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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM
Volume 288, Issue 1, Pages E117-E124Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00244.2004
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obesity; diabetes; adipogenesis; alpha/beta-hydrase; epoxide hydrase
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Obesity is a common and serious metabolic disorder in the developed world that is occasionally accompanied by type II diabetes, atherosclerosis, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. We have found that mesoderm-specific transcript (Mest)/paternally expressed gene 1 (Peg1) gene expression was markedly enhanced in white adipose tissue of mice with diet-induced and genetically caused obesity/ diabetes but not with streptozotocin-induced diabetes, which does not cause obesity. Administration of pioglitazone, a drug for type II diabetes and activator of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)gamma, in obese db/db mice reduced the enhanced expression of Mest mRNA in adipose tissue, concomitant with an increase in body weight and a decrease in the size of adipose cells. Ectopic expression of Mest in 3T3-L1 cells caused increased gene expression of adipose markers such as PPARgamma, CCAAT/enhancer binding protein (C/ EBP)alpha, and adipocyte fatty acid binding protein (aP) 2. In transgenic mice overexpressing Mest in adipose tissue, enhanced expression of the adipose genes was observed. Moreover, adipocytes were markedly enlarged in the transgenic mice. Thus Mest appears to enlarge adipocytes and could be a novel marker of the size of adipocytes.
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