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ArticleAmerican journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology2016

Insulin increases sympathetic nerve activity in part by suppression of tonic inhibitory neuropeptide Y inputs into the paraventricular nucleus in female rats.

Priscila A Cassaglia, Zhigang Shi, Virginia L Brooks

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Article in American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Role of the carotid chemoreceptors in insulin-mediated sympathoexcitation in humans.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2020
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  5. Sympathetic transduction to blood pressure during euglycemic-hyperinsulinemia in young healthy adults: role of burst amplitude.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2023
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  7. Role of the arterial baroreflex in the sympathetic response to hyperinsulinemia in adult humans.American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism · 2022
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  12. Obesity: sex and sympathetics.Biology of sex differences · 2020
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  13. Sites and sources of sympathoexcitation in obese male rats: role of brain insulin.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2020
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  18. Interrogating the central melanocortin system: choosing the "right" model.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Priscila A CassagliaDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.
Zhigang ShiDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.ORCID 0000-0002-5828-1904
Virginia L BrooksDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon brooksv@ohsu.edu.
Oregon Health & Science University · US

Funding

Obesity-induced sympathoexcitation: role of brain insulinR01HL128181 · NHLBI · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI BROOKS, VIRGINIA L. · 2016 to 2019
$2.3M
Insulin Resistance and Impaired Cardiovascular Regulation During PregnancyR01HL088552 · NHLBI · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI BROOKS, VIRGINIA L. · 2008 to 2011
$1.6M
American Heart Association-American Stroke Association 15POST23040042NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL088552NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL128181
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Following binding to receptors in the arcuate nucleus (ArcN), insulin increases sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) and baroreflex control of SNA via a pathway that includes the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN). Previous studies in males indicate that the sympathoexcitatory response is mediated by α-melanocyte stimulating hormone (α-MSH), which binds to PVN melanocortin type 3/4 receptors (MC3/4R). The present study was conducted in α-chloralose-anesthetized female rats to test the hypothesis that suppression of inhibitory neuropeptide Y (NPY) inputs to the PVN is also involved. In support of this, blockade of PVN NPY Y1 receptors with BIBO 3304 (NPY1x), ArcN insulin nanoinjections, and PVN NPY1x followed by ArcN insulin each increased lumbar SNA (LSNA) and its baroreflex regulation similarly. Moreover, prior PVN injections of NPY blocked the sympathoexcitatory effects of ArcN insulin. Finally, PVN nanoinjections of the MC3/4R inhibitor SHU9119 prevented both the acute (15 min) and longer, more slowly developing (60 min), increases in LSNA in response to ArcN insulin. In conclusion, in females, ArcN insulin increases LSNA, in part, by suppressing tonic PVN NPY inhibition, which unmasks excitatory α-MSH drive of LSNA. Moreover, the steadily increasing rise in LSNA induced by ArcN insulin is also dependent on PVN MC3/4R.

Indexed as

AnimalsArginineBaroreflexBlood PressureFemaleHeart RateHypoglycemic AgentsInsulinMelanocyte-Stimulating HormonesMicroinjectionsNeuropeptide YParaventricular Hypothalamic NucleusRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyReceptor, Melanocortin, Type 3Receptor, Melanocortin, Type 4ArginineBIBO 3304Hypoglycemic AgentsInsulinmelanocortin 3 receptor, ratmelanocortin receptor type 4, ratMelanocyte-Stimulating HormonesNeuropeptide Yneuropeptide Y-Y1 receptorReceptor, Melanocortin, Type 3Receptor, Melanocortin, Type 4Receptors, Neuropeptide YSHU 9119arcuate nucleusNPYPVNSNAα-MSH

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PMID27122366
PMCPMC4967227
OpenAlexW2344900332

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