Efeito da suplementação da vitamina E (a-tocoferol) ou D3 na expressão gênica de TLR4 e adipocinas. Estudos in vivo e in vitro

• Autor(a) principal: Mota, João Felipe [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/9360
• topic: Dieta hiperlipídica; Estresse inflamatório; Estresse oxidativo; Obesidade; TLR4

High fat diet intake can induce obesity and insulin resistance, features related to chronic inflammation. Toll-like receptor 4 activation induces upregulation of intracellular inflammatory pathways. Low serum concentrations of vitamin E and vitamin D3 are found in obese individuals. There are evidences that vitamin E can reduce oxidative and inflammatory stresses and that vitamin D3 can induce apoptotic cell death providing a strategy for prevention and treatment of obesity removing adipocytes via apoptosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of vitamin E or D3 supplementation on weight, gene and protein expressions of TLR4, superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase and glutathione peroxidase (GPx), and the protein levels of TRAF6 and MyD88 in epididymal adipose tissue of mice. Swiss male mice of 30 days were fed with control diet or high-fat diet (20% soybean oil) and supplemented or not with vitamin E (0.05 g/kg of diet) or vitamin D3 (0.05 g/kg of diet) for 60 days. Blood, carcass and white adipose tissues were collected and analyzed. We observed that vitamin E or D3 supplementation reduced body weight gain and relative adipose tissue weight. Serum glucose and thiobarbituric acid-reactive hepatic levels were lower in supplemented groups. Vitamins E or D3 decreased TLR4 expression in the epididymal depot. Vitamin E also reduced TNF- gene expression. The mRNA GPx gene was upregulated by vitamin E or D3 and mRNA catalase only by vitamin D3. The proteins expressions of TLR4, TRAF6 and MyD88 were decreased by vitamins E or D3, whereas supplementation increased the GPx and SOD. In conclusion, this study reports that vitamin E or D3 supplementation has potent antiobesity activity in vivo. We observed that the treatment decreased the TLR4 inflammatory pathway related to the obesity process. The supplementation of vitamin E and D3 reduced the TLR4 gene and protein expression and increased the expression of antioxidant enzymes, inflammatory and oxidative pathways related to the process of developing obesity.