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| Author(s): |
Larissa Sayuri Kato
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia |
| Defense date: | 2011-11-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Helena Coutinho Franco de Oliveira;
Eliana Cotta de Faria;
Maria Cristina Cintra Gomes Marcondes
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| Advisor: | Helena Coutinho Franco de Oliveira |
| Abstract | |
An imbalance of energy homeostasis can result in obesity and/or metabolic syndrome and increased mortality from cardiovascular disease. Recent studies by our group in three experimental models that exhibit different types of dyslipidemia have shown significant changes in body composition, energy expenditure and food intake. In this work we studied the energy homeostasis in these models through: (1) quantifying the expression and phosphorylation of AMP-dependent protein kinase (AMPK), a key regulator of energy metabolism, as well as its target, the enzyme acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) in liver and skeletal muscle in hypoalphalipoproteinemic and hypercholesterolemic mice and (2) the effect of paired feeding regimen on hypertriglyceridemic mice that present increased food intake, body CO2 production and increased activity of the mitochondrial potassium channel sensitive to ATP (mitoKATP). Considering the hypoalphalipoproteinemic mice (transgenic for CETP), which show an increased overall energy expenditure, we found that these mice have reduced relative fat depot mass when compared to wild type controls (WT). Western blot analyses showed that, in both tissues, liver and muscle, there were no changes in mass and state of activation of AMPK and ACC in CETP compared to WT mice. These results suggest that no significant variations in the synthesis, storage and secretion of lipids in the liver of these mice. Regarding the soleus muscle, these results suggest that there is no change in lipid synthesis and catabolism in CETP mice. Overall we may say that AMPK signaling is not activated in liver and muscle tissues and, therefore, that the increased body metabolism observed in these CETP mice must be caused by other body tissues, for example, the adipose tissue itself. In hypercholesterolemic male and female mice (LDLR0) we observed a reduction in body mass, but no significant change in the relative mass of fat depots when compared to WT. The results on activation of AMPK and ACC show that the liver of LDLR0 females had increased activation of AMPK without significant change in the phosphorylation of ACC. This means that there was no inhibition of lipogenesis and activation of ?-oxidation in the liver of hypercholesterolemic mice, although there may have been increased catabolism of other nutrients. In the soleus muscle of females and males there were no changes in the phosphorylation state of both AMPK and ACC. Then, we can conclude that there is no energy deprivation in the muscle of these LDLR0 mice. Considering the study with hypertriglyceridemic (HTG) mice, when subjected to the paired feeding (PF) we observed a 17% reduction in food intake of females and males when compared to HTG mice fed ad libitum (ad lib). This led to a significant reduction in HTG-PF weight gain compared to WT-ad lib in both sexes. HTG-PF mice retained the mass of carcass fat deposits similar to WT and HTG ad lib. Compared to WT-ad lib, HTG-PF mice maintained significant increased activity (opening) of the mitoKATP and body CO2 production. These data showed that the regimen of paired feeding in which HTG mice were submitted did not change the high rate body metabolism and mitochondrial resting respiration observed in HTG-ad lib mice. These results suggest that the metabolic adaptation of HTG (higher activity of mitoKATP) is not sensitive to changes in food restriction and compromises the rate of body growth (AU) | |