→ causes aldosterone to be released form zone glomerulosa of adrenal cortex

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What does aldosterone do?

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H2O retention via Na+CL- absorption + K+ excretion

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What medications have an impact on the RAAS pathway?

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→ ace inhibitors

→ direct renin inhibitors

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Who studied body homeostasis in the 20th century?

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→ Neuman 1902 – his weight was stable for a long time despite no conscious effort to balance out intake and expenditure
→ Passmore 1971 – most individual adults maintain a relatively stable weight over long periods

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What does a reduction in fat mass result in?
increased food intake + reduced energy expenditure
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What does adipose tissue expansion cause?
reduced food intake + increased energy expenditure
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What systems are activated when weight is augmented? What is the result?
→ increased sympathetic nervous system activity → increased energy expenditure → decreased hunger/food intake this all results in weight loss
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What systems are activated when weight is reduced? What is the result?
→ decreased sympathetic nervous system activity → decreased energy expenditure → increased hunger/food intake this all results in weight gain
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What system mainly defend against the reduction of body fat?
central circuit
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What system defends against rapid expansion?
yet to be discovered
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What part of the body regulates appetite?
hypothalamus
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What stimulants are necessary for hypothalamus to regulate appetite?
→ GHRELIN, PYY + other gut hormones → neural input from the periphery + other brain regions → LEPTIN
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What parts of the hypothalamus are labelled here, 1-4?
1) paraventricular nucleus 2) ventromedial hypothalamus 3) lateral hypothalamus 4) arcuate nucleus
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What is the arcuate nucleus?
→ in the medial basal area, near 3rd ventricle → brain involved in regulation of food intake → incomplete BBB, allows access to peripheral hormones → integrates peripheral and central feeding signals → has 2 significant neuronal populations
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What are the 2 significant neuronal populations of the arcuate nucleus?
→ stimulatory (NPY/Agrp neuron) | → inhibitory (POMC neuron)
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What is the NPY / Agrp neuronal population responsible for?
→ makes peptides that could potentially stimulate food intake → e.g. increases neuropeptide Y signalling + reduces melanocortin signalling via the release of Agrp
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What is NPY?
→ neuropeptide Y → released in many places in the body, found in high concentration in the arcuate nucleus → known as an orexigenic agent
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What is Agrp?
→ Agouti-related protein → produced in the brain by the AgRP/NPY neuron → synthesized in neuropeptide Y (NPY)-containing cell bodies located in the ventromedial part of the arcuate nucleus → increases appetite + decreases metabolism + energy expenditure
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What is the POMC neuronal population responsible for?
→ inhibits food intake, decreasing appetite, increasing metabolism + energy expenditure → produces peptides like POMC, then alpha-MSH to carry this out
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What is POMC?
pro-opiomelanocortin
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What is a melanocortin?
→ products of POMC cleavage | → e.g. ACTH, MSH, alpha-MSH, etc.
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What is the melanocortin system?
→ POMC neurones in the brain release alpha-MSH melanocortin → MC4 receptors in the Paraventricular Nucleus detect alpha-MSH → positive stimulation causes it to go on to suppress food intake
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What is the paraventricular nucleus?
→ projects neurones into posterior pituitary to produce oxytocin, ADH → can also help regulate appetite + energy expenditure
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How is the paraventricular nucleus involved with the arcuate nucleus?
→ ArGP causes increased feeding when it stimulates the paraventricular nucleus → alpha-MSH from POMC stimulates decreased feeding through MC4R
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What parts of the arcuate nucleus have more NPY/ArGP neurones?
lateral
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What parts of the arcuate nucleus have more POMC/CART neurones?
ventromedial
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What is orexigenic?
agents that increase food intake
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What is anoretic?
agents that decrease food intake
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What is the benefits of the arcuate nucleus having access to the exposed BBB?
allows arcuate nucleus to interpret circulating factors, to see if feeding + appetite needs to be regulated
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What receptors do the 2 neuronal populations of the arcuate nucleus have?
→ receptors for Leptin + Insulin → decrease in Leptin or Insulin signalling causes more NPY + ArGP → increase in Leptin or insulin signalling causes more POMC
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What human CNS mutations can affect appetite?
→ No NPY or Agrp mutations associated with appetite discovered in humans → POMC deficiency and MC4-R mutations cause morbid obesity
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Are mutations responsible for the prevalence of obesity?
Mutations not responsible for the prevalence of obesity - but useful to explain signaling
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What higher parts of the brain are involved in appetite regulation?
→ amygdala → lateral + ventromedial hypothalamus → vagus nerve + brainstem
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What is the role of the amygdala in appetite regulation?
regulates appetite through reward + motivation pathways
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What is the role of the other parts of the hypothalamus in appetite regulation?
→ lateral = associated with orexigenic factors | → ventromedial = associated with anoretic factors
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What is the role of the vagus nerve + brainstem in appetite regulation?
neuronal info from digestive tract is relayed through vagus nerve to brainstem to the hypothalamus
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What is the adipostat mechanism?
the body's thermostat | how adipose tissue regulates the body's adiposity and therefore appetite, feeding + energy expenditure
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How does the adipostat mechanism work?
→ Circulating hormone produced by fat → Hypothalamus senses the concentration of hormone. → Hypothalamus then alters neuropeptides to increase or decrease food intake.
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What could be hypothesised about the adipostat mechanism in obesity?
problem with the regulation of it could be causing the obesity
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What is the ob/ob mouse? | Why is it important?
→ obese mouse that ate excessively | → lead to the discovery of leptin
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What is leptin?
→ hormone made by adipocytes in adipose tissue + enterocytes in small intestine → circulates in plasma → acts upon the hypothalamus regulating appetite + food intake + thermogenesis / energy expenditure → meaning thin, discovered in 1994 → missing in the ob/ob mouse
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What does congenital leptin deficiency result in?
children will have normal body weight but insatiable hunger will lead to excessive eating results in them becoming obese
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How can congenital leptin deficiency be treated?
leptin is effective in reducing body weight
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What was the trend noticed by scientists concerning leptin in obesity?
high leptin levels were seen in those with high body fat | probably due to leptin resistance developed over time
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What is leptin's mechanism of action?
→ adipose tissue releases leptin → leptin stimulates hypothalamus → decreases food intake → increases energy expenditure + fat + glucose metabolism
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What are the 3 things that can go wrong in leptin's mechanisms to result in obesity?
→ absent leptin → regulatory defect in leptin levels → leptin resistance to high leptin levels
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What is leptin circulation in plasma proportional to?
→ Leptin circulates in plasma in concentrations proportional to fat mass → low leptin = low body fat mass → high leptin = high body fat mass
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Is leptin effective as a weight control drug?
no - usually obese people have sufficient leptin
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What is the purpose of GI hormones? What produces them?
→ secreted by entero-endocrine cells in the stomach, pancreas & bowels → controls various function of digestive organs
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Which GI hormones regulate appetite?
→ ghrelin | → peptid YY
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What GI hormones does the stomach release?
→ ghrelin | → gastrin
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What GI hormones does the pancreas release?
``` → insulin → glucagon → somatostatin → pancreatic polypeptide → amylin ```
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What GI hormones does the small intestine release?
→ cholecystokinin → secretin → GIP → motilin
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What GI hormones does the large intestine release?
→ GLP-1 → GLP-2 → oxyntomodulin → PYY 3-36
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What does ghrelin do?
→ stimulates + increases appetite | → increases gastric emptying
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How does ghrelin stimulate appetite?
Directly modulates neurons in the arcuate nucleus → Stimulates NPY/Agrp neurons → Inhibits POMC neurons.
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When is Ghrelin levels the highest in the body? Why?
→ before a meal | → help prepare for food intake by increasing gastric motility + acid secretion
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What else is ghrenlin useful for?
Regulation of reward, taste sensation, memory, circadian rhythm
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What is PPY?
→ peptide tyrosine tyrosine → released in terminal ileum + colon in response to food arrival → reduces appetite
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How does PYY reduce appetite?
→ inhibits NPY release | → stimulates POMC neurones
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What comorbidities is obesity associated with?
``` → depression → sleep apnoea → MI → bowel cancer → osteoarthritis → gout → peripheral vascular disease → diabetes → hypertension → stroke ```

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