Effect of DHEA Administration on Epididymal Fat Weight and Laboratory Data in LETO and OLETF Rats
1. Introduction
Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) (1) is the major adrenal androgen of young adults. However, serum concentration of DHEA in 60 year- old men shows a gradual decrease, when compared with young men aged 25-30 years old. This decrease occurs as the incidence of atherosclerosis (2), obesity (3), and diabetes increases (4), suggesting that administration of DHEA may protect against the development of these disorders. Previously, we reported that in vitro DHEA treatment increased glucose uptake and activation of PI 3-kinase in native rat adipocytes (5).
Protein kinase C (PKC) is a family of serine/threonine kinases, which play key functions in cellular signal transduction. Three categories of PKC, conventional, novel, and atypical PKCs, have been described depending on their mechanisms of activation. Moreover, it is known that 3-phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase-1 (PDK1) is the hub of many signaling pathways, which phosphorylate many downstream kinases of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI 3-kinase), such as Akt kinase, S6 kinase and PKC. Previous studies suggested that atypical PKC (aPKCζ/λ) isoforms are required for insulin stimulation of glucose uptake (6), and PDK1 is necessary for activation of aPKCs (7).
It has been reported that DHEA treatment reduces fat accumulation and protects against insulin resistance via an increase in PI 3-kinase after immunoprecipitation with insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) in male rats (8). We have investigated the in-vitro and in-vivo effects of DHEA on insulin-induced glucose uptake in adipocytes of Otsuka Log-Evans Tokushima fatty (OLETF) (9) and LETO rats. Moreover, we have shown the DHEA-induced glucose uptake by activation of PI 3-kinase/atypaical PKC siganlling without association with IRS-1 (10). In vivo treatment with DHEA affects on a decrease of adipose tissue via downregulation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ) expression (11). Based on above results, we have searched more precise mechanism of DHEA-induced amelioration of insulin sensitivity and clinical application of DHEA in diabetic animal models and human male adults.
Obesity is one of the most important public health problems because of its association with increased risk for diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, and other serious diseases. In addition to the environmental factors including a western style diet, hormonal changes are postulated to up- or downregulate adiposity. Recent evidence indicates that hypogonadism is a predictor of obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, and coronary artery disease in men (12). Testosterone replacement therapy improves insulin resistance and glycemic control in hypogonadal men with type 2 diabetes (13). Male hypogonadism is a distinctly defined clinical entity associated with sexual dysfunction, inactivity, depression, decreased muscle mass, bone loss, etc. Hence, testosterone replacement also improves these abnormalities (14). On the other hand, although circulating DHEA and testosterone concentrations are known to decline during the aging process (15) in men, the relationship between low plasma DHEA level and cardiovascular disease remains controversial. Barrett-Connor and colleagues reported negative correlation between DHEA sulfate (DHEA-S) level and death from any case and death from cardiovascular disease in men more than 50 years of age (16). The same authors concluded that DHEA-S did not predict cardiovascular death in women (17). Analyses of the relationship of plasma DHEA or DHEA-S levels with obesity or body fat distribution have revealed inconsistent results. Plasma DHEA levels are negatively correlated with total body mass index and abdominal fat accumulation; however, contradictory is true for the relationship between DHEA-S and adiposity. Several studies supported the association of high plasma DHEA level with favorable insulin sensitivity (18). Meanwhile, administration of DHEA has been reported to improve obesity (19), diabetes (20), and cancer (21) in animal studies. However, discrepancies have been reported in the benefit of DHEA administration in human studies. Both positive (22) and negative (23) effects of DHEA replacement in elderly people or in patients with adrenal insufficiency have been reported. A major cause of these discrepancies might be the varied study designs including the selection of subjects, dose, drug administration, and definitions of endpoint in these numerous studies.
Although the specific receptor of DHEA has not been identified, one recently proposed mechanism is that DHEA is a precursor of androgen and estrogen that is converted to active form in peripheral tissues. DHEA is metabolized into androstenedione with 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, and then transformed to testosterone with 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (intracrine process) (24). The fact that androgen receptor (AR)-deficient mice are obese (25) indicates that AR acts as a mediator to prevent fat accumulation in whole body. Accordingly, several effects of DHEA may be mediated via AR. In this regard, it is possible that DHEA and testosterone have common mechanisms to reduce adiposity. However, few comparative studies between these hormones have been reported (26).
We demonstrated that administration of DHEA reduced adiposity in Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima Fatty (OLETF) rats. Moreover, we found that DHEA directly downregulated the PPARγ mRNA level in cultured adipocytes, which may explain the anti-obesity effect of DHEA (11). However, contradictory data have been reported lately (27). To understand the weight-reducing effect of DHEA comprehensively, we performed a microarray study. Analysis of approximately 30,000 genes in epididymal fat isolated from mice after treatment with or without DHEA demonstrated that although a few genes involved in energy metabolism (e.g., malonyl-CoA decarboxylase) were affected, genes regulating cell growth (e.g., foxa1, nuclear factor I/X, eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1α, and aurora kinase) and genes regulating apoptosis (e.g., caspase 3, tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily, and Bcl2) were markedly up- and downregulated, respectively. These results indicate that DHEA regulates cell growth or death, possibly resulting in decreased adiposity. However, we failed to find evidence of increased apoptosis in adipose tissue and cultured adipocytes after DHEA treatment.
2. Materials and methods
Male Long-Evans Tokushima Otsula (LETO) rats and Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima Fatty (OLETF) rats were obtained from Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Animals were fed CE2 powder ad libitum, and treated with (DHEA group) or without (control group) 0.4% DHEA for 52 weeks. They were housed in a specific pathogen-free facility with a 12-h light/12-h dark cycle. All procedures for animal care were carried out in accordance with protocols approved by the University of Gifu’s Institutional Animal Care Committee. To compare the effects of DHEA and testosterone on adiposity, male Wistar rats were fed with (control) or without 0.4% DHEA- or 0.4% testosterone-containing food for 4 weeks. Body weight, fat weight, and serum levels of glucose, IRI, DHEA-S, and testosterone were measured.
Experimental results were calculated as means ± standard errors. Statistical comparisons were performed by ANOVA. Significance was defined as
3. Results
DHEA stimulated both PI 3-kinase activation and DG production as previously described (5). We examined whether DHEA activates PKCζ, which is thought to be a downstream of PI 3-kinase. When isolated adipocytes of LETO rats (control) were treated with or without (control: 0 min) 1 µM DHEA for 5, 10 and 20 min, cytosolic PKCζ immunoreactivities gradually decreased and membrane-
First, we examined DHEA-induced 2-DOG uptake in rat adipocytes. DNA, using the electroporation system was transfected into adipocytes. DHEA-induced 2-DOG uptake in wt-PDK1- and wt-PKCζ-transfected adipocytes significantly increased to 250±30% and 280±50%, respectively, compared with the control cells and vector alone-transfected cells (Fig. 2). However, wt-Akt-transfected adipocytes had no significant influence on DHEA-induced 2-DOG uptake in this system, when compared with the control cells and vector alone-transfected cells (Fig. 2).
Second, we also examined the effect of wortmannin pretreatment on DHEA-induced 2-DOG uptake. DHEA-induced 2-DOG uptake after pretreatment with 1 μM wortmannin for 30 min was significantly reduced in wt-PDK1-transfected adipocytes. Similarly, DHEA-induced 2-DOG uptake after pretreatment with wortmannin for 30 min was significantly reduced in wt-PKCζ-transfected adipocytes (Fig. 2).
DHEA-induced membrane-associated PKCζ immunoreactivity for 20 min in PKCζ-transfected cells was greater than that of control cells and tranfected cell without DHEA stimualtion. (Fig. 3, lanes 1 and 2). The DHEA-stimulated PKCζ translocation in PKCζ-transfected cells significantly increased to 3-fold greater than the control (Fig. 3, lane 3). Pretreatment with wortmannin for 15 min completely suppressed DHEA-stimulated PKCζ translocation from the cytosol to the membrane in PKCζ-transfected cells (Fig. 3, lane 4). These results indicate that DHEA-induced PKCζ translocation is provoked via a PI 3-kinase dependent pathway.
We selected a type 2 diabetes animal model, the OLETF rat, and examined the effect of “in vivo” DHEA treatment on insulin-, TPA- or DHEA-induced [3H]2-DOG uptake. At 10 wk of age, 10 nM insulin-induced [3H]2-DOG uptake in adipocytes of OLETF rat decreased by 45% when compared to LETO rat (control). In the 2 weeks treatment with 0.4% DHEA in vivo, there were no significant differences in body weight or plasma insulin level but there was a
significant difference in plasma glucose of OLETF rats as shown in Table 1. After “in vivo” treatment with DHEA, insulin-induced glucose uptakes were significantly increased by 50-100% when compared to untreated OLETF and LETO rats, but not in DHEA- induced glucose uptake. TPA-induced glucose uptake was also significantly increased compared to untreated OLETF and LETO rats as previously described (5). These results suggested that DHEA markedly increased glucose transport activity in not only LETO rats, but also in OLETF rats.
Specimen | LETO | OLETF | ||
Control | DHEA | Control | DHEA | |
Epididymal fat (g) | 10.9 ± 1.4 | 5.5 ± 1.7** | 16.6 ± 1.2 | 11.2 ± 2.1** |
Glucose (mg/mL) | 140 ± 1 | 132 ± 2 | 184 ± 4 | 168 ± 3 * |
TG (mg/mL) | 101 ± 14 | 53 ± 2 * | 544 ± 42 | 171 ± 54 ** |
T.Chol (mg/mL) | 121 ± 5 | 139 ± 2 | 226 ± 7 | 191 ± 7 |
FFA (mEq/L) | 645 ± 115 | 490 ± 16 | 1225 ± 96 | 854 ± 214 * |
AST (IU/L) | 207 ± 10 | 331 ± 35 * | 202 ± 49 | 150 ± 21 * |
ALT (IU/L) | 75 ± 11 | 118 ± 9 | 141 ± 4 | 101 ± 34 * |
IRI (ng/mL) | 1.8 ± 0.4 | 2.4 ± 0.3 | 2.4 ± 1 | 2.7 ± 0.4 |
Data are expressed as mean ± SE (N = 6). *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01 vs control. |
Moreover, in order to clarify the effect of DHEA treatment in vivo on PI 3-kinase, which binds to tyrosine phosphorylated insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) via SH2 domain of PI 3-kinase, downstream of the insulin signaling pathway, we examined whether DHEA treatment improves PI 3-kinase activity in adipocytes of OLETF/LETO rats. When
adipocytes were incubated with 10 nM insulin, enzyme activity after immunoprecipitation with antiphosphotyrosine antibody apparently increased for 5 and 10 min in control LETO rats. PI-3kinase activity of OLETF rat was decreased and insulin-stimulated PI-3kinase activity also decreased, compared with those in LETO rats (Fig. 4). In vivo treatment with DHEA increased membrane-associated PKCζ immunoreactivities, especially in OLETF rat as shown in Fig. 5. These results suggest that in vivo treatment with DHEA for 2 weeks increases PI 3-kinase/atypicalPKC signaling and finally ameliorate blood glucose level as shown in Table 1.
Effect of DHEA administration on body weight, food consumption, and laboratory Data in LETO and OLETF rats
DHEA administration reduced body weight of both LETO and OLETF rats over a period of 44 weeks; however, a significant decrease in food consumption was observed only in the first 2 weeks. This indicated that DHEA-induced reduction of body weight could not be attributed to the change in food intake (Fig. 6). As shown in Table 1, DHEA administration significantly reduced epididymal fat weight in LETO and OLETF and plasma glucose level in OLETF rats. Serum triglyceride and free fatty acid levels were also diminished by DHEA administration.
Effects of DHEA and testosterone on body weight and fat weight
Treatment with both 0.4% DHEA and 0.4% testosterone resulted in reduction of body weight and epididymal fat, intestinal fat, and perirenal fat weights (Fig. 7A, B). Animals were treated for 4 weeks to avoid the effect of decreased food intake. Because rodents lack 17α-hydroxylase (CYP17A1) in their adrenal glands, they produce little or no DHEA. Hence, DHEA-S was not detected in control serum, whereas elevated DHEA-S levels were observed in both DHEA-treated and testosterone-treated rats (Fig. 7C). Treatment with DHEA resulted in less elevated testosterone levels than treatment with testosterone (Fig. 7D). No differences were observed in serum levels of glucose, triglyceride, free fatty acid, AST, ALT, and IRI levels among these animals (data not shown).
4. Discussion
We have previously reported that DHEA improves insulin resistance via activation of PI 3-kinase/atypical PKC signaling (5). However, more precise mechanism still remains unclear concerning about downstream signaling of PI 3-kinase and in vivo effect of DHEA on human male adults. Therefore, we have shown in vivo administration of DHEA stimulates glucose uptake via activation of PI3-kinase/atypiacal in OLETF rats and improves insulin resistance in human male adults. It has been reported that insulin receptor-mediated tyrosine phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrate 1 stimulates PI 3-kinase (31). It is believed that PI 3-kinase plays an important role in the insulin-stimulated glucose transport system (32). It has been reported that PI 3-kinase mediated aPKC activation is essential in insulin-induced glucose transporter 4 translocation and glucose uptake (33). The current results demonstrate that PDK1 is necessary for phosphorylation and activation of aPKC (34), and aPKC may provoke glucose transporter translocation to the membrane of insulin sensitive tissues (35). Our previous studies show that DHEA may directly or indirectly activate PI 3-kinase without an increase in tyrosine phosphorylation of IRS-1 (36) and subsequent activation of PKCζ (13). Although DOG uptake by DHEA stimulation significantly increased, it appears to be more than the 150% increases in cultured adipocytes from an unstimulated level, as shown in Fig. 2. In this study, we hypothesize that overexpressions of PKCζ and PDK1 may markedly cause DOG uptake. As a result, DHEA-induced DOG uptake increased 250 and 280% in wt-PDK1- and wt-PKCζ-transfected adipocytes, respectively, when compared with the control and vector-transfected cells, as shown in Fig. 2. DHEA-induce glucose uptake was stimulated by activation of PI-3 kinase and subsequent stimulation of PDK1/atypical PKC by PIP2/PIP3 production as already shown (5), and partially mimics insulin-induced activation of glucose uptake. Although we acknowledge that PDK1 can phosphorylate Akt kinase (known as protein kinase B), DHEA-induced DOG uptake did not increase in wt-Akt-transfected adipocytes (Fig. 2). Moreover, Kotani et al stated that Akt kinase was not associated with insulin-induced glucose uptake in 3T3-L1 adipocytes (37). Further work will be needed to focus on the elucidation of the function of Akt kinase. In addition, we investigated the effect of wortmannin, a PI 3-kinase inhibitor, on glucose uptake in wt-PKCζ-transfected adipocytes. When treated with DHEA, PKCζ significantly increased in the membrane fractions as indicated in Fig. 3. (lane 3). However, pretreatment with wortmannin for 30 min significantly suppressed DHEA-induced PKCζ translocation to the membrane (Fig. 3, lane 4). We also investigated the effect of wortmannin on DHEA-induced PI 3-kinase and PKCζ activity. After pretreatment with wortmannin, DHEA-induced PI 3-kinase and PKCζ activations were inhibited completely as previously described (10). These results indicate that acute DHEA stimulation may potentiate DOG uptake via a PI 3-kinase-PDK1-PKCζ pathway and subsequent glucose transporter translocation. Nakashima et al. reported that insulin-stimulated DOG uptake increased by incubating cells with DHEA (38). We also revealed that DHEA could enhance insulin-induced DOG uptake via activation of PI 3-kinase-PKCζ signaling in DHEA-treated (for 2 weeks) OLETF (Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima Fatty) rat in vivo, when compared with untreated control rats (5). Although the precise mechanism is unknown, the preferential activation of PI 3-kinase and redistribution of PKCζ by chronic DHEA treatment may appear to result in enhancement of insulin sensitivity in OLETF rats and human male adults. On the other hand, DHEA converts into estrogenic and androgenic metabolites, such as 17β-estradiol, 5-androstene-3β,17β-diol, testosterone and 4-androstene-3,17-dione (39). Investigators need to examine whether DHEA-metabolites affect DOG uptake, although in vitro examinations indicated androstenedione and estradiol did not stimulate DOG uptake in native rat adipocytes as previously reported (5). Finally, 4-hydroxy-androstenedione, an aromatase inhibitor, may be useful in evaluating the effect of DHEA.In this study, DHEA treatment for 2 wk in genetically obese OLETF rats reduced the weight of subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissues, but not total body weight. Although a small effect could also be observed also in control rats, DHEA decreased a broad range of adipose in fatty ones. We also revealed that DHEA treatment significantly reduced plasma leptin level as previously reported (11). Leptin is thought to correlate with the amount of stored body. Therefore, DHEA-induced reduction in adipose tissue mass might contribute to the decrease in plasma leptin concentration. Moreover, we found that DHEA treatment prevented the elevation of PPARγ expression in adipose tissue from OLETF rats (11). The present study could not ascertain whether the expression of PPARγ in adipose tissue is genetically determined or not. However, considering the fact that an increased amount of PPARγ expression in obese human adipose tissue, which is proportional to BMI, can be reduced by a low calorie diet (40), our result seems to suggest an acquired origin. We questioned whether these effects of DHEA on adipose tissue are direct or not. Interestingly, DHEA-S cannot stimulate peroxisomal gene induction in the liver of PPARγ knockout mice, suggesting that some of the DHEA or DHEA-S actions are mediated via the PPAR family (41). These results are supposed to be biologically significant, because Pro 12 Ala substitution in the human PPARγ gene, which exhibits 30-45% less transactivation capacity, leads to prevention of obesity and insulin resistance (24). Our recent preliminary study revealed that the effect of DHEA on PPARγ was enhanced in adipocytes with overexpression of PKCζ (11). We previously reported that DHEA activates phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI 3-kinase) and atypical PKC (10). In addition, TNF-α, another PPARγ reducing agonist, also activated atypical PKC (42). Based on the above results, DHEA may improve insulin resistance via activation of glucose transport and downregulations of adiposity through the activation of PI 3-kinase/PKCζ signaling and the reduction of PPARγ and, finally, DHEA may contribute to the amelioration of insulin sensitivity in diabetic model animals. These results suggest that DHEA may be useful for clinical application for insulin resistant state such as diabetes, obesity, hyperlipidmia and hypertension, recently called as metabolic syndrome in the future time.Since the presentation by Coleman and colleagues suggested that DHEA administration prevented diabetes in db/db mice, numerous studies have been published (20). Our previous study revealed that although treatment with DHEA fails to decrease blood glucose in Goto-Kakizaki rats, an animal model of lean type 2 diabetes, it significantly reduces blood glucose in OLETF rats (5). Therefore, we speculated that DHEA administration might improve obesity-associated diabetes in association with preventing obesity-induced insulin resistance. We found that treatment with DHEA for 2 weeks reduced fat mass and that DHEA directly suppressed mRNA levels of PPARγ in isolated adipocytes (11). Since suppression of PPARγ activity leads to reduced adiposity in PPARγ-deficient mice (43) and Pro12Ala polymorphism in humans (44), our result could explain the weight-reducing effect of DHEA. On the other hand, our microarray experiment revealed that genes regulating cell proliferation were more profoundly influenced by DHEA administration than those regulating energy homeostasis in adipose tissue. Hence, we examined the effect of DHEA on cell proliferation in adipose tissue. In this study, we demonstrated that we compared the effects of DHEA and testosterone administration. Long-term DHEA administration decreased body weight of both LETO and OLETF rats (Fig. 6). Although several studies indicated that the anti-obesity effect of DHEA was associated with decreased food intake, no difference was observed in food consumption except for that in the first 2 weeks. It was suggested that DHEA-induced central neurotransmitter changes suppress the appetite; however, these changes may not persist longer than 3 weeks (45). Epidemiological studies suggest that high plasma DHEA-S level is associated with longevity (46, 47), whereas, to our knowledge, our study is the first to provide evidence of the anti-aging effect of DHEA. Both DHEA and testosterone led to decreased visceral fat weight when administered for 4 weeks. These results imply that treatment with these hormones acts similarly on adipose tissue. Moreover, dot blot analysis revealed that both testosterone and DHEA administration yielded identical results. In addition, our results suggest that DHEA administration could substitute for testosterone replacement; however, because DHEA is known to act as a neurosteroid and other unique actions of DHEA are known, further study is necessary to understand the difference between these hormones.
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