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APPETITE, OBESITY AND METABOLISM
1Neurology Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, E. Orange, 07018; 2Department of Neurosciences, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey 07103; 3Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center Veterans Affairs Medical Center-St. Louis, and 4Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63104
Submitted 16 July 2003 ; accepted in final form 28 August 2003
Rats selectively bred to develop diet-induced obesity (DIO) were compared with those bred to be diet resistant (DR) on a 31% fat high-energy diet with regard to their central leptin signaling and blood-brain barrier (BBB) transport. Peripheral leptin injection (15 mg/kg ip) into lean 4- to 5-wk-old rats produced 54% less anorexia in DIO than DR rats. DIO rats also had 21, 63, and 64% less leptin-induced immunoreactive phosphorylated signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (pSTAT3) expression in the hypothalamic arcuate, ventromedial, and dorsomedial nuclei, respectively. However, hindbrain leptin-induced nucleus tractus solitarius pSTAT3 and generalized sympathetic (24-h urine norepinephrine) activation were comparable. Reduced central leptin signaling was not due to defective BBB transport since transport did not differ between lean 4- to 5-wk-old DIO and DR rats. Conversely, DIO leptin BBB transport was reduced when they became obese at 23 wk of age on low-fat chow or after 6 wk on high-energy diet. In addition, leptin receptor mRNA expression was 23% lower in the arcuate nuclei of 4- to 5-wk-old DIO compared with DR rats. Thus a preexisting reduction in hypothalamic but not brain stem leptin signaling might contribute to the development of DIO when dietary fat and caloric density are increased. Defects in leptin transport appear to be an acquired defect associated with the development of obesity and possibly age.
signal transducer and activator of transcription 3; leptin receptor; sympathetic nervous system; leptin resistance
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