PMID- 31954515 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200923 LR - 20200923 IS - 1090-2104 (Electronic) IS - 0006-291X (Linking) VI - 523 IP - 4 DP - 2020 Mar 19 TI - Brain-specific chemokine FAM19A5 induces hypothalamic inflammation. PG - 829-834 LID - S0006-291X(20)30077-2 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.bbrc.2019.12.119 [doi] AB - The cytokine-like protein FAM19A5 is highly expressed in the brain, but little is known about its functions there. Here, we found that FAM19A5 was expressed in mouse hypothalamic cells expressing proopiomelanocortin (POMC) and neuropeptide Y (NPY)/agouti-related peptide (AgRP), and in the microglia. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), which induces inflammatory sickness responses, greatly increased hypothalamic expression of FAM19A5. Knockdown of FAM19A5 expression resulted in decreased TNF-alpha-induced anorexia, body weight loss and TNF-alpha-induced expression of inflammatory factors. In contrast, intracerebroventricular administration of FAM19A5 induced anorexia, body weight loss and hyperthermia, together with increased expression of inflammatory factors. FAM19A5 injection also induced increases in c-fos activation and POMC mRNA level in hypothalamic POMC neurons. Together, these results suggest that FAM19A5 plays an important role in hypothalamic inflammatory responses. CI - Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Kang, Dasol AU - Kang D AD - Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, 44610, South Korea. FAU - Kim, Han Rae AU - Kim HR AD - Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, 44610, South Korea; Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, The George Washington University, USA, 20037. FAU - Kim, Kwang Kon AU - Kim KK AD - Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, 44610, South Korea. FAU - Kim, Dong Hee AU - Kim DH AD - Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, 44610, South Korea. FAU - Jeong, Bora AU - Jeong B AD - Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, 44610, South Korea. FAU - Jin, Sungho AU - Jin S AD - Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, 44610, South Korea. FAU - Park, Jeong Woo AU - Park JW AD - Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, 44610, South Korea. FAU - Seong, Jae Young AU - Seong JY AD - Graduate School of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, South Korea. FAU - Lee, Byung Ju AU - Lee BJ AD - Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, 44610, South Korea. Electronic address: bjlee@ulsan.ac.kr. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20200115 PL - United States TA - Biochem Biophys Res Commun JT - Biochemical and biophysical research communications JID - 0372516 RN - 0 (Cytokines) RN - 0 (Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos) RN - 0 (Tafa5 protein, mouse) RN - 0 (Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha) RN - 66796-54-1 (Pro-Opiomelanocortin) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Cytokines/administration & dosage/*metabolism/pharmacology MH - Humans MH - Hypothalamus/drug effects/*metabolism/*pathology MH - Inflammation/*metabolism MH - Male MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - Neurons/drug effects/metabolism MH - Organ Specificity/drug effects MH - Pro-Opiomelanocortin/metabolism MH - Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos/metabolism MH - Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/administration & dosage OTO - NOTNLM OT - Anorexia OT - Hyperthermia OT - Hypothalamic inflammation OT - Proinflammatory cytokines OT - Sickness responses OT - Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) EDAT- 2020/01/20 06:00 MHDA- 2020/09/24 06:00 CRDT- 2020/01/20 06:00 PHST- 2019/12/03 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/12/25 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/01/20 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/09/24 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/01/20 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0006-291X(20)30077-2 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.bbrc.2019.12.119 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2020 Mar 19;523(4):829-834. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2019.12.119. Epub 2020 Jan 15.