Central effects of ghrelin on the adrenal cortex: a morphological and hormonal study
2010
Аутори:
Milošević, VericaStevanović, Darko M.
Nešić, Dejan M.
Šošić-Jurjević, Branka
Ajdžanović, Vladimir
Starčević, Vesna P.
Severs, Walter B
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Ghrelin, a growth hormone secretagogue that exerts an important role in appetite and weight regulation, participates in the activation of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Male Wistar rats (5/group) received daily for 5 days, via an ICV (intracerebroventricular) cannula, 5 ill phosphate buffered saline with or without 1 mu g of rat ghrelin. Two hours after the last injection, blood and adrenal glands were collected from decapitated rats for blood hormone analyses and histologic and morphometric processing. Ghrelin treatment resulted in increased (p < 0.05) body weight (13%), absolute whole adrenal gland weight (18%) and whole adrenal gland volume (20%). The absolute volumes of the entire adrenal cortex, ZG, ZF, and ZR also increased (p < 0.05) after ghrelin by 20%, 21%, 21% and 11%, respectively. Ghrelin-treated rats had elevated (p < 0.05) blood concentrations of ACTH, aldosterone and corticosterone (68%, 32% and 67%, respectively). The data clearly provide both morphological and hormonal status that ghrelin acts centrally to exert a global stimulatory effect on the adrenal cortex. Clarifying of the ghrelin precise role in the multiple networks affecting the stress hormone release, besides its well known energy and metabolic disbalance effects, remains a very important research goal.
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General Physiology and Biophysics, 2010, 29, 2, 194-202
DOI: 10.4149/gpb_2010_02_194
ISSN: 0231-5882
PubMed: 20577031