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Role of dorsomedial hypothalamic neuropeptide Y in modulating food intake and energy balanceLiang Yang
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Neurosci 29:179-90. 2009..Together, these results indicate that DMH NPY plays an important role in modulating food intake and energy balance and its dysregulation causes disordered energy balance leading to obesity...
Dorsomedial hypothalamic NPY and energy balance controlSheng Bi
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Neuropeptides 46:309-14. 2012..Overall, the recent findings provide clear evidence demonstrating critical roles for DMH NPY in energy balance control, and also imply a potential role for DMH NPY in maintaining glucose homeostasis...
Differential body weight and feeding responses to high-fat diets in rats and mice lacking cholecystokinin 1 receptorsSheng Bi
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 720 Rutland Ave, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 293:R55-63. 2007..Together, these data provide further evidence for differential roles of CCK1 receptors in the controls of food intake and body weight in rats and mice...
Role of dorsomedial hypothalamic neuropeptide Y in energy homeostasisSheng Bi
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Peptides 28:352-6. 2007..Moreover, access to running wheels normalizes body weight and prevents altered DMH NPY expression of OLETF rats. Together, these data suggest that DMH NPY plays an important role in feeding and body weight control...
A role for NPY overexpression in the dorsomedial hypothalamus in hyperphagia and obesity of OLETF ratsS Bi
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 281:R254-60. 2001..A similar DMH NPY overexpression was evident in 5-wk-old preobese OLETF rats. These findings suggest a role for DMH NPY upregulation in the etiology of OLETF hyperphagia and obesity...
Running wheel activity prevents hyperphagia and obesity in Otsuka long-evans Tokushima Fatty rats: role of hypothalamic signalingSheng Bi
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 720 Rutland Avenue, Ross 618, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Endocrinology 146:1676-85. 2005....
Differential roles for cholecystokinin a receptors in energy balance in rats and miceSheng Bi
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Endocrinology 145:3873-80. 2004..The deficit in CCK's action in the control of DMH NPY gene expression may play a major role in the obese phenotype in OLETF rats...
Actions of CCK in the controls of food intake and body weight: lessons from the CCK-A receptor deficient OLETF ratSheng Bi
Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Neuropeptides 36:171-81. 2002..Thus, the obesity in the OLETF rats may be the outcome of two regulatory disruptions, one depending upon a peripheral within meal satiety pathway and the other depending upon a central pathway critical to overall energy balance...
Acute food deprivation and chronic food restriction differentially affect hypothalamic NPY mRNA expressionSheng Bi
Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins Univ School of Medicine, 720 Rutland Ave, Ross 618, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 285:R1030-6. 2003..Together, these data suggest that arcuate and DMH NPY gene expression are differentially regulated. DMH NPY-expressing neurons do not appear to be under the direct control of leptin signaling...
Response to acute food deprivation in OLETF rats lacking CCK-A receptorsSheng Bi
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 720 Rutland Avenue, Ross 618, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Physiol Behav 79:655-61. 2003....
A novel obesity model: synphilin-1-induced hyperphagia and obesity in miceX Li
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 36:1215-21. 2012..Synphilin-1, a cytoplasmic protein, was initially identified as an interaction partner of alpha-synuclein, and has implications in Parkinson's disease pathogenesis related to protein aggregation...
Lateral ventricular ghrelin and fourth ventricular ghrelin induce similar increases in food intake and patterns of hypothalamic gene expressionKimberly P Kinzig
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 290:R1565-9. 2006..These data demonstrate that ghrelin can affect food intake and hypothalamic gene expression through interactions at multiple brain sites...
Dorsomedial hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing factor mediation of exercise-induced anorexiaMaiko Kawaguchi
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 720 Rutland Ave, Ross 618, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 288:R1800-5. 2005..Central CRF antagonist injection further increased DMH CRF mRNA expression in exercised rats. Together, these data suggest that DMH CRF play a critical role in the anorexia resulting from increased voluntary exercise...
Characterization of the feeding inhibition and neural activation produced by dorsomedial hypothalamic cholecystokinin administrationJ Chen
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 720 Rutland Avenue, Ross 618, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Neuroscience 152:178-88. 2008..Together, these data suggest that DMH CCK plays an important role in the control of food intake, and does so by activating different pathways from those activated by peripheral CCK...
Altered hypothalamic signaling and responses to food deprivation in rats fed a low-carbohydrate dietKimberly P Kinzig
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Obes Res 13:1672-82. 2005..To model how consuming a low-carbohydrate (LC) diet influences food intake and body weight...
Intensive blood-pressure control in hypertensive chronic kidney diseaseLawrence J Appel
Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21205 2223, USA
N Engl J Med 363:918-29. 2010..Yet few trials have tested whether intensive blood-pressure control retards the progression of chronic kidney disease among black patients...
Long-term effects of renin-angiotensin system-blocking therapy and a low blood pressure goal on progression of hypertensive chronic kidney disease in African AmericansLawrence J Appel
Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, The Johns Hopkins Institutions, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205 2223, USA
Arch Intern Med 168:832-9. 2008..A low blood pressure (BP) goal (BP, <130/80 mm Hg) is also recommended. The objective of this study was to determine the long-term effects of currently recommended BP therapy in 1094 African Americans with hypertensive CKD...
Gastrin-releasing peptide messenger ribonucleic acid expression in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus is altered by melanocortin receptor stimulation and food deprivationEllen E Ladenheim
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Endocrinology 150:672-8. 2009....
Factors contributing to obesity in bombesin receptor subtype-3-deficient miceEllen E Ladenheim
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Endocrinology 149:971-8. 2008..However, our finding that pair-feeding did not completely normalize fat distribution and plasma leptin levels suggests there is also a metabolic dysregulation that may contribute to, or sustain, their obese phenotype...
Hyperphagia and obesity of OLETF rats lacking CCK1 receptors: developmental aspectsTimothy H Moran
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Dev Psychobiol 48:360-7. 2006..These lasting metabolic effects of exercise may be secondary to an exercise induced reduction in DMH NPY mRNA expression...
Intracerebroventricular C75 decreases meal frequency and reduces AgRP gene expression in ratsSusan Aja
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 291:R148-54. 2006..Overall, the data suggest that gene expression changes leading to altered melanocortin signaling are important for the hypophagic response to intracerebroventricular C75...
Hyperphagia and obesity in OLETF rats lacking CCK-1 receptorsTimothy H Moran
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 361:1211-8. 2006..The OLETF rat is a valuable model for characterizing actions of CCK in energy balance and has provided novel insights into interactions between exercise and food intake...
High-fat diet offsets the long-lasting effects of running-wheel access on food intake and body weight in OLETF ratsPei Ting Chao
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 300:R1459-67. 2011..Together, these results demonstrate that high-fat diet modulates the long-lasting effects of exercise on food intake and body weight in OLETF rats...
Research Grants
- Dorsomedial Hypothalamic Pathways and Energy BalanceSheng Bi; Fiscal Year: 2005..Together, these neurochemical and functional demonstrations will provide a clear view of the role of the DMH in energy balance ..
- Dorsomedial Hypothalamic Signaling Pathways and Energy BalanceSheng Bi; Fiscal Year: 2010..Overall, the elucidation of the actions of these DMH peptide systems in feeding and body weight control would significantly advance our understanding of the role of this hypothalamic nucleus in maintaining energy homeostasis. ..
- Dorsomedial Hypothalamic Signaling Pathways and Energy BalanceSheng Bi; Fiscal Year: 2010..Overall, the elucidation of the actions of these DMH peptide systems in feeding and body weight control would significantly advance our understanding of the role of this hypothalamic nucleus in maintaining energy homeostasis. ..
- Exercise and energy balance: role of hypothalamic transthyretinSheng Bi; Fiscal Year: 2010..Such identification will provide a potential target for the prevention and treatment of obesity. ..
