Enhanced sympathetic activity in mice with brown adipose tissue transplantation (transBATation)

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Brown adipose tissue (BAT) burns calories to produce heat, and is thus relevant to energy balance. Interscapular BAT (IBAT) of donor mice was transplanted into recipient mice (transBATation). To test whether transBATation counteracts high-fat diet (HFD)-induced obesity, some sham-operated and recipient mice were fed a HFD (HFD-sham, HFD-trans) while others remained on a standard chow (chow-sham, chow-trans). HFD-trans mice had lower body weight and fat and greater energy expenditure, but similar caloric intake compared with HFD-sham mice. We hypothesized that HFD-trans mice had elevated sympathetic activity compared with HFD-sham mice, contributing to increased energy expenditure and fuel mobilization. This was supported by findings that HFD-trans mice had greater energy expenditure during a norepinephrine challenge test and higher core temperatures after cold exposure than did HFD-sham mice, implicating enhanced whole-body metabolic response and elevated sympathetic activity. Additionally, transBATation selectively increased sympathetic drive to some, but not all, white adipose tissue depots and skeletal muscles, as well as the endogenous IBAT, heart, and liver. Collectively, transBATation confers resistance to HFD-induced obesity via increase in whole-body sympathetic activity, and differential activation of sympathetic drive to some of the tissues involved in energy expenditure and fuel mobilization.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2014

Erschienen:

2014

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:125

Enthalten in:

Physiology & behavior - 125(2014) vom: 10. Feb., Seite 21-9

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhu, Zheng [VerfasserIn]
Spicer, Elizabeth G [VerfasserIn]
Gavini, Chaitanya K [VerfasserIn]
Goudjo-Ako, Ashley J [VerfasserIn]
Novak, Colleen M [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Haifei [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

BAT
Brown adipose tissue
Cold exposure
EDL
EE
EWAT
Energy expenditure
Epididymal white adipose tissue
Extensor digitorum longus
HFD
High-fat diet
IBAT
IWAT
Inguinal white adipose tissue
Interscapular brown adipose tissue
Journal Article
LGAS
Lateral gastrocnemius
MGAS
MWAT
Medial gastrocnemius
Mesenteric white adipose tissue
NETO
Norepinephrine
Norepinephrine challenge
Norepinephrine turnover
PBS
PGC1α
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator-1α
Phosphate-buffered saline
RWAT
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Retroperitoneal white adipose tissue
SNS
Sympathetic nervous system
TH
Tyrosine hydroxylase
UCP1
Uncoupling protein 1
Visceral white adipose tissue
WAT
White adipose tissue
X4W3ENH1CV

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Date Completed 09.01.2015

Date Revised 21.10.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.physbeh.2013.11.008

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM233214976