A low-protein, high-carbohydrate diet increases the adipose lipid content without increasing the glycerol-3-phosphate or fatty acid content in growing rats

The amount of triacylglycerol (TAG) that accumulates in adipose tissue depends on 2 opposing processes: lipogenesis and lipolysis. We have previously shown that the weight and lipid content of epididymal (EPI) adipose tissue increases in growing rats fed a low-protein, high-carbohydrate (LPHC) diet...

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Published in:Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology 2010, Vol.88 (12), p.1157
Main Authors: Buzelle, Samyra L, Santos, Maisa P, Baviera, Amanda M, Lopes, Carbene F, Garofalo, Maria A.R, Navegantes, Luiz C.C, Kettelhut, Isis C, Chaves, Valeria E, Kawashita, Nair H
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
Adipose tissues
Carbohydrates
Diet
Fatty acids
Food and nutrition
Glycerin
Glycerol
Health aspects
Lipids
Physiological aspects
Properties
Proteins
Rats
Rattus
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Summary:The amount of triacylglycerol (TAG) that accumulates in adipose tissue depends on 2 opposing processes: lipogenesis and lipolysis. We have previously shown that the weight and lipid content of epididymal (EPI) adipose tissue increases in growing rats fed a low-protein, high-carbohydrate (LPHC) diet for 15 days. The aim of this work was to study the pathways involved in lipogenesis and lipolysis, which ultimately regulate lipid accumulation in the tissue. De novo fatty acid synthesis was evaluated in vivo and was similar for rats fed an LPHC diet or a control diet; however, the LPHC-fed rats had decreased lipoprotein lipase activity in the EPI adipose tissue, which suggests that there was a decreased uptake of fatty acids from the circulating lipoproteins. The LPHC diet did not affect synthesis of glycerol-3phosphate (G3P) via glycolysis or glyceroneogenesis. Glycerokinase activity--i.e., the phosphorylation of glycerol from the hydrolysis of endogenous TAG to form G3P--was also not affected in LPHC-fed rats. In contrast, adipocytes from LPHC animals had a reduced lipolytic response when stimulated by norepinephrine, even though the basal adipocyte lipolytic rate was similar for both of the groups. Thus, the results suggest that the reduction of lipolytic activity stimulated by norepinephrine seems essential for the TAG increase observed in the EPI adipose tissue of LPHC animals, probably by impairment of the process of activation of lipolysis by norepinephrine.
ISSN:0008-4212
DOI:10.1139/Y10-096