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  • Title: Significance of hyperinsulinemia in ventromedial hypothalamus-lesioned rats.
    Author: Hansen FM, Nilsson P, Hustvedt BE, Nilsson-Ehle P, Løvø A.
    Journal: Am J Physiol; 1983 Mar; 244(3):E203-8. PubMed ID: 6338734.
    Abstract:
    The significance of the hyperinsulinemia on the altered metabolism in ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH)-lesioned rats was tested. VMH lesions induced increases in fatty acid synthesis, lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activity, and plasma urea levels, and a decrease in plasma triglyceride concentrations. Similarly, in normal rats treated with pharmacological doses of insulin (14 U X rat-1 X day-1), fatty acid synthesis and LPL activity in fat tissue and the plasma urea were considerably elevated and plasma triglyceride was lowered compared with untreated controls. When endogenous insulin production was abolished by streptozotocin treatment, the four metabolic variables in the VMH-lesioned rats did not differ from those in diabetic controls. Substitution with 2 U of insulin X rat-1 X day-1, however, restored the differences in metabolism between VMH-lesioned diabetic and control diabetic rats. Substitution with 3 or 4 U insulin X rat-1 X day-1 showed the same differences. In VMH-lesioned rats the insulin level increased significantly from the 10th to the 70th day postoperatively; however, the rate of fatty acid synthesis, LPL activity, and plasma urea levels decreased, whereas plasma triglyceride concentrations increased. The results strongly suggest that the metabolic changes occurring after VMH lesions are only in part explained by the hyperinsulinemia associated with the VMH syndrome and indicate that other hormonal and/or nervous factors are involved.
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