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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5 Pt 1
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-12-6
pubmed:abstractText
We seek to determine whether increased energy dissipation in adipose tissue can prevent obesity. Transgenic mice with C57BL6/J background and the adipocyte lipid-binding protein (aP2) gene promoter directing expression of the mitochondrial uncoupling protein (UCP) gene in white and brown fat were used. Physiologically, UCP is essential for nonshivering thermogenesis in brown fat. Mice were assigned to a chow or a high-fat (HF) diet at 3 mo of age. Over the next 25 wk, gains of body weight were similar in corresponding subgroups (n = 6-8) of female and male mice: 4-5 g in chow nontransgenic and transgenic, 20 g in HF nontransgenic, and 9-11 g in HF transgenic mice. The lower body weight gain in the HF transgenic vs. nontransgenic mice corresponded to a twofold lower feed efficiency. Gonadal fat was enlarged, but subcutaneous white fat was decreased in the transgenic vs. nontransgenic mice in both dietary conditions. The results suggest that UCP synthesized from the aP2 gene promoter is capable of reducing dietary obesity.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0002-9513
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
270
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
E768-75
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Adaptor Protein Complex 2, pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Adaptor Protein Complex alpha Subunits, pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport, pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Adipose Tissue, pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Body Composition, pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Body Weight, pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Dietary Fats, pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Eating, pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Female, pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Glucose, pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Homeostasis, pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Ion Channels, pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Lipid Metabolism, pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Male, pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Mice, Transgenic, pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Mitochondrial Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:8967464-Obesity
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Reduction of dietary obesity in aP2-Ucp transgenic mice: physiology and adipose tissue distribution.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't