scholarly journals The SGLT2 inhibitor canagliflozin suppresses lipid synthesis and interleukin-1 beta in ApoE deficient mice

2020 ◽  
Vol 477 (12) ◽  
pp. 2347-2361
Author(s):  
Emily A. Day ◽  
Rebecca J. Ford ◽  
Jessie H. Lu ◽  
Rachel Lu ◽  
Lucie Lundenberg ◽  
...  

Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors such as canagliflozin lower blood glucose and reduce cardiovascular events in people with type 2 diabetes through mechanisms that are not fully understood. Canagliflozin has been shown to increase the activity of the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), a metabolic energy sensor important for increasing fatty acid oxidation and energy expenditure and suppressing lipogenesis and inflammation, but whether AMPK activation is important for mediating some of the beneficial metabolic effects of canagliflozin has not been determined. We, therefore, evaluated the effects of canagliflozin in female ApoE−/− and ApoE−/−AMPK β1−/− mice fed a western diet. Canagliflozin increased fatty acid oxidation and energy expenditure and lowered adiposity, blood glucose and the respiratory exchange ratio independently of AMPK β1. Canagliflozin also suppressed liver lipid synthesis and the expression of ATP-citrate lyase, acetyl-CoA carboxylase and sterol response element-binding protein 1c independently of AMPK β1. Canagliflozin lowered circulating IL-1β and studies in bone marrow-derived macrophages indicated that in contrast with the metabolic adaptations, this effect required AMPK β1. Canagliflozin had no effect on the size of atherosclerotic plaques in either ApoE−/− and ApoE−/−AMPK β1−/− mice. Future studies investigating whether reductions in liver lipid synthesis and macrophage IL-1β are important for the cardioprotective effects of canagliflozin warrant further investigation.

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 1800833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy C. Burke ◽  
Dawn E. Telford ◽  
Jane Y. Edwards ◽  
Brian G. Sutherland ◽  
Cynthia G. Sawyez ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 312 (1) ◽  
pp. E11-E18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anantha Metlakunta ◽  
Wan Huang ◽  
Maja Stefanovic-Racic ◽  
Nikolaos Dedousis ◽  
Ian Sipula ◽  
...  

Leptin has potent effects on lipid metabolism in a number of peripheral tissues. In liver, an acute leptin infusion (~120 min) stimulates hepatic fatty acid oxidation (~30%) and reduces triglycerides (TG, ~40%), effects that are dependent on phosphoinositol-3-kinase (PI3K) activity. In the current study we addressed the hypothesis that leptin actions on liver-resident immune cells are required for these metabolic effects. Myeloid cell-specific deletion of the leptin receptor (ObR) in mice or depletion of liver Kupffer cells (KC) in rats in vivo prevented the acute effects of leptin on liver lipid metabolism, while the metabolic effects of leptin were maintained in mice lacking ObR in hepatocytes. Notably, liver TG were elevated in both lean and obese myeloid cell ObR, but the degree of obesity and insulin resistance induced by a high-fat diet was similar to control mice. In isolated primary hepatocytes (HEP), leptin had no effects on HEP lipid metabolism and only weakly stimulated PI3K. However, the coculture of KC with HEP restored leptin action on HEP fatty acid metabolism and stimulation of HEP PI3K. Notably, leptin stimulated the release from KC of a number of cytokines. However, the exposure of HEP to these cytokines individually [granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor, IL-1α, IL-1β, IL-6, IL-10, and IL-18] or in combination had no effects on HEP lipid metabolism. Together, these data demonstrate a role for liver mononuclear cells in the regulation of liver lipid metabolism by leptin.


2008 ◽  
Vol 294 (2) ◽  
pp. H954-H960 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lufang Zhou ◽  
Hazel Huang ◽  
Celvie L. Yuan ◽  
Wendy Keung ◽  
Gary D. Lopaschuk ◽  
...  

Inhibition of myocardial fatty acid oxidation can improve left ventricular (LV) mechanical efficiency by increasing LV power for a given rate of myocardial energy expenditure. This phenomenon has not been assessed at high workloads in nonischemic myocardium; therefore, we subjected in vivo pig hearts to a high workload for 5 min and assessed whether blocking mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation with the carnitine palmitoyltransferase-I inhibitor oxfenicine would improve LV mechanical efficiency. In addition, the cardiac content of malonyl-CoA (an endogenous inhibitor of carnitine palmitoyltransferase-I) and activity of acetyl-CoA carboxylase (which synthesizes malonyl-CoA) were assessed. Increased workload was induced by aortic constriction and dobutamine infusion, and LV efficiency was calculated from the LV pressure-volume loop and LV energy expenditure. In untreated pigs, the increase in LV power resulted in a 2.5-fold increase in fatty acid oxidation and cardiac malonyl-CoA content but did not affect the activation state of acetyl-CoA carboxylase. The activation state of the acetyl-CoA carboxylase inhibitory kinase AMP-activated protein kinase decreased by 40% with increased cardiac workload. Pretreatment with oxfenicine inhibited fatty acid oxidation by 75% and had no effect on cardiac energy expenditure but significantly increased LV power and LV efficiency (37 ± 5% vs. 26 ± 5%, P < 0.05) at high workload. In conclusion, 1) myocardial fatty acid oxidation increases with a short-term increase in cardiac workload, despite an increase in malonyl-CoA concentration, and 2) inhibition of fatty acid oxidation improves LV mechanical efficiency by increasing LV power without affecting cardiac energy expenditure.


Endocrinology ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 149 (11) ◽  
pp. 5432-5439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xavier Prieur ◽  
Y. C. Loraine Tung ◽  
Julian L. Griffin ◽  
I. Sadaf Farooqi ◽  
Stephen O'Rahilly ◽  
...  

The metabolic effects of leptin may involve both centrally and peripherally mediated actions with a component of the central actions potentially independent of alterations in food intake. Ob/ob mice have significant abnormalities in lipid metabolism, correctable by leptin administration. We used ob/ob mice to study the relative importance of the subtypes of actions of leptin (central vs. peripheral; food intake dependent vs. independent) on lipid metabolism. Mice were treated for 3 d with leptin, either centrally [intracerebroventricular (icv)] or peripherally (ip), and compared with mice pair-fed to the leptin-treated mice (PF) and with ad libitum-fed controls (C). All treatment groups (icv, ip, PF) showed indistinguishable changes in liver weight; hepatic steatosis; hepatic lipidemic profile; and circulating free fatty acids, triglycerides, and cholesterol lipoprotein profile. Changes in the expression of genes involved in lipogenesis and fatty acid oxidation in liver, muscle, and white fat were broadly similar in ip, icv, and PF groups. Leptin (both icv and ip) stimulated expression of both mitochondrial and peroxisomal acyl-coenzyme A oxidase (liver) and peroxisomal proliferator-activated receptor-α (skeletal muscle) to an extent not replicated by pair feeding. Leptin had profound effects on peripheral lipid metabolism, but the majority were explained by its effects on food intake. Leptin had additional centrally mediated effects to increase the expression of a limited number of genes concerned with fatty acid oxidation. Whereas we cannot exclude direct peripheral effects of leptin on certain aspects of lipid metabolism, we were unable to detect any such effects on the parameters measured in this study.


Endocrinology ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 150 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn C. Rowe ◽  
Cheol Soo Choi ◽  
Lynn Neff ◽  
William C. Horne ◽  
Gerald I. Shulman ◽  
...  

Obesity and osteoporosis are major health issues affecting millions of individuals. Transgenic mice overexpressing ΔFosB, an activator protein-1 transcription factor, under the control of the enolase 2 (ENO2) promoter exhibit both an increase in bone density and a decrease in adipose mass. Here we demonstrate that ΔFosB overexpression increases fatty-acid oxidation and energy expenditure, leading to a decrease in adipocyte size and adipose mass. In addition, the ENO2-ΔFosB mice exhibit increased insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance. Targeted overexpression of ΔFosB in adipocytes using the adipocyte protein 2 promoter failed to induce changes in fat or in bone, showing that the effect on metabolic activity is not due to cell-autonomous effects of ΔFosB within adipocytes. Detailed analysis of the ENO2-ΔFosB mice demonstrated that energy expenditure was increased in muscle, independent of locomotor activity. These findings provide evidence that signaling downstream of ΔFosB is a potential target for not only osteoporosis but also obesity and diabetes. Overexpression of ΔFosB under the control of the enolase 2 promoter increases bone mass and energy expenditure by increasing fatty-acid oxidation within muscle, reducing adiposity.


1977 ◽  
Vol 166 (3) ◽  
pp. 631-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
J P Pégorier ◽  
P Ferré ◽  
J Girard

Inhibition of fatty acid oxidation with pent-4-enoate in suckling newborn rats caused a fall in blood [glucose] and blood [ketone bodies] and inhibition of gluconeogenesis from lactate. Glucose utilization was not increased in newborn rats injected with pent-4-enoate. Active fatty acid oxidation appears to be essential to support gluconeogenesis and to maintain normal blood [glucose] in suckling newborn rats.


1986 ◽  
Vol 251 (5) ◽  
pp. R840-R845 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. I. Friedman ◽  
M. G. Tordoff

To determine whether glucose and fat metabolism interact to control food intake, rats were administered 2-deoxyglucose (2-DG), which inhibits glucose utilization, and methyl palmoxirate (MP), which inhibits fatty acid oxidation. Combined treatment with 2-DG and MP increased food intake in a synergistic fashion. This synergistic effect was observed even at doses of the two agents that alone did not increase food intake, and it was expressed by either an initiation of eating or a prolonged bout of eating, depending on the testing conditions. Metabolic measures of circulating substrates, liver glycogen, and gastric contents confirmed that the drugs had their intended metabolic effects and revealed no evidence that one drug enhanced the direct metabolic action of the other. The results provide direct evidence that glucose and fat metabolism exert a coordinated control over feeding behavior and suggest the existence of a common integrative mechanism in that control.


2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 2891-2900 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene F. Diekman ◽  
Michel Weeghel ◽  
Ronald J. A. Wanders ◽  
Gepke Visser ◽  
Sander M. Houten

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document