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BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION
卷 113, 期 3, 页码 536-545出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114514003882
关键词
Lactation; Developmental plasticity; Central obesity; Neuropeptides; Reactive astroglia
资金
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico - CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development)
- Fundacao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - FAPERJ (Carlos Chagas Filho Research Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro)
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior - CAPES (Coordination for the Enhancement of Higher Education Personnel)
- CAPES
The suppression of prolactin production with bromocriptine (BRO) in the last 3d of lactation reduces milk yield (early weaning) and increases the transfer of leptin through the milk, causing hyperleptinaemia in pups. In adulthood, several changes occur in the offspring as a result of metabolic programming, including overweight, higher visceral fat mass, hypothyroidism, hyperglycaemia, insulin resistance, hyperleptinaemia and central leptin resistance. In the present study, we investigated whether overweight rats programmed by early weaning with maternal BRO treatment have hypothalamic alterations in adulthood. We analysed the expression of neuropeptide Y (NPY), cocaine-and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART), pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) and a-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) by immunohistochemistry in the following hypothalamic nuclei: medial and lateral arcuate nucleus (ARC); paraventricular nucleus (PVN); lateral hypothalamus (LH). Additionally, we sought to determine whether these programmed rats exhibited hypothalamic inflammation as indicated by astrogliosis. NPY immunostaining showed a denser NPY-positive fibre network in the ARC and PVN (+82% in both nuclei) of BRO offspring. Regarding the anorexigenic neuropeptides, no difference was found for CART, POMC and a-MSH. The number of astrocytes was higher in all the nuclei of BRO rats. The fibre density of glial fibrillary acidic protein was also increased in both medial and lateral ARC (6.06-fold increase and 9.13-fold increase, respectively), PVN (5.75-fold increase) and LH (2.68-fold increase) of BRO rats. We suggest that early weaning has a long-term effect on the expression of NPY as a consequence of developmental plasticity, and the presence of astrogliosis indicates hypothalamic inflammation that is closely related to overweight and hyperleptinaemia observed in our model.
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