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Ovariectomy in mice decreases lipid metabolism-related gene expression in adipose tissue and skeletal muscle with increased body fat.

National Institute of Health and Nutrition, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8636, Japan.
Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology (impact factor: 1.2). 05/2005; 51(2):110-7. pp.110-7
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ABSTRACT Postmenopausal women as well as rodents after ovariectomy, which results in a lack of estrogen, can become obese. Ovariectomy-induced obesity in mice is associated with a decrease in oxygen consumption, indicating repressed energy expenditure. In this study, to elucidate the mechanism of weight gain after ovariectomy, we examined the expression patterns of genes related to energy expenditure and lipid metabolism, in mouse tissues including adipose tissue and skeletal muscle. In adipose tissue and skeletal muscle, at 2-4 wk after ovariectomy, levels of nuclear receptors and cofactors involved in energy expenditure such as ERR1, PPARalpha and PPARdelta, and PGC1alpha and PGC1beta were lower than in control mice. mRNA levels of their targets, medium-chain acyl coenzyme A dehydrogenase and acetyl CoA oxidase, enzymes for fatty acid beta-oxidation, were lower. In addition, the expression of PPARgamma and SREBP1, transcription factors important for lipogenesis, was decreased, as well as that of acetyl CoA carboxylase and fatty acid synthase, enzymes for fatty acid synthesis, and diacyl glycerol acetyl transferase 1 and 2, enzymes for triglyceride synthesis. These changes in gene expression are consistent with the obese phenotype in mice after ovariectomy. Thus a decrease in the expression of energy expenditure-related genes in adipose tissue and skeletal muscle could, in part, be responsible for obesity after ovariectomy.

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Keywords

acetyl CoA carboxylase
 
acetyl CoA oxidase
 
diacyl glycerol acetyl transferase 1
 
energy expenditure
 
energy expenditure-related genes
 
fatty acid beta-oxidation
 
fatty acid synthase
 
fatty acid synthesis
 
gene expression
 
lipid metabolism
 
mouse tissues
 
mRNA levels
 
nuclear receptors
 
obese phenotype
 
Ovariectomy-induced obesity
 
Postmenopausal women
 
repressed energy expenditure
 
skeletal muscle
 
triglyceride synthesis
 
weight gain
 

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