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Follistatins in glucose regulation in healthy and obese individuals.


ABSTRACT: AIMS:It has been suggested recently that follistatin (FST) and its homologous protein, follistatin-like 3 (FSTL3), may be a therapeutic target in the treatment of type 2 diabetes because of their glucose-regulatory effects in rodents. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We investigated this hypothesis in humans by studying the physiology of a possible glycaemia-follistatin feedback loop, that is, whether glucose, but not lipid intake (oral or intravenous), can regulate circulating FST and FSTL3 in healthy humans (n = 32), whether the levels of follistatins change in response to various types of bariatric operation in morbidly obese individuals, with or without type 2 diabetes (n = 41), and whether such changes are associated prospectively with improvement of glucose homeostasis/insulin sensitivity. RESULTS:In healthy individuals, circulating FST decreases after intravenous or oral glucose intake compared to controls, indicating the presence of a negative feedback mechanism. In morbid obesity, insulin resistance, glycaemia, circulating FST and FSTL3 are all reduced (by 22%-33%) after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) and sleeve gastrectomy. Importantly, the changes in circulating FST 3 months after bariatric surgery are associated prospectively with the changes in glucose, insulin, HOMA-IR and HbA1c observed 6 months postoperatively in individuals with and without type 2 diabetes. CONCLUSIONS:Our findings provide evidence of an important role of FST in glucose homeostasis in healthy individuals as well as in severely obese individuals with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Our data extend recent results from animal studies to humans and support the need for further evaluation of FST inactivation strategies for targeting hyperglycaemia and insulin resistance.

SUBMITTER: Perakakis N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6368471 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Follistatins in glucose regulation in healthy and obese individuals.

Perakakis Nikolaos N   Kokkinos Alexander A   Peradze Natia N   Tentolouris Nicholas N   Ghaly Wael W   Tsilingiris Dimitrios D   Alexandrou Andreas A   Mantzoros Christos S CS  

Diabetes, obesity & metabolism 20181203 3


<h4>Aims</h4>It has been suggested recently that follistatin (FST) and its homologous protein, follistatin-like 3 (FSTL3), may be a therapeutic target in the treatment of type 2 diabetes because of their glucose-regulatory effects in rodents.<h4>Materials and methods</h4>We investigated this hypothesis in humans by studying the physiology of a possible glycaemia-follistatin feedback loop, that is, whether glucose, but not lipid intake (oral or intravenous), can regulate circulating FST and FSTL3  ...[more]

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