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High-fat food biases hypothalamic and mesolimbic expression of consummatory drives

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NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 23, Issue 10, Pages 1253-+

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41593-020-0684-9

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  1. National Institutes of Health
  2. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [1ZIAES103310]
  3. National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases [DK075088, DK075087-06]
  4. NIEHS-NIDDK
  5. Center of Compulsive Behaviors
  6. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES [ZIADK075088, ZIADK075087, ZIADK075089] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
  7. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES [ZIAES103310, ZICES103330] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER

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Maintaining healthy body weight is increasingly difficult in our obesogenic environment. Dieting efforts are often overpowered by the internal drive to consume energy-dense foods. Although the selection of calorically rich substrates over healthier options is identifiable across species, the mechanisms behind this choice remain poorly understood. Using a passive devaluation paradigm, we found that exposure to high-fat diet (HFD) suppresses the intake of nutritionally balanced standard chow diet (SD) irrespective of age, sex, body mass accrual and functional leptin or melanocortin-4 receptor signaling. Longitudinal recordings revealed that this SD devaluation and subsequent shift toward HFD consumption is encoded at the level of hypothalamic agouti-related peptide neurons and mesolimbic dopamine signaling. Prior HFD consumption vastly diminished the capacity of SD to alleviate the negative valence associated with hunger and the rewarding properties of food discovery even after periods of HFD abstinence. These data reveal a neural basis behind the hardships of dieting. Mazzone and Liang-Guallpa et al. demonstrate that consuming high-fat foods rapidly and durably tunes parallel brain circuits to drive intake of a high-fat diet while devaluing a nutritionally balanced, standard diet even under states of intense hunger.

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