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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 288, Issue 22, Pages 15725-15735Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.460212
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- National Institutes of Health [DK49845, P60DK-20572 Center]
- D.R.E.A.M. Foundation
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We investigated GH action on macrophage (M Phi) by creating a M Phi-specific GH receptor-null mouse model (MacGHR KO). On a normal diet (10% fat), MacGHR KO and littermate controls exhibited similar growth profiles and glucose excursions on intraperitoneal glucose (ipGTT) and insulin tolerance (ITT) tests. However, when challenged with high fat diet (HFD, 45% fat) for 18 weeks, MacGHR KO mice exhibited impaired ipGTT and ITT compared with controls. In MacGHR KO, adipose-tissue (AT) M Phi abundance was increased with skewing toward M1 polarization. Expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL1 beta, TNF-alpha, IL6, and osteopontin (OPN)) were increased in MacGHR KO AT stromal vascular fraction (SVF). In MacGHR KO AT, crown-like-structures were increased with decreased insulin-dependent Akt phosphorylation. The abundance of phosphorylated NF-kappa B and of OPN was increased in SVF and bone-marrow-derived M Phi in MacGHR KO. GH, acting via an NF-kappa B site in the distal OPN promoter, inhibited the OPN promoter. Thus in diet-induced obesity (DIO), lack of GH action on the M Phi exerts an unexpected deleterious effect on glucose homeostasis by accentuating AT inflammation and NF-kappa B-dependent activation of OPN expression. These novel results in mice support the possibility that administration of GH could have salutary effects on DIO-associated chronic inflammation and insulin resistance in humans.
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