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Peptide YY_3-36 concentration in acute- and long-term recovered anorexia nervosa.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The gut-brain axis could be a possible key factor in the pathophysiology of anorexia nervosa. The neuropeptide peptide YY_3-36, secreted by endocrine L cells of the gastrointestinal tract, is a known regulator of appetite and food intake. The objective of this study was to investigate peptide YY_3-36 plasma concentrations at different stages of anorexia nervosa in a combined cross-sectional and longitudinal design to differentiate between effects of acute undernutrition and more enduring characteristics.

Methods

We measured fasting plasma peptide YY_3-36 concentrations in young patients with acute anorexia nervosa (n = 47) and long-term recovered patients (n = 35) cross-sectionally in comparison to healthy control participants (n = 58), and longitudinally over the course of inpatient treatment. Physical activity was controlled as it may modulate peptide YY secretion.

Results

There was no group difference in peptide YY_3-36 concentration among young acutely underweight anorexia nervosa patients, long-term recovered anorexia nervosa patients, and healthy control participants. Longitudinally, there was no change in peptide YY_3-36 concentration after short-term weight rehabilitation. For acute anorexia nervosa patients at admission to treatment, there was a negative correlation between peptide YY_3-36 concentration and body mass index.

Conclusions

The current study provides additional evidence for a normal basal PYY_3-36 concentration in AN. Future studies should study multiple appetite-regulating peptides and their complex interplay and also use research designs including a food challenge.

SUBMITTER: Tam FI

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7669786 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Peptide YY<sub>3-36</sub> concentration in acute- and long-term recovered anorexia nervosa.

Tam Friederike I FI Seidel Maria M Boehm Ilka I Ritschel Franziska F Bahnsen Klaas K Biemann Ronald R Weidner Kerstin K Roessner Veit V Ehrlich Stefan S

European journal of nutrition 20200312 8

<h4>Purpose</h4>The gut-brain axis could be a possible key factor in the pathophysiology of anorexia nervosa. The neuropeptide peptide YY<sub>3-36</sub>, secreted by endocrine L cells of the gastrointestinal tract, is a known regulator of appetite and food intake. The objective of this study was to investigate peptide YY<sub>3-36</sub> plasma concentrations at different stages of anorexia nervosa in a combined cross-sectional and longitudinal design to differentiate between effects of acute unde ...[more]

PMID: 32166384

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Project description:Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe mental disorder characterized by food restriction and weight loss. This study aimed to test the model posed by Brooks et al. (2012a,b) that women suffering from chronic AN show decreased food-cue processing activity in brain regions associated with energy balance and food reward (bottom-up; BU) and increased activity in brain regions associated with cognitive control (top-down; TD) when compared with long-term recovered AN (REC) and healthy controls (HC). Three groups of women, 15 AN (mean illness duration 7.8 ± 4.1 years), 14 REC (mean duration of recovery 4.7 ± 2.7 years) and 15 HC viewed alternating blocks of food and non-food images preceded by a short instruction during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), after fasting overnight. Functional region of interests (fROIs) were defined in BU (e.g., striatum, hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus, and cerebellum), TD (e.g., medial and lateral prefrontal cortex, and anterior cingulate), the insula, and visual processing areas (VPA). Food-cue processing activation was extracted from all fROIs and compared between the groups. In addition, functional connectivity between the fROIs was examined by modular partitioning of the correlation matrix of all fROIs. We could not confirm the hypothesis that BU areas are activated to a lesser extent in AN upon visual processing of food images. Among the BU areas the caudate showed higher activation in both patient groups compared to HC. In accordance with Brooks et al.'s model, we did find evidence for increased TD control in AN and REC. The functional connectivity analysis yielded two clusters in HC and REC, but three clusters in AN. In HC, fROIs across BU, TD, and VPA areas clustered; in AN, one cluster span across BU, TD, and insula; one across BU, TD, and VPA areas; and one was confined to the VPA network. In REC, BU, TD, and VPA or VPA and insula clustered. In conclusion, despite weight recovery, neural processing of food cues is also altered in recovered AN patients.

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Peptide YY_3-36 concentration in acute- and long-term recovered anorexia nervosa.

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Peptide YY<sub>3-36</sub> concentration in acute- and long-term recovered anorexia nervosa.

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Peptide YY3-36 concentration in acute- and long-term recovered anorexia nervosa.

Purpose

Methods

Results

Conclusions

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Peptide YY<sub>3-36</sub> concentration in acute- and long-term recovered anorexia nervosa.

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Peptide YY_3-36 concentration in acute- and long-term recovered anorexia nervosa.