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Elevating adipose eosinophils in obese mice to physiologically normal levels
does not rescue metabolic impairments.
Authors Bolus WR, Peterson KR, Hubler MJ, Kennedy AJ, Gruen ML, Hasty AH
Submitted By Submitted Externally on 6/7/2018
Status Published
Journal Molecular metabolism
Year 2018
Date Published 2/1/2018
Volume : Pages 8 : 86 - 95
PubMed Reference 29306658
Abstract Obesity is a metabolic disorder that has reached epidemic proportions worldwide
and leads to increased risk for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, asthma,
certain cancers, and various other diseases. Obesity and its comorbidities are
associated with impaired adipose tissue (AT) function. In the last decade,
eosinophils have been identified as regulators of proper AT function. Our study
aimed to determine whether normalizing the number of AT eosinophils in obese
mice, to those of lean healthy mice, would reduce obesity and/or improve
metabolic fitness., C57BL/6J mice fed a high fat diet (HFD) were simultaneously
given recombinant interleukin-5 (rIL5) for 8 weeks to increase AT eosinophils.
Metabolic fitness was tested by evaluating weight gain, AT inflammation,
glucose, lipid, and mixed-meal tolerance, AT insulin signaling, energy substrate
utilization, energy expenditure, and white AT beiging capacity., Eosinophils
were increased ~3-fold in AT of obese HFD-fed mice treated with rIL5, and thus
were restored to levels observed in lean healthy mice. However, there were no
significant differences in rIL5-treated mice among the above listed
comprehensive set of metabolic assays, despite the increased AT eosinophils., We
have shown that restoring obese AT eosinophils to lean healthy levels is not
sufficient to allow for improvement in any of a range of metabolic features
otherwise impaired in obesity. Thus, the mechanisms that identified eosinophils
as positive regulators of AT function, and therefore systemic health, are more
complex than initially understood and will require further study to fully
elucidate.




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