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ABSTRACT: Objective
Brite adipocytes are inducible energy-dissipating cells expressing UCP1 which appear within white adipose tissue of healthy adult individuals. Recruitment of these cells represents a potential strategy to fight obesity and associated diseases.Methods/results
Using human Multipotent Adipose-Derived Stem cells, able to convert into brite adipocytes, we show that arachidonic acid strongly inhibits brite adipocyte formation via a cyclooxygenase pathway leading to secretion of PGE2 and PGF2?. Both prostaglandins induce an oscillatory Ca(++) signaling coupled to ERK pathway and trigger a decrease in UCP1 expression and in oxygen consumption without altering mitochondriogenesis. In mice fed a standard diet supplemented with ?6 arachidonic acid, PGF2? and PGE2 amounts are increased in subcutaneous white adipose tissue and associated with a decrease in the recruitment of brite adipocytes.Conclusion
Our results suggest that dietary excess of ?6 polyunsaturated fatty acids present in Western diets, may also favor obesity by preventing the "browning" process to take place.
SUBMITTER: Pisani DF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4264041 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pisani Didier F DF Ghandour Rayane A RA Beranger Guillaume E GE Le Faouder Pauline P Chambard Jean-Claude JC Giroud Maude M Vegiopoulos Alexandros A Djedaini Mansour M Bertrand-Michel Justine J Tauc Michel M Herzig Stephan S Langin Dominique D Ailhaud Gérard G Duranton Christophe C Amri Ez-Zoubir EZ
Molecular metabolism 20140916 9
<h4>Objective</h4>Brite adipocytes are inducible energy-dissipating cells expressing UCP1 which appear within white adipose tissue of healthy adult individuals. Recruitment of these cells represents a potential strategy to fight obesity and associated diseases.<h4>Methods/results</h4>Using human Multipotent Adipose-Derived Stem cells, able to convert into brite adipocytes, we show that arachidonic acid strongly inhibits brite adipocyte formation via a cyclooxygenase pathway leading to secretion ...[more]