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APPETITE, OBESITY, DIGESTION, AND METABOLISM

Direct and indirect effects of leptin on preadipocyte proliferation and differentiation

Department of Foods and Nutrition, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

Submitted 7 December 2005 ; accepted in final form 17 January 2006

Leptin has been shown to reduce body fat in vivo. Adipocytes express the leptin receptor; therefore, it is realistic to expect a direct effect of leptin on adipocyte growth and metabolism. In vitro studies examining the effect of leptin on adipocyte metabolism require supraphysiological doses of the protein to see a decrease in lipogenesis or stimulation of lipolysis, implying an indirect action of leptin. It also is possible that leptin reduces adipose mass by inhibiting preadipocyte proliferation (increase in cell number) and/or differentiation (lipid filling). Thus we determined direct and indirect effects of leptin on preadipocyte proliferation and differentiation in vitro. We tested the effect of leptin (0–500 ng/ml), serum from leptin-infused rats (0.25% by volume), and adipose tissue-conditioned medium from leptin-infused rats (0–30% by volume) on preadipocyte proliferation and differentiation in a primary culture of cells from male Sprague-Dawley rat adipose tissue. Leptin (50 ng/ml) stimulated proliferation of preadipocytes (P < 0.05), but 250 and 500 ng leptin/ml inhibited proliferation of both preadipocyte and stromal vascular cell fractions (P < 0.01), as measured by [³H]thymidine incorporation. Serum from leptin-infused rats inhibited proliferation of the adipose and stromal vascular fractions (P = 0.01), but adipose tissue-conditioned medium had no effect on proliferation of either cell fraction. None of the treatments changed preadipocyte differentiation as measured by sn-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase activity. These results suggest that leptin could inhibit preadipocyte proliferation by modifying release of a factor from tissue other than adipose tissue.

adipogenesis; cell culture

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