Affiliation:
1. Department of Pathology and the Center for Integrative Metabolic and Endocrine Research, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit; and
2. Pfizer Global Research and Development, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Abstract
The nuclear receptor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)γ plays a key role in regulating whole body glucose homeostasis and insulin sensitivity. Although it is expressed most highly in adipose, it is also present at lower levels in many tissues, including skeletal muscle. The role muscle PPARγ plays in metabolic regulation and in mediating the antidiabetic effects of the thiazolidinediones is not understood. The goal of this work was to examine the molecular and physiological effects of PPARγ activation in muscle cells. We found that pharmacological activation of PPARγ in primary cultured myocytes, and genetic activation of muscle PPARγ in muscle tissue of transgenic mice, induced the production of adiponectin directly from muscle cells. This muscle-produced adiponectin was functional and capable of stimulating adiponectin signaling in myocytes. In addition, elevated skeletal muscle PPARγ activity in transgenic mice provided a significant protection from high-fat diet-induced insulin resistance and associated changes in muscle phenotype, including reduced myocyte lipid content and an increase in the proportion of oxidative muscle fiber types. Our findings demonstrate that PPARγ activation in skeletal muscle can have a significant protective effect on whole body glucose homeostasis and insulin resistance and that myocytes can produce and secrete functional adiponectin in a PPARγ-dependent manner. We propose that activation of PPARγ in myocytes induces a local production of adiponectin that acts on muscle tissue to improve insulin sensitivity.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Physiology (medical),Physiology,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
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