American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiologyNov 14, 2008

Reduced fullness response to two gut hormones in mice missing serotonin 2C receptors

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Abstract

Null mutations of serotonin 2C receptors (2CR KO) abolished the food intake-suppressing effects of CCK and GLP-1 in mice.

All doses of CCK and GLP-1 decreased 30-minute food intake in wild-type mice.
None of the tested doses of CCK or GLP-1 decreased food intake in 2CR KO mice.
CCK increased neuronal activation in the nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS) of wild-type mice, but not in 2CR KO mice.
CCK induced similar c-Fos expression in the paraventricular and arcuate nuclei of both genotypes.
GLP-1 increased c-Fos expression in the NTS similarly in both genotypes, but had a greater effect in the PVN and Arc of 2CR KO mice.
Serotonin signaling via serotonin 2CR is necessary for the full satiating effects of CCK and GLP-1, which may involve different neural mechanisms.

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To investigate the role of serotonin 2C receptors (2CR), which are expressed only in the central nervous system, in the satiating actions of the gut peptides CCK and glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), we examined 1) the effect of null mutations of serotonin 2CR (2CR KO) on the eating-inhibitory potencies of dark-onset intraperitoneal injections of 0.9, 1.7, or 3.5 nmol/kg (1, 2, or 4 microg/kg) CCK and 100, 200, and 400 nmol/kg (33, 66, or 132 microg/kg) GLP-1, and 2) the effects of intraperitoneal injections of 1.7 nmol//kg CCK and 100 nmol/kg GLP-1 on neuronal activation in the brain, as measured by c-Fos expression. All CCK and GLP-1 doses decreased 30-min food intake in wild-type (WT) mice, but none of them did in 2CR KO mice. CCK increased the number of cells expressing c-Fos in the nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS) of WT, but not 2CR KO mice. CCK induced similar degrees of c-Fos expression in the paraventricular (PVN) and arcuate (Arc) nuclei of the hypothalamus of both genotypes. GLP-1, on the other hand, increased c-Fos expression similarly in the NTS of both genotypes and increased c-Fos expression more in the PVN and Arc of 2CR KO mice, but not WT mice. These results indicate that serotonin signaling via serotonin 2CR is necessary for the full satiating effects of CCK and GLP-1. In addition, they suggest that the satiating effects of the two peptides are mediated by different neural mechanisms.

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