title: Role of AgRP on Ghrelin-induced feeding in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus.
abstract: MT II, agonist for MC3/4-Rs, inhibited Ghrelin's orexigenic effect in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN). To further investigate the role of the melanocortin system as mediator of ghrelin's orexigenic actions, we explored the involvement of AgRP in Ghrelin's orexigenic effect by testing the effect on food intake after their co-administration in the PVN, during the light and dark phases of feeding in rats. During both the phases of feeding, co-administration of Ghrelin with either AgRP 50 or AgRP 100 pmol into the PVN did not produce a synergistic effect on the food intake, suggesting that ghrelin induction of feeding occurs by recruiting Agrp as one of the obligatory mediators of its orexigenic effect.
authors.affiliation: Department of Foods and Nutrition, Dawson Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
authors.forename: Yogendra B
authors.initials: YB
authors.lastname: Shrestha
authors.forename: Kathie
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wickwire
authors.forename: Silvia Q
authors.initials: SQ
authors.lastname: Giraudo
mesh_terms: D054369:Agouti-Related Protein; D000818:Animals; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004435:Eating / Q000187:drug effects*; D054439:Ghrelin; D036341:Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D010286:Paraventricular Hypothalamic Nucleus / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D036361:Peptide Hormones / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*; D017440:Photoperiod; D011506:Proteins / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
chemical_list: D054369:Agouti-Related Protein; D054439:Ghrelin; D036341:Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D036361:Peptide Hormones; D011506:Proteins