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1 Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland; and 2 Internal Medicine III, Erasmus University, 3015 GD, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
To
assess whether intracerebroventricular leptin administration affects
monodeiodinase type II (D2) activity in the tissues where it is
expressed [cerebral cortex, hypothalamus, pituitary, and brown adipose
tissue (BAT)], hepatic monodeiodinase type I (D1) activity was
inhibited with propylthiouracil (PTU), and small doses of thyroxine
(T4; 0.6 nmol · 100 g body
wt
1 · day
1) were
supplemented to compensate for the PTU-induced hypothyroidism. Two
groups of rats were infused with leptin for 6 days, one of them being
additionally treated with reverse triiodothyronine (rT3), an inhibitor
of D2. Control rats were infused with vehicle and pair-fed the amount
of food consumed by leptin-infused animals. Central leptin
administration produced marked increases in D2 mRNA expression and
activity in BAT, changes that were likely responsible for increased
plasma T3 and decreased plasma T4 levels. Indeed, plasma T3 and T4 concentrations were
unaltered by central leptin administration in the presence of
rT3. The additional observation of a leptin-induced
increased mRNA expression of BAT uncoupling protein-1 suggested that
the effect on BAT D2 may be mediated by the sympathetic nervous system.
intracerebroventricular leptin; triiodothyronine; thyroid hormones
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