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Dietary fat intake does not activate brain PPARα to reverse hypophagia in mice with hypothalamic FAS inactivation, indicating that de novo synthesized fatty acids are required for this specific signaling pathway.
This study suggests that the brain's ability to regulate appetite via PPARα depends on fatty acids made internally by the enzyme FAS, not just those from your diet. This highlights the complexity of brain metabolism and why simply changing dietary fat might not fix all appetite regulation issues.
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Together, these results suggest that fatty acids synthesized by FAS but not those provided by dietary fat activate PPARα in the brain to affect feeding behavior.
Why this rating
Controlled high-fat diet experiment in knockout mice showing lack of effect on PPARα signaling.
Source
Brain fatty acid synthase activates PPARα to maintain energy homeostasis
Manu V. Chakravarthy et al. · Journal of Clinical Investigation · 2007
DOI 10.1172/jci31183
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