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ENDOCRINOLOGY
Volume 156, Issue 2, Pages 411-418Publisher
ENDOCRINE SOC
DOI: 10.1210/en.2014-1437
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- Inserm/AVENIR
- Inserm/interface
- Aquitaine Region
- European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes-Sanofi Aventis
- Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR) Grant Labex BRAIN [ANR-10-LABX-43, ANR-10-EQPX-08 OPTOPATH, ANR Blanc ANR-2010-1414-01, ANR Blanc ANR-13-BSV4-0006-01]
- Mexican Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia
- Inserm/Aquitaine Region PhD fellowship
- European Union Seventh Framework Programme (EU-FP7) Grant [EU-FP7 HEALTH-F2-2008-223713, EU-FP7 ENDOFOOD ERC-2010-StG]
- Fondation Recherche Medicale
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The paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN) regulates energy balance by modulating not only food intake, but also energy expenditure (EE) and brown adipose tissue thermogenesis. To test the hypothesis that cannabinoid type 1 (CB1) receptor in PVN neurons might control these processes, we used the Cre/loxP system to delete CB1 from single-minded 1 (Sim1) neurons, which account for the majority of PVN neurons. On standard chow, mice lacking CB1 receptor in Sim1 neurons (Sim1-CB1-knockout [KO]) had food intake, body weight, adiposity, glucose metabolism, and EE comparable with wild-type (WT) (Sim1-CB1-WT) littermates. However, maintenance on a high-fat diet revealed a gene-by-diet interaction whereby Sim1-CB1-KO mice had decreased adiposity, improved insulin sensitivity, and increased EE, whereas feeding behavior was similar to Sim1-CB1-WT mice. Additionally, high-fat diet-fed Sim1-CB1-KO mice had increased mRNA expression of the beta 3-adrenergic receptor, as well as of uncoupling protein-1, cytochrome-c oxidase subunit IV and mitochondrial transcription factor A in the brown adipose tissue, all molecular changes suggestive of increased thermogenesis. Pharmacological studies using beta-blockers suggested that modulation of beta-adrenergic transmission play an important role in determining EE changes observed in Sim1-CB1-KO. Finally, chemical sympathectomy abolished the obesity-resistant phenotype of Sim1-CB1-KO mice. Altogether, these findings reveal a diet-dependent dissociation in the CB1 receptor control of food intake and EE, likely mediated by the PVN, where CB1 receptors on Sim1-positive neurons do not impact food intake but hinder EE during dietary environmental challenges that promote body weight gain.
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