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A potent neuropeptide Y antagonist, 1229U91, suppressed spontaneous food intake in Zucker fatty rats.

Abstract
Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is one of the most potent orexigenic substances known. 1229U91 was found to be a potent and selective NPY antagonist. To elucidate a physiological role of NPY in hyperphagia in obese animals, we studied the effect of 1229U91 on spontaneous food intake in obese and lean Zucker rats. The food intake of Zucker rats was suppressed by intracerebroventricular administration of 1229U91 more potently in obese than in lean animals without abnormal behavior (31.7 and 67.3% inhibition at doses of 10 and 30 micrograms, respectively, in Zucker fatty rats and 22.2% inhibition at 30 micrograms in lean rats). This compound markedly suppressed NPY-induced food intake at 30 micrograms but did not affect galanin-induced food intake, suggesting that the feeding suppression seen in Zucker fatty and lean rats is pharmacologically and behaviorally specific. These results suggest that NPY is involved in feeding behavior in Zucker fatty rats and that NPY contributes to feeding to a greater degree in Zucker fatty than in lean rats. The hyperphagia in Zucker fatty rats may be due to the abnormal overactivation of the NPYergic system.
AuthorsA Ishihara, T Tanaka, A Kanatani, T Fukami, M Ihara, T Fukuroda
JournalThe American journal of physiology (Am J Physiol) Vol. 274 Issue 5 Pg. R1500-4 (05 1998) ISSN: 0002-9513 [Print] United States
PMID9612420 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • 1229U91
  • Neuropeptide Y
  • Peptides, Cyclic
Topics
  • Animals
  • Eating (drug effects, physiology)
  • Neuropeptide Y (antagonists & inhibitors, physiology)
  • Obesity (physiopathology)
  • Peptides, Cyclic (pharmacology)
  • Rats
  • Rats, Zucker

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