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Immunomodulatory actions of central ghrelin in diet-induced energy imbalance

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Title
Immunomodulatory actions of central ghrelin in diet-induced energy imbalance
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Brain, Behavior & Immunity, September 2011
DOI 10.1016/j.bbi.2011.08.009
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Darko Stevanovic, Vesna Starcevic, Urosh Vilimanovich, Dejan Nesic, Ljubica Vucicevic, Maja Misirkic, Kristina Janjetovic, Emina Savic, Dusan Popadic, Emina Sudar, Dragan Micic, Mirjana Sumarac-Dumanovic, Vladimir Trajkovic

Abstract

We investigated the effects of centrally administered orexigenic hormone ghrelin on energy imbalance-induced inflammation. Rats were subjected for four weeks to three different dietary regimes: normal (standard food), high-fat (standard food with 30% lard) or food-restricted (70%, 50%, 40% and 40% of the expected food intake in 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th week, respectively). Compared to normal-weight controls, starved, but not obese rats had significantly higher levels of proinflammatory cytokines (TNF, IL-1β, IFN-γ) in the blood. When compared to normally fed animals, the hearts of starved and obese animals expressed higher levels of mRNAs encoding proinflammatory mediators (TNF, IL-1β, IL-6, IFN-γ, IL-17, IL-12, iNOS), while mRNA levels of the anti-inflammatory TGF-β remained unchanged. Intracerebroventricular (ICV) injection of ghrelin (1 μg/day) for five consecutive days significantly reduced TNF, IL-1β and IFN-γ levels in the blood of starved rats, as well as TNF, IL-17 and IL-12p40 mRNA expression in the hearts of obese rats. Conversely, ICV ghrelin increased the levels of IFN-γ, IL-17, IL-12p35 and IL-12p40 mRNA in the heart tissue of food-restricted animals. This was associated with an increase of immunosuppressive ACTH/corticosterone production in starved animals and a decrease of the immunostimulatory adipokine leptin both in food-restricted and high-fat groups. Ghrelin activated the energy sensor AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) in the hypothalamus and inhibited extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) in the hearts of obese, but not starved rats. Therefore, central ghrelin may play a complex role in energy imbalance-induced inflammation by modulating HPA axis, leptin and AMPK/ERK signaling pathways.

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Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Serbia 1 2%
Argentina 1 2%
Brazil 1 2%
Unknown 39 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 12 28%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 12%
Student > Master 5 12%
Professor 4 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 7%
Other 10 23%
Unknown 4 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 12 28%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 23%
Immunology and Microbiology 4 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 7%
Neuroscience 3 7%
Other 7 16%
Unknown 4 9%
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