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Calcium ameliorates obesity induced by high-fat diet and its potential correlation with p38 MAPK pathway.
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PMID:  21633889     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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To investigate whether and on which pathway dietary calcium influence the obesity induced by high-fat diet, thirty male Kunming mice were fed in six groups for 4 weeks and mouse preadipocytes were divided into eight groups for different treatment. Body weight gain was measured each week. Calcium in serum and tissues, intracellular free Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)]i), blood fat and intracellular lipid content were also measured. The expression of Lipid metabolism-related genes were measured by q RT-PCR. Compared with control group, body weight gain (P < 0.05) and fat pad weight (P < 0.01) in Low calcium group decreased. Triglycerides (TG) and total Cholesterol (TC) level decreased (P < 0.01), while HDL-Cholesterol (HDL) level increased (P < 0.01). And calcium supply increased calcium content in blood serum and tissues. In tissues, adipogenesis and vitamin D receptor (VDR) genes expression decreased but lipoclasis genes expression increased. These anti-obesity effects were more obvious when supplying with 2.8% calcium, but the effects were reduced while supplying Nifedipine at the same time. The results in preadipocytes indicated that calcium-treated can reduce intracellular lipid content, along with adipogenesis and lipoclasis genes expression decrease, promoted the expression levels of p38 MAPK pathway upstream gene MKK6 (P < 0.01) and downstream gene MAPKAPK2 (P < 0.01). Treated with SB203580 could increase adipogenesis genes expression, decrease lipoclasis genes expression and ([Ca(2+)]i) (P < 0.01). These results implied that dietary calcium had remarkable effect on anti-obesity effect and p38 MAPK pathway potentially participated in calcium-mediated lipid accumulation and lipolysis in mouse preadipocytes.
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Chao Sun; Li Wang; Jun Yan; Shumin Liu
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Publication Detail:
Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2011-6-3
Journal Detail:
Title:  Molecular biology reports     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1573-4978     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 Jun 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-6-2     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
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Nlm Unique ID:  0403234     Medline TA:  Mol Biol Rep     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
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College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, China, sunchao2775@163.com.
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