Xinyue Wan1,2, Jieyun Yin1,3, Robert Foreman4, Jiande D Z Chen5,6. 1. Veterans Research and Education Foundation, VA Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA. 2. Division of Gastroenterology, Wuhan University, Renmin Hospital, Wuhan, China. 3. Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA. 4. Department of Physiology, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, USA. 5. Veterans Research and Education Foundation, VA Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA. jchen184@jhmi.edu. 6. Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA. jchen184@jhmi.edu.
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PURPOSE: This paper aims to optimize stimulation parameters and durations for intestinal electrical stimulation (IES) and to explore the effects and mechanisms of chronic IES with optimized methodology in obesity rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Sixteen diet-induced obese (DIO) rats were tested for food intake with four different sets of IES parameters each lasting 1 week. Then, another 12 DIO rats were used to test the effect of IES on food intake with different stimulation durations. Finally, 16 DIO rats were treated with IES or sham-IES for 4 weeks. Meal patterns, food intake, and body weight were observed. Mechanisms involving gastrointestinal motility, ghrelin, and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) were studied. RESULTS: (1) Acute IES with different parameters showed different inhibitory effects on food intake, and the most effective parameters were 0.6 s on, 0.9 s off, 80 Hz, 2 ms, and 4 mA with which 26.3% decrease in food intake was noted (p < 0.001). (2) IES with daily treatment of 12 h was most effective in suppressing food intake compared with 1 or 6 h. (3) Four-week IES reduced net weight by 10.9% (p < 0.05 vs. sham-IES) and epididymal fat pad weight by 13.9% (p < 0.001). (4) IES delayed gastric emptying (p < 0.001) and accelerated intestinal transit (p < 0.05). (5) IES increased both fasting and postprandial plasma levels of GLP-1 but not ghrelin. CONCLUSION: Twelve-hour daily IES using optimized stimulation parameters reduces food intake and body weight in DIO rats by altering gastrointestinal motility and GLP-1. The IES methodology derived in this study may have a therapeutic potential for obesity.
PURPOSE: This paper aims to optimize stimulation parameters and durations for intestinal electrical stimulation (IES) and to explore the effects and mechanisms of chronic IES with optimized methodology in obesityrats. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Sixteen diet-induced obese (DIO) rats were tested for food intake with four different sets of IES parameters each lasting 1 week. Then, another 12 DIO rats were used to test the effect of IES on food intake with different stimulation durations. Finally, 16 DIO rats were treated with IES or sham-IES for 4 weeks. Meal patterns, food intake, and body weight were observed. Mechanisms involving gastrointestinal motility, ghrelin, and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) were studied. RESULTS: (1) Acute IES with different parameters showed different inhibitory effects on food intake, and the most effective parameters were 0.6 s on, 0.9 s off, 80 Hz, 2 ms, and 4 mA with which 26.3% decrease in food intake was noted (p < 0.001). (2) IES with daily treatment of 12 h was most effective in suppressing food intake compared with 1 or 6 h. (3) Four-week IES reduced net weight by 10.9% (p < 0.05 vs. sham-IES) and epididymal fat pad weight by 13.9% (p < 0.001). (4) IES delayed gastric emptying (p < 0.001) and accelerated intestinal transit (p < 0.05). (5) IES increased both fasting and postprandial plasma levels of GLP-1 but not ghrelin. CONCLUSION: Twelve-hour daily IES using optimized stimulation parameters reduces food intake and body weight in DIO rats by altering gastrointestinal motility and GLP-1. The IES methodology derived in this study may have a therapeutic potential for obesity.
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Electric stimulation; Gastrointestinal motility; Gut peptides; Neuromodulation; Obesity
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