Effects of dietary fat and adipose tissue location on insulin action in young boar adipocytes

1. Regulation of lipogenesis and lipolysis by insulin was studied on adipocytes isolated from 100 kg Large white male pigs. Two adipose tissues were studied: subcutaneous and perirenal. Animals were fed either a control low fat diet or a diet containing 14.7% sunflower seed oil. 2. The cell diameter was higher in the group fed the sunflower diet. 3. De novo lipogenesis was decreased for each adipose tissue in the group fed the sunflower diet. The perirenal site had a higher lipogenic activity than subcutaneous site whatever the diet. 4. Insulin did not significantly stimulate lipogenesis but had an important antilipolytic effect on stimulated lipolysis by isoproterenol. 5. The antilipolytic action of insulin was higher in perirenal adipocytes with the control diet. With the sunflower diet, the decrease was about 54.4% for subcutaneous adipocytes, whereas the inhibition was decreased in perirenal adipocytes. Addition of theophylline reversed the antilipolytic action of insulin. 6. Insulin binding was not affected neither by the dietary fat nor by the adipose tissue location. 7. Absence of de novo lipogenesis stimulation by insulin was not due to an impairment in insulin binding. 8. The different effects of dietary fat and adipose tissue location on the antilipolytic action of insulin could not be explained by a modification of insulin binding but rather by a latter event, probably at a post-insulin binding stage.