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CELL METABOLISM
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 49-60Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2006.04.014
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [P60 DK020541, R01 DK048321, R01 DK057768, P60-DK20541, R01 DK045024, R37 DK048321, R01-DK45024, R37-DK48321, R01-DK57768] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [R37MH41414, R37 MH041414] Funding Source: Medline
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Leptin has pleiotropic effects on glucose homeostasis and feeding behavior. Here, we validate the use of a cell-permeable phosphopeptide that blocks STAT3 activation in vivo. The combination of this biochemical approach with stereotaxic surgical techniques allowed us to pinpoint the contribution of hypothalamic STAT3 to the acute effects of leptin on food intake and glucose homeostasis. Leptin's ability to acutely reduce food intake critically depends on intact STAT3 signaling. Likewise, hypothalamic signaling of leptin through STAT3 is required for the acute effects of leptin on liver glucose fluxes. Lifelong obliteration of STAT3 signaling via the leptin receptor in mice (s/s mice) results in severe hepatic insulin resistance that is comparable to that observed in db/db mice, devoid of leptin receptor signaling. Our results demonstrate that the activation of the hypothalamic STAT3 pathway is an absolute requirement for the effects of leptin on food intake and hepatic glucose metabolism.
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