ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2020
Constitutionally High Serotonin Tone Favors Obesity: Study on Rat Sublines With Altered Serotonin Homeostasis.
Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Constitutive Serotonin Tone as a Modulator of Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis: A Rat Study.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Metabolic and Molecular Response to High-Fat Diet Differs between Rats with Constitutionally High and Low Serotonin Tone.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants reduce COVID-19 infection: prospects for use.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2022Review
- An Emerging Cross-Species Marker for Organismal Health: Tryptophan-Kynurenine Pathway.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Orexin, serotonin, and energy balance.WIREs mechanisms of disease · 2022Review
- Does serotonin deficiency lead to anosmia, ageusia, dysfunctional chemesthesis and increased severity of illness in COVID-19?Medical hypotheses · 2021Article
- Metabolic Disturbances in Rat Sublines with Constitutionally Altered Serotonin Homeostasis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Constitutive Serotonin Tone Modulates Molecular and Behavioral Response to Chronic Fluoxetine Treatment: A Study on Genetic Rat Model.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Can selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors have a neuroprotective effect during COVID-19?European journal of pharmacology · 2020Review
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Abstract
Central and peripheral pools of biogenic monoamine serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine [5HT]) exert opposite effects on the body weight regulation: increase in brain 5HT activity is expected to decrease body weight, whereas increase in peripheral 5HT activity will increase body weight and adiposity. In a genetic model of rats with constitutionally high- or low-5HT homeostasis (hyperserotonergic/hyposerotonergic rats), we have studied how individual differences in endogenous 5HT tone modulate net energy balance of the organism. The high-5HT and low-5HT sublines of the model were developed by selective breeding toward extreme platelet activities of 5HT transporter, a key molecule determining 5HT bioavailability/activity. In animals from high-5HT and low-5HT sublines, we assessed physiological characteristics associated with body weight homeostasis and expression profile of a large scale of body weight-regulating genes in hypothalamus, a major brain region controlling energy balance. Results showed that under standard chow diet animals from the high-5HT subline, as compared to low-5HT animals, have lifelong increased body weight (by 12%), higher absolute daily food intake (by 9%), and different pattern of fat distribution (larger amount of white adipose tissue and lower amount of brown adipose tissue). A large number of body weight-regulating hypothalamic genes were analyzed for their mRNA expression: 24 genes by reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (
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