Homeostatic versus hedonic control of carbohydrate selection
Open Access
- 1 September 2020
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Journal Of Physiology-London
- Vol. 598 (18), 3831-3844
- https://doi.org/10.1113/JP280066
Abstract
Macronutrient intake is associated with cardiometabolic health, ageing and longevity, but the mechanisms underlying its regulation have remained unclear. Most rodents increase carbohydrate selection under certain physiological and pathological conditions such as fasting. When presented with a choice between a basally preferable high-fat diet (HFD) and a high-carbohydrate diet (HCD) such as a high-sucrose diet, fasted mice first eat the HFD and then switch to the HCD during the first few hours of refeeding and continue to eat the HCD up to 24 h in the two-diet choice approach. Such consumption of an HCD after fasting reverses the fasting-induced increase in the plasma concentration of ketone bodies more rapidly than does refeeding with an HFD alone. 5 '-AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK)-regulated neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVH) that express corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) are necessary and sufficient for the fasting-induced selection of carbohydrate over an HFD in mice. These neurons appear to contribute to a fasting-induced increase in the positive valence of carbohydrate without affecting the preference for more palatable and energy-dense diets such as an HFD. Identification of the neural circuits in which AMPK-regulated CRH neurons in the PVH of mice are embedded should shed new light on the physiological and molecular mechanisms responsible for macronutrient selection.Funding Information
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (JP19gm0610011h9906)
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