Ventromedial hypothalamic glucose sensing and glucose homeostasis vary throughout the estrous cycle
| Autor: | Deborah J. Clegg, Ammy M. Santiago, Vanessa H. Routh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0301 basic medicine
Blood Glucose medicine.medical_specialty Patch-Clamp Techniques medicine.drug_class medicine.medical_treatment Action Potentials 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Endogeny Estrous Cycle Biology Hypoglycemia In Vitro Techniques Article 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience Mice 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine medicine Glucose homeostasis Animals Homeostasis Insulin Estrous cycle Neurons Glucose tolerance test Analysis of Variance medicine.diagnostic_test Estradiol Fasting Glucose Tolerance Test medicine.disease Mice Inbred C57BL 030104 developmental biology Endocrinology Glucose Estrogen Ventromedial Hypothalamic Nucleus Female |
| Zdroj: | Physiologybehavior. 167 |
| ISSN: | 1873-507X |
| Popis: | 17β-Estradiol (17βE) regulates glucose homeostasis in part by centrally mediated mechanisms. In female rodents, the influence of the ovarian cycle on hypoglycemia counterregulation and glucose tolerance is unclear. We found previously that in prepubertal females, 17βE modulates glucose sensing in nonadapting glucose-inhibited (GI) and adapting GI (AdGI) neurons within the ventrolateral portion of the ventromedial nucleus (VL-VMN). Nonadapting GI neurons persistently decrease their activity as glucose increases while AdGI neurons transiently respond to a glucose increase. To begin to understand if endogenous fluctuations in estrogen levels across the estrous cycle impact hypothalamic glucose sensing and glucose homeostasis, we assessed whether hypoglycemia counterregulation and glucose tolerance differed across the phases of the estrous cycle. We hypothesized that the response to insulin-induced hypoglycemia (IIH) and/or glucose tolerance would vary throughout the estrous cycle according to changes in 17βE availability. Moreover, that these changes would correlate with estrous-dependent changes in the glucose sensitivity of VL-VMN glucose-sensing neurons (GSNs).These hypotheses were tested in female mice by measuring the response to IIH, glucose tolerance and the glucose sensitivity of VL-VMN GSNs during each phase of the estrous cycle. Furthermore, a physiological brain concentration of 17βE seen during proestrus was acutely applied to brain slices isolated on the day of diestrous and the response to low glucose in VL-VMN GSNs was assayed.The response to IIH was strongest during diestrous. The response of nonadapting GI and AdGI neurons to a glucose decrease from 2.5 to 0.5mM also peaked during diestrous; an effect which was blunted by the addition of 17βE. In contrast, the glucose sensitivity of the subpopulation of GSNs which are excited by glucose (GE) was not affected by estrous phase or exogenous 17βE application.These data suggest that physiological fluctuations in circulating 17βE levels across the estrous cycle lead to changes in hypothalamic glucose sensing and the response to IIH. |
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