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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM
Volume 306, Issue 3, Pages E267-E274Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00249.2013
Keywords
adipocytes; cancer cachexia; miRNA expression; miR-378; lipolysis
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- Swedish Research Council
- Swedish Diabetes Foundation
- Diabetes Program at Karolinska Institutet
- Swedish Society of Medicine
- Novo Nordisk Foundation
- Tore Nilsson foundation
- Stiftelsen for Gamla Tjanarinnor
- Ake Wiberg foundation
- Swedish Cancer foundation
- Novo Nordisk Fonden [NNF14OC0010187, NNF12OC1016371] Funding Source: researchfish
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Cancer cachexia is associated with pronounced adipose tissue loss due to, at least in part, increased fat cell lipolysis. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have recently been implicated in controlling several aspects of adipocyte function. To gain insight into the possible impact of miRNAs on adipose lipolysis in cancer cachexia, global miRNA expression was explored in abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue from gastrointestinal cancer patients with (n = 10) or without (n = 11) cachexia. Effects of miRNA overexpression or inhibition on lipolysis were determined in human in vitro differentiated adipocytes. Out of 116 miRNAs present in adipose tissue, five displayed distinct cachexia-associated expression according to both microarray and RT-qPCR. Four (miR-483-5p/-23a/-744/-99b) were downregulated, whereas one (miR-378) was significantly upregulated in cachexia. Adipose expression of miR-378 associated strongly and positively with catecholamine- stimulated lipolysis in adipocytes. This correlation is most probably causal because overexpression of miR-378 in human adipocytes increased catecholamine-stimulated lipolysis. In addition, inhibition of miR-378 expression attenuated stimulated lipolysis and reduced the expression of LIPE, PLIN1, and PNPLA2, a set of genes encoding key lipolytic regulators. Taken together, increased miR-378 expression could play an etiological role in cancer cachexia-associated adipose tissue loss via effects on adipocyte lipolysis.
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