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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
卷 287, 期 1, 页码 R112-R119出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00028.2004
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size fractionation; glucocorticoid receptor; tumor necrosis factor-alpha
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [R01 DK-64773, R01 DK-63034, P30 DK-063068] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS-32273] Funding Source: Medline
In support of leptin's physiological role as humoral signal of fat mass, we have shown that adipocyte volume is a predominant determinant of leptin mRNA levels in anatomically distinct fat depots in lean young mice in the postabsorptive state. In this report, we investigated how obesity may affect the relationship between leptin mRNA levels and adipocyte volume in anatomically distinct fat depots in mice with genetic (Lep(ob)/Lep(ob) and A(y)/+), diet-induced, and aging-related obesity. In all of the obese mice examined, tissue leptin mRNA levels relative to the average adipocyte volume were lower in the perigonadal and/or retroperitoneal than in the inguinal fat depots and were lower than those of the lean young mice in the perigonadal fat depot. A close, positive correlation between leptin mRNA level and adipocyte volume was present from small to hypertrophic adipocytes within each perigonadal and inguinal fat pad in the obese mice, but the slopes of the regression lines relating leptin mRNA level to adipocyte volume were significantly lower in the perigonadal than in the inguinal fat pads of the same mice. These results suggest that obesity per se is associated with a decreased leptin gene expression per unit of fat mass in mice and that the positive correlation between leptin mRNA level and adipocyte volume is an intrinsic property of adipocytes that is not disrupted by adipocyte hypertrophy in obese mice.
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