Neonatal overnutrition programming impairs cholecystokinin effects in adultmale rats
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- DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2020.108494
Neonatal overnutrition programming impairs cholecystokinin effects in adultmale rats
Abstract
Overfeeding and rapid weight gain during early life are risk factors for the development of obesity in adulthood. This metabolic malprogramming may be mediated by endocrine disturbances during critical periods of development. Cholecystokinin (CCK) acts on the central nervous system by elevating thermogenesis and the activity of anorectic neurons, modulating overall energy balance. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that postnatal overfeeding impaired CCK effects. Pups were raised in either a litter of three (neonatal overnutrition/small litter group) or 12 (controls/normal litter group) pups per dam to study the effects of postnatal overfeeding on the central and peripheral CCK systems in adulthood. Rats raised in small litters became overweight during lactation and remained overweight as adults, with increased adiposity and plasma levels of lipids, glucose, insulin, and leptin. Neonatally over-nourished rats showed attenuation of gastric emptying and anorexigenic response to CCK, suggesting that offspring from the SL group may present CCK resistance as adult male rats. Consistent with this idea, overweight rats displayed impaired central response in c-Fos immunoreactivity on the nucleus tractus solitarius, area postrema, paraventricular nucleus, central amygdala, arcuate nucleus, and dorsomedial hypothalamus in response to peripheral CCK at adulthood. The small litter group of adult male rats also exhibited reduced norepinephrine- and CCK-stimulated thermogenesis. Unresponsiveness to the effects of CCK may contribute to overweight and metabolic dysfunctions observed in postnatally over-nourished adult rats. Thus, the involvement of an impaired CCK system, among other neurohormonal failures, may contribute to the development of obesity.
Keywords: Food intake; Gastric emptying; Hypothalamus; Offspring; Small litter; Thermogenesis.
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