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Title: | Effect of sex on glucose handling by adipocytes isolated from rat subcutaneous, mesenteric and perigonadal adipose tissue. |
Author: | Rotondo, Floriana Ho-Palma, Ana Cecilia Remesar Betlloch, Xavier Fernández López, José Antonio Romero Romero, María del Mar Alemany, Marià, 1946- |
Keywords: | Teixit adipós Rates (Animals de laboratori) Diferències entre sexes Glucosa Adipose tissues Rats as laboratory animals Sex differences Glucose |
Issue Date: | 10-Aug-2018 |
Publisher: | PeerJ |
Abstract: | Background. Adult rat epididymal adipocytes are able to convert large amounts of glucose to lactate and glycerol. However, fatty acid efflux is much lower than that expected from glycerol levels if they were the product of lipolysis. Use of glucose for lipogenesis is limited, in contrast with the active glycolysis-derived lactate (and other 3-carbon substrates). In this study, we analyzed whether white adipose tissue (WAT) site and sex affect these processes. Methods. Mature adipocytes from perigonadal, mesenteric and subcutaneous WAT of female and male rats were isolated, and incubated with 7 or 14mMglucose during 1 or 2 days. Glucose consumption, metabolite efflux and gene expression of glycolytic and lipogenesis-related genes were measured. Results. The effects of medium initial glucose concentration were minimal on most parameters studied. Sex-induced differences that were more extensive; however, the most marked, distinct, effects between WAT sites, were dependent on the time of incubation. In general, the production of lactate was maintained during the incubation, but glycerol release rates increased with time, shifting from a largely glycolytic origin to its triacylglycerol (TAG) lipolytic release. Glycerol incorporation was concurrent with increased TAG turnover: lipolytic glycerol was selectively secreted, while most fatty acids were recycled again into TAG. Fatty acid efflux increased with incubation, but was, nevertheless, minimal compared with that of glycerol. Production of lactate and glycerol from glucose were maximal in mesenteric WAT. Discussion. Female rats showed a higher adipocyte metabolic activity than males. In mesenteric WAT, gene expression (and substrate efflux) data suggested that adipocyte oxidation of pyruvate to acetyl-CoA was higher in females than in males, with enhanced return of oxaloacetate to the cytoplasm for its final conversion to lactate. WAT site differences showed marked tissue specialization-related differences. Use of glucose for lipogenesis was seriously hampered over time, when TAG turnover-related lipolysis was activated. We postulate that these mechanisms may help decrease glycaemia and fat storage, producing, instead, a higher availability of less-regulated 3-carbon substrates, used for energy elsewhere. |
Note: | Les dades primàries associades es troben disponibles a http://hdl.handle.net/2445/119378 |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5440 |
It is part of: | PeerJ, 2018, vol. 6, p. e5440 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/124419 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5440 http://hdl.handle.net/2445/119378 |
ISSN: | 2167-8359 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Bioquímica i Biomedicina Molecular) |
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