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Endocrine Abstracts (2022) 86 P213 | DOI: 10.1530/endoabs.86.P213

SFEBES2022 Poster Presentations Metabolism, Obesity and Diabetes (96 abstracts)

Differentially expressed genes in insulin resistant macrophages are shared across multiple diabetes associated morbidities

Katie Goodhew 1 , Kyriakos Grammatopoulos 1 , Amy Jackson 1 , Ayanteh Makahamadze 1 , Ines Pineda-Torra 2 , Nadira Yuldasheva 3 , Mark Kearney 3 & Matthew Gage 1


1Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom; 2CABIMER, Seville, Spain; 3University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom


Authors 1-4 contributed equally to this work.

Background: Insulin resistance is the central defining feature of type 2 diabetes and increases with age. People with type 2 diabetes are at an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), Alzheimer’s disease and arthritis. Macrophages are phagocytotic leukocytes which play a central role in the development of type 2 diabetes and the chronic inflammatory diseases mentioned above.

Aim: Our aim was to determine if differentially expressed genes from aged insulin resistant macrophages may be conserved across macrophages from multiple diabetes associated morbidities.

Methods: Differentially expressed gene datasets from transcriptome analysis of bone marrow derived macrophages (BMDM) from aged insulin resistant mice gained through chronic hyper-stimulation of the PI3K arm of the insulin signalling pathway via hematopoietic SHIP2 knock-down (h-SHIP2KD) were compared to published transcriptome data sets of macrophages from mouse models of hyperglycaemia, atherosclerotic plaque progression and regression, NAFLD, Alzeimer’s disease and arthritis.

Results: Upregulated and downregulated differentially expressed genes were found to be shared between h-SHIP2KD BMDM and all diabetes associated morbidity macrophage datasets analysed. Ongoing analyses are revealing common intracellular signalling pathway regulation between these morbidities.

Conclusion: These data reveal signalling pathways in insulin resistant macrophages which may have the potential to be targeted by new therapeutic strategies to impact diabetes associated chronic inflammatory disease progression.

Volume 86

Society for Endocrinology BES 2022

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14 Nov 2022 - 16 Nov 2022

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