title: Thermogenic responses to adrenoceptor agonists and brown fat adrenoceptors in overfed rats.
abstract: Rats fed a cafeteria diet to produce hyperphagia showed increases in the maximal thermogenic responses (rise in oxygen consumption) to isoprenaline (mixed beta-agonist), prenalterol (beta 1-selective agonist) and clenbuterol (beta 2-agonist), and left-shifts in the dose-response curves to the latter two. The maximal response to phenylephrine (alpha-agonist) was similar for control and cafeteria rats. Ligand binding studies revealed increases in beta-adrenoceptor density of 33-38% in brown fat cells and isolated membranes from cafeteria-fed rats, but a 30% reduction in beta-receptors in heart membranes. Cold-adaptation caused a 22% reduction in beta-receptor density in brown fat membranes, but no change in heart. The ratio of beta 1/beta 2-receptors in brown fat was reduced from 59/45 in control to 47/54 in cafeteria-fed rats, but was not significantly altered in heart (58/44) or in brown fat from cold-adapted animals (64/30). alpha-Adrenoceptor density was increased above control values by 69 and 25% in brown adipose tissue from cafeteria and cold-adapted rats, respectively.
mesh_terms: D002001:Adipose Tissue, Brown / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D001833:Body Temperature Regulation / Q000187:drug effects*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007700:Kinetics; D008297:Male; D010101:Oxygen Consumption / Q000187:drug effects; D011869:Radioligand Assay; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D011941:Receptors, Adrenergic / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D011942:Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D011943:Receptors, Adrenergic, beta / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D013566:Sympathomimetics / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D011941:Receptors, Adrenergic; D011942:Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha; D011943:Receptors, Adrenergic, beta; D013566:Sympathomimetics