The stimulation of the phosphogluconate oxidation pathway by pyruvate under anaerobic conditions in diaphragm muscle and in rat brown adipose tissue

1962 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 153-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Beloff-Chain ◽  
Raffaella Catanzaro ◽  
E.B. Chain ◽  
L. Longinotti ◽  
Ines Masi ◽  
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1983 ◽  
Vol 245 (6) ◽  
pp. E555-E559 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Szillat ◽  
L. J. Bukowiecki

Adenosine competitively inhibited the stimulatory effects of (-)-isoproterenol on lipolysis and respiration in hamster brown adipocytes. The low value of the apparent ki for respiratory inhibition by adenosine (7 nM) indicated that the nucleoside may control brown adipocyte function under physiological concentrations. Significantly, the dose-response curves for isoproterenol stimulation of lipolysis and respiration were both shifted by adenosine to higher agonist concentrations by the same order of magnitude, providing additional evidence for a tight coupling between lipolysis and respiration. The inhibitory effects of adenosine were rapidly reversed by a) adenosine deaminase, b) agents known to increase intracellular cyclic AMP levels (isoproterenol, isobutylmethylxanthine, dibutyryl cyclic AMP), and c) direct stimulation of respiration with palmitic acid. These results, combined with the fact that adenosine failed to affect respiration evoked either by dibutyryl cyclic AMP or by palmitic acid, strongly indicate that adenosine regulates brown adipose tissue respiration at an early metabolic step of the stimulus-thermogenesis sequence, most probably at the level of the adenylate cyclase complex.


Author(s):  
L. Melguizo Rodríguez ◽  
R. Illescas-Montes ◽  
V. J. Costela-Ruiz ◽  
O. García-Martínez

1983 ◽  
Vol 214 (1) ◽  
pp. 265-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
K S Galpin ◽  
R G Henderson ◽  
W P T James ◽  
P Trayhurn

Cytochrome oxidase activity and mitochondrial GDP binding were decreased in brown adipose tissue of mice treated chronically with corticosterone. These changes occurred both in corticosterone-treated mice fed ad libitum and in treated mice pair-fed to control animals. Although the dietary stimulation of brown-adipose-tissue thermogenesis was suppressed by corticosterone, the acute response to cold was not affected.


2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 372-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Bahler ◽  
H. J. Verberne ◽  
W. M. Admiraal ◽  
W. J. Stok ◽  
M. R. Soeters ◽  
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