Quantitative assessment of brown adipose tissue whitening in a high-fat-diet murine model using synthetic magnetic resonance imaging

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Purpose: This study aimed to quantitatively evaluate the whitening process of brown adipose tissue (BAT) in mice using synthetic magnetic resonance imaging (SyMRI) and analyzed the correlation between SyMRI quantitative measurements of BAT and serum lipid profiles.

Methods: Fifteen C57BL/6 mice were divided into three groups and fed different diets as follows: normal chow diet for 12 weeks, NCD group; high-fat diet (HFD) for 12 weeks, HFD-12w group; and HFD for 36 weeks, HFD-36w group. Mice were scanned using 3.0 T SyMRI. T1 and T2 values of BAT and interscapular BAT (iBAT) volume were measured. After sacrifice, the body weight of mice, lipid profiles, BAT morphology, and uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) levels were determined. Statistical analysis was performed using one-way analysis of variance or Kruskal-Wallis test followed by Bonferroni correction for pairwise comparisons. Bonferroni-adjusted significance level was set at P < 0.017 (alpha: 0.05/3 = 0.017).

Results: T2 values of BAT in the HFD-12w group were significantly higher than those in the NCD group (P < 0.001), and those in the HFD-36w group were significantly higher than those in the other two groups (both P < 0.001). The iBAT volume in the HFD-36w group was significantly higher than that in the HFD-12w (P = 0.013) and NCD groups (P = 0.005). T2 values of BAT and iBAT volume were significantly correlated with serum lipid profiles and mouse body weight.

Conclusions: SyMRI can noninvasively evaluate the whitening process of BAT using T2 values and iBAT volume, thereby facilitating the visualization of the whitening process.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Heliyon - 10(2024), 6 vom: 30. März, Seite e27314

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Huo, Mengjuan [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Junzhao [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yinhong [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Meng [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jialu [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Shi-Ting [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Huasong [VerfasserIn]
Zhong, Bihui [VerfasserIn]
Dong, Zhi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Brown adipose tissue
Journal Article
Longitudinal relaxation time
Synthetic magnetic resonance imaging
Transverse relaxation time
Whitening

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Date Revised 22.03.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e27314

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369994639