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The Impact of High-Fat Diet and Restrictive Feeding on Natural Killer Cells in Obese-Resistant BALB/c Mice.

ABSTRACT: Background: The association of obesity and an increased risk for severe infections and various cancer types is well-described. Natural killer (NK) cells are circulating lymphoid cells and promoters of the immune response toward viruses and malignant cells. As demonstrated in previous studies the phenotype and functionality of NK cells is impaired in obesity. So far, the majority of animal studies were exclusively performed using ad libitum feeding regimes and it remained unclear whether NK cell alterations are mediated by obesity-associated immunological changes or by direct effects of the dietary composition. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to characterize NK cells in the peripheral blood of obese-resistant BALB/c mice supplied a normal-fat diet (NFD) or high-fat diet (HFD), ad libitum or in a restrictive manner. Methods: Twenty-eight BALB/c-mice were fed a NFD or HFD either ad libitum or in a restrictive feeding regime with 90% of the mean daily diet supply of the corresponding ad libitum group (each group n = 7). Blood and visceral adipose tissue were collected for flow cytometric analysis, analysis of plasma cytokine concentrations by multiplex immunoassay and real-time RT-PCR analyses. For statistical analyses two-way ANOVA with the factors "feeding regime" and "diet" was performed followed by a post-hoc Tukey's multiple comparison test and to compare means of the four mouse groups. Results: Ad libitum-feeding of a HFD in BALB/c mice has no influence on body weight gain, visceral fat mass, plasma cytokine concentrations, immune cell populations as well as the number, frequency and phenotype of NK cells. In contrast, restrictive feeding of a HFD compared to NFD led to significantly higher body weights, visceral fat mass and plasma interferon-γ concentrations which was associated with changes in the frequencies of granulocytes and NK cell subsets as well as in the surface expression of NK cell maturation markers. Conclusion: Results demonstrate for the first time that HFD-induced alterations in NK cells are consequences of the obese associated immunological profile rather than a direct effect of the dietary composition. These data can help to clarify the increased risk for cancer and severe infections in obesity.

SUBMITTER: Spielmann J

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8342926 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Project description:Overweight and obesity are major public health challenges worldwide. Obesity is associated with a higher risk for the development of several cancer types, but specific mechanisms underlying the link of obesity and cancer are still unclear. Natural killer (NK) cells are circulating lymphoid cells promoting the elimination of virus-infected and tumor cells. Previous investigations demonstrated conflicting results concerning the influence of obesity on functional NK cell parameters in small animal models. The aim of the present study was to clarify potential obesity-associated alterations of murine NK cells in vivo, implementing different feeding regimes. Therefore, C57BL/6 mice were fed a normal-fat diet (NFD) or high-fat diet (HFD) under restrictive and ad libitum feeding regimes. Results showed diet and feeding-regime dependent differences in body weight, visceral fat mass and plasma cytokine concentrations. Flow cytometry analyses demonstrated significant changes in total cell counts as well as frequencies of immune cell populations in peripheral blood comparing mice fed NFD or HFD in an ad libitum or restrictive manner. Mice fed the HFD showed significantly decreased frequencies of total NK cells and the mature CD11b+CD27+ NK cell subset compared to mice fed the NFD. Feeding HFD resulted in significant changes in the expression of the maturation markers KLRG1 and CD127 in NK cells. Furthermore, real-time PCR analyses of NK-cell related functional parameters in adipose tissue revealed significant diet and feeding-regime dependent differences. Most notable, real-time cytotoxicity assays demonstrated an impaired cytolytic activity of splenic NK cells toward murine colon cancer cells in HFD-fed mice compared to NFD-fed mice. In conclusion, our data demonstrate that feeding a high-fat diet influences the frequency, phenotype and function of NK cells in C57BL/6 mice. Interestingly, restricted feeding of HFD compared to ad libitum feeding resulted in a partial prevention of the obesity-associated alterations on immune cells and especially on NK cells, nicely fitting with the current concept of an advantage for interval fasting for improved health.

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The Impact of High-Fat Diet and Restrictive Feeding on Natural Killer Cells in Obese-Resistant BALB/c Mice.

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