title: Cytolipotoxicity-induced involution of the female reproductive tract following expression of obese (ob/ob) and diabetes (db/db) genotype mutations: progressive, hyperlipidemic transformation into adipocytic tissues.
abstract: Both diabetes (db/db) and obese (ob/ob) single gene mutations induce a progressive, hyperglycemic-hyperinsulinemic endometabolic environment which promotes hypercytolipidemic, utero-ovarian involution in C57BL/KsJ mice. The progressive expression of the induced diabetes-obesity syndrome (DOS) results in female reproductive sterility and eventual organoatrophy. In order to define the intra-cytoplasmic alterations induced by the progressive cytolipidemia on cellular vitality, utero-ovarian tissue samples were collected from both control (+/?) and littermate-matched ob/ob or db/db C57BL/KsJ mice at either 4 weeks (initial-onset DOS phase), 8 weeks (progressive, overt DOS phase), or 16 weeks (chronic-DOS phase) of age for cytolipid distribution analysis. All db/db and ob/ob mutant groups exhibited phenotypic obesity and systemic hyperglycemia-hyperinsulinemia relative to age-matched littermate +/? groups. In all db/db and ob/ob age groups, a progressive hypercytolipidemia was noted relative to +/? groups. When analyzed for lipid channeling, a progressive perinuclear mapping pattern of cytolipid distribution was noted. The primary locus of initial db/db and ob/ob cytolipid deposition was localized to the baso-polar regions in endometrial epithelia samples, or to the interstitium-thecal layer border of ovarian follicular compartments, during the initial-onset DOS phase. Progressively, intra-cytoplasmic lipid mobilization promoted a consistent perinuclear channeling of lipid vacuoles, ultimately isolating nuclear loci from the peripherally displaced cytoplasmic organelles within uterine epithelial layers. In db/db and ob/ob ovarian tissue samples, a progressive, gradient-related lipid infiltration of interstitial, thecal and, ultimately, granulosa cell layers promoted an enhanced rate of follicular-lipidemic atresia relative to +/? groups. In each tissue layer, the cytolipidemia promoted a dramatic perinuclear lipid-isolation barrier from intra-cytoplasmic organelle domains. With age-related exacerbation of the DOS syndrome, cytoplasmic nuclear-organelle displacement and lipoisolation resulted in cellular atresia, promoting the eventual utero-ovarian organoatrophy which characterized the chronic-DOS phase in db/db and ob/ob C57BL/KsJ mutants. These results indicate that the cytoinvolution associated with reproductive tract atrophy in these genetically mutant, diabetic-obese models is promoted by the disruption of the normal cytoarchitecture of utero-ovarian tissue layers induced by the progressive lipid sequestration, accumulation and ultimate isolation-induced disruption of intra-cellular organelle compartmentalization.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Schools of Biological Sciences and Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA. garrisd@umkc.edu
authors.forename: David R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Garris
authors.forename: Bryan L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Garris
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D001284:Atrophy; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000473:pathology; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D005838:Genotype; D006949:Hyperlipidemias / Q000150:complications*; D050356:Lipid Metabolism; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D009154:Mutation; D009765:Obesity / Q000473:pathology*; D010053:Ovary / Q000473:pathology*; D010641:Phenotype; D014599:Uterus / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure