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Brown fat dynamics: elucidation of molecular drivers using hibernation as a model

棕色脂肪动力学：以冬眠为模型阐明分子驱动因素

基本信息

批准号：
8442923
负责人：
SANDRA L MARTIN
金额：
$ 14.61万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2012-04-01 至 2015-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8442923
关键词：
Abbreviations Animals Atrophic Biological Models Body Temperature Body Weight decreased Body fat Body mass index Brown Fat Calories Data Energy Intake Equilibrium Fluorescent Dyes Foundations Future Gel Gene Expression Profile Goals Health Heating Hibernation Homeostasis Human Hypertrophy Label Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrum Analysis Metabolic Metabolism Methods Modeling Molecular Names Obesity Organ Pathway interactions Pattern Peptides Phase Phenotype Physiological Post-Translational Protein Processing Preparation Proteins Proteome Public Health RNA Recruitment Activity Regulation Regulatory Pathway Seasons Spermophilus Staging Temperature Thermogenesis Time Tissue Banking Tissue Banks Tissue Extracts Tissues Work base falls gel electrophoresis insight novel novel strategies public health relevance research study segregation tandem mass spectrometry two-dimensional

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary Obesity is a significant and growing public health problem. It results from loss of energy homeostasis when increases in caloric intake are not balanced by elevated metabolic activity. Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is a potential anti-obesity organ because it is specialized to dissipate energy as heat. Circannual hibernators including ground squirrels naturally challenge conventional views of energy homeostasis by cycling between dramatic extremes of body fat storage and utilization. These animals undergo hypertrophy of BAT each year as they prepare for winter hibernation, and depend on tightly-regulated periods of non-shivering thermogenesis throughout winter hibernation. After spring emergence, BAT nearly disappears but it is re- established each fall in preparation for the next hibernation season. These temporal and functional segregations provide an extraordinary opportunity to examine and define regulatory mechanisms controlling BAT recruitment and activity. We hypothesize that hibernators employ typical mammalian mechanisms for increasing and maintaining BAT, as well as for modulating its activity. Importantly, because of the dynamics and demands of hibernation, hibernators also provide an exceptional, highly-elaborated model system in which to elucidate those mechanisms. The specific goals of the work proposed in this R21 application are to exploit an existing tissue bank, collected from a precisely-timed set of animals representing key points in the phenotypic transitions of a hibernator's year, to first: interrogate the proteome and second: the transcriptome, for qualitative and quantitative changes associated with BAT transitions. This characterization, enabled by unique advantages offered by the hibernating phenotype, will form a necessary foundation for future mechanistic studies of pathways that underlie the regulation of BAT recruitment and the reversible control of its activity, and ultimately to harness them as targets for obesity therapy.

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