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Intrahypothalamic estradiol regulates glucose metabolism via the sympathetic nervous system in female rats.
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- Hypothalamic actions of estrogens in the regulation of energy and glucose homeostasis.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2026Review
- Hypothalamic regulation of energy homeostasis: Quo vadis.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2026Review
- Hypothalamus-liver talks: whispers in the language of metabolism.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2026Review
- Hypothalamic malate dehydrogenase 2 modulates systemic glucose metabolism through oxytocin-mediated thermogenesis.Cell reports. Medicine · 2026Article
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- Midlife estradiol treatment reduces the firing rate of liver-related PVN neurons in ovariectomized high-fat diet-fed mice.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2025Article
- Hypothalamic Estrogen Receptor α Is Essential for Female Marmoset Sexual Behavior Without Protecting From Obesity.Journal of the Endocrine Society · 2025Article
- A subset of neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus directly project to liver-related premotor neurons in the ventrolateral medulla.Autonomic neuroscience : basic & clinical · 2025Article
- Age of Cafeteria Diet Onset Influences Obesity Phenotype in Mice in a Sex-Specific Manner.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Hypothalamus-sympathetic-liver axis mediates the early phase of stress-induced hyperglycemia in the male mice.Nature communications · 2024Article
- mGluR5 in Astrocytes in the Ventromedial Hypothalamus Regulates Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide Neurons and Glucose Homeostasis.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Estrogens and the regulation of glucose metabolism.World journal of diabetes · 2021Review
- Sex-dimorphic Rostro-caudal Patterns of 5'-AMP-activated Protein Kinase Activation and Glucoregulatory Transmitter Marker Protein Expression in the Ventrolateral Ventromedial Hypothalamic Nucleus (VMNvl) in Hypoglycemic Male and Female Rats: Impact of Estradiol.Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN · 2021Article
- Neuroestradiol regulation of ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus 5'-AMP-activated protein kinase activity and counterregulatory hormone secretion in hypoglycemic male versus female rats.AIMS neuroscience · 2021Article
- Estrogen-sensitive medial preoptic area neurons coordinate torpor in mice.Nature communications · 2020Article
- The loss of ERE-dependent ERα signaling potentiates the effects of maternal high-fat diet on energy homeostasis in female offspring fed an obesogenic diet.Journal of developmental origins of health and disease · 2020Article
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- Administration of Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone in the Hypothalamic Paraventricular Nucleus of Male Rats Mimics the Metabolic Cold Defense Response.Neuroendocrinology · 2018Article
- Loss of ERα partially reverses the effects of maternal high-fat diet on energy homeostasis in female mice.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Pregnancy induces resistance to the anorectic effect of hypothalamic malonyl-CoA and the thermogenic effect of hypothalamic AMPK inhibition in female rats.Endocrinology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Long-term reduced hypothalamic estrogen signaling leads to increased food intake and decreased locomotor activity and energy expenditure, and ultimately results in obesity and insulin resistance. In the current study, we aimed to determine the acute obesity-independent effects of hypothalamic estrogen signaling on glucose metabolism. We studied endogenous glucose production (EGP) and insulin sensitivity during selective modulation of systemic or intrahypothalamic estradiol (E2) signaling in rats 1 week after ovariectomy (OVX). OVX caused a 17% decrease in plasma glucose, which was completely restored by systemic E2. Likewise, the administration of E2 by microdialysis, either in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) or in the ventromedial nucleus (VMH), restored plasma glucose. The infusion of an E2 antagonist via reverse microdialysis into the PVN or VMH attenuated the effect of systemic E2 on plasma glucose. Furthermore, E2 administration in the VMH, but not in the PVN, increased EGP and induced hepatic insulin resistance. E2 administration in both the PVN and the VMH resulted in peripheral insulin resistance. Finally, sympathetic, but not parasympathetic, hepatic denervation blunted the effect of E2 in the VMH on both EGP and hepatic insulin sensitivity. In conclusion, intrahypothalamic estrogen regulates peripheral and hepatic insulin sensitivity via sympathetic signaling to the liver.
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