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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 252: R987-R993, 1987;
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AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Vol 252, Issue 5 987-R993, Copyright © 1987 by American Physiological Society

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Thermogenic activity and capacity of brown fat in fasted and refed golden hamsters

I. Levin and P. Trayhurn

The effects of different food deprivation regimens on the thermogenic activity and capacity of brown adipose tissue in the golden hamster have been investigated. Thermogenesis in the tissue was assessed by measurements of tissue cytochrome-c oxidase activity, mitochondrial GDP binding, and the specific mitochondrial concentration of uncoupling protein. The thermogenic activity and capacity of brown adipose tissue were found to be markedly reduced in fasted or underweight hamsters. Measurements of cytochrome-c oxidase activity indicate that the reductions were caused exclusively by a loss in mitochondrial mass, uncoupling protein concentration and GDP binding to mitochondria remaining unchanged. The decrease in brown adipose tissue thermogenesis was associated with a reduction in the capacity for nonshivering thermogenesis in the whole animal. Hamsters recovered from weight losses without increasing their food intake, and the recovery was accompanied by a normalization in mitochondrial mass in brown adipose tissue. Mitochondrial mass was, however, restored only after 10 days of ad libitum refeeding. These results suggest that the reduction in energy expenditure in the fasted hamster could relate to a decrease in brown adipose tissue thermogenesis, in addition to the previously reported decreases in resting metabolic rate and locomotor activity. Reductions in thermogenesis may also represent a further mechanism by which energy stores recover in the golden hamster without postfast hyperphagia.


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