Possible relationships between changes in body weight set-point and stress metabolism after treating rats chronically with D-fenfluramine. Effects of feeding rats acutely with fructose on the metabolism of corticosterone, glucose, fatty acids, glycerol and triacylglycerol |
| |
| Authors: | D N Brindley J Saxton H Shahidullah M Armstrong |
| |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA;2. International Joint Research Laboratory for Lipid Nutrition and Safety, State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China;1. Food Chemistry and Food Development, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, Finland;2. Department of Nutrition & Food Hygiene, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China;3. Science Institute, University of Iceland, Iceland;1. Food Chemistry and Food Development, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland;2. Science Institute, University of Iceland, Dunhaga 3, 107 Reykjavik, Iceland |
| |
| Abstract: | Rats were maintained on a corn oil diet and treated with D-fenfluramine at doses of 2.5 mg/kg twice a day for 11 days or with 10 mg or 25 mg/kg once a day for 12 days. The lower dose of D-fenfluramine produced no marked changes in body weight and after 11 days of treatment the weights of the rats on average were only 2% lower than the controls. The food intake of these rats was only decreased on the first day. The two higher doses of D-fenfluramine decreased the food consumption for about 3 days but thereafter it was similar to that of the control rats. The body weight of these rats fell on the first day, but after about four days the gain in body weight paralleled rather than approached that of the control rats. Increasing the dose of D-fenfluramine progressively decreased the relative size of the epididymal fat pad. At the end of the treatment period the rats were fed acutely with fructose to increase the circulating concentrations of corticosterone and to stimulate triacylglycerol synthesis. All three doses of D-fenfluramine decreased the concentration of circulating triacylglycerol after fructose feeding. The 10 mg/kg dose also decreased the basal concentration of triacylglycerol. The two higher doses of fenfluramine decreased the rises in the circulating concentrations of corticosterone, glycerol and fatty acids that are produced by fructose feeding. The basal concentrations of these compounds in the absence of fructose feeding were not significantly affected by the 10 mg/kg dose of D-fenfluramine. The possible relationship between the effect of chronic treatment with D-fenfluramine in decreasing a metabolic stress response and lipolysis is discussed relative to its hypotriglyceridaemic action and its effect on body weight-set point. The results demonstrate that D-fenfluramine produced persistent changes in metabolism at a time when the treated rats were growing at the same rate as the control rats and when they were eating similar quantities of food. |
| |
| Keywords: | |
| 本文献已被 ScienceDirect 等数据库收录！ |
|
