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Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab (May 7, 2003). doi:10.1152/ajpendo.00052.2003
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Submitted on February 6, 2003
Accepted on May 2, 2003

Regulation of leptin secretion from white adipocytes by free fatty acids

Philippe G. Cammisotto1, Yves Gelinas1, Yves Deshaies1, and Ludwik J. Bukowiecki1*

1 Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Laval University, Quebec, Quebec, Canada

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ludwik.bukowiecki{at}phs.ulaval.ca.

Norepinephrine stimulates lipolysis and concurrently inhibits insulin-stimulated leptin secretion from white adipocytes. To assess whether there is a cause-effect relationship between these two metabolic events, the effects of fatty acids were investigated in isolated rat adipocytes incubated in buffer containing low (0.1 %) and high (4 %) albumin concentrations. Palmitic acid (1 mM) mimicked the inhibitory effects of norepinephrine (1 µM) on insulin (10 nM)-stimulated leptin secretion, but only at low albumin concentrations. Studies investigating the effects of the chain length of saturated fatty acids [from butyric (C4) to stearic (C18) acids] revealed that only fatty acids with a chain length >= 8 carbons effectively inhibited insulin-stimulated leptin secretion. Long-chain mono- and poly-unsaturated fatty acids constitutively present in adipocyte triglyceride stores (oleic, linoleic, gamma-linolenic, palmitoleic, eicosapentanoic, docosahexanoic acids) also completely suppressed leptin secretion. Saturated and unsaturated fatty acids inhibited insulin-stimulated leptin secretion with the same potency and without any significant effect on basal secretion. On the other hand, inhibitors of mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation (palmoxirate, 2-bromopalmitate, 2-bromocaproate) attenuated the stimulatory effects of insulin on leptin release without reversing the effects of fatty acids or norepinephrine, suggesting that fatty acids do not need to be oxidized by the mitochondria in order to inhibit leptin release. These results demonstrate that long-chain fatty acids mimic the effects of norepinephrine on leptin secretion and suggest that they may play a regulatory role as messengers between stimulation of lipolysis by norepinephrine and inhibition of leptin secretion.




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