Contrasting effects of different levels of food intake and adiposity on LH secretion and hypothalamic gene expression in sheep
Contrasting effects of different levels of food intake and adiposity on LH secretion and hypothalamic gene expression in sheep
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DOI:
10.1677/joe.0.1750383
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发表时间:
2002-11-01
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4
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Adam, CL
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作者:
Archer, ZA;Rhind, SM;Adam, CL
Body reserves (long-term) and food intake (short-terns) both contribute nutritional feedback to the hypothalamus. Reproductive neuroendocrine output (GnRH/LH) is stimulated by increased food intake and not by high adiposity in sheep, but it is unknown whether appetite-regulating hypothalamic neurons show this differential response. Castrated male sheep (Scottish Blackface) with oestradiol implants were studied in two 4 week experiments. In Experiment 1, sheep were fed to maintain the initial body condition (BC) score of 2.0 +/- 0.00 (lower BC (LBC), n=7) or 2.9 +/- 0.09 (higher BC (HBC), n=9), and liveweight of 43 +/- 1.1 and 59 +/- 1.6 kg respectively. LBC and HBC sheep had similar mean plasma LH concentration, pulse frequency and amplitude, but HBC animals had higher mean plasma concentrations of insulin (P