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Suppressed Fat Appetite after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery Associates with Reduced Brain μ-opioid Receptor Availability in Diet-Induced Obese Male Rats

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Title
Suppressed Fat Appetite after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery Associates with Reduced Brain μ-opioid Receptor Availability in Diet-Induced Obese Male Rats
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, January 2017
DOI 10.3389/fnins.2016.00620
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Mohammed K. Hankir, Marianne Patt, Jörg T. W. Patt, Georg A. Becker, Michael Rullmann, Mathias Kranz, Winnie Deuther-Conrad, Kristin Schischke, Florian Seyfried, Peter Brust, Swen Hesse, Osama Sabri, Ute Krügel, Wiebke K. Fenske

Abstract

Brain μ-opioid receptors (MORs) stimulate high-fat (HF) feeding and have been implicated in the distinct long term outcomes on body weight of bariatric surgery and dieting. Whether alterations in fat appetite specifically following these disparate weight loss interventions relate to changes in brain MOR signaling is unknown. To address this issue, diet-induced obese male rats underwent either Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) or sham surgeries. Postoperatively, animals were placed on a two-choice diet consisting of low-fat (LF) and HF food and sham-operated rats were further split into ad libitum fed (Sham-LF/HF) and body weight-matched (Sham-BWM) to RYGB groups. An additional set of sham-operated rats always only on a LF diet (Sham-LF) served as lean controls, making four experimental groups in total. Corresponding to a stage of weight loss maintenance for RYGB rats, two-bottle fat preference tests in conjunction with small-animal positron emission tomography (PET) imaging studies with the selective MOR radioligand [(11)C]carfentanil were performed. Brains were subsequently collected and MOR protein levels in the hypothalamus, striatum, prefrontal cortex and orbitofrontal cortex were analyzed by Western Blot. We found that only the RYGB group presented with intervention-specific changes: having markedly suppressed intake and preference for high concentration fat emulsions, a widespread reduction in [(11)C]carfentanil binding potential (reflecting MOR availability) in various brain regions, and a downregulation of striatal and prefrontal MOR protein levels compared to the remaining groups. These findings suggest that the suppressed fat appetite caused by RYGB surgery is due to reduced brain MOR signaling, which may contribute to sustained weight loss unlike the case for dieting.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 17%
Student > Master 5 14%
Student > Postgraduate 3 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 9%
Student > Bachelor 2 6%
Other 7 20%
Unknown 9 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 20%
Neuroscience 4 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 9%
Psychology 2 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Other 7 20%
Unknown 11 31%
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