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Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone-Mediated Pathway of Leptin to Regulate Feeding, Adiposity, and Uncoupling Protein Expression in Mice

Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Oita Medical University, Oita 879-5593, Japan

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Takayuki Masaki, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Oita Medical University, Hasama, Oita 879-5593, Japan. E-mail: masaki{at}oita-med.ac.jp.

To examine the functional role of CRH in the regulation of energy homeostasis by leptin, we measured the effects of the CRH antagonist, -helical CRH 8–41 (CRH) on a number of factors affected by leptin activity. These included food intake, body weight, hypothalamic c-fos-like immunoreactivity (c-FLI), weight and histological characterization of white adipose tissue, and mRNA expressions of uncoupling protein (UCP) in brown adipose tissue (BAT) in C57Bl/6 mice. Central infusion of leptin into the lateral cerebroventricle (icv) caused significant induction of c-FLI in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN), ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus (VMH), dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus, and arcuate nucleus. In all these nuclei, the effect of leptin on expression of cFLI in the PVN and VMH was decreased by treatment with CRH. Administration of leptin markedly decreased cumulative food intake and body weight with this effect being attenuated by pretreatment with CRH. In peripheral tissue, leptin up-regulated BAT UCP1 mRNA expression and reduced fat depositions in this tissue. Those changes in BAT were also decreased by treatment with CRH. As a consequence of the effects on food intake or energy expenditure, treatment with CRH attenuated the leptin-induced reduction of body adiposity, fat cell size, triglyceride contents, and ob mRNA expression in white adipose tissue. Taken together, these results indicate that CRH neurons in the PVN and VMH may be an important mediator for leptin that contribute to regulation of feeding, adiposity, and UCP expression.

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