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Manuscript received 20 October 1997. Initial reviews completed 4 December 1997. Revision accepted 28 May 1998.
Pennington Biomedical Research Center and * Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70808
Osborne-Mendel (OM) and S5B/Pl rats differ in their sensitivity to develop obesity when fed a high fat (HF) diet; OM rats become obese, whereas S5B/Pl rats remain thin. We have investigated the possibilities that either an impaired leptin response or resistance to leptin action underlies the sensitivity to this form of obesity in OM rats. In Experiment 1, OM and S5B/Pl rats fed a nonpurified diet were killed at d 0 or were fed either a HF (56% fat energy) or a low fat (LF, 10% fat energy) diet for 2 or 7 d. The HF diet increased serum leptin significantly by d 2 to levels that were similar in both rat strains. At 7 d, leptin levels were lower than at d 2 but remained higher than levels in the d 0 control groups. The leptin mRNA:18S RNA ratio in epididymal adipose tissue increased to higher levels in HF-fed OM rats than in S5B/Pl rats fed that diet. However, although the LF diet had no effect in S5B/Pl rats, it increased leptin mRNA levels in epididymal adipose tissue of OM rats compared with the controls fed the nonpurified diet. In Experiment 2, OM and S5B/Pl rats were fed HF or LF diets for 5 wk. At that time, their feeding response to a range of leptin doses (0, 1, 5 or 10 µg) given intracerebroventricularly was tested after overnight food deprivation. There was a similar dose-dependent reduction in energy intake in response to leptin in both OM and S5B/Pl rats. These responses were independent of the diet. The data suggest that the susceptibility of OM rats to HF diet-induced obesity is not related to either a loss of central sensitivity to leptin or a failure to enhance leptin production acutely, although the failure to maintain chronically increased levels of serum leptin could contribute to the obesity.
Key words: leptin, dietary fat, obesity, adipose tissue, rats.
The Journal of Nutrition Vol. 128 No. 10 October 1998,
pp. 1606-1613
Copyright ©1998 by the American Society for Nutritional Sciences
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