Qiaoling Zhong, Hongsheng Liu, Yanqiu Feng, Xiuwei Jiao, Yuanbo Yang, Daming Zhang, Qian Wang, Zoheb Ahasan, Andrew Z Li, Chong Wee Liew, Zimeng Cai, Zaiyi Liu, Kejia Cai
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Abstract
White adipose tissue (WAT) browning is considered a promising strategy to combat obesity and related metabolic diseases. Currently, fat-water fraction (FWF) has been used as a marker for the loss of lipids associated with WAT browning. However, FWF may not be sensitive to metabolic changes and cannot specifically reflect iron-regulated metabolism during browning. Here, we report a non-invasive preclinical imaging approach based on iron content detected by R2* mapping to assess in-vivo WAT browning in mice. In this study, we investigated the browning of inguinal white adipose tissue (iWAT) induced by long-term CL-316,243 (CL) drug stimulation in mice. We quantified the changes in R2*, FWF, uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) expression, and iron content. The iWAT of all mice was dissected for hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining and immunohistochemistry (IHC) for the optical density (OD) of UCP1 and iron content. In in-vivo experiments, a significant increase in R2* and a decrease in FWF were observed in iWAT after 7 days of CL administration compared to the saline-treated and the baseline groups. Accordingly, in ex-vivo experiments, UCP1 expression and the total iron content in iWAT significantly increased after 7 days of CL stimulation. By pooling all mice data, the UCP1 expression level of iWAT and iron content were found to be highly correlated with R2* and inversely correlated with FWF. Taken together, R2* mapping with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can serve as a potential imaging tool for assessing iWAT browning, which provides a new diagnostic and therapeutic evaluation tool for metabolic diseases.
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The Journal of Lipid Research (JLR) publishes original articles and reviews in the broadly defined area of biological lipids. We encourage the submission of manuscripts relating to lipids, including those addressing problems in biochemistry, molecular biology, structural biology, cell biology, genetics, molecular medicine, clinical medicine and metabolism. Major criteria for acceptance of articles are new insights into mechanisms of lipid function and metabolism and/or genes regulating lipid metabolism along with sound primary experimental data. Interpretation of the data is the authors’ responsibility, and speculation should be labeled as such. Manuscripts that provide new ways of purifying, identifying and quantifying lipids are invited for the Methods section of the Journal. JLR encourages contributions from investigators in all countries, but articles must be submitted in clear and concise English.