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What causes obesity?

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Imbalance of foot intake and energy expenditure

Suggestesd that defective neuronal network regulation via ANS = in turn induces global changes in nutrient and energy flux

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What information is sent to the brain in obesity?

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Energy stores
Food intake - amount and type
Immune status - microbiome

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What in the periphery has to be controlled?

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Substrate utilizaiton and storage

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Describe the flow of information

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Bi-directional

2nd order neurones can also signal back to 1st order

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What type of inputs from from periphery to CNS?

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Both neuronal and endocrine

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Where do satiety signals come from and what do they control?

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‘meal size’

Information from upper GIT via vagus and sympathetic afferents converge on NTS and hypothalamus

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What does NTS stand for?

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Nucleus of the solitary tract

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What are the long term and short term signals about energy stores?

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Satiety signalling = short term

Adiposity negative feedback signalling = long term

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Define satiation

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Senesation of fullness generated during a meal

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Define satiety

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Period of time between end of one meal and start of the next

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Define adiposity

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State of being obese

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What does short-term satiety signalling regulate?

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Meal initiation, termination and inter-meal frequency

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What signals are generated by the GIT?

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Satiation signals
CCK
PYY
GLP-1
OXM
Obestatin

All increase signalling durign meal to supress food intake and appetite

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What happens to satiation signals during meal?

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Satiation signal increases during meal to limit meal size

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What is the role of CCK?

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CCK cells are concentrated in the proximal small intestine.
CCK hormone
is secreted into the blood upon the ingestion of food.

The physiological actions
of CCK include stimulation of pancreatic secretion and gallbladder contraction,
inhibits gastric emptying, and induction of satiety.

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Where does CCK signal to in the brain?

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Signals to hindbrain NTS

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What is the role of PYY?

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Inhibits gastic motility & reduces food intake

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Where is PYY secreted from?

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L-cells in the gut

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What is the role of GLP-1?

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Inhibits gastric emtyping and reduces food intake

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Where is GLP-1 released from?

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L-cells of the gut

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What two satiety signals are released from L-cells in the gut?

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PYY and GLP-1

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Why are PYY and GLP-1 considered hypo?

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Because they have a significant effect on lowering blood sugar levels by stimulating insulin secretion and suppressing glucagon release, essentially promoting a hypoglycemic state when their levels are elevated, particularly after a meal when they are naturally released in the gut.

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What is the role of oxyntomodulin (OXM)?

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Suppresses appetite

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What is the role of obestatin?

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Anorexigenic = suppresses food intake

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What does NTS do?***
Key integrative centre?
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What neural route does long-term satiety signalling go through?
Adipose and pancreas signal thorugh ARC Signal eventually delivered to NTS
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What neural route does short-term satiety signalling go through?
Stomach and GIT signals both to ARC and to NTS (both via SNS afferent and vagus) Liver signals via vagus nerve to NTS
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Where is leptin predominantly made and released?
White adpiose cells
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Explain the difference between ob/ob and db/db mice?
ob/ob mice = leptin deficient db/db mice = LEPR b isoform deficient
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What type of hormone is leptin?
Pleiotropic hormone = a hormone that influences multiple traits or phenotypes. This means that a single hormone can have multiple functions and act at different levels in the body.
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What symptoms do ob/ob and db/db mice have?
Causes morbid obesity and T2D leading to: Hyperphagia = a feeling of extreme, insatiable hunger Decreased energy expenditure Insulin resistance Hyperglycaemia Metabolic dysfunction
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What happens when leptin is given to ob/ob mice?
Rapidly restore glycaemic control (independent of food intake) CNS leptin reduces gluconeogensis & glycogenolysis Suppresses lipogenesis in white adipose tissue
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What systems is leptin required for?
Normal function of immune and reproductive system Important for regulation of blood pressure
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What role does leptin play in puberty?
Regulates onset of puberty Thin women enter puberty later than heavier counterparts Extremely thin women stop ovulating
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What role does leptin play in angiogenesis?
Leptin enhances angiogenesis = formation of blood vessels
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What other hormones may leptin regulate?
May act to regulate the synthesis, release and actions of other hormones Insulin Glucocorticoids Growth hormone
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What effect does leptin have in tumours?
Enhances proliferation = poss thorugh enhancing angiogenesis
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How is bone growth in ob/ob mice?
Reduced bone growth This is corrected by leptin
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What 5 areas does leptin act on?
Brain Bone and Cartillage Vascular function Reproduction Immune system
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Why are there isoforms of the LEPR?
Because LEPR mRNA has multiple splice variants
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Where is LEPRb isoform found abundantly?
Hypothalamus = ARC, LHA, VMH
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Which LEPR isoform allows leptin to cross the BBB?
Possible a or c
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What is correlated with plasma leptin levels?
Adipose tissue mass So high leptin = high adipose tissue mass
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When does plasma leptin decrease?
During fasting because leptin signals fullness Circulating leptin levels fluctuate with nutritional state
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What does i.c.v stand for?
Intracerebroventricular injection Route of administration for drugs via injection into the cerebral ventricles so that it reaches the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
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How do we know leptin primarily targets the CNS?
Injection of a single dose of leptin i.c.v reduces food intake at doses that have no effect given peripherally
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What levels of endogenous leptin do obese people have and why?
Obesity due to high fat diet = high levels of endogenous leptin Because there is resistance to actions of leptin (often associated iwth high levels of circulating insulin and peripheral insulin resistance)
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What precedes obesity in ob/ob and db/db mice?
Hyperinsulinaemia = the body has too much insulin in the blood relative to glucose
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How would low leptin dose affect ob/ob mice?
Does not lower body weight BUT Reduces blood glucose and insulin levels in ob/ob mice
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What is lipodystrophy?
Individuals have fewer or no fat cells Store lipid elsewhere (muscle or liver) Have high levels of lipid in blood Fat redistribution syndrome = defective nutrient partitioning
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What does lipodystrophy tell use about leptin metabolic effects?
Leptin metabolic effect are independent of body weight reduction
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How do you get lipodystrophy?
Congenital or acquired (autoimmunity)
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Symptoms of lipodystrophy?
Insulin resistant Hyperglycaemic Those with severe fat deficiency = hyperphagic
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What is lipodystrophy associated with?
Diabetes LIver steatosis Common in women = failure to ovulate
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Where are LEPRb localized?
Mainly in ARC neurones When ARC destroyed and i.c.v leptin added = no longer reduced food intake because receptors were destroyed
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How does fasting affect mRNA of different neuropeptides?
Increases NPY/AgRP mRNA = signalling hunger Decreases POMC/CART mRNA = signalling satiety
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What effects on the brain does leptin deficiency have?
Reudces brain size and hinders CNS development Leptin given to NEONATES (not adults) reverses these neuroanatomical defects
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What brain pathway is disrupted in ob/ob mice?
Projection pathway between ARC and PVN
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ob/ob mice have altered numbers of SYNAPTIC contacts to NYP & POMC neurones copmared to wild type, what are they?
Increased EPSCs to NYP/AgRP = promotes hunger Increased IPSCs to POMC/CART = inhibits satiety
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How does leptin affect synaptic plasticity?
Lack of leptin alters number of excitatory and inhibitory synapses to these neruones Leptin given to ob/ob mice restored number and type of synaptic connections to wild type
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How does insulin act in the CNS vs the PNS?
While insulin primarily functions in the periphery to stimulate glucose uptake in tissues like muscle and liver, in the brain, its primary role is to regulate central nervous system functions like appetite, cognition, and mood, largely independent of directly influencing glucose uptake, due to the unique characteristics of the blood-brain barrier and specific brain insulin receptors; essentially, insulin has a more "neurotransmitter-like" action in the brain compared to its metabolic role in peripheral tissues.
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What things are similar about insulin to leptin?
Insulin also circulates at levels proportional to body adiposity Insulin receptors are expressed in hypothalamus (ARC) Deletion of brain insulin receptor results in obesity Insulin injected i.c.v inhibits food intake and reduces body weight in rodents Insulin i.c.v reverses fasted/diabeic-induced increase in NPY/AgRP mRNA and decrease in POMP mRNA in ARC
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How does insulin access CNS?
Insulin receptor-mediated transport system in brain microvessels = allowing insulin rapid access to CNA
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How does insulin act in peripheral tissues?
Insulin is anabolic and glucoregulatory Causes hypoglycaemia, increases food intake and energy storage
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Which neurones have high insulin receptor expression?
POMP and AgRP ARC neurones
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What happens when insulin receptors deleted from POMC and AgRP neurones?
Mainly impacts on glucose metabolism rather than food intake and body weight
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What do AgRP neurones regulate?****
They regulate insulin suppression of heptaic glucose suppression
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Where are components of insulin signalling expressed?
Also in ACR neurone
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What occurs when insulin is delivered to hypothalamus?
Modulate hypothalamic neuronal activity = diminish obesity state Improves whole body insulin sensitivity Promotes lipogenesis and peripheral fat accumulation (white adipose) Increases adaptive thermogenesis ("brown" adipose)
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How does brain insulin resistance affect the obese?
Brain insulin levels reduced in genetically obese rats Insulin-resistant humans have lower CSF:plasma insulin ratio vs insulin sensitive subjects Hypothalamus shows impairment of proximal insulin signalling components
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How does brain insulin reduce heptaic glucose production?
Insulin acts in ARC to help reduce HGP by inhibition of gluconeogensis
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What happens when brain insulin receptors are knocked out?
Decrease in ability of peripheral insulin to suppress hepatic glucose production This apprears to be mediated through ARC AgRP neurones
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What is the pathway of brain insulin reducing hepatic glucose production?
Insulin binds receptors on ARC AgRP neurones and inhibits them Leads to diinhibition of POMC = increased vagal stimulation because increased parasympathetic activity (rest and digest) Release of ACh by vagal nerve a7-nAChR causes increased IL-6 expression in Kupffer cell (liver macrophages) IL-6 binds its receptor on liver cells = activates STAT3 STAT3 dimerizes and represses transcription of gluconeogenic enzymes
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In a fasting state what happens to increase food intake?
Decrease in leptin/insulin Excitatory synapse at NPY/AgRP = promotes hunger signal Inhibitory synapse at POMC/CART = decrease in a-MSh released Inhibits MC3/4 receptor
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In a fed state what happens to decrease food intake?
Increase in leptin/insulin Inhibitory synapse at NPY/AgRP = inhibits hunger signal less NYP and AgRP released Excitatory synapse at POMC/CART neurone = increase in a-MSH release which binds MC3/4-receptor a-MSH binding its receptor = suppresses food intake

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