title: Oleoyl-estrone treatment activates apoptotic mechanisms in white adipose tissue.
abstract: To determine whether lipid mobilization in white adipose tissue caused by oleoyl-estrone (OE) treatment leads to activation of apoptosis, female Wistar rats were given a daily oral gavage of 10 micromol/kg of OE in 0.2 ml of sunflower oil and DNA fragmentation in different adipose tissues was assessed by ligation-mediated PCR after 6, 24, 48, or 240 h. Expression of selected apoptotic target genes was analysed by RT-PCR in adipose tissue from animals treated for 2 days. The response of adipose tissue to OE treatment was not the same in all locations. In mesenteric adipose tissue, a significant increase in the expression of Bid, Bax, caspase 3 and caspase 8 was detected, whereas in periovaric adipose tissue, only Bax and caspase 3 expression showed significant increases. No effect was detected in subcutaneous or retroperitoneal adipose tissue. The increased expression of apoptotic factors suggests that this pathway could be activated by OE treatment.
authors.affiliation: Departament de Nutrició i Bromatologia, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal, 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Salas
authors.forename: Xavier
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Remesar
authors.forename: Montserrat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Esteve
mesh_terms: D052436:Adipose Tissue, White / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000473:pathology; D000284:Administration, Oral; D000818:Animals; D019440:Anti-Obesity Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000235:genetics; D051023:BH3 Interacting Domain Death Agonist Protein / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D053148:Caspase 3 / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D053181:Caspase 8 / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D004970:Estrone / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D005260:Female; D015870:Gene Expression / Q000187:drug effects; D050152:Intra-Abdominal Fat / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D008643:Mesentery / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D009829:Oleic Acids / Q000494:pharmacology*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D050151:Subcutaneous Fat / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D051028:bcl-2-Associated X Protein / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D019440:Anti-Obesity Agents; D051023:BH3 Interacting Domain Death Agonist Protein; C494828:Bax protein, rat; C494816:Bid protein, rat; D009829:Oleic Acids; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D051028:bcl-2-Associated X Protein; D004970:Estrone; C108709:oleoyl-estrone; C505410:Casp3 protein, rat; C505528:Casp8 protein, rat; D053148:Caspase 3; D053181:Caspase 8