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Article Dans Une Revue Diabetes Année : 2009

Enhanced hypothalamic glucose sensing in obesity: alteration of redox signalling

Anne-Laure Colombani
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Anne Galinier
Tristan Jaillard
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T. Duparc
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Géraldine Offer
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Anne Lorsignol
Christophe Magnan
Louis Casteilla

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Objective : Recent data demonstrate that glucose sensing in different tissues is initiated by an intracellular redox-signaling pathway in physiological conditions. However, the relevance of such a mechanism in metabolic disease is not known. The aim of the present study was to determine whether brain-glucose hypersensitivity present in obese Zucker rat is related to an alteration in redox signaling. Research design and Methods: Brain glucose sensing alteration was investigated in vivo through the evaluation of electrical activity in arcuate nucleus, changes in ROS levels, and hypothalamic glucose-induced insulin secretion. In basal conditions, modifications of redox state and mitochondrial function were assessed through oxidized glutathione, glutathione peroxidase, manganese superoxide dismutase, aconitase activities and mitochondrial respiration. Results : Hypothalamic hypersensitivity to glucose was characterized by enhanced electrical activity of the arcuate nucleus and increased insulin secretion at a low glucose concentration, which does not produce such an effect in normal rats. It was associated with 1) increased ROS levels in response to this low glucose load, 2) constitutive oxidized environment coupled with lower antioxidant enzyme activity at both the cellular and mitochondrial level, and 3) over-expression of several mitochondrial subunits of the respiratory chain coupled with a global dysfunction in mitochondrial activity. Moreover, pharmacological restoration of the glutathione hypothalamic redox state by reduced-glutathione infusion in the third ventricle fully reversed the cerebral hypersensitivity to glucose. Conclusions : Altogether, these data demonstrate that obese Zucker rats' impaired hypothalamic regulation in terms of glucose sensing is linked to an abnormal redox signaling, which originates from mitochondria dysfunction.
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hal-00461351 , version 1 (04-03-2010)

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Anne-Laure Colombani, Lionel Carneiro, Alexandre Benani, Anne Galinier, Tristan Jaillard, et al.. Enhanced hypothalamic glucose sensing in obesity: alteration of redox signalling. Diabetes, 2009, 58 (10), pp.2189-97. ⟨hal-00461351⟩
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