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Hyperandrogenism sensitizes mononuclear cells to promote glucose-induced inflammation in lean reproductive-age women.

ABSTRACT: Hyperandrogenism and chronic low-grade inflammation are related in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), but it is unknown whether hyperandrogenemia can activate inflammation. We determined the effect of oral androgen administration on fasting and glucose-stimulated nuclear factor-?B (NF-?B) activation and expression and related markers of inflammation in mononuclear cells (MNC) of lean reproductive-age women. Sixteen lean, ovulatory reproductive-age women were treated with 130 mg of DHEA or placebo (n = 8 each) for 5 days in a randomized, controlled, double-blind fashion. Nuclear activation of NF-?B, p65 and p105 NF-?B subunit RNA, TNF? and IL-1? mRNA, and NF-?B p65 and inhibitory-?B (I?B) protein were quantified from MNC obtained while fasting and 2 h after glucose ingestion, before and after DHEA or placebo administration. Before treatment, subjects receiving DHEA or placebo exhibited no differences in androgens or any inflammatory markers while fasting and after glucose ingestion. Compared with placebo, DHEA administration raised levels of testosterone, androstenedione, and DHEA-S, increased the percent change in fasting and glucose-challenged activated NF-?B, p65, p105, TNF?, and IL-1? RNA and p65 protein, and decreased the percent change in fasting and glucose-challenged I?B protein. We conclude that elevation of circulating androgens to the range observed in PCOS upregulates the NF-?B inflammation pathway in lean reproductive-age women. Thus, hyperandrogenemia activates and sensitizes MNC to glucose in this population.

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez F

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3287360 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Hyperandrogenism sensitizes mononuclear cells to promote glucose-induced inflammation in lean reproductive-age women.

González Frank F Nair K Sreekumaran KS Daniels Janice K JK Basal Eati E Schimke Jill M JM

American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism 20111101 3

Hyperandrogenism and chronic low-grade inflammation are related in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), but it is unknown whether hyperandrogenemia can activate inflammation. We determined the effect of oral androgen administration on fasting and glucose-stimulated nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) activation and expression and related markers of inflammation in mononuclear cells (MNC) of lean reproductive-age women. Sixteen lean, ovulatory reproductive-age women were treated with 130 mg of DHEA or placebo ...[more]

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Hyperandrogenism sensitizes mononuclear cells to promote glucose-induced inflammation in lean reproductive-age women.

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Hyperandrogenism sensitizes mononuclear cells to promote glucose-induced inflammation in lean reproductive-age women.

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