The acute anorexic effect of liraglutide, a GLP-1 receptor agonist, does not require functional leptin receptor, serotonin, and hypothalamic POMC and CART activities in mice

Sep 2, 2016Diabetes research and clinical practice

Liraglutide’s short-term appetite loss in mice does not depend on leptin receptors, serotonin, or key hunger-related brain signals

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Abstract

Liraglutide produces an acute decrease in appetite that may be linked to reduced hypothalamic orexin activity.

  • The anorexic effect of liraglutide does not depend on functional leptin receptors or serotonin activity.
  • Activities of proopiomelanocortin and cocaine amphetamine regulated transcript in the hypothalamus are not required for this effect.
  • There is a potential involvement of decreased hypothalamic orexin activity in liraglutide's appetite-suppressing effects.

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