scholarly journals Increasing Dietary Fish Oil Reduces Adiposity and Mitigates Bone Deterioration in Growing C57BL/6 Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet

2019 ◽  
Vol 150 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay J Cao ◽  
Brian R Gregoire ◽  
Kim G Michelsen ◽  
Matthew J Picklo

ABSTRACT Background Intake of total fat is linked to obesity and inversely associated with bone density in humans. Epidemiologic and animal studies show that long-chain n–3 (ω-3) PUFAs supplied as fish oil (FO) are beneficial to skeletal health. Objective This study tested the hypothesis that increasing dietary FO would decrease adiposity and improve bone-related outcomes in growing obese mice. Methods Male C57BL/6 mice at 6 wk old were assigned to 6 treatment groups and fed either a normal-fat diet (3.85 kcal/g and 10% energy as fat) or a high-fat diet (HF; 4.73 kcal/g and 45% energy as fat) containing either 0%, 3%, or 9% energy as FO (0FO, 3FO, and 9FO, respectively) ad libitum for 6 mo. Bone structure, body composition, and serum bone-related cytokines were measured. Results The HF diet increased the expression of the adipose tissue tumor necrosis factor α (Tnfa) and serum concentrations of leptin and tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP), and decreased serum concentrations of osteocalcin and bone-specific alkaline phosphatase (P < 0.05). FO decreased fat mass (P < 0.05), serum TRAP (P < 0.05), and adipose tissue Tnfa expression (P < 0.01). Bone content of long-chain n–3 PUFAs was increased and n–6 PUFAs were decreased with the elevation in dietary FO content (P < 0.01). Compared with mice fed 9FO, animals fed 3FO had higher femoral bone volume/total volume (25%), trabecular number (23%), connectivity density (82%), and bone mass of second lumbar vertebrae (12%) and lower femoral trabecular separation (−19%). Mice fed the 3FO HF diet had 42% higher bone mass than those fed the 0FO HF diet. Conclusions These data indicate increasing dietary FO ≤3% energy can decrease adiposity and mitigate HF diet–induced bone deterioration in growing C57BL/6 mice possibly by reducing inflammation and bone resorption. FO at 9% diet energy had no further beneficial effects on bone of obese mice.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine Suffee ◽  
Elodie Baptista ◽  
Jérôme Piquereau ◽  
Maharajah Ponnaiah ◽  
Nicolas Doisne ◽  
...  

SUMMARYMetabolic disorders such as obesity are risk factors of atrial fibrillation, not only by sharing comorbidities but likely through their direct impact on atria, notably its adipogenicity. Here, we submitted mice that lack cardiac adipose tissue to a high fat diet and first studied the atrial metabolomic and lipidomic phenotypes using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. We found an increased consumption of free fatty acid by the beta-oxidation and an accumulation of long-chain lipids in atria of obese mice. Free fatty acid was the main substrate of mitochondrial respiration studied in the saponin-permeabilized atrial muscle. Conducted action potential recorded in atrial trabeculae was short, and ATP-sensitive potassium current was increased in perforated patch-clamp atrial myocytes of obese mice. There was histological and phenotypical evidence for an accumulation of adipose tissue in obese mice atria. Thus, an obesogenic diet transforms the energy metabolism, causes fat accumulation and induces electrical remodeling of atria myocardium.HIGHLIGHTS- Untargeted metabolomic and lipidomic analysis revealed that a high fat diet induces profound transformation of atrial energy metabolism with beta-oxidation activation and long-chain lipid accumulation.- Mitochondria respiration studied in atrial myocardial trabecula preferentially used Palmitoyl-CoA as energy substrate in obese mice.- Atria of obese mice become vulnerable to atrial fibrillation and show short action potential due to the activation of K-ATP dependent potassium current.- Adipocytes and fat molecular markers were detected in atria of obese mice together with an inflammatory profile consistence with a myocardial accumulation of fat.


Diabetes ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 287-LB
Author(s):  
HYE-JIN LEE ◽  
MUN-GYU SONG ◽  
NA-HEE HA ◽  
BO-YEONG JIN ◽  
SANG-HYUN CHOI ◽  
...  

2011 ◽  
Vol 108 (6) ◽  
pp. 1025-1033 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumithra Urs ◽  
Terry Henderson ◽  
Phuong Le ◽  
Clifford J. Rosen ◽  
Lucy Liaw

We recently characterised Sprouty1 (Spry1), a growth factor signalling inhibitor as a regulator of marrow progenitor cells promoting osteoblast differentiation at the expense of adipocytes. Adipose tissue-specific Spry1 expression in mice resulted in increased bone mass and reduced body fat, while conditional knockout of Spry1 had the opposite effect with decreased bone mass and increased body fat. Because Spry1 suppresses normal fat development, we tested the hypothesis that Spry1 expression prevents high-fat diet-induced obesity, bone loss and associated lipid abnormalities, and demonstrate that Spry1 has a long-term protective effect on mice fed a high-energy diet. We studied diet-induced obesity in mice with fatty acid binding promoter-driven expression or conditional knockout of Spry1 in adipocytes. Phenotyping was performed by whole-body dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, microCT, histology and blood analysis. In conditional Spry1-null mice, a high-fat diet increased body fat by 40 %, impaired glucose regulation and led to liver steatosis. However, overexpression of Spry1 led to 35 % (P < 0·05) lower body fat, reduced bone loss and normal metabolic function compared with single transgenics. This protective phenotype was associated with decreased circulating insulin (70 %) and leptin (54 %; P < 0·005) compared with controls on a high-fat diet. Additionally, Spry1 expression decreased adipose tissue inflammation by 45 %. We show that conditional Spry1 expression in adipose tissue protects against high-fat diet-induced obesity and associated bone loss.


2021 ◽  
Vol 218 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Wen Cheng ◽  
Ze-Bei Zhang ◽  
Bei-Di Lan ◽  
Jing-Rong Lin ◽  
Xiao-Hui Chen ◽  
...  

Obesity-induced secretory disorder of adipose tissue–derived factors is important for cardiac damage. However, whether platelet-derived growth factor-D (PDGF-D), a newly identified adipokine, regulates cardiac remodeling in angiotensin II (AngII)–infused obese mice is unclear. Here, we found obesity induced PDGF-D expression in adipose tissue as well as more severe cardiac remodeling compared with control lean mice after AngII infusion. Adipocyte-specific PDGF-D knockout attenuated hypertensive cardiac remodeling in obese mice. Consistently, adipocyte-specific PDGF-D overexpression transgenic mice (PA-Tg) showed exacerbated cardiac remodeling after AngII infusion without high-fat diet treatment. Mechanistic studies indicated that AngII-stimulated macrophages produce urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) that activates PDGF-D by splicing full-length PDGF-D into the active PDGF-DD. Moreover, bone marrow–specific uPA knockdown decreased active PDGF-DD levels in the heart and improved cardiac remodeling in HFD hypertensive mice. Together, our data provide for the first time a new interaction pattern between macrophage and adipocyte: that macrophage-derived uPA activates adipocyte-secreted PDGF-D, which finally accelerates AngII-induced cardiac remodeling in obese mice.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 2418-2426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mailin Gan ◽  
Linyuan Shen ◽  
Shujie Wang ◽  
Zhixian Guo ◽  
Ting Zheng ◽  
...  

Genistein may regulate lipid metabolism in adipose tissue of obese mice by regulating the expression of miR-222 and its target genes, BTG2 and adipor1.


2020 ◽  
Vol 150 (6) ◽  
pp. 1370-1378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay J Cao ◽  
Brian R Gregoire ◽  
Kim G Michelsen ◽  
Matthew J Picklo Sr

ABSTRACT Background Linoleic acid (LA; 18:2n–6) has been considered to promote low-grade chronic inflammation and adiposity. Studies show adiposity and inflammation are inversely associated with bone mass. Objectives This study tested the hypothesis that decreasing the dietary ratio of LA to α-linolenic acid (ALA, 18:3n–3), while keeping ALA constant, mitigates high-fat diet (HF)-induced adiposity and bone loss. Methods Male C57BL/6 mice at 6 wk old were assigned to 4 treatment groups and fed 1 of the following diets ad libitum for 6 mo: a normal-fat diet (NF; 3.85 kcal/g and 10% energy as fat) with the ratio of the PUFAs LA to ALA at 6; or HFs (4.73 kcal/g and 45% energy as fat) with the ratio of LA to ALA at 10:1, 7:1, or 4:1, respectively. ALA content in the diets was kept the same for all groups at 1% energy. Bone structure, body composition, bone-related cytokines in serum, and gene expression in bone were measured. Data were analyzed using 1-factor ANOVA. Results Compared with those fed the NF, mice fed the HFs had 19.6% higher fat mass (P &lt; 0.01) and 13.5% higher concentration of serum tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP) (P &lt; 0.05), a bone resorption cytokine. Mice fed the HFs had 19.5% and 12.2% lower tibial and second lumbar vertebral bone mass, respectively (P &lt; 0.01). Decreasing the dietary ratio of LA to ALA from 10 to 4 did not affect body mass, fat mass, serum TRAP and TNF-α, or any bone structural parameters. Conclusions These data indicate that decreasing the dietary ratio of LA to ALA from 10 to 4 by simply reducing LA intake does not prevent adiposity or improve bone structure in obese mice.


2017 ◽  
Vol 174 (20) ◽  
pp. 3527-3541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Menezes da Costa ◽  
Rafael S Fais ◽  
Carlos R P Dechandt ◽  
Paulo Louzada-Junior ◽  
Luciane C Alberici ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (11) ◽  
pp. 2323-2334
Author(s):  
Belén Chanclón ◽  
Yanling Wu ◽  
Milica Vujičić ◽  
Marco Bauzá-Thorbrügge ◽  
Elin Banke ◽  
...  

Abstract Background/objectives Visceral adiposity is associated with increased diabetes risk, while expansion of subcutaneous adipose tissue may be protective. However, the visceral compartment contains different fat depots. Peripancreatic adipose tissue (PAT) is an understudied visceral fat depot. Here, we aimed to define PAT functionality in lean and high-fat-diet (HFD)-induced obese mice. Subjects/methods Four adipose tissue depots (inguinal, mesenteric, gonadal, and peripancreatic adipose tissue) from chow- and HFD-fed male mice were compared with respect to adipocyte size (n = 4–5/group), cellular composition (FACS analysis, n = 5–6/group), lipogenesis and lipolysis (n = 3/group), and gene expression (n = 6–10/group). Radioactive tracers were used to compare lipid and glucose metabolism between these four fat depots in vivo (n = 5–11/group). To determine the role of PAT in obesity-associated metabolic disturbances, PAT was surgically removed prior to challenging the mice with HFD. PAT-ectomized mice were compared to sham controls with respect to glucose tolerance, basal and glucose-stimulated insulin levels, hepatic and pancreatic steatosis, and gene expression (n = 8–10/group). Results We found that PAT is a tiny fat depot (~0.2% of the total fat mass) containing relatively small adipocytes and many “non-adipocytes” such as leukocytes and fibroblasts. PAT was distinguished from the other fat depots by increased glucose uptake and increased fatty acid oxidation in both lean and obese mice. Moreover, PAT was the only fat depot where the tissue weight correlated positively with liver weight in obese mice (R = 0.65; p = 0.009). Surgical removal of PAT followed by 16-week HFD feeding was associated with aggravated hepatic steatosis (p = 0.008) and higher basal (p < 0.05) and glucose-stimulated insulin levels (p < 0.01). PAT removal also led to enlarged pancreatic islets and increased pancreatic expression of markers of glucose-stimulated insulin secretion and islet development (p < 0.05). Conclusions PAT is a small metabolically highly active fat depot that plays a previously unrecognized role in the pathogenesis of hepatic steatosis and insulin resistance in advanced obesity.


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