1. Hypothalamic Tanycytes Are an ERK-Gated Conduit for Leptin into the Brain
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Sowmyalakshmi Rasika, Eric Trinquet, Eglantine Balland, Sebastien G. Bouret, Bénédicte Dehouck, Emilie Caron, Ralf Jockers, Julie Dam, Andrea Messina, Youssef Anouar, Sophie M. Steculorum, Fanny Langlet, Anthony Falluel-Morel, Vincent Prevot, Institut pour la Recherche sur le Cancer de Lille (U837 INSERM - IRCL), Institut pour la recherche sur le cancer de Lille [Lille] (IRCL)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre de Recherche Jean-Pierre AUBERT - Neurosciences et Cancer -JPArc [Lille], Institut Cochin (IC UM3 (UMR 8104 / U1016)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Différenciation et communication neuronale et neuroendocrine (DC2N), Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Cisbio Bioassays [Codolet, France] (Innovation Management / CbB), The Saban Research Institute [Los Angeles, CA, États-Unis], Children’s Hospital Los Angeles [Los Angeles]-University of Southern California (USC), Institut pour la recherche sur le cancer de Lille [Lille] (IRCL)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Southern California (USC)-Children’s Hospital Los Angeles [Los Angeles], and Prevot, Vincent
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Leptin ,Male ,MAPK/ERK pathway ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Physiology ,Blotting, Western ,Ependymoglial Cells ,Hypothalamus ,Biology ,Article ,Mice ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Animals ,Immunoprecipitation ,Premovement neuronal activity ,[SDV.NEU] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC] ,Receptor ,Molecular Biology ,2. Zero hunger ,Leptin receptor ,Tanycyte ,digestive, oral, and skin physiology ,Brain ,Cell Biology ,Mice, Inbred C57BL ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Endocrinology ,Median eminence ,[SDV.NEU]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC] ,Neuron ,hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists ,Signal Transduction - Abstract
International audience; Leptin secreted by adipocytes acts on the brain to reduce food intake by regulating neuronal activity in the mediobasal hypothalamus (MBH). Obesity is associated with resistance to high circulating leptin levels. Here, we demonstrate that peripherally administered leptin activates its receptor (LepR) in median eminence tanycytes followed by MBH neurons, a process requiring tanycytic ERK signaling and the passage of leptin through the cerebrospinal fluid. In mice lacking the signal-transducing LepRb isoform or with diet-induced obesity, leptin taken up by tanycytes accumulates in the median eminence and fails to reach the MBH. Triggering ERK signaling in tanycytes with EGF reestablishes leptin transport, elicits MBH neuron activation and energy expenditure in obese animals, and accelerates the restoration of leptin sensitivity upon the return to a normal-fat diet. ERK-dependent leptin transport by tanycytes could thus play a critical role in the pathophysiology of leptin resistance, and holds therapeutic potential for treating obesity.
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- 2014
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