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de Melo Yamamoto AP, Chiba FY, Astolphi RD, de Oliveira da Mota MS, Louzada MJQ, de Lima Coutinho Mattera MS, Garbin CAS, Ervolino E, Tsosura TVS, Belardi BE, Dos Santos RM, Okamoto MM, Machado UF, Matsushita DH. Effect of resistance training on osteopenic rat bones in neonatal streptozotocin-induced diabetes: Analysis of GLUT4 content and biochemical, biomechanical, densitometric, and microstructural evaluation. Life Sci 2021; 287:120143. [PMID: 34785192 DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2021.120143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2021] [Revised: 11/01/2021] [Accepted: 11/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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AIMS To investigate the effect of resistance training-RT on glycemia, expression of the glucose transporter-GLUT4, bone mineral density-BMD, and microstructural and biomechanical properties of osteopenic rat bones in neonatal streptozotocin-induced diabetes. MAIN METHODS Sixty-four 5-day-old male rats were divided into two groups: control and diabetic rats injected with vehicle or streptozotocin, respectively. After 55 days, densitometric analysis-DA of the tibia was performed. These groups were subdivided into four subgroups: non-osteopenic control-CN, osteopenic control-OC, non-osteopenic diabetic-DM, and osteopenic diabetic-OD. The OC and OD groups were suspended by their tails for 21 days to promote osteopenia in the hindlimb; subsequently, a second DA was performed. The rats were subdivided into eight subgroups: sedentary control-SC, sedentary osteopenic control-SOC, exercised control-EC, exercised osteopenic control-EOC, sedentary diabetic-SD, sedentary osteopenic diabetic-SOD, exercised diabetic-ED, and exercised osteopenic diabetic-EOD. For RT, the rats climbed a ladder with weights secured to their tails for 12 weeks. After RT, a third DA was performed, and blood samples, muscles, and tibias were assessed to measure glycemia, insulinemia, GLUT4 content, bone maximum strength, fracture energy, extrinsic stiffness, BMD, cancellous bone area, trabecular number, and trabecular width. KEY FINDINGS After RT, glycemia, GLUT4 content, BMD, and bone microstructural and biomechanical properties were improved in diabetic rats (osteopenic and non-osteopenic). However, RT had no effect on these parameters in the EC and SC groups. SIGNIFICANCE These results suggest that RT improves GLUT4 content, BMD, and microstructural and biomechanical properties of bone in osteopenic and non-osteopenic diabetic rats and is effective in controlling glycemia.
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- Aline Pedro de Melo Yamamoto
- Programa de Pós-graduação Multicêntrico em Ciências Fisiológicas, PPGMCF, SBFis, São Paulo State University (UNESP), School of Dentistry, Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil.
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- Department of Preventive and Restorative Dentistry, São Paulo State University (UNESP), School of Dentistry, Araçatuba, SP, Brazil.
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- Programa de Pós-graduação Multicêntrico em Ciências Fisiológicas, PPGMCF, SBFis, São Paulo State University (UNESP), School of Dentistry, Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil.
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- Programa de Pós-graduação Multicêntrico em Ciências Fisiológicas, PPGMCF, SBFis, São Paulo State University (UNESP), School of Dentistry, Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil.
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- Programa de Pós-graduação Multicêntrico em Ciências Fisiológicas, PPGMCF, SBFis, São Paulo State University (UNESP), School of Dentistry, Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-graduação Multicêntrico em Ciências Fisiológicas, PPGMCF, SBFis, São Paulo State University (UNESP), School of Dentistry, Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil.
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- Department of Preventive and Restorative Dentistry, São Paulo State University (UNESP), School of Dentistry, Araçatuba, SP, Brazil.
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- Programa de Pós-graduação Multicêntrico em Ciências Fisiológicas, PPGMCF, SBFis, São Paulo State University (UNESP), School of Dentistry, Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil.
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- Programa de Pós-graduação Multicêntrico em Ciências Fisiológicas, PPGMCF, SBFis, São Paulo State University (UNESP), School of Dentistry, Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil.
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- Programa de Pós-graduação Multicêntrico em Ciências Fisiológicas, PPGMCF, SBFis, São Paulo State University (UNESP), School of Dentistry, Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil.
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- Programa de Pós-graduação Multicêntrico em Ciências Fisiológicas, PPGMCF, SBFis, São Paulo State University (UNESP), School of Dentistry, Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil.
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, São Paulo Institute of Biomedical Sciences, USP, Brazil.
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, São Paulo Institute of Biomedical Sciences, USP, Brazil.
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- Programa de Pós-graduação Multicêntrico em Ciências Fisiológicas, PPGMCF, SBFis, São Paulo State University (UNESP), School of Dentistry, Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil.
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da Silva KS, Pinto PR, Fabre NT, Gomes DJ, Thieme K, Okuda LS, Iborra RT, Freitas VG, Shimizu MHM, Teodoro WR, Marie SKN, Woods T, Brimble MA, Pickford R, Rye KA, Okamoto M, Catanozi S, Correa-Giannela ML, Machado UF, Passarelli M. N-acetylcysteine Counteracts Adipose Tissue Macrophage Infiltration and Insulin Resistance Elicited by Advanced Glycated Albumin in Healthy Rats. Front Physiol 2017; 8:723. [PMID: 29018354 PMCID: PMC5616024 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2017] [Accepted: 09/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Background: Advanced glycation endproducts elicit inflammation. However, their role in adipocyte macrophage infiltration and in the development of insulin resistance, especially in the absence of the deleterious biochemical pathways that coexist in diabetes mellitus, remains unknown. We investigated the effect of chronic administration of advanced glycated albumin (AGE-albumin) in healthy rats, associated or not with N-acetylcysteine (NAC) treatment, on insulin sensitivity, adipose tissue transcriptome and macrophage infiltration and polarization. Methods: Male Wistar rats were intraperitoneally injected with control (C) or AGE-albumin alone, or, together with NAC in the drinking water. Biochemical parameters, lipid peroxidation, gene expression and protein contents were, respectively, determined by enzymatic techniques, reactive thiobarbituric acid substances, RT-qPCR and immunohistochemistry or immunoblot. Carboxymethyllysine (CML) and pyrraline (PYR) were determined by LC/mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) and ELISA. Results: CML and PYR were higher in AGE-albumin as compared to C. Food consumption, body weight, systolic blood pressure, plasma lipids, glucose, hepatic and renal function, adipose tissue relative weight and adipocyte number were similar among groups. In AGE-treated animals, insulin resistance, adipose macrophage infiltration and Col12a1 mRNA were increased with no changes in M1 and M2 phenotypes as compared to C-albumin-treated rats. Total GLUT4 content was reduced by AGE-albumin as compared to C-albumin. NAC improved insulin sensitivity, reduced urine TBARS, adipose macrophage number and Itgam and Mrc mRNA and increased Slc2a4 and Ppara. CD11b, CD206, Ager, Ddost, Cd36, Nfkb1, Il6, Tnf, Adipoq, Retn, Arg, and Il12 expressions were similar among groups. Conclusions: AGE-albumin sensitizes adipose tissue to inflammation due to macrophage infiltration and reduces GLUT4, contributing to insulin resistance in healthy rats. NAC antagonizes AGE-albumin and prevents insulin resistance. Therefore, it may be a useful tool in the prevention of AGE action on insulin resistance and long-term complications of DM.
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- Karolline S da Silva
- Laboratorio de Lipides, LIM-10, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade de São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Lipides, LIM-10, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade de São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Carboidratos e Radioimunoensaios, LIM-18, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade de São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Lipides, LIM-10, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade de São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Carboidratos e Radioimunoensaios, LIM-18, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade de São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Lipides, LIM-10, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade de São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Lipides, LIM-10, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade de São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Biologia Celular e Molecular, LIM-15, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade de São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Pesquisa Básica em Doenças Renais, LIM-12, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade de São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Reumatologia, LIM-17, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade de São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Biologia Celular e Molecular, LIM-15, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade de São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
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- School of Chemical Sciences and School of Biological Sciences, University of AucklandAuckland, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical Sciences and School of Biological Sciences, University of AucklandAuckland, New Zealand
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- Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Facility, University of New South WalesSydney, NSW, Australia
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- Lipid Research Group, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South WalesSydney, NSW, Australia
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- Laboratorio de Metabolismo e Endocrinologia; Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade de São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Lipides, LIM-10, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade de São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Carboidratos e Radioimunoensaios, LIM-18, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade de São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Metabolismo e Endocrinologia; Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade de São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Lipides, LIM-10, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade de São PauloSão Paulo, Brazil
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Mishra PK, Ying W, Nandi SS, Bandyopadhyay GK, Patel KK, Mahata SK. Diabetic Cardiomyopathy: An Immunometabolic Perspective. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2017; 8:72. [PMID: 28439258 PMCID: PMC5384479 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2017.00072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2017] [Accepted: 03/27/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The heart possesses a remarkable inherent capability to adapt itself to a wide array of genetic and extrinsic factors to maintain contractile function. Failure to sustain its compensatory responses results in cardiac dysfunction, leading to cardiomyopathy. Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) is characterized by left ventricular hypertrophy and reduced diastolic function, with or without concurrent systolic dysfunction in the absence of hypertension and coronary artery disease. Changes in substrate metabolism, oxidative stress, endoplasmic reticulum stress, formation of extracellular matrix proteins, and advanced glycation end products constitute the early stage in DCM. These early events are followed by steatosis (accumulation of lipid droplets) in cardiomyocytes, which is followed by apoptosis, changes in immune responses with a consequent increase in fibrosis, remodeling of cardiomyocytes, and the resultant decrease in cardiac function. The heart is an omnivore, metabolically flexible, and consumes the highest amount of ATP in the body. Altered myocardial substrate and energy metabolism initiate the development of DCM. Diabetic hearts shift away from the utilization of glucose, rely almost completely on fatty acids (FAs) as the energy source, and become metabolically inflexible. Oxidation of FAs is metabolically inefficient as it consumes more energy. In addition to metabolic inflexibility and energy inefficiency, the diabetic heart suffers from impaired calcium handling with consequent alteration of relaxation-contraction dynamics leading to diastolic and systolic dysfunction. Sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) plays a key role in excitation-contraction coupling as Ca2+ is transported into the SR by the SERCA2a (sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum calcium-ATPase 2a) during cardiac relaxation. Diabetic cardiomyocytes display decreased SERCA2a activity and leaky Ca2+ release channel resulting in reduced SR calcium load. The diabetic heart also suffers from marked downregulation of novel cardioprotective microRNAs (miRNAs) discovered recently. Since immune responses and substrate energy metabolism are critically altered in diabetes, the present review will focus on immunometabolism and miRNAs.
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- Paras K. Mishra
- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
- *Correspondence: Paras K. Mishra, ; Sushil K. Mahata,
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- Department of Medicine, Metabolic Physiology and Ultrastructural Biology Laboratory, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Metabolic Physiology and Ultrastructural Biology Laboratory, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Metabolic Physiology and Ultrastructural Biology Laboratory, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Metabolic Physiology and Ultrastructural Biology Laboratory, VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA
- *Correspondence: Paras K. Mishra, ; Sushil K. Mahata,
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Kamble PG, Pereira MJ, Sidibeh CO, Amini S, Sundbom M, Börjesson JL, Eriksson JW. Lipocalin 2 produces insulin resistance and can be upregulated by glucocorticoids in human adipose tissue. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2016; 427:124-32. [PMID: 26973291 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2016.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2015] [Revised: 02/11/2016] [Accepted: 03/08/2016] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The adipokine lipocalin 2 is linked to obesity and metabolic disorders. However, its role in human adipose tissue glucose and lipid metabolism is not explored. Here we show that the synthetic glucocorticoid dexamethasone dose-dependently increased lipocalin 2 gene expression in subcutaneous and omental adipose tissue from pre-menopausal females, while it had no effect in post-menopausal females or in males. Subcutaneous adipose tissue from both genders treated with recombinant human lipocalin 2 showed a reduction in protein levels of GLUT1 and GLUT4 and in glucose uptake in isolated adipocytes. In subcutaneous adipose tissue, lipocalin 2 increased IL-6 gene expression whereas expression of PPARγ and adiponectin was reduced. Our findings suggest that lipocalin 2 can contribute to insulin resistance in human adipose tissue. In pre-menopausal females, it may partly mediate adverse metabolic effects exerted by glucocorticoid excess.
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- Prasad G Kamble
- Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Surgery, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Liu CT, Hsu TW, Chen KM, Tan YP, Lii CK, Sheen LY. The Antidiabetic Effect of Garlic Oil is Associated with Ameliorated Oxidative Stress but Not Ameliorated Level of Pro-inflammatory Cytokines in Skeletal Muscle of Streptozotocin-induced Diabetic Rats. J Tradit Complement Med 2014; 2:135-44. [PMID: 24716126 PMCID: PMC3942916 DOI: 10.1016/s2225-4110(16)30087-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Oxidative stress and inflammatory condition has been broadly accepted being associated with the progression of diabetes. On the other hand, garlic (大蒜 dà suàn, bulb of Allium sativum) has been shown to possess both antioxidant and anti-inflammatory action in several clinical conditions. Our previous study demonstrated that treatment with garlic oil improves oral glucose tolerance and insulin tolerance and improves the insulin-stimulated utilization of glucose to synthesize glycogen in skeletal muscle in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes, in vivo and ex vivo, respectively. The aim of the present study is to investigate the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of garlic oil (GO) in the skeletal muscle of diabetic rats. Rats with STZ-induced diabetes received GO (10, 50, or 100 mg/kg body weight) or corn oil by gavage every other day for 3 weeks. Control rats received corn oil only. GO dose-dependently improved insulin sensitivity, as assessed by the insulin tolerance test, and oral glucose tolerance. GO significantly elevated total glutathione and glutathione peroxidase activity and lowered the nitrate/nitrite content in skeletal muscle at 50 and 100 mg/kg and significantly elevated glutathione reductase activity and lowered lipid peroxidation at 100 mg/kg. By contrast, GO did not reverse diabetes-induced elevation of IL-1β and TNF-α in skeletal muscle at any tested dose. On the other hand, GO elevated the expression of GLUT4 in skeletal muscle along with glycogen content as observed with PAS staining. In conclusion, the antidiabetic effect of garlic oil is associated with ameliorated oxidative stress in skeletal muscle.
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- Cheng-Tzu Liu
- School of Nutrition, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan ; Department of Nutrition, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung 402, Taiwan
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- School of Nutrition, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan
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- Department of Parasitology, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan
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- School of Nutrition, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan
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- Department of Nutrition, China Medical University, Taichung 404, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Food Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Bayeva M, Sawicki KT, Ardehali H. Taking diabetes to heart--deregulation of myocardial lipid metabolism in diabetic cardiomyopathy. J Am Heart Assoc 2013; 2:e000433. [PMID: 24275630 PMCID: PMC3886738 DOI: 10.1161/jaha.113.000433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Marina Bayeva
- Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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Wang PH, Tsai MJ, Hsu CY, Wang CY, Hsu HK, Weng CF. Toona sinensis Roem (Meliaceae) leaf extract alleviates hyperglycemia via altering adipose glucose transporter 4. Food Chem Toxicol 2008; 46:2554-60. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2008.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2007] [Revised: 02/12/2008] [Accepted: 04/09/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Diabetes affects a large segment of the population worldwide, and the prevalence of this disease is rapidly increasing. Despite the availability of medication for diabetes, traditional remedies are desirable and are currently being investigated. Garlic (Allium sativum), which is a common cooking spice and has a long history as a folk remedy, has been reported to have antidiabetic activity. However, there is no general agreement on the use of garlic for antidiabetic purposes, primarily because of a lack of scientific evidence from human studies and inconsistent data from animal studies. The validity of data from previous studies of the hypoglycemic effect of garlic in diabetic animals and the preventive effects of garlic on diabetes complications are discussed in this review. The role of garlic as both an insulin secretagogue and as an insulin sensitizer is reviewed. Evidence suggests that garlic's antioxidative, antiinflammatory, and antiglycative properties are responsible for garlic's role in preventing diabetes progression and the development of diabetes-related complications. Large-scale clinical studies with diabetic patients are warranted to confirm the usefulness of garlic in the treatment and prevention of diabetes.
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- Cheng-Tzu Liu
- Department of Nutrition, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, PR China.
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Liu CT, Hse H, Lii CK, Chen PS, Sheen LY. Effects of garlic oil and diallyl trisulfide on glycemic control in diabetic rats. Eur J Pharmacol 2005; 516:165-73. [PMID: 15936752 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2005.04.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2005] [Revised: 04/01/2005] [Accepted: 04/08/2005] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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We investigated the effects of garlic oil and diallyl trisulfide on glycemic control in rats with streptozotocin-induced diabetes. Diabetic rats received by gavage garlic oil (100 mg/kg body weight), diallyl trisulfide (40 mg/kg body weight), or corn oil every other day for 3 weeks. Control rats received corn oil only. Both garlic compounds significantly raised the basal insulin concentration. The insulin resistance index as assessed by homeostasis model assessment and the first-order rate constant for glucose disappearance were significantly improved by both garlic compounds (P<0.05). Oral glucose tolerance was also improved by both garlic compounds and was accompanied by a significantly increased rate of insulin secretion (P<0.05). Glycogen formation (but not that of lactate or carbon dioxide) from glucose by the soleus muscle in the presence of 10 or 100 microU/ml of insulin was significantly better after treatment with both garlic compounds. Both garlic oil and diallyl trisulfide improve glycemic control in diabetic rats through increased insulin secretion and increased insulin sensitivity.
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- Cheng-Tzu Liu
- Department of Nutrition, Chung Shan Medical University, No. 110, Sec. 1, Chien Kuo N. Road, Taichung 402, Taiwan, Republic of China.
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Zorzano A, Fandos C, Palacín M. Role of plasma membrane transporters in muscle metabolism. Biochem J 2000; 349 Pt 3:667-88. [PMID: 10903126 PMCID: PMC1221192 DOI: 10.1042/bj3490667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Muscle plays a major role in metabolism. Thus it is a major glucose-utilizing tissue in the absorptive state, and changes in muscle insulin-stimulated glucose uptake alter whole-body glucose disposal. In some conditions, muscle preferentially uses lipid substrates, such as fatty acids or ketone bodies. Furthermore, muscle is the main reservoir of amino acids and protein. The activity of many different plasma membrane transporters, such as glucose carriers and transporters of carnitine, creatine and amino acids, play a crucial role in muscle metabolism by catalysing the influx or the efflux of substrates across the cell surface. In some cases, the membrane transport process is subjected to intense regulatory control and may become a potential pharmacological target, as is the case with the glucose transporter GLUT4. The goal of this review is the molecular characterization of muscle membrane transporter proteins, as well as the analysis of their possible regulatory role.
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- A Zorzano
- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
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Sevilla L, Gumà A, Muñoz P, Testar X, Palacín M, Zorzano A. Benfluorex improves muscle insulin responsiveness in middle-aged rats previously subjected to long-term high-fat feeding. Life Sci 1999; 64:25-36. [PMID: 10027739 DOI: 10.1016/s0024-3205(98)00530-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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It has been reported that benfluorex ameliorates the insulin resistance induced by high-fat feeding when its administration is initiated at the same time as the change in diet. Here we have examined whether benfluorex reverses insulin resistance when this is established in middle-aged rats chronically maintained on a high-fat diet. Untreated 12-month-old rats that had been subjected to a high-fat diet for the last 6 months showed markedly lower insulin-induced stimulation of 2-deoxyglucose uptake by strips of soleus muscle and a reduced expression of GLUT4 glucose carriers in skeletal muscle. However, animals subjected to the same protocol but treated with benfluorex during the last month of high-fat feeding showed marked improvement in insulin-stimulated glucose transport by soleus muscle. Benfluorex treatment caused a substantial increase in the content of GLUT4 protein in white muscle; however, GLUT4 levels in red muscle remained low. Our results indicate: (i) that benfluorex treatment in middle-aged rats reverses the insulin resistance induced by high-fat feeding in soleus muscle; (ii) benfluorex is active even when it is administered once the insulin-resistant state is already established; (iii) reversion of muscle insulin resistance by benfluorex can occur independently of modifications in GLUT4 protein expression.
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- L Sevilla
- Departament de Bioquimica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
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Zorzano A, Santalucia T, Palacín M, Gumà A, Camps M. Searching for ways to upregulate GLUT4 glucose transporter expression in muscle. GENERAL PHARMACOLOGY 1998; 31:705-13. [PMID: 9809466 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-3623(98)00095-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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1. Skeletal muscle is a major glucose-utilizing tissue in the absorptive state and alterations in muscle insulin-stimulated glucose uptake lead to derangements in whole body glucose disposal. 2. Furthermore, muscle GLUT4 overexpression in transgenic animals ameliorates insulin resistance associated with obesity or diabetes, which suggests that increasing GLUT4 in muscle by pharmacological intervention may be an effective therapy in insulin-resistant states. 3. This highlights the importance of understanding the pathways that upregulate GLUT4 glucose transporter expression in muscle. 4. We review studies describing the regulation of GLUT4 and the information currently available on the mechanisms that control GLUT4 expression in muscle.
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- A Zorzano
- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
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Regulatory signals in messenger RNA: determinants of nutrient–gene interaction and metabolic compartmentation. Br J Nutr 1998. [DOI: 10.1017/s0007114598001378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Nutrition has marked influences on gene expression and an understanding of the interaction between nutrients and gene expression is important in order to provide a basis for determining the nutritional requirements on an individual basis. The effects of nutrition can be exerted at many stages between transcription of the genetic sequence and production of a functional protein. This review focuses on the role of post-transcriptional control, particularly mRNA stability, translation and localization, in the interactions of nutrients with gene expression. The effects of both macronutrients and micronutrients on regulation of gene expression by post-transcriptional mechanisms are presented and the post-transcriptional regulation of specific genes of nutritional relevance (glucose transporters, transferrin, selenoenzymes, metallothionein, lipoproteins) is described in detail. The function of the regulatory signals in the untranslated regions of the mRNA is highlighted in relation to control of mRNA stability, translation and localization and the importance of these mRNA regions to regulation by nutrients is illustrated by reference to specific examples. The localization of mRNA by signals in the untranslated regions and its function in the spatial organization of protein synthesis is described; the potential of such mechanisms to play a key part in nutrient channelling and metabolic compartmentation is discussed. It is concluded that nutrients can influence gene expression through control of the regulatory signals in these untranslated regions and that the post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression by these mechanisms may influence nutritional requirements. It is emphasized that in studies of nutritional control of gene expression it is important not to focus only on regulation through gene promoters but also to consider the possibility of post-transcriptional control.
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Russell JC, Graham SE, Dolphin PJ, Amy RM, Wood GO, Brindley DN. Antiatherogenic effects of long-term benfluorex treatment in male insulin resistant JCR:LA-cp rats. Atherosclerosis 1997; 132:187-97. [PMID: 9242964 DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9150(97)00092-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The JCR:LA-corpulent rat is an animal model that, if homozygous for the cp gene (cp/cp), spontaneously exhibits obesity and a severe insulin resistance, with a resultant hyperinsulinemia and hypertriglyceridemia. The obese male rats show defective nitric oxide-mediated vascular relaxation, advanced atherosclerosis, and ischemic myocardial lesions. Benfluorex has both anorectic and metabolic effects that lower body weight and improve insulin sensitivity in obesity and type 2 diabetes. Male cp/cp rats that were treated with benfluorex (or pair-fed to the treated animals) from the time of weaning, at 3 weeks of age, showed a marked delay in the development of postprandial hyperinsulinemia. At 12 weeks of age benfluorex-treated cp/cp rats did not show the extreme insulin response to a test meal that was observed in untreated or pair-fed rats. Both benfluorex-treated and pair-fed rats had a significant increase in sensitivity to acetylcholine-induced (nitric oxide-mediated) vascular relaxation. Corpulent male rats were also treated from 6 to 39 weeks of age with benfluorex in the feed at a dose of approximately 36 mg/kg/day at 12 weeks of age and decreasing to 23 mg/kg/day at 39 weeks to determine the effects on cardiovascular outcomes. The rats showed a sustained decrease in food consumption and body weight, although they exhibited 50% of the excess body weight of the controls and were grossly obese. Both fasting insulin concentrations and the hyperplasia of the islets of Langerhans were decreased by approximately 50%. Serum triglyceride concentrations were decreased by 44%, and free cholesterol and cholesteryl esters by 30%. The severity of the atherosclerotic lesions on the aortic arch was decreased (P < 0.05). There was also a decrease in the size of early ischemic myocardial lesions that are characterized by cell lysis and chronic inflammatory cell infiltration. Mature, scarred myocardial lesions were essentially absent in the hearts of 39-week-old benfluorex-treated rats. Long-term major food restriction (18 g/day) decreased the body weights of obese rats to essentially those of lean control animals, with similar beneficial effects on the insulin resistance and hyperlipidemia. While myocardial lesion frequency was reduced in these much thinner animals, lesions remained and the apparent effect was not statistically significant. This evidence shows that the beneficial metabolic effects of benfluorex are associated with long-term effects on the vessel wall and delay the onset of insulin resistance and cardiovascular disease in an animal model.
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- J C Russell
- Department of Surgery, 275 Heritage Medical Research Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Sevilla L, Gumà A, Enrique-Tarancón G, Mora S, Muñoz P, Palacín M, Testar X, Zorzano A. Chronic high-fat feeding and middle-aging reduce in an additive fashion Glut4 expression in skeletal muscle and adipose tissue. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1997; 235:89-93. [PMID: 9196041 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1997.6742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The interaction of middle-aging and chronic high-fat feeding on glucose transport in skeletal muscle and adipose tissue was examined. To this end, we studied the effects of 6 month treatment with a high-fat diet in 12-month old rats. Chronic high-fat feeding led to a substantial reduction in GLUT4 glucose transporter expression both in adipose tissue and in skeletal muscle, which was additive to the reduction in GLUT4 protein content detected in aged rats. In parallel, the high-fat diet led to a reduced insulin-stimulated glucose transport in the incubated soleus muscle and isolated adipocytes; insulin resistance induced by high-fat feeding was superimposed to the decreased insulin response detected in aged rats. Different mechanisms were responsible for GLUT4 repression in response to high-fat feeding or aging in skeletal muscles and adipose tissue.
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- L Sevilla
- Departament de Bioquimica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
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