Akanksha Singh*

Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur, India

*Corresponding Author: Akanksha Singh, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur, India.

Received: July 12, 2021; Published: July 26, 2021

Citation: Akanksha Singh. “Molecular Crosstalk amongst Anti-Orexigenic Ghrelin and Adenosine Monophosphate-Activated Protein Kinase (AMPK)". Acta Scientific Gastrointestinal Disorders 4.8 (2021): 66-67.

Abstract

Ghrelin has proved to be a crucial mediator in stimulation of obesity. It elevates appetite by eliminating the action of GHS-R1a of neurological NPY/AgRP thus enhancing orexigenic activity. Such negative effects had been neutralized by the production of auto-ghrelin antibodies which are self-catalytic neutralizing the obese conditions by directly targeting AMPK active site which is known to stimulate appetite. Suppression of AMPK thus playing a central role might stimulate the activation of GHS-R1a thus leading to controlled release of ghrelin hormone. In this study, when mice were fed with high calorie diet exposed to the anti- ghrelin antibodies prepared by ELISA technique, after few hours, anti- ghrelin showed maximum activity thus decreasing ghrelin levels originally present. The study mainly focusses on the determining the interaction occurring between obese mediated ghrelin molecule and AMPK.

Keywords: Ghrelin; GHS-R1a; NPY/AgRP; Orexigenic; AMPK; ELISA; Obesity

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