期刊
METABOLITES
卷 11, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/metabo11060368
关键词
endocrine disrupting chemicals; bisphenol A; diethylstilbestrol; tributyltin; neuropeptide Y; pro-opiomelanocortin
资金
- European Union [QLK4-CT-2002-02221, LSHB-CT-2006-037168]
- Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca-MIUR project Dipartimenti di Eccellenza 2018-2022
- University of Torino, Ricerca locale
- Cavalieri-Ottolenghi Foundation, Orbassano, Italy
Long-term exposure to various EDCs can alter the hypothalamic circuits that regulate food intake and energy metabolism in adult male mice, as evidenced by decreased NPY and POMC immunoreactivity in the arcuate and dorsomedial nuclei. While the NPY system was affected in the paraventricular nucleus, the POMC system was not affected, and only the NPY system was affected in the ventromedial hypothalamus.
In the arcuate nucleus, neuropeptide Y (NPY) neurons, increase food intake and decrease energy expenditure, and control the activity of pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons, that decrease food intake and increase energy expenditure. Both systems project to other hypothalamic nuclei such as the paraventricular and dorsomedial hypothalamic nuclei. Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are environmental contaminants that alter the endocrine system causing adverse health effects in an intact organism or its progeny. We investigated the effects of long-term exposure to some EDCs on the hypothalamic NPY and POMC systems of adult male mice that had been previously demonstrated to be a target of some of these EDCs after short-term exposure. Animals were chronically fed for four months with a phytoestrogen-free diet containing two different concentrations of bisphenol A, diethylstilbestrol, tributyltin, or E-2. At the end, brains were processed for NPY and POMC immunohistochemistry and quantitatively analyzed. In the arcuate and dorsomedial nuclei, both NPY and POMC immunoreactivity showed a statistically significant decrease. In the paraventricular nucleus, only the NPY system was affected, while the POMC system was not affected. Finally, in the VMH the NPY system was affected whereas no POMC immunoreactive material was observed. These results indicate that adult exposure to different EDCs may alter the hypothalamic circuits that control food intake and energy metabolism.
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