AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 258, Issue 2 E368-E376, Copyright © 1990 by American Physiological Society

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Paradoxically slow preadipocyte replication and differentiation in corpulent rats

G. Shillabeer, J. M. Forden, J. C. Russell and D. C. Lau
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

We have investigated the in vitro rate of replication and differentiation of preadipocytes derived from lean (+/+) and obese (cp/cp) male JCR:LA-corpulent (cp) rats in an attempt to identify mechanisms that regulate adipose tissue growth. Cp/cp rats were twofold heavier than age-matched lean rats by 9-10 mo. Cp/cp-derived preadipocytes demonstrated an inherently slower rate of replication than +/+ preadipocytes (population doubling time: cp/cp 52.3 +/- 9.6 h vs. +/+ 19.7 +/- 1.6 h), although the preadipocyte pool in the cp/cp was significantly greater. Cp/cp preadipocytes were resistant to hormonally induced differentiation (19.9 +/- 9.4% of cells accumulated lipid) but differentiated when cocultured with mature adipocytes to the same extent as preadipocytes derived from Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats (cp/cp 48.4 +/- 15.2% vs. SD 52.2 +/- 11.9%). In contrast, SD preadipocytes did not differentiate in response to mature adipocytes from +/+ rats (13.8 +/- 5.2%). Our observations suggest that preadipocyte replication and maturation may not be controlled in a coordinated manner.

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