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Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 224:172-177 (2000)
© 2000 Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine

Original Article

Tissue-Specific Expression of the Uncoupling Protein Family in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Rats

Shuji Hidaka, Hironobu Yoshimatsu, Tetsuya Kakuma, Hiroshi Sakino, Seiya Kondou, Reiko Hanada, Kyoko Oka2,, Yasushi Teshima, Mamoru Kurokawa3, and Toshiie Sakata1,


Department of Internal Medicine I, School of Medicine, Oita Medical University, Oita, 879–5593, Japan

The vulnerability of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats to cold stress has been established. One of the elements controlling body temperature is thermogenesis, in which uncoupling protein (UCP) is known to play an important role. We have examined UCP2 and UCP3 expressions in brown adipose tissue (BAT), white adipose tissue (WAT), and skeletal muscle (MSL) during the acute and chronic phases of STZ-induced diabetes in rats. The long-term effect and the effect of insulin treatment thereafter were also unexplored previously and are examined in this study. In the acute phase of diabetes (2.5 days after STZ injection), UCP2 gene expression in BAT, WAT, and MSL, and UCP3 expression in the muscle were significantly increased. In the chronic phase of diabetes (21 days after STZ injection), UCP2 and UCP3 expression in the MSL were restored to the control levels without insulin supplementation. UCP2 in BAT and WAT remained high in the chronic phase, whereas UCP3 expression in BAT and WAT, which did not change in the acute phase, was significantly decreased. Insulin supplementation restored UCP2 expression in BAT and WAT, but over-corrected UCP3 in WAT above the control and did not affect UCP3 expression in BAT. Insulin supplementation depressed UCP3 expression in the MSL below control. These results indicate that the effects of STZ-induced diabetes on UCPs gene expression are tissue-specific as well as dependent on the duration of diabetes.




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