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Ghrelin-Induced Food Intake Is Mediated via the Orexin Pathway - 0 views

  • Ghrelin, a peptide produced in the stomach and hypothalamus, stimulates feeding and GH secretion
  • Centrally administered ghrelin exerts an orexigenic activity through the neuropeptide Y (NPY)
  • though ghrelin is predominantly produced in endocrine cells of the stomach (17, 18), it is also synthesized in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus (1, 19), a critical region for feeding
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    ghrelin stimulates feeding through orexin signaling.
Nathan Goodyear

Minireview: Inflammation and Obesity Pathogenesis: The Hypothalamus Heats Up - 0 views

  • Leptin, secreted by adipocytes in proportion to body fat mass
  • The saturated fatty acid palmitate (16:0) induces NF-κB signaling through a TLR4-dependent mechanism
  • 18:0 (stearic) and longer saturated fatty acids as well as linolenic acid (18:3) increased proinflammatory cytokines, ER stress markers, and TLR4 activation
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  • (SOCS)-3. A member of a protein family originally characterized as negative feedback regulators of inflammation (13, 37), SOCS3 inhibits insulin and leptin signaling
  • IKKβ signaling in discrete neuronal subsets appears to be required for both hypothalamic inflammation and excess weight gain to occur during HF feeding
  • the paradoxical observation that hyperphagia and weight gain occur when hypothalamic inflammation is induced by HF feeding, yet when it occurs in response to systemic or local inflammatory processes (e.g. administration of endotoxin), anorexia and weight loss are the rule
  • , serves as a circulating signal of energy stores in part by providing feedback inhibition of hypothalamic orexigenic pathways [e.g. neurons that express neuropeptide Y and agouti-related peptide (AgRP)]
  • and stimulating anorexigenic neurons
  • signals from Toll-like receptors (TLRs), evolutionarily conserved pattern recognition molecules critical for detecting pathogens, amplified through signaling intermediates such as MyD88 activate the inhibitor of κB-kinase-β (IKKβ)/nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB), c-Jun N-terminal kinase (Jnk) and other intracellular inflammatory signals in response to stimulation by circulating saturated fatty acids
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    great read on the current understanding of how obesity and resultant inflammation disrupts hypothalamic function.
Nathan Goodyear

Influence of ghrelin on food ... [Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care. 2007] - PubMed - NCBI - 0 views

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    Ghrelin is an orexin that increases energy intake i.e. increases food intake.
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