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Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab (March 4, 2003). doi:10.1152/ajpendo.00468.2002
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Submitted on October 30, 2002
Accepted on February 28, 2003

Impaired Transport of Leptin Across the Blood-Brain Barrier in Obesity is Acquired and Reversible

William A. Banks1* and Catherine L. Farrell2

1 GRECC, and Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center - St. Louis, and Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
2 Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, USA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bankswa{at}slu.edu.

Leptin resistance is a major cause of obesity in humans. A major component of this resistance is likely an impaired transport of leptin across the blood-brain barrier (BBB). The fattest subgroup of otherwise normal 12 mo old CD-1 mice have severely impaired transport of leptin across the BBB. However, it is unknown whether these mice are born with a BBB impairment or acquire it with aging and obesity. Here, we found within an otherwise normal population of CD-1 mice that the 10% fattest mice gained weight throughout a 12 mo life span, while the 10% thinnest mice gained little weight after 3 mo of age. The fattest mice acquired a progressive impairment in their ability to transport leptin across the BBB, whereas the thinnest mice had a rate of transport which did not change with age. Fasting fat mice for 24 h or treating them with leptin resulted in modest weight reduction and development of transport rates for leptin across the BBB similar to that of thin mice. These results show that in obese CD-1 mice the impaired transport of leptin across the BBB develops in tandem with obesity and is reversible with even modest weight reduction.




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