Insulin Acutely Regulates Gene Expression in Brain–A New Potential Major Level of Control of Metabolism and Neurotransmission

While the brain is now recognized as an insulin sensitive tissue, and impaired insulin signaling in brain can lead to many metabolic and behavioral abnormalities, effects of insulin on gene expression in the brain remain largely unknown. To understand now this aspect of insulin action may impact physiology in vivo , we performed hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamps at low (4 mU/kg/min) and high (12 mU/kg/min) physiological doses of insulin in C57BL/6 mice, and after 3 hours collected different brain regions and analyzed their transcriptomes using RNA Seq. In response to low dose insulin infusion, 1851 genes were up- or down-regulated in the hypothalamus by at least 50% (all P Disclosure W. Cai: None. A. Ramirez: None. J. Dreyfuss: None. T.M. Batista: None. R. Garcia Martin: None. H. Pan: None. M.E. Li: None. B.T. O9Neill: None. J.K. Kim: None. C. Kahn: Advisory Panel; Self; CohBar, ERX Therapeutics, AntriaBio, Inc.. Board Member; Self; Kaleio Biosciences.