The impact of dietary fats, photoperiod, temperature and season on morphological variables, torpor patterns, and brown adipose tissue fatty acid composition of hamsters, Phodopus sungorus

1995 ◽  
Vol 165 (5) ◽  
pp. 406-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Geiser ◽  
G. Heldmaier
1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 465-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gérard Mory ◽  
Myriam Gawer ◽  
Jean-Claude Kader

Chronic cold exposure of rats (9 days at 5°C) induces an alteration of the fatty acid composition of phospholipids in brown adipose tissue. The alteration is due to an increase of the unsaturation degree of these lipids. The phenomenon can be reproduced by 10−7 mole. h−1 administration of noradrenaline for 9 days in rats kept at 25°C. Thus, phospholipid alteration in brown fat of cold exposed rats is most probably a consequence of the increase of sympathetic tone which occurs in this tissue during exposure to cold.


IUBMB Life ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 1129-1136
Author(s):  
Isabel Lladó ◽  
Antoni Pons ◽  
Andreu Palou

1989 ◽  
Vol 256 (1) ◽  
pp. R146-R154 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Carneheim ◽  
B. Cannon ◽  
J. Nedergaard

Because brown adipose tissue lipids are the preferred substrate for thermogenesis during arousal from hibernation, the fatty acid composition of brown fat lipids was followed during cold acclimation and during a hibernation bout. In control golden hamsters (living at 22 degrees C), the fatty acid composition of the white adipose tissue closely resembled that of the food, but brown adipose tissue contained more animal-derived fatty acids. As an effect of acclimation to cold, the fatty acid composition of brown adipose tissue changed to resemble that of the food, and no marked differences between white and brown adipose tissue were then evident. During a hibernation bout, a major part of the fatty acids accumulated in brown fat during entry into hibernation consisted of "rare" acids, such as homo-gamma-linoleic acid. Homo-gamma-linoleic, together with eicosadienoic acid and lignoceric acid, was preferentially utilized during the early phase of arousal. During this phase, "bulk" fatty acids, such as linoleic acid, were spared, whereas in late arousal, linoleic acid was the preferred substrate. It was concluded that rare fatty acids are of quantitative significance in brown adipose tissue during hibernation and arousal.


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