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1 Department of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015-4732; and 2 Center for Neuroendocrine Studies, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-7720
The "adipostat hypothesis" refers to the idea that circulating hormone concentrations reflect levels of body adiposity and act as signals to control food intake and reproduction. Implicit in the adipostatic hypothesis are the following two assumptions: 1) plasma levels of adipostatic hormones accurately reflect body fat content and 2) decreased plasma concentrations of adipostatic hormones necessarily result in increased food intake and inhibited reproductive processes. The present experiments are designed to test these assumptions. Fat and lean Syrian hamsters were either fasted for 12, 24, 36, or 48 h or allowed ad libitum access to food. Contrary to the first assumption, plasma leptin and insulin levels in fat hamsters dropped dramatically by 12 h after the start of a fast, with no significant change in body fat content and no postfast hyperphagia. Lean hamsters showed anestrus after a 48-h fast but not after a 24-h fast. Contrary to the second assumption of the lipostatic hypothesis, lean hamsters fasted for 24 h and then refed for the next 24 h had leptin levels that were not significantly elevated compared with those of 48-h-fasted hamsters. Thus, in adult female Syrian hamsters, plasma leptin concentrations do not accurately reflect body fat content under all conditions; normal estrous cyclicity does not necessarily require plasma leptin concentrations higher than those of fasted hamsters; and decreased plasma leptin levels do not result in increased food intake.
fasting; ob protein; refeeding; sex behavior
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