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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY
Volume 36, Issue 1, Pages 155-158Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2011.85
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muscle; brown adipocyte progenitors; diabetes
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- NHMRC [479536]
- Medical Research Council [G1000816] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G1000816] Funding Source: UKRI
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Brown adipose tissue mitochondria express the unique thermogenic uncoupling protein-1. Recently, brown adipocyte progenitors have been identified in the CD34+ cell population of human skeletal muscle. The aims of this study were firstly to determine if obesity and diabetes have altered amounts of muscle brown adipocyte progenitors and, secondly, to establish if the latter are correlated with clinical parameters of obesity and diabetes. Body mass index (BMI), plasma glucose, insulin, cholesterol and triglycerides as well as homeostasis model assessment were measured in lean (n = 10), obese (n = 18) and obese-diabetic (n = 15) subjects and muscle biopsies were taken from the rectus abdominus. CD34 being also expressed on endothelial cells, we measured CD31, another endothelial marker, and expressed the brown adipocyte progenitors, as the CD34/CD31 mRNA ratio. The latter was significantly reduced in the obese vs lean subjects suggesting a smaller pool of brown adipocyte progenitors. More strinkingly, for lean and obese subjects negative correlations were observed between the CD34/CD31 mRNA ratios and BMI, fasting insulin levels and homeostasis model assessment. These correlations highlight the potential physiological relevance of the muscle CD34/CD31 mRNA ratio. International Journal of Obesity (2012) 36, 155-158; doi:10.1038/ijo.2011.85; published online 26 April 2011
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