Multiple abnormalities of myocardial insulin signaling in a porcine model of diet-induced obesity.

Abstract

Heightened cardiovascular risk among patients with systemic insulin resistance is not fully explained by the extent of atherosclerosis. It is unknown whether myocardial insulin resistance accompanies systemic insulin resistance and contributes to increased cardiovascular risk. This study utilized a porcine model of diet-induced obesity to determine if myocardial insulin resistance develops in parallel with systemic insulin resistance and investigated potential mechanisms for such changes. Micropigs (n = 16) were assigned to control (low fat, no added sugars) or intervention (25% wt/wt coconut oil and 20% high-fructose corn syrup) diet for 7 mo. Intervention diet resulted in obesity, hypertension, and dyslipidemia. Systemic insulin resistance was manifest by elevated fasting glucose and insulin, abnormal response to intravenous glucose tolerance testing, and blunted skeletal muscle phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI 3-kinase) activation and protein kinase B (Akt) phosphorylation in response to insulin. In myocardium, insulin-stimulated glucose uptake, PI 3-kinase activation, and Akt phosphorylation were also blunted in the intervention diet group. These findings were explained by increased myocardial content of p85alpha (regulatory subunit of PI 3-kinase), diminished association of PI 3-kinase with insulin receptor substrate (IRS)-1 in response to insulin, and increased serine-307 phosphorylation of IRS-1. Thus, in a porcine model of diet-induced obesity that recapitulates many characteristics of insulin-resistant patients, myocardial insulin resistance develops along with systemic insulin resistance and is associated with multiple abnormalities of insulin signaling.

• Authors: Jenny Lee, Ya Xu, Li Lu, Bryan Bergman, J Wayne Leitner, Clifford Greyson, Boris Draznin, Gregory G Schwartz
• Journal: American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology (Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol) Vol. 298 Issue 2 Pg. H310-9 (Feb 2010) ISSN: 1522-1539 [Electronic] United States
• PMID: 19897715 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.)

Chemical References

• Adiponectin
• Blood Glucose
• Dietary Fats
• Insulin
• Insulin Receptor Substrate Proteins
• Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases
• Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt

Topics

• Adiponectin (blood)
• Animals
• Blood Glucose (metabolism)
• Blood Pressure (physiology)
• Dietary Fats (adverse effects)
• Disease Models, Animal
• Female
• Heart (physiology)
• Insulin (blood, physiology)
• Insulin Receptor Substrate Proteins (metabolism)
• Insulin Resistance (physiology)
• Male
• Metabolic Syndrome (etiology, physiopathology)
• Obesity (complications, etiology, physiopathology)
• Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases (metabolism)
• Phosphorylation
• Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt (metabolism)
• Signal Transduction (physiology)
• Swine
• Swine, Miniature