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1 Department of Foods and Nutrition, University of Georgia, Athens 30602; and 3 Department of Biology, Georgia State University and 2 Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Atlanta, Georgia 30303
One hypothesis for the regulation of total body fat suggests that leptin is a lipostatic feedback signal that acts at brain sites involved in regulation of energy balance. The importance of leptin in recovery from partial surgical lipectomy was tested by performing bilateral epididymal lipectomy or sham surgery on wild-type and leptin-deficient ob/ob mice. Eight weeks later, nonexcised pads of lipectomized mice were increased but total carcass fat was lower than in sham-operated ob/ob mice. In experiment 2, ob/ob mice, wild-type mice, and two db/db mutants, C57BL/6J dbLepr/dbLepr (BL/6J) mice possessing short-form and circulating leptin receptors and C57BL/6J db3J/db3J (BL/3J) mice expressing only circulating receptors, were lipectomized or sham operated. Sixteen weeks later, body mass and carcass lipid were not different between sham and lipectomized ob/ob mice, wild-type mice, or BL/6J db/db mice, whereas there was incomplete (decreased carcass fat) but suggestive recovery (increased retroperitoneal fat mass and cell number) in lipectomized BL/3J db/db mice. These data indicate that leptin is not required for the regulation of total body fat.
ob/ob mice; db/db mice; total body fat; cell size distribution
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