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A Fluorescence-based Assay for Characterization and Quantification of Lipid Droplet Formation in Human Intestinal Organoids
Published on: October 13, 2019
Ectopic fat deposition in intestinal wall caused the increase of L cell pyroptosis mainly through local hypoxia
Yimeng Liu1, Huihui Wu1, Qianwen Ma1
1Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Jing'an District Center Hospital of Shanghai, Fudan University, Shanghai 200040, China.
Purpose:
L-cell dysfunction occurs in people with obesity, characterized by alterations in glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) secretion.The mechanism of L-cell dysfunction in obesity is not clear. This study was to reveal the mechanisms of GLP-1 secretion change of intestinal L cells in an obesity state.
Methods:
The metabolic variables such as the body weight, fasting blood glucose, and blood lipids, GLP-1 secretion, local fat infiltration, hypoxia of the ileum in male mice fed with a high-fat diet (HFD, 60 % kcal from fat) and caloric-restriction diet (CRD, calories were 50 % of HFD group) were investigated. On this basis, intestinal L-cell line GLUTag cells were incubated in vitro under the environment of hypoxia or inflammation to investigate their function changes.
Results:
The body weight, fasting blood glucose, blood lipids and pro-inffammatories levels of the HFD mice were increased after 2 weeks of feeding. At 6 weeks, the existence of local hypoxia was detected. It appeared simultaneously with the decrease of GLP-1 secretion and L-cell number in ileum. In GLUTag cells cultured under hypoxia conditions, expressions of pyrogenic products gasdermin D and IL-18 were increased, cell proliferation activity was inhibited, the overall number was decreased.
Conclusion:
Ectopic fat deposition of the intestinal wall caused by obesity mainly leads to an exacerbatiion of L cell pyroptosis through local hypoxia.
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