Project description:Cardiovascular (CV) disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Western societies. Even after accounting for traditional CV risk factors (e.g. obesity, smoking and hypertension), the inflammation-driven thickening and stiffening of central arteries is a strong predictor of adverse outcomes. Arterial wall changes are universally associated with advancing age and show unparalleled worsening in metabolic syndrome. In mice, resveratrol ameliorates a high-fat diet induced arterial wall inflammation and slows age-associated physiologic deteriorations within the arterial wall. Here we tested resveratrol in adult male rhesus monkeys, an experimental model relevant to humans. A diet rich in fat and sucrose (HFS) led to an increase in body weight as well as thickening and stiffening of the aortic wall, marked by diffuse inflammation, fibrosis and fat infiltration. Dietary resveratrol supplementation prevented diet-induced structural and functional alterations within the aortic wall, and abrogated the deleterious vascular endothelial and smooth muscle responses. Integrative genomic and proteomic analyses of aortic tissues revealed molecular signatures consistent with improved vascular functions. Thus, resveratrol conferred protection against the initiation of diet-induced inflammatory events that progress to pathological thickening and stiffening of large arteries. Dietary resveratrol may therefore hold promise as a novel therapy to ameliorate metabolic stress-induced CV disease. After baseline assessment, four male rhesus monkeys remained on the healthy standard diet (SD), 10 male rhesus monkeys were begun on a high fat/high sucrose (HFS) diet and 10 male rhesus monkeys were begun on a high fat/high sucrose (HFS) diet plus Resveratrol, 80mg/day. After one year of dietary intervention, the amount of resveratrol was increased to 240mg/day for one additional year. Tissues were then harvested for the array experiments.
Project description:Purpose: Using a C57BL6/J mouse model of diet-induced obesity, we observed that mannose supplementation of high fat diet-fed mice prevents weight gain, lowers adiposity, reduces liver steatosis, and improves glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity. Mannose increases Bacteroidetes to Firmicutes ratio of the gut microbiota, a signature previously associated with the lean phenotype. These beneficial effects of mannose are observed when supplementation is started early (3 weeks post weaning) but are lost when started later in life (8 weeks post weaning). We profiled transcriptomes of gut microbiota from high fat diet mice supplemented with or without mannose to understand the functional differences of supplementation at 3 weeks post weaning and 8 weeks post weaning. Method: Mice were weaned on high fat diet (HFD) or high fat diet with 2% mannose in drinking water (HFDM). RNA from each mouse for each diet group was isolated individually using Ambion RiboPure Bacteria kit (ThermoFisher Scientific). 1 mg cecal RNA each from 8 mice/diet group was pooled to generate 1 pool/diet for library preparation. The quality of total RNA was assessed by the Agilent Bioanalyzer Nano chip (Agilent Technologies). Total RNA was Ribo-depleted using Ribo-Zero Gold rRNA kit (Epidemiology) (Illumina). RNA-Seq library was constructed from the recovered non-ribosomal RNAs using Truseq Stranded total RNA library preparation kit (Illumina) as per the instructions. Multiplexed libraries were pooled and single-end 50-bp sequencing was performed using an Illumina Hiseq 1500. Results: The comparison of transcriptome profiles of mice supplemented with mannose at 3 weeks post weaning and 8 weeks post weaning shows mannose reduced transcript abundance for glycosyl hydrolases and carbohydrate metabolism when supplied at 3 weeks post weaning. Conclusion: The beneficial effects of mannose in responsive mice (3 weeks post weaning) are at least in part due to reduced energy harvest by gut microbes.
Project description:Long-term consumption of erythritol, a widely used sugar substitute, has been associated with increased risks of thrombosis and cardiometabolic diseases. In this study, we investigated the effects and mechanisms of allulose in mitigating these risks compared to erythritol using the clusterProfiler tool. Since a high-fat diet (HFD) is known to enhance platelet aggregation, we compared the pathways related to these processes between groups of mice treated with allulose and those treated with erythritol. While erythritol exacerbated HFD-induced increased platelet aggregation, allulose treatment significantly reduced it. The groups consisted of a normal diet group (ND, with 10% of calories derived from fat), a high-fat diet group (HFD, with 40% of calories from fat), a high-fat diet with 5% allulose supplementation (ALLU), and a high-fat diet with 5% erythritol supplementation (ERY).
Project description:Dietary flavonoids are supposed to be protective against cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Elevated circulating lipid levels and hepatic lipid accumulation are known risk factors for CVD. We investigated the effects and underlying molecular mechanisms of the flavonoid quercetin on hepatic lipid metabolism in mice with diet induced body weight gain and hepatic lipid accumulation. Adult male mice received a high-fat diet without or with supplementation of 0.33% (w/w) quercetin for 12 weeks. Body weight gain was 29% lower in quercetin-fed mice (p<0.01), while the energy intake was not significantly different. Quercetin supplementation reduced hepatic lipid accumulation with 71% (p<0.05). 1H nuclear magnetic resonance serum lipid profiling revealed that the supplementation lowered serum lipids (p<0.0001). Global gene expression profiling of liver showed that key target genes of the transcription factor Constitutive androstane receptor (Car; official symbol Nr1i3) were regulated, in particular Cytochrome P450 2b (Cyp2b) genes. Quercetin can decrease high-fat diet induced body weight gain, hepatic lipid accumulation and serum lipid levels, which might be explained by the regulation of Cytochrome P450 genes under transcriptional control of CAR, an effect which is likely dependent on dietary background. Liver samples were obtained from 24 C57BL/6J male adult mice. All mice started with a three week adaptation phase, in which they were fed a normal-fat diet. During the intervention of 12 weeks, the mice received a high-fat diet without (HF) or with supplementation of 0.33% (w/w) quercetin (HF-Q). Based on visual inspection, three arrays lacked homogenous hybridization and were therefore excluded.
Project description:Rapid growth in infancy considerably increases the risk of obesity and metabolic disorders in adulthood especially among neonates born small. To investigate the molecular mechanism of rapid infantile growth (RG) following undernourishment in utero (UN) in the deterioration of the adult fat deposit, we developed a mouse animal UN model by maternal energy restriction, followed by RG by adjustment of 4 pups per litter soon after birth. High fat diet (FHD) was supplied to the weaned pups, with or without the treatment of tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA; TU). UN-RG pups showed deterioration of diet-induced obesity and fat deposit, which was ameliorated by TU. We carried out microarray analysis of epidydimal adipose tissue.
Project description:We investigated the plasma and liver proteome changes in liver fibrosis in mice induced by hepatocyte-specific knockout of nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase (Nampt) upon a low-methionine, choline-free 60% high-fat (MCD) diet at multiple time points. We also investigated whether supplementation with nicotinamide riboside could alleviate liver injury and how the liver proteome changes upon NR supplementation.
Project description:Using a C57BL6/J mouse model of diet-induced obesit,we observed that mannose supplementation of high fat diet (HFD)-fed mice prevents weight gain,lowers adiposity, reduces liver steatosis, and improves glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity. We used microarrays to determine the gene expression pattern in epididymal fat frommice weaned on Normal diet (ND), HFD and HFD with mannose (HFDM)
Project description:Cardiovascular (CV) disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Western societies. Even after accounting for traditional CV risk factors (e.g. obesity, smoking and hypertension), the inflammation-driven thickening and stiffening of central arteries is a strong predictor of adverse outcomes. Arterial wall changes are universally associated with advancing age and show unparalleled worsening in metabolic syndrome. In mice, resveratrol ameliorates a high-fat diet induced arterial wall inflammation and slows age-associated physiologic deteriorations within the arterial wall. Here we tested resveratrol in adult male rhesus monkeys, an experimental model relevant to humans. A diet rich in fat and sucrose (HFS) led to an increase in body weight as well as thickening and stiffening of the aortic wall, marked by diffuse inflammation, fibrosis and fat infiltration. Dietary resveratrol supplementation prevented diet-induced structural and functional alterations within the aortic wall, and abrogated the deleterious vascular endothelial and smooth muscle responses. Integrative genomic and proteomic analyses of aortic tissues revealed molecular signatures consistent with improved vascular functions. Thus, resveratrol conferred protection against the initiation of diet-induced inflammatory events that progress to pathological thickening and stiffening of large arteries. Dietary resveratrol may therefore hold promise as a novel therapy to ameliorate metabolic stress-induced CV disease.
Project description:From a long time ago, supplementation of fermented enzyme foods could have worked health effects on the body in the east nevertheless, only a few studies reported functions of them such as weight loss and metabolic syndrome. Thus, it is necessary to be verified whether supplementation of fermented enzyme foods can act in the body as a functional material. Therefore, we investigated the anti-obesity effects of fermented mixed grain with digestive enzymes (FMG) in high-fat diet induced mice. Sixty C57BL/6J mice were divided into six dietary groups and fed a normal diet (ND), a high-fat diet (HFD), Bacilus Coagulans group, steamed grain group, low-dose fermented mixed grain group(L-FMG), high-dose fermented mixed grain group (H-FMG) supplement for 12 weeks. After sacrificing, body weight and body fat mass in H-FMG group were significantly decreased compared to HFD group with a simultaneous decrease in plasma lipids. Also, H-FMG significantly decreased the blood glucose and improved the glucose tolerance compared to HFD group. Moreover high-dose FMG supplementation dramatically decreased the levels of inflammatory cytokines which secreted from adipocyte. Taken together, our findings suggest that H-FMG ameliorate high fat-diet induced obesity and its complication and could be used as a potential preventive agent for obesity.