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1 Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
2 FASgen, Inc., Baltimore, MD, USA
3 Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
4 Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: saja1{at}jhmi.edu.
C75, an inhibitor of fatty acid synthase and stimulator of carnitinepalmitoyltransferase-1, reduces food intake and body weight in rodents when given systemically or centrally. Intracellular molecular mechanisms involving changes in cellular energy status are proposed to initiate the feeding and body weight reductions. However, effectors that lie downstream of these initial steps are not yet fully identified. Present experiments characterize the time courses of hypophagia and weight-loss after single injections of C75 into the lateral cerebroventicle in rats, and go on to identify specific meal pattern changes and coinciding alterations in gene expression for feedingrelated hypothalamic neuropeptides. C75 reduced chow intake and body weight dosedependently. Although the principal effects occurred on the first day, weight losses relative to vehicle control were maintained over multiple days. C75 did not affect generalized locomotor activity. C75 began to reduce feeding after a 6-h delay. The hypophagia was due primarily to decreased meal number during 6-12 h without a significant effect on meal size, suggesting that central C75 reduced the drive to initiate meals. C75 prevented the anticipated hypophagia-induced increases in mRNA for AgRP in the arcuate nucleus at 22 h, and at 6 h when C75 begins to suppress feeding. Overall, the data suggest that gene expression changes leading to altered melanocortin signaling are important for the hypophagic response to i.c.v. C75.
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