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Revista Mexicana de Trastornos Alimentarios 2023; 13 (2)
The hypotalamic disturbances during obesity: neuroinflammation and metabolic dysfunction
Torres GH, Ramírez CRJ, Rodríguez CYM, Chavarría A
Language: Spanish
References: 89
Page: 170-186
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ABSTRACT
Nowadays, obesity is considered a worldwide rising health problem and is characterized by adipose
tissue hypertrophy and hyperplasia due to hypercaloric intake and lack of physical activity, promoting
the development of metabolic dysfunction, low-grade systemic chronic inflammation, and gradually
hypothalamic neuroinflammation. Adipose tissue acts as an endocrine organ secreting adipokines
and cytokines around peripheral organs, functioning as a master metabolism regulator. However,
high levels of adipocyte-derived free fatty acids and inflammatory molecules promote impairments
in systemic immune response, generate chronic inflammation, disrupt the blood-brain barrier, and
stimulate glia, specifically in some hypothalamic regions, the master regulators of energetic homeostasis.
Hypothalamic glial cells are essential in diet-related inflammatory signals transmission and
can modulate neuronal activity, also respond to peripheral inflammatory signals and begin local inflammatory
response and gliosis. This review aims to analyze obesity-related metabolic dysfunction
and how it participates in the hypothalamic regulation impairments due to neuroinflammation and
impairment in food intake behavior.
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