Comparison of the effects of simmondsin and cholecystokinin on metabolism, brown adipose tissue and the pancreas in food-restricted rats.

Abstract

In this study, we investigated the analogies between the physiological effects of simmondsin, a satiety-inducing glycoside extracted from jojoba seeds, and the gastro-intestinal satiation peptide, cholecystokinin. The effects of intraperitoneal injection of the biological active CCK-octapeptide on the pancreas, interscapular brown adipose tissue, growth performance and energy metabolism in normal-fed, severely food intake-restricted (50 % of normal food intake) or moderately food intake-restricted (65 % of normal food intake) growing rats were compared to the effects of 0.25 % simmondsin mixed in the food, inducing moderate food intake reduction (65 % of normal) in rats. Cholecystokinin induced pancreatic hypertrophy. In normal fed rats, cholecystokinin had no effect on brown adipose tissue or growth, while, in severely food intake-restricted rats, it caused brown adipose tissue hypertrophy and reduced growth. In moderately food intake-restricted rats, both cholecystokinin and simmondsin induced pancreatic hypertrophy, increased brown adipose weight and metabolism and caused a slight decrease in growth. We conclude that cholecystokinin may decrease growth performance in fast growing severely food intake-restricted rats by stimulating brown adipose tissue metabolism, probably because of protein shortage induced by pancreatic hyperstimulation. Simmondsin has similar effects. These results support the hypothesis that endogenous cholecystokinin is involved in the effects of simmondsin in rats.

• Authors: G Flo, S Vermaut, M Van Boven, P Daenens, J Buyse, E Decuypere, E Kühn, M Cokelaere
• Journal: Hormone and metabolic research = Hormon- und Stoffwechselforschung = Hormones et metabolisme (Horm Metab Res) Vol. 30 Issue 8 Pg. 504-8 (Aug 1998) ISSN: 0018-5043 [Print] Germany
• PMID: 9761380 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)

Chemical References

• Acetonitriles
• Appetite Depressants
• Cyclohexanes
• Glucosides
• Electron Transport Complex IV
• Sincalide
• simmondsin

Topics

• Acetonitriles (pharmacology)
• Adipose Tissue, Brown (drug effects, pathology)
• Animals
• Appetite Depressants (pharmacology)
• Cyclohexanes
• Electron Transport Complex IV (metabolism)
• Energy Metabolism (drug effects)
• Food Deprivation
• Glucosides (pharmacology)
• Hypertrophy
• Male
• Organ Size
• Pancreas (drug effects, pathology)
• Rats
• Rats, Wistar
• Sincalide (pharmacology)
• Weight Gain (drug effects)