High fat diet attenuates glucose-dependent facilitation of 5-HT3-mediated responses in rat gastric vagal afferents

Amanda E. Troy, Sarah S. Simmonds, Sean D. Stocker, Kirsteen N. Browning

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Abstract

Glucose regulates the density and function of 5-HT3 receptors on gastric vagal afferent neurones. Since diet-induced obesity attenuates the responsiveness of gastric vagal afferents to several neurohormones, the aim of the present study was to determine whether high fat diet (HFD) compromises the glucose-dependent modulation of 5-HT responses in gastric vagal afferents prior to the development of obesity. Rats were fed control or HFD (14% or 60% kilocalories from fat, respectively) for up to 8 weeks. Neurophysiological recordings assessed the ability of 5-HT to increase anterior gastric vagal afferent nerve (VAN) activity in vivo before and after acute hyperglycaemia, while electrophysiological recordings from gastric-projecting nodose neurones assessed the ability of glucose to modulate the 5-HT response in vitro. Immunocytochemical studies determined alterations in the neuronal distribution of 5-HT3 receptors. 5-HT and cholecystokinin (CCK) induced dose-dependent increases in VAN activity in all rats; HFD attenuated the response to CCK, but not 5-HT. The 5-HT-induced response was amplified by acute hyperglycaemia in control, but not HFD, rats. Similarly, although 5-HT induced an inward current in both control and HFD gastric nodose neurones in vitro, the 5-HT response and receptor distribution was amplified by acute hyperglycaemia only in control rats. These data suggest that, while HFD does not affect the response of gastric-projecting vagal afferents to 5-HT, it attenuates the ability of glucose to amplify 5-HT effects. This suggests that glucose-dependent vagal afferent signalling is compromised by short periods of exposure to HFD well in advance of obesity or glycaemic dysregulation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)99-114
Number of pages16
JournalJournal of Physiology
Volume594
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2016

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Physiology

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