Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The variablity of the individual susceptibility to diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance is well known, but so far insufficiently explained. As skeletal muscle metabolism and insulin sensitivity are important pathophysiologic features of obesity-asscociated metabolic perturbations, we tried to identify differences in muscular gene expression profiles between high fat fed rats prone to develop obesity (diet-induced obesity, DIO) and those which remained lean (...

Background: Obese patients show an increased activity of the sympathetic nervous system, but the causality of the relationship is not known. Here, we examine whether a pharmacologic sympathectomy influences diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance in the high fat fed rat model.Methods: Wistar-Rats were fed ad libitum with a high fat diet (HF, 40 energy% of fat, based on lard) for 12 weeks. A pharmacologic sympathectomy was performed by a) weekl...

Objectives: To study the direct effects of fatty acids (FA) and the involvement of the TLR-4/NFκB pathway with respect to the secretion of adipokines and chemokines from adipocytes.Research design and methods: 3T3-L1 adipocytes were stimulated with increasing doses of FA. The secretion of adiponectin, resistin and MCP-1 was measured by ELISA. NFκB p65 nuclear translocation and TLR-4 expression were investigated by Western blot analysis. NF&#954...