title: Diurnal variation in vascular and metabolic function in diet-induced obesity: divergence of insulin resistance and loss of clock rhythm.
abstract: Circadian rhythms are integral to the normal functioning of numerous physiological processes. Evidence from human and mouse studies suggests that loss of rhythm occurs in obesity and cardiovascular disease and may be a neglected contributor to pathophysiology. Obesity has been shown to impair the circadian clock mechanism in liver and adipose tissue but its effect on cardiovascular tissues is unknown. We investigated the effect of diet-induced obesity in C57BL6J mice upon rhythmic transcription of clock genes and diurnal variation in vascular and metabolic systems. In obesity, clock gene function and physiological rhythms were preserved in the vasculature but clock gene transcription in metabolic tissues and rhythms of glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity were blunted. The most pronounced attenuation of clock rhythm occurred in adipose tissue, where there was also impairment of clock-controlled master metabolic genes and both AMPK mRNA and protein. Across tissues, clock gene disruption was associated with local inflammation but diverged from impairment of insulin signaling. We conclude that vascular tissues are less sensitive to pathological disruption of diurnal rhythms during obesity than metabolic tissues and suggest that cellular disruption of clock gene rhythmicity may occur by mechanisms shared with inflammation but distinct from those leading to insulin resistance.
authors: Division of Cardiovascular and Diabetes Research, LIGHT Laboratories, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
authors: Madhu J
authors: MJ
authors: Prasai
authors: Romana S
authors: RS
authors: Mughal
authors: Stephen B
authors: SB
authors: Wheatcroft
authors: Mark T
authors: MT
authors: Kearney
authors: Peter J
authors: PJ
authors: Grant
authors: Eleanor M
authors: EM
authors: Scott
mesh_terms: D055372:AMP-Activated Protein Kinases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D002940:Circadian Rhythm / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D059305:Diet, High-Fat / Q000009:adverse effects; D015151:Immunoblotting; D007333:Insulin Resistance / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D009765:Obesity / Q000209:etiology / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction
chemical_list: D055372:AMP-Activated Protein Kinases
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