Effects of leptin administration on long-term selected fat mice.
To assess the role of genetic changes in sensitivity to leptin hormone in contributing to responses to long-term selection for fatness, leptin was administered to a long-term fat selected (F) and a control line (C) of mice. These lines differ almost three fold in their percentage of fat (fat%) at about 15 weeks of age. Treated (T) animals received twice-daily intraperitoneal injections of 5mg/kg leptin from 91 to 105 days of age; untreated (U) animals received equivolume injections of phosphate-buffered saline. Treated compared with untreated animals in both lines had significantly (P < 0.05) lower mean body weight, food intake and fatness at the end of test (fat%: CT 3%, CU 7.4%, FT 14.9%, FU 21.1%). The differences in response between the lines [(CT-CU)-(FT-FU)] were all non-significant (P > 0.05), however. There was a very wide range of fatness (estimated from dry matter content) among FT animals (3-29%), much higher than in FU (15-31%), CT (0.7-6.4%) and CU (2-15%) animals. While sensitivity to leptin remains in the fat line, response appears to vary among animals at the dose level used.
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Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK. lutz.bunger@ed.ac.uk
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D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000737:chemistry / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D001835:Body Weight / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004435:Eating / Q000187:drug effects; D020738:Leptin; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains / Q000235:genetics*; D009765:Obesity / Q000235:genetics; D011506:Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D012641:Selection, Genetic
D020738:Leptin; D011506:Proteins