Relative importance of sympathetic outflow and insulin in the reactivation of brown adipose tissue lipogenesis in rats adapted to a high-protein diet

Metabolism ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.H. Kawashita ◽  
M.A.F. Moura ◽  
M.N. Brito ◽  
S.M.R.C. Brito ◽  
M.A.R. Garofalo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adipose Tissue ◽  
Brown Adipose Tissue ◽  
High Protein Diet ◽  
High Protein ◽  
Protein Diet ◽  
Sympathetic Outflow ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Brown Adipose

Glucose uptake, glucose transporter GLUT4, and glycolytic enzymes in brown adipose tissue from rats adapted to a high-protein diet

Metabolism ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 51 (11) ◽  
pp. 1501-1505 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.H. Kawashita ◽  
M.N. Brito ◽  
S.R.C. Brito ◽  
M.A.F. Moura ◽  
W.T.L. Festuccia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adipose Tissue ◽  
Brown Adipose Tissue ◽  
Glucose Uptake ◽  
Glucose Transporter ◽  
High Protein Diet ◽  
High Protein ◽  
Glycolytic Enzymes ◽  
Protein Diet ◽  
Brown Adipose ◽  
Glucose Transporter Glut4

scholarly journals Low protein diet changes the energetic balance and sympathetic activity in brown adipose tissue of growing rats

Nutrition ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 1186-1192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suélem Aparecida de França ◽  
Maísa Pavani dos Santos ◽  
Maria Antonieta Rissato Garófalo ◽  
Luiz Carlos Navegantes ◽  
Isis do Carmo Kettelhut ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adipose Tissue ◽  
Brown Adipose Tissue ◽  
Sympathetic Activity ◽  
Protein Diet ◽  
Low Protein Diet ◽  
Growing Rats ◽  
Low Protein ◽  
Brown Adipose ◽  
Energetic Balance

Sucrose-induced obesity: effect of diet on obesity and brown adipose tissue

1987 ◽  
Vol 253 (1) ◽  
pp. R158-R166 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. B. Kanarek ◽  
J. R. Aprille ◽  
E. Hirsch ◽  
L. Gualtiere ◽  
C. A. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Adipose Tissue ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Brown Adipose Tissue ◽  
Dietary Protein ◽  
Feed Efficiency ◽  
Protein Diet ◽  
Standard Diet ◽  
Metabolic Potential ◽  
Interscapular Brown Adipose Tissue ◽  
Brown Adipose

Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into three groups and fed diets containing either 10, 20, or 40% protein for 56 days. Half of the rats in each dietary condition were given a 32% sucrose solution plus the standard diet and water. Sucrose intake varied directly as a function of dietary protein levels. Rats fed either the 10 or 20% protein diet and sucrose had higher caloric intakes, gained more weight, were more efficient at using calories for weight gain, and had more adipose tissue than rats given the same diet without sucrose. Rats fed the 40% protein diet and sucrose did not exhibit overeating, excess weight gain, or increased feed efficiency relative to animals fed the 40% diet alone. Animals given sucrose had more interscapular brown adipose tissue (IBAT) and a greater metabolic potential for thermogenesis in IBAT as determined by GDP binding in mitochondria than rats not fed sucrose. These results demonstrate that dietary protein is important in the development of sucrose-induced obesity and that increases in IBAT mass and activity can occur concomitant with increased feed efficiency.

scholarly journals Identification of PACAP-Expressing Neurons in the Hypothalamic Origins of Sympathetic Outflow Tracts Terminating in Brown Adipose Tissue of Mice

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. A541-A541
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Filatov ◽  
Alex P Rudecki ◽  
Alina-Geta Constantin ◽  
Sarah Louise Gray
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Adipose Tissue ◽  
Cold Stress ◽  
Brown Adipose Tissue ◽  
Sympathetic Nerve ◽  
Energy Homeostasis ◽  
Sympathetic Nerve Activity ◽  
Sympathetic Outflow ◽  
Nerve Activity ◽  
Brown Adipose

Abstract Adaptive thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue is stimulated by the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) in response to cold stress. Using retrograde viral transneuronal tract tracers, previous studies have identified that the paraventricular nucleus (PVN), ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH), and median preoptic nucleus (MnPO) contain neurons that are part of sympathetic outflow tracts to brown adipose tissue, presumptively involved in SNS stimulation of interscapular brown adipose tissue (iBAT). Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide (PACAP) is a peptide hormone known to regulate energy homeostasis, acting in both the central (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS). Mice lacking PACAP have impaired adrenergic-induced thermogenesis and a cold-sensitive phenotype. In the CNS, PACAP is highly expressed in the VMH, MnPO, and PVN of the hypothalamus. Injection of PACAP into the VMN increased core body temperature and sympathetic nerve activity to brown adipose tissue. While these studies show exogenous PACAP can activate sympathetic outflow tracts to brown adipose tissue, they do not confirm that endogenously expressed PACAP induces sympathetic nerve activity as an adaptive mechanism to cold stress, or if sympathetic outflow tracts originating in the hypothalamus express PACAP. We hypothesize that PACAP is expressed in neurons of sympathetic outflow tracts originating in the hypothalamus. To test this hypothesis, PACAP-eGFP transgenic mice were injected with the retrograde neural tracer, pseudorabies virus tagged with β-galactosidase (β-gal, PRV-BaBlu), in iBAT where postganglionic nerves innervate the tissue. Five-days post-infection, animals were culled, brains removed and cryosectioned. Neurons positive for green fluorescent protein (eGFP) and/or β-gal immunoreactivity (ir) were identified by immunohistochemistry in serial coronal and sagittal brain cryo-sections. Co-occurrence of eGFP-ir and β-gal-ir, inferred PACAP expressing neurons present in sympathetic outflow tracts (ImageJ). Co-occurrence was identified in several structures in the hypothalamus and thalamus. In conclusion, this study presents neuroanatomical evidence for populations of PACAPinergic neurons in the hypothalamus that are part of sympathetic outflow tracts to brown adipose tissue, providing further evidence of a central role for PACAP in regulating energy homeostasis.

Abstract P129: FTO Genotype and 2-year Change in Body Composition and Fat Distribution in Response to Weight-loss Diets: The Pounds Lost Trial

Circulation ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 125 (suppl_10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaomin Zhang ◽  
Qibin Qi ◽  
Frank Hu ◽  
Frank Sacks ◽  
Lu Qi
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Body Composition ◽  
Adipose Tissue ◽  
Risk Allele ◽  
High Protein Diet ◽  
Fat Distribution ◽  
High Protein ◽  
Protein Diet ◽  
Tissue Mass ◽  
Adipose Tissue Mass

OBJECTIVE The fat mass and obesity-associated gene (FTO) variant has shown the strongest association with obesity. Recent studies suggest that dietary intake may modify the genetic effects of FTO. We tested the effect of FTO variant on long-term weight loss and change in body composition in a 2-year randomized intervention trial. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS FTO SNP rs1558902 was genotyped in 742 overweight or obese adults who were randomly assigned to one of four diets differing in the percentages of energy derived from fat, protein and carbohydrate (20, 15, and 65%; 20, 25, and 55%; 40, 15, and 45%; and 40, 25, and 35%) in the Pounds Lost Trial for 2 years. Body composition and fat distribution were measured in 424 and 195 participants by Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and computed tomography (CT), respectively. RESULTS We found significant modification effects for diet intervention varying in protein (low vs high), but not in fat, on 2-year changes in total fat, fat free mass (FFM), fat mass% (FM%), trunk fat%, total adipose tissue mass (TAT), visceral adipose tissue mass (VAT) and superficial adipose tissue mass (SAT) (P for interactions=0.045, 0.036, 0.033, 0.048, 0.001, 0.008 and 0.002, respectively). Carriers of the risk allele (A allele) had a greater loss of weight and regional fat in response to high protein diet, while an opposite genetic effect was observed on changes in TAT and SAT in response to low protein diet at 2 years. Significant gene by diet interventions (low vs high protein) were also observed at 6 months of intervention, when the maximum of weight-loss was achieved, for changes in FFM, TAT, VAT and SAT (P for interactions=0.007, 0.019, 0.036 and 0.041, respectively). Patterns of change in body composition and fat distribution by diet intervention were similar at 6 month and 2 year. CONCLUSIONS Our data suggest that a high-protein diet may be beneficial for weight loss in individuals with the risk allele of the FTO variant rs1558902.

scholarly journals Melanocortin-4 receptor mRNA expressed in sympathetic outflow neurons to brown adipose tissue: neuroanatomical and functional evidence

2008 ◽  
Vol 295 (2) ◽  
pp. R417-R428 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Kay Song ◽  
Cheryl H. Vaughan ◽  
Erin Keen-Rhinehart ◽  
Ruth B. S. Harris ◽  
Denis Richard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adipose Tissue ◽  
Brown Adipose Tissue ◽  
Pseudorabies Virus ◽  
Third Ventricle ◽  
Sympathetic Outflow ◽  
Interscapular Brown Adipose Tissue ◽  
Melanocortin 4 Receptor ◽  
Precise Understanding ◽  
Norepinephrine Turnover ◽  
Brown Adipose

A precise understanding of neural circuits controlling lipid mobilization and thermogenesis remains to be determined. We have been studying the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) contributions to white adipose tissue (WAT) lipolysis largely in Siberian hamsters. Central melanocortins are implicated in the control of the sympathetic outflow to WAT, and, moreover, the melanocortin 4 receptors (MC4-R) appear to be principally involved. We previously found that acute third ventricular melanotan II (MTII; an MC3/4-R agonist) injections increase sympathetic drive (norepinephrine turnover) to interscapular brown adipose tissue (IBAT) and IBAT temperature. Here we tested whether MC4-R mRNA is expressed in IBAT SNS outflow neurons using in situ hybridization for the former and injections of the transneuronal viral retrograde tract tracer, pseudorabies virus (PRV) into IBAT, for the latter. Significant numbers of double-labeled cells for PRV and MC4-R mRNA were found across the neuroaxis (mean of all brain sites ∼60%), including the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVH; ∼80%). Acute parenchymal MTII microinjections into the PVH of awake, freely-moving hamsters, using doses below those able to increase IBAT temperature when injected into the third ventricle, increased IBAT temperature for as long as 4 h, as measured by temperature transponders implanted below the tissue. Collectively, these data add significant support to the view that central melanocortins are important in controlling IBAT thermogenesis via the SNS innervation of this tissue, likely through the MC4-Rs.

A long-term high-protein diet markedly reduces adipose tissue without major side effects in Wistar male rats

2004 ◽  
Vol 287 (4) ◽  
pp. R934-R942 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magali Lacroix ◽  
Claire Gaudichon ◽  
Antoine Martin ◽  
Céline Morens ◽  
Véronique Mathé ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adipose Tissue ◽  
Weight Control ◽  
High Protein Diet ◽  
High Protein ◽  
Protein Diet ◽  
Male Rats ◽  
Calcium Balance ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Wistar Male Rats

Although there is a considerable interest of high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets to manage weight control, their safety is still the subject of considerable debate. They are suspected to be detrimental to the renal and hepatic functions, calcium balance, and insulin sensitivity. However, the long-term effects of a high-protein diet on a broad range of parameters have not been investigated. We studied the effects of a high-protein diet in rats over a period of 6 mo. Forty-eight Wistar male rats received either a normal-protein (NP: 14% protein) or high-protein (HP: 50% protein) diet. Detailed body composition, plasma hormones and nutrients, liver and kidney histopathology, hepatic markers of oxidative stress and detoxification, and the calcium balance were investigated. No major alterations of the liver and kidneys were found in HP rats, whereas NP rats exhibited massive hepatic steatosis. The calcium balance was unchanged, and detoxification markers (GSH and GST) were enhanced moderately in the HP group. In contrast, HP rats showed a sharp reduction in white adipose tissue and lower basal concentrations of triglycerides, glucose, leptin, and insulin. Our study suggests that the long-term consumption of an HP diet in male rats has no deleterious effects and could prevent metabolic syndrome.

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