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Hypothalamic Mediated Action of Free Fatty Acid on Growth Hormone Secretion in Sheep

Laboratoire des Intéractions Fonctionnelles en Neuroendocrinologie, INSERM U-501, Institut Fédératif Jean Roche (N.B., V.G., N.S., V.V., F.D., C.O., A.D.), 13916 Marseille Cedex 20, France; Departamentes de Phisiologia Anatomia y Produccìon Animal, Facultad Veterinaria, Campus Universitario (M.R.-G.), 27002 Lugo, Spain; Service d’Endocrinologie, Maladies Métaboliques et de la Nutrition, Hôpital Nord (V.G., F.D., C.O., A.D.), 13915 Marseille Cedex 20, France; and Exploration Fonctionnelle Endocrinologique, Hôpital Trousseau (Y.L.B.), 75571 Paris Cedex 12, France

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Dr. A. Dutour, Laboratoire des Intéractions Fonctionnelles en Neuroendocrinologie, INSERM U-501, Institut Fédératif Jean Roche, boulevard P. Dramard, 13916 Marseille Cedex 20, France.

Experimental data suggest that elevated FFA levels play a leading role in the impaired GH secretion in obesity and may therefore contribute to the maintenance of overweight. GH has a direct lipolytic effect on adipose tissue; in turn, FFA elevation markedly reduces GH secretion. This suggests the existence of a classical endocrine feedback loop between FFA and GH secretion. However, the FFA mechanism of action is not yet understood. The involvement of somatostatin (SRIH) is controversial, and in vitro experiments suggest a direct effect of FFA on the pituitary. In sheep it is possible to collect hypophysial portal blood and quantify SRIH secretion in hypophysial portal blood under physiological conscious and unstressed conditions. In this study we determined the effects of FFA (Intralipid and heparin) infusion on peripheral GH and portal SRIH levels in intact rams chronically implanted with perihypophysial cannula and in rams actively immunized against SRIH to further determine SRIH-mediated FFA effects on GH axis.

Immediately after initiation of Intralipid infusion, we observed a marked increase in the FFA concentration (2160 ± 200 vs. 295 ± 28 nmol/ml; P < 0.01) as well as a significant decrease in basal GH secretion (1.8 ± 0.1 vs. 2.5 ± 0.3 ng/ml; P < 0.05) and a drastic reduction of the GH response to iv GH-releasing hormone injection (4.8 ± 0.7 ng/ml in FFA group vs. 35.8 ± 9.7 ng/ml in saline group; P < 0.01). No change in plasma insulin-like growth factor I levels was observed. During the first 2 h of infusion, the GH decrease observed was concomitant with a significant increase in portal SRIH levels (22.1 ± 3.2 vs. 13 ± 1.6 pg/ml; P < 0.01). In rams actively immunized against SRIH, the effect of FFA on basal GH secretion was biphasic. During the first 90 min of infusion, the decrease in GH induced by FFA was significantly blunted in rams actively immunized against SRIH (57 ± 9% for immunized rams vs. 23.5 ± 2.5% for control rams). This corresponds to the period of increased SRIH portal levels. After this first 90-min period, no difference was seen between control and immunized rams.

Our results show that FFA exert their inhibitory action on the GH axis at both pituitary and hypothalamic levels, the latter mainly during the first 90 min, through increased SRIH secretion.

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