@article { author = {Liu, Xia and Guo, Yaoyao and Li, Zhaozhen and Gong, Yanling}, title = {The role of acylated ghrelin and unacylated ghrelin in the blood and hypothalamus and their interaction with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease}, journal = {Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences}, volume = {23}, number = {9}, pages = {1191-1196}, year = {2020}, publisher = {Mashhad University of Medical Sciences}, issn = {2008-3866}, eissn = {2008-3874}, doi = {10.22038/ijbms.2020.45356.10555}, abstract = {Objective(s): Ghrelin is a brain-gut peptide involved in substance and energy metabolism. To confirm the hypothesis that ghrelin might be involved in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a rat NAFLD model was established and the changes of ghrelin were explored.Materials and Methods: The rats were divided into control and NAFLD groups. The rats in the NAFLD group were fed a high-fat–high-cholesterol (HFHC) diet for 8 weeks. Total ghrelin (TG), acylated ghrelin (AG), unacylated ghrelin (UAG), and hypothalamic AG and its receptor GHSR-1a expression were detected using ELISA, RIA, RT-PCR, and Western blot, respectively.Results: Plasma UAG, TG, and the ratio of UAG to AG (UAG/AG) decreased, while protein and mRNA expression of hypothalamic AG and growth hormone secretagogue receptor-1a (GHSR-1a) increased in NAFLD (P<0.01). Plasma UAG and UAG/AG were negatively associated with homeostatic model assessment insulin resistance (HOMA-IR), while AG positively correlated with HOMA-IR (R2=0.6510, P=0.005; R2=0.8520, P=0.000; R2=0.5617, P=0.013, respectively). Plasma UAG, TG and UAG/AG negatively correlated with serum LDL-C or hepatic triglycerides (TGs) (R2=0.7733, P=0.001; R2=0.6930, P=0.003; R2=0.6042, P=0.008; R2=0.7046, P=0.002; R2=0.6722, P=0.004; R2=0.5124, P=0.020, respectively). Hypothalamic AG and GHSR-1a positively correlated with HOMA-IR or hepatic TGs (R2=0.5116, P=0.020; R2=0.5220, P=0.018; R2=0.6074, P=0.008; R2=0.5127, P=0.020, respectively).Conclusion: It might be that decreased circulating UAG/AG, rather than UAG or AG alone, were involved in IR and liver lipid accumulation in NAFLD. Acylated ghrelin might induce IR and promote liver lipid accumulation via a central mechanism involved in the hypothalamus.}, keywords = {Ghrelin Hypothalamus Insulin resistance Non,alcoholic fatty liver,disease Rat}, url = {https://ijbms.mums.ac.ir/article_15984.html}, eprint = {https://ijbms.mums.ac.ir/article_15984_f900161c214b3e7a1ee35f0b2a2e142a.pdf} }