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- Title
Gender- and site-related effects on lipolytic capacity of rat white adipose tissue.
- Authors
Pujol, E.; Rodríguez-Cuenca, S.; Frontera, M.; Justo, R.; Lladó, I.; Kraemer, F. B.; Gianotti, M.; Roca, P.
- Abstract
Gender- and site-related differences in the lipolytic capacity, at the different steps of the adrenergic pathway, in gonadal and inguinal white adipose tissue (WAT), were assessed by studying α2A-adrenergic receptor (AR), β3-AR and hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) protein levels, and by determining the lipolytic response to different agents. Gonadal WAT showed a lower α2A/β3-AR ratio, a greater lipolytic capacity in response to AR agonists, and higher HSL activity and protein levels than inguinal WAT. In female rats, we found greater α2A-AR protein levels and α2A/β3-AR ratio compared to their male counterparts, but, on the other hand, a higher lipolytic response to β-AR agonists and a greater lipolytic capacity at the postreceptor level, including a more activated HSL protein. Thus, the lipolytic capacity was clearly higher in gonadal than in inguinal WAT, at the different steps of the adrenergic pathway studied. Moreover, in both tissues, females showed a greater inhibition of lipolysis via α2-AR, which was counteracted by the higher lipolytic capacity at the postreceptor level.
- Subjects
ADIPOSE tissues; LIPOLYSIS; ADRENERGIC receptors; DIMORPHISM in animals; ANIMAL morphology
- Publication
Cellular & Molecular Life Sciences, 2003, Vol 60, Issue 9, p1982
- ISSN
1420-682X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00018-003-3125-5