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1 Committee on Clinical Pharmacology and 2 Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, The Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637; and 3 Department of Pharmacology, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, California 91320
Afferent sensory fibers are the primary neuroanatomic link between nutrient-related events in the gastrointestinal tract and the central neural substrates that modulate ingestion. In this study, we evaluated the peripheral gastric effects of leptin (OB protein) on brain stem neuronal activities using an in vitro neonatal rat preparation. We also tested gastric leptin effects as a function of age in neonates. For ~33% of the nucleus tractus solitarius units observed, gastric leptin (10 nM) produced a significant activation of 188.2 ± 8.6% (mean ± SE) compared with the control level of 100% (P < 0.01). Concentration-dependent leptin effects have also been shown. The remaining neurons (67%) had no significant response to gastric leptin application. Next, we evaluated the peripheral gastric effects of leptin (10 nM) on brain stem unitary activity in three different age groups (1-2 days old, 3-5 days old, and 7-8 days old) of neonatal rats. In the 1- to 2-day-old and the 3- to 5-day-old groups, we observed that response ratios and activity levels were similar. However, there was a significant difference between the 7- to 8-day-old group and the two younger age groups in both the response ratios and the activation levels. The percentage of activation responses increased from ~26% in the 1- to 2-day-old and the 4- to 5-day-old age groups to 70% in the 7- to 8-day-old group (P < 0.05). The level of activation increased from 168.3 ± 2.7% (compared with the control level) in the 1- to 2-day-old and the 4- to 5-day-old age groups to 231.4 ± 11.9% in the 7- to 8-day-old group (P < 0.01). Our data demonstrate that peripheral gastric leptin modulates brain stem neuronal activity and suggest that gastric leptin has a significantly stronger effect in the 7- to 8-day-old animals than in the younger neonates.
gastric vagal branch; nucleus tractus solitarius; OB protein; neonatal rat
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