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Yuko Sakakibara,
Shogo Sato,
Ken Shirato,
Natsuko Arai,
Shoko Aritoshi,
Naho Ogawa-Nakata,
Yu Kawashima,
Yui Someya,
Shunta Akimoto,
Manabu Jinde, Akira Shiraishi,
Hisashi Ideno,
Kaoru Tachiyashiki,
Kazuhiko Imaizumi
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ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to elucidate whether dietary zinc-deficiency and its recovery play a role in controlling autonomic thermoregulation. We investigated the effects of dietary zinc-deficiency and its recovery on autonomic thermoregulation by measuring the rectal temperature, an index of deep body temperature. The weaned male Sprague Dawley rats were randomly divided into the dietary zinc-deficient diet (0.6 mg zinc/kg diet) group and the control diet (35.2 mg zinc/kg diet) group, and were fed for 4 weeks. In the recovery period, the rats of two groups were fed with the control diet for 3 weeks. The rectal temperature was significantly decreased throughout the period of zinc-deficiency and the hypothermic responses during the experimental period were recovered to the control group levels at least within 1 week in the recovery process from dietary zinc-deficiency. These results suggest that the deep temperature in rats was clearly associated with the dietary zinc intake levels.
The Journal of Toxicological Sciences 10/2011; 36(5):681-5. · 1.52 Impact Factor
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Yuriko Higashino-Matsui,
Ken Shirato,
Yuko Suzuki,
Yu Kawashima,
Yui Someya,
Shogo Sato, Akira Shiraishi,
Manabu Jinde,
Akiko Matsumoto,
Hisashi Ideno,
Kaoru Tachiyashiki,
Kazuhiko Imaizumi
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ABSTRACT: The age-related effects of fasting on lipolysis, the production of ketone bodies, and plasma insulin levels were studied in male 3-, 8-, and 32-week-old Sprague-Dawley rats.
The rats were divided into fasting and control groups. The 3-, 8- and 32-week-old rats tolerated fasting for 2, 5, and 12 days, respectively.
Fasting markedly reduced the weights of perirenal and periepididymal white adipose tissues in rats in the three age groups. The mean rates of reduction in both these adipose tissue weights during fasting periods were higher in the order of 3 > 8 > 32-week-old rats. Fasting transiently increased plasma free fatty acid (FFA), total ketone body, β-hydroxybutyrate, and acetoacetate concentrations in the rats in the three age groups. However, plasma FFA, total ketone body, β-hydroxybutyrate, and acetoacetate concentrations in the 3-week-old rats reached maximal peak within 2 days after the onset of fasting, although these concentrations in the 8- and 32-week-old rats took more than 2 days to reach the maximal peak. By contrast, the augmentation of plasma FFA, total ketone body, β-hydroxybutyrate, and acetoacetate concentrations in the rats in the three age groups had declined at the end of each experimental period. Thus, the capacity for fat mobilization was associated with tolerance to fasting. Plasma insulin concentrations in the rats in the three age groups were dramatically reduced during fasting periods, although basal levels of insulin were higher in the order of 32 > 8 > 3 week-old rats.
These results suggest that differences in fat metabolism patterns among rats in the three age groups during prolonged fasting were partly reflected the metabolic turnover rates, plasma insulin levels, and amounts of fat storage.
Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine 08/2011; 17(2):157-63.
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ABSTRACT: Glucocorticoids are known to increase the density and mRNA levels of beta-adrenoceptors (beta-AR) via the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) in many tissues. However, the effects of these changes in the skeletal and cardiac muscles remain relatively unknown. We have investigated the effects of dexamethasone on the expression of the beta(1)-, beta(2)-, and beta(3)-AR mRNAs and GR mRNA in fast-twitch fiber-rich extensor digitorum longus (EDL), slow-twitch fiber-rich soleus (SOL), and left ventricle (LV) muscles by real-time quantitative RT-PCR. Male rats were divided into a dexamethasone group and control group. The weight, RNA concentration, and total RNA content of EDL muscle were 0.76-, 0.85-, and 0.65-fold lower, respectively, in the dexamethasone group than in the control group. The weight, RNA concentration, and total RNA content of SOL muscle were 0.92-, 0.87-, and 0.81-fold lower, respectively, in the dexamethasone group than in the control group; these differences were significant. However, the weight/body weight and total RNA content/body weight of LV muscle were 1.38- and 1.39-fold higher, respectively, in the dexamethasone group than in the control group, respectively; these differences were also significant. Dexamethasone significantly decreased GR mRNA expression in EDL muscle without changing the expression of the beta(1)-, beta(2)-, and beta(3)-AR mRNAs. However, dexamethasone significantly decreased the expressions of beta(2)-AR and GR mRNAs in SOL muscle and significantly increased beta(1)-AR mRNA expression in LV muscle-without changing GR mRNA expression. These results suggest that the effects of dexamethasone on the expression of beta(1)- and beta(2)-AR mRNAs and muscle mass depend on the muscle contractile and/or constructive types.
The Journal of Physiological Sciences 08/2009; 59(5):383-90. · 1.61 Impact Factor
