Hypothalamic glucagon signals through the KATP channels to regulate glucose production
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Insulin, leptin and GLP-1 signal in the mediobasal hypothalamus (MBH) to lower hepatic glucose production (GP). MBH glucagon action also inhibits GP but the downstream signaling mediators remain largely unknown. In parallel, a lipid-sensing pathway involving MBH AMPK→malonyl-CoA→CPT-1→LCFA-CoA→PKC-δ leading to the activation of KATP channels lowers GP. Given that glucagon signals through the MBH PKA to lower GP, and PKA inhibits AMPK in hypothalamic cell lines, a possibility arises that MBH glucagon-PKA inhibits AMPK, elevates LCFA-CoA levels to activate PKC-δ, and activates KATP channels to lower GP. We here report that neither molecular or chemical activation of MBH AMPK nor inhibition of PKC-δ negated the effect of MBH glucagon. In contrast, molecular and chemical inhibition of MBH KATP channels negated MBH glucagon's effect to lower GP. Thus, MBH glucagon signals through a lipid-sensing independent but KATP channel-dependent pathway to regulate GP.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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