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Departments of Medicine (D.K.S., J.E.M., G.J.M., M.W.S.), Harborview Medical Center, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biochemistry (L.S.M., G.I.M., R.D.P.), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Michael W. Schwartz, M.D., Harborview Medical Center, Division of Endocrinology, 325 9th Avenue, Box 359757, Seattle, Washington 98104. E-mail: mschwart{at}u.washington.edu.
To investigate the role played by the orexigenic peptide, neuropeptide Y (NPY), in adaptive responses to insulin-induced hypoglycemia, we measured hypothalamic, feeding, and hormonal responses to this stimulus in both wild-type (Npy+/+) and NPY-deficient (Npy–/–) mice. After administration of insulin at a dose (60 mU ip) sufficient to cause moderate hypoglycemia (plasma glucose levels, 40 ± 3 and 37 ± 2 mg/dl for Npy+/+ and Npy–/– mice, respectively; P = not significant), 4-h food intake was increased 2.5-fold in Npy+/+ mice relative to saline-injected controls. By comparison, the increase of intake in Npy–/– mice was far smaller (45%) and did not achieve statistical significance (P = 0.08). Hyperphagic feeding in response to insulin-induced hypoglycemia was therefore markedly attenuated in mice lacking NPY, and a similar feeding deficit was detected in these animals after neuroglucopenia induced by 2-deoxyglucose (500 mg/kg ip). A role for NPY in glucoprivic feeding is further supported by our finding that Npy mRNA content (measured by real-time PCR) increased 2.4-fold in the hypothalamus of Npy+/+ mice by 7 h after insulin injection. Unlike the feeding deficits observed in mice lacking NPY, the effect of hypoglycemia to increase plasma glucagon and corticosterone levels was fully intact in these animals, as were both the nadir glucose value and time to recovery of euglycemia after insulin injection (P = not significant). We conclude that NPY signaling is required for hyperphagic feeding, but not neuroendocrine responses to moderate hypoglycemia.
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