Circulating microRNAs as mediators of metabolic adaptation promoted by aerobic exercise in obesity

• Grant number: 20/08049-2
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: February 01, 2021
• End date: January 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Physiology - Physiology of Organs and Systems
• Principal Investigator: Alice Cristina Rodrigues
• Grantee: Alice Cristina Rodrigues
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas (ICB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Worldwide the rate of obesity has nearly doubled since 1980, with just over 200 million adult men and just under 300 million adult women obese. The metabolic and anatomic effects of excess adiposity can lead to the development of type 2 diabetes, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), dyslipidemia and high blood pressure. Physical exercise, dietary and behavioral changes are nonpharmacological interventions in the prevention and management of obesity and obesity-related diseases. Despite the fact it is well known the benefits of exercising, the molecular mechanisms that correlate training with improvements in insulin resistance and NAFLD are not fully elucidated. Since the discovery that myokines are produced by contracting skeletal muscle and that may have autocrine, paracrine or endocrine action, it is clear that physical exercise can exert influence on the crosstalk between skeletal muscle and distal organs. It has recently been shown that exosomal microRNAs derived from adipose tissue may have action in the regulation of liver gene expression, which raised the possibility of such phenomenon not being restricted only to adipose tissue and liver interaction. Therefore, the objective of this project is to evaluate in animal model treated with high-fat diet and exposed to physical exercise if skeletal muscle-derived extracellular vesicle microRNAs can have action in the regulation of the gene expression in distal organs resulting in improvements of obesity and obesity-related diseases. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

RODRIGUES, ALICE C.; SPAGNOL, ALEXANDRE R.; FRIAS, FLAVIA DE TOLEDO; DE MENDONCA, MARIANA; ARAUJO, HYGOR N.; GUIMARAES, DIMITRIUS; SILVA, WILLIAM J.; BOLIN, ANAYSA PAOLA; MURATA, GILSON MASAHIRO; SILVEIRA, LEONARDO. ntramuscular Injection of miR-1 Reduces Insulin Resistance in Obese Mic. FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY, v. 12, JUL 6 2021. (20/08049-2, 11/05876-6, 17/19513-9, 18/07087-8, 18/07241-7, 15/24789-8)

MARINOVIC, MARCELO PARADISO; SOUSA-FILHO, CELSO PEREIRA BATISTA; BATISTA, FERNANDA APARECIDA HELENO; AVELINO, THAYNA MENDONCA; COGLIATI, BRUNO; FIGUEIRA, ANA CAROLINA MIGLIORINI; OTTON, ROSEMARI; RODRIGUES, ALICE CRISTINA. Green tea extract increases adiponectin and PPAR alpha levels to improve hepatic steatosis. JOURNAL OF NUTRITIONAL BIOCHEMISTRY, v. 103, p. 11-pg., 2022-03-04. (16/12059-8, 15/24789-8, 19/10616-5, 20/08049-2)

DA PAIXAO, AILMA O.; BOLIN, ANAYSA PAOLA; SILVESTRE, JOAO G.; RODRIGUES, ALICE CRISTINA. Palmitic Acid Impairs Myogenesis and Alters Temporal Expression of miR-133a and miR-206 in C2C12 Myoblasts. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES, v. 22, n. 5, MAR 2021. (15/24789-8, 18/07087-8, 20/08049-2)