Role of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α in disease of pancreatic β cells
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- 21 July 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 95 (15), 8898-8903
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.95.15.8898
Abstract
Expression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α (PPARα) and enzymes of fatty acid (FA) oxidation is markedly reduced in the fat-laden, dysfunctional islets of obese, prediabetic Zucker diabetic fatty (fa/fa) rats with mutated leptin receptors (OB-R). Leptin, PPARα/retinoid x receptor ligands, and FA all up-regulate PPARα and enzymes of FA oxidation and stimulate [3H]-palmitate oxidation in normal islets but not in islets from fa/fa rats. Overexpression of normal OB-R in islets of fa/fa rats corrects all of the foregoing abnormalities and reverses the diabetic phenotype. PPARα is a OB-R-dependent factor required for normal fat homeostasis in islet cells.Keywords
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