Role of cholecystokinin in the anorexia produced by duodenal delivery of oleic acid in rats. Woltman, Todd, Daniel Castellanos, and Roger Reidelberger. Veterans Administration Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68105 and Department of Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE 68178
APStracts 2:0193R, 1995.
To assess the importance of triglyceride digestion products in producing satiety, we determined the effects of duodenal infusions of triolein, oleic acid, and oleic acid plus monoolein on meal patterns in ad libitum feeding rats. Oleic acid and oleic acid plus monoolein inhibited feeding similarly; triolein's effect was delayed and 4-fold less potent. We then used the CCKA receptor antagonist devazepide to assess the importance of CCK in mediating the anorexia produced by oleic acid. Oleic acid (320, 440, 640 [mu]mol/h) inhibited 3-h intake dose-dependently by 32, 56, and 75%. Devazepide (1 or 2 mg/kg) blocked the responses to the 320 [mu]mol/h dose, but had little if any effect on responses to the larger doses. Devazepide (1 mg/kg) did block anorexic responses to 3-h CCK-8 infusions (3, 10 nmol/kg-h IV) that inhibited 3-h intake by 25 and 65%. Our results suggest that the satiety response to triolein is produced by the products of triolein digestion, and that CCK plays a significant indispensable role in mediating the satiety response to duodenal delivery of small but not large loads of oleic acid.

Received 28 October 1994; accepted in final form 23 June 1995.
APS Manuscript Number R625-4.
Article publication pending Am. J. Physiol. (Regulatory Integrative
Comp. Physiology).
ISSN 1080-4757 Copyright 1995 The American Physiological Society.
Published in APStracts on 18 July 1995.