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| Author(s): |
Andrea Alessandra Filomena Brasil Vieira José
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Piracicaba. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2000-10-03 |
| Examining board members: |
Dante Pazzanese Duarte Lanna;
Marcelo de Cerqueira Cesar;
Luiz Lehmann Coutinho
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| Advisor: | Dante Pazzanese Duarte Lanna |
| Abstract | |
In growing swine somatotropin (ST) treatment can reduce lipid deposition up to 90%. This effect seems to be a function of a number of alterations in adipose tissue metabolism, and include reductions in fatty acid synthetase activity (FAS), a rate-limiting enzyme in the de novo pathway of lipid synthesis. Activity of FAS appears to be regulated primarily by alterations in mRNA abundance. Thus it is important to understand ST effects and this require an adequate test model. The present paper validated the combined use of two techniques: 1) RT-PCR quantitative competitive (QC-RT-PCR), which allows monitoring gene expression of FAS even when very small quantities of tissue are available; and 2) use of cultures of adipose tissue explants, which allow to subject tissue samples to a large number of treatments. Long-term cultures allow evaluation of the chronic effects of somatotropin. Primers were constructed to generate a 307 bp native amplicon and an anti-sense deletion primer allowed amplification of a 243 bp competitive sequence. Amplicons were subsequently cloned,fragments. Results from amplifications were evaluated using the standard curve developed earlier. Results, consistent with the literature, demonstrated a reduction in the enzymatic activity of FAS in adipose tissue incubated with pST for 48 hours (46,4 vs. 35,8 nmoles/mg.min; P<0,05). Consistent with the activity data, and literature data using other methodologies, we observed a 40% reduction in FAS mRNA abundance in adipose tissue cultures treated with pST (P<0,05). Results demonstrate that the combined use of long-term primary cultures of adipose tissue explants and QC-RT-PCR can be a useful tool to study the mechanisms involved in somatotropin modulation of adipose tissue metabolism. (AU) | |