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Cotadutide effect in liver and adipose tissue in obese mice

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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY
卷 70, 期 3, 页码 -

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BIOSCIENTIFICA LTD
DOI: 10.1530/JME-22-0168

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inflammation; lipogenesis; ER stress; NAFLD; mice

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Cotadutide has anti-obesity effects and can improve glucose intolerance and insulin resistance. It also shows beneficial effects on liver lipid metabolism and mitigates steatosis, inflammation, and ER stress. Therefore, Cotadutide could be a potential treatment for type 2 diabetes and associated obesity.
Obesity, adipose tissue inflammation, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are associated with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes (T2D). Cotadutide is a dual agonist GLP-1/glucagon, currently in a preclinical study phase 2 that presents an anti-obesity effect. Diet-induced obese (DIO) C57BL/6 mice were treated for 4 weeks with cotadutide (30 nm/kg once a day at 14:00 h). The study focused on epididymal white adipose tissue (eWAT), liver (NAFLD), inflammation, lipid metabolism, AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK)/mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathways, and the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. As a result, cotadutide controlled weight gain, glucose intolerance, and insulin resistance and showed beneficial effects on plasma markers in DIO mice (triacylglycerol, total cholesterol, alanine aminotransferase, and aspartate aminotransferase, leptin, adiponectin, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1, resistin, interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor-alpha). Also, cotadutide lessened liver fat accumulation, eWAT proinflammatory markers, and ER stress. In addition, cotadutide improved lipid metabolism genes in eWAT, fatty acid synthase, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma and mitigates adipocyte hypertrophy and apoptosis. Furthermore, the effects of cotadutide were related to liver AMPK/mTOR pathway and ER stress. In conclusion, cotadutide induces weight loss and treats glucose intolerance and insulin resistance in DIO mice. In addition, cotadutide shows beneficial effects on liver lipid metabolism, mitigating steatosis, inflammation, and ER stress. Besides, in adipocytes, cotadutide decreases hypertrophy and reduces apoptosis. These actions rescuing the AMPK and mTOR pathway, improving lipid metabolism, and lessening NAFLD, inflammation, and ER stress in both eWAT and liver of DIO mice indicate cotadutide as a potentially new pharmacological treatment for T2D and associated obesity.

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