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DIABETOLOGY & METABOLIC SYNDROME
Volume 4, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BIOMED CENTRAL LTD
DOI: 10.1186/1758-5996-4-32
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High fat-high sucrose diet; Hepatosteatosis; Insulin signalling; Inflammation
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Background: Frequent consumption of a diet high in fat and sucrose contributes to lifestyle-related diseases. However, limited information is available regarding the short-term effects of such a diet on the onset of obesity-associated metabolic abnormalities. Methods: Male C57BL/6 J mice were divided into two groups and fed a standard chow diet (control group) or a high fat-high sucrose diet containing 21% fat and 34% sucrose (HF-HS diet group) for 2 or 4 weeks. Results: The HF-HS diet significantly induced body weight gain beginning at week 1 and similarly increased mesenteric white adipose tissue weight and plasma insulin levels at weeks 2 and 4. Plasma resistin levels were notably elevated after feeding with the HF-HS diet for 4 weeks. Measurement of hepatic triglycerides and Oil Red O staining clearly indicated increased hepatic lipid accumulation in response to the HF-HS diet as early as 2 weeks. Quantitative PCR analysis of liver and white adipose tissue indicated that, starting at week 2, the HF-HS diet upregulated mRNA expression from genes involved in lipid metabolism and inflammation and downregulated genes involved in insulin signalling. Although plasma cholesterol levels were also rapidly increased by the HF-HS diet, no differences were found between the control and HF-HS diet-fed animals in the expression of key genes involved in cholesterol biosynthesis. Conclusions: Our study demonstrates that the rapid onset of hepatosteatosis, adipose tissue hypertrophy and hyperinsulinemia by ingestion of a diet high in fat and sucrose may possibly be due to the rapid response of lipogenic, insulin signalling and inflammatory genes.
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