Effects of leptin administration on long-term selected fat mice
Effects of leptin administration on long-term selected fat mice
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DOI:
10.1017/s0016672397002814
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1997-06-01
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Hill, WG
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Bunger, L;Hill, WG
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 5 mg/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.