Mesenteric infusion of a volatile fatty acid prevents body weight loss and transiently restores luteinising hormone pulse frequency in ovariectomised, food-restricted ewes.
Mesenteric infusion of a volatile fatty acid prevents body weight loss and transiently restores luteinising hormone pulse frequency in ovariectomised, food-restricted ewes.
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肠系膜输注挥发性脂肪酸可防止卵巢切除、食物限制的母羊体重减轻并暂时恢复黄体生成素脉冲频率。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2826.2011.02173.x
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发表时间:
2011
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Clarke,IJ
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作者:
Szymanski,LA;Schneider,JE;Satragno,A;Dunshea,FR;Clarke,IJ
Pulsatile luteinising hormone (LH) secretion is suppressed by food restriction and rapidly restored by return toad lib.feeding concomitant with an increase in the oxidation of free fatty acids, although there is no increase in plasma leptin concentrations or body fat content in ovariectomised ewes. The ingestion of food may stimulate LH secretion by increasing availability of oxidisable metabolic substrates. Ruminal digestion is characterised by the production of volatile fatty acids and, of these, propionate is the major gluconeogenic substrate, and both glucose and propionate are oxidisable in a variety of tissues. To examine whether increases in mesenteric propionate concentrations are sufficient for restoration of pulsatile LH secretion during a period of food restriction, adult, food‐restricted, hypogonadotrophic, ovariectomised ewes received mesenteric vein infusions of 5 μmol/min/kg body weight (BW) propionate or saline, whereas normal weight,ad lib.‐fed ewes received mesenteric infusions of saline for 10 days. Blood samples were taken every 10 min for 5 h before the start of the 10‐day infusion period, and continued throughout the first 5 h of infusion on the afternoon of day 1, and in the morning on days 2, 7 and 10. Propionate‐infused, food‐restricted andad lib.‐fed, saline‐infused ewes showed a significantly higher LH pulse frequency compared to that of food‐restricted‐saline‐infused ewes on postinfusion days 1 and 2 but not on days 7 and 10, and only the saline‐infused, food‐restricted group lost a significant amount of body weight. These results indicate that the reproductive system can respond acutely to infusion of metabolic fuels such as propionate, although a sustained recovery of pulsatile LH secretion requires more than an increase in this single metabolic substrate.