Brown adipose tissue-specific insulin receptor knockout shows diabetic phenotype without insulin resistance.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2001

Keywords

Animals, Diabetes-Mellitus-Type-2, Female, Insulin, Insulin-Resistance, Male, Mice-Knockout, Mice-Transgenic, Phenotype, RNA, Receptor-Insulin, Signal-Transduction, Tissue-Distribution

First Page

1205

Last Page

1213

JAX Source

J Clin Invest 2001 Oct; 108(8):1205-13.

Abstract

Although insulin regulates metabolism in both brown and white adipocytes, the role of these tissues in energy storage and utilization is quite different. Recombination technology using the Cre-loxP approach allows inactivation of the insulin receptor in a tissue-specific manner. Mice lacking insulin receptors in brown adipocytes show an age-dependent loss of interscapular brown fat but increased expression of uncoupling protein-1 and -2. In parallel, these mice develop an insulin-secretion defect resulting in a progressive glucose intolerance, without insulin resistance. This model provides direct evidence for not only a role for the insulin receptors in brown fat adipogenesis, the data also suggest a novel role of brown adipose tissue in the regulation of insulin secretion and glucose homeostasis.

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