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GASTROENTEROLOGY
Volume 129, Issue 1, Pages 8-25Publisher
W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2005.04.015
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Background & Aims: Although it has been shown that des-acyl ghrelin decreases food intake and gastric emptying, no previous studies have examined the effects of des-acyl ghrelin on physiologic fed and fasted motor activity in the gastrointestinal tract. Methods: We examined the effects of intraperitoneal (IP) administration of des-acyl ghrelin on food intake and the effects of intracerebroventricular (ICV) or intravenous (IV) administration of des-acyl ghrelin on gastroduodenal motility using freely moving conscious rat models. The brain nuclei responding to these effects were examined by c-fos immunohistochemistry of the brain sections. Results: IP injection of des-acyl ghrelin decreased food intake, and this effect was not altered by capsaicin treatment. IP injection of des-acyl ghrelin enhanced c-fos expression in the arcuate and paraventricular nucleus but not in the nucleus of the solitary tract. Both ICV and IV injection of des-acyl ghrelin disrupted fasted motor activity in the antrum but not in the duodenum. Changes in gastric motility induced by IV injection of des-acyl ghrelin were completely antagonized by ICV injection of a selective corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF)(2) receptor antagonist; however, the CRF1 receptor antagonist had no effects. Conclusions: The results suggest that des-acyl ghrelin decreases food intake and disrupts the fasted motor activity of the antrum in freely moving conscious rats. Peripheral des-acyl ghrelin may induce this function by direct activation of brain receptor by crossing the blood-brain barrier but not by the activation of vagal afferent pathways. In the brain, CRF2 receptor, but not CRF1. receptor, is involved in this action.
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