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DIABETES
Volume 60, Issue 3, Pages 775-783Publisher
AMER DIABETES ASSOC
DOI: 10.2337/db10-1416
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- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) [NIDDK P01-DK-49210]
- Cox Institute for Medical Research
- ADA-Takeda Mentor-Based Research Fellowship
- Charles N. Cohen Fellowship
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OBJECTIVE-Although adipocyte-derived murine resistin links insulin resistance to obesity, the role of human resistin, predominantly expressed in mononuclear cells and induced by inflammatory signals, remains unclear. Given the mounting evidence that obesity and type 2 diabetes are inflammatory diseases, we sought to determine the relationship between inflammatory increases in human resistin and insulin resistance. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS-To investigate the role of human resistin on glucose homeostasis in inflammatory states, we generated mice lacking murine resistin but transgenic for a bacterial artificial chromosome containing human resistin (BAG-Rein), whose expression was similar to that in humans. The metabolic and molecular phenotypes of BAG-Rein mice were assessed after acute and chronic endotoxemia (i.e., exposure to inflammatory lipopolysaccharide). RESULTS-We found that BAG-Rein mice have circulating resistin levels within the normal human range, and similar to humans, lipopolysaccharide markedly increased serum resistin levels. Acute endotoxemia caused hypoglycemia in mice lacking murine resistin, and this was attenuated in BAC-Retn mice. In addition, BAG-Rein mice developed severe hepatic insulin resistance under chronic endotoxemia, accompanied by increased inflammatory responses in liver and skeletal muscle. CONCLUSIONS-These results strongly support the role of human resistin in the development of insulin resistance in inflammation. Thus, human resistin may link insulin resistance to inflammatory diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, and atherosclerosis. Diabetes 60:775-783, 2011
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