Enhanced sympathetic activity in mice with brown adipose tissue transplantation (transBATation)

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• 作者：Zheng Zhu ; Elizabeth G. Spicer ; Chaitanya K. Gavini ; Ashley J. Goudjo-Ako ; Colleen M. Novak ; Haifei Shi
• 关键词：BAT ; brown adipose tissue ; EDL ; extensor digitorum longus ; EE ; energy expenditure ; EWAT ; epididymal white adipose tissue ; HFD ; high-fat diet ; IBAT ; interscapular brown adipose tissue ; IWAT ; inguinal white adipose tissue ; LGAS ; lateral gastrocnemius ; MGAS ; medial gastrocnemius ; MWAT ; mesenteric white adipose tissue ; NETO ; norepinephrine turnover ; PBS ; phosphate-buffered saline ; PGC1伪 ; peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator-1伪 ; RWAT ; retroperitoneal white adipose tissue ; SN
• 刊名：Physiology and Behavior
• 出版年：10 February, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：125
• 期：Complete
• 页码：21-29
• 全文大小：964 K

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Brown adipose tissue (BAT) burns calories to produce heat, and is thus relevant to energy balance. Interscapular BAT (IBAT) of donor mice was transplanted into recipient mice (transBATation). To test whether transBATation counteracts high-fat diet (HFD)-induced obesity, some sham-operated and recipient mice were fed a HFD (HFD-sham, HFD-trans) while others remained on a standard chow (chow-sham, chow-trans). HFD-trans mice had lower body weight and fat and greater energy expenditure, but similar caloric intake compared with HFD-sham mice. We hypothesized that HFD-trans mice had elevated sympathetic activity compared with HFD-sham mice, contributing to increased energy expenditure and fuel mobilization. This was supported by findings that HFD-trans mice had greater energy expenditure during a norepinephrine challenge test and higher core temperatures after cold exposure than did HFD-sham mice, implicating enhanced whole-body metabolic response and elevated sympathetic activity. Additionally, transBATation selectively increased sympathetic drive to some, but not all, white adipose tissue depots and skeletal muscles, as well as the endogenous IBAT, heart, and liver. Collectively, transBATation confers resistance to HFD-induced obesity via increase in whole-body sympathetic activity, and differential activation of sympathetic drive to some of the tissues involved in energy expenditure and fuel mobilization.