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Center for Research on Energy Metabolism and Department of Anatomy and Physiology, School of Medicine, Laval University, Québec, Canada G1K 7P4
This study aimed to dissociate the peripheral effects of adrenalectomy (ADX) on triglyceride (TG) metabolism from those it exerts centrally on energy intake and to determine the impact of diet composition therein. Rats were fed either rodent chow or a diet high in sucrose and fat (HSF) and were adrenalectomized or left intact and pair fed to the ADX animals. Liver TG content, an index of hepatic TG production, was not affected by ADX, but was increased twofold by the HSF diet. ADX decreased the rate of hepatic TG secretion by 41% in chow-fed but not in HSF-fed animals. Triglyceridemia and postheparin plasma lipase activities remained largely unchanged by treatments. ADX decreased insulinemia fivefold in chow-fed rats, but less so in HSF-fed animals. Likewise, subcutaneous and visceral adipose depots were 40-60% smaller in ADX than in intact pair-fed rats given chow, but the effect of ADX was dampened by consumption of the HSF diet. Although smaller, adipose tissues of ADX rats maintained a higher activity of lipoprotein lipase (LPL) than those of intact pair-fed rats, whereas muscle LPL was decreased. The study confirms that in the presence of reduced energy intake, corticosterone contributes to the maintenance of adipose stores and that the consequences of its absence tend to be attenuated when a high-energy diet is fed. The study further shows that, contrary to ad libitum feeding conditions, most determinants of TG metabolism, such as hepatic TG stores, triglyceridemia, postheparin plasma LPL, and adipose tissue LPL, are minimally affected by glucocorticoids when consumption of a high-energy diet is restricted, suggesting that glucocorticoids affect TG metabolism mostly indirectly through their central action on ingestive behavior.
triglyceride secretion; lipoprotein lipase; insulin; adipose tissue
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