Nitric Oxide and Thermogenic Function of Brown Adipose Tissue in Rats.
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- Published by Physiological Society of Japan in The Japanese Journal of Physiology
- Vol. 50 (3), 337-342
- https://doi.org/10.2170/jjphysiol.50.337
Abstract
To clarify the effects of cold acclimation and immobilization stress adaptation of rats on nitric oxide (NO) activity in interscapular brown adipose tissue (BAT), we incubated neatly diced (1-mm(3) blocks) BAT in a metabolic chamber for respiration, measured oxygen consumption using a Clark electrode, and estimated NO release in the buffer medium by measuring nitrite plus nitrate (NO(x)) using the Griess method (diazotization reaction). The production of NO(x) in the buffer medium confirmed that BAT releases NO, as there is no other source of NO(x) in the system. The NO activity was observed in the basal condition and increased with noradrenaline stimulation, showing a correlation with oxygen consumption in the warm (25 degrees C)-acclimated control rats. Cold acclimation (5 degrees C, 5 weeks) or immobilization stress adaptation (3 h daily, 25 degrees C, 5 weeks) caused enhanced NO activity in the basal condition in comparison with the control. We suggest that NO is involved in enhancement of the thermogenic functions of BAT in rats.Keywords
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