Diet-induced obesity causes metabolic impairment independent of alterations in gut barrier integrity

Caroline Kless, Veronika Maria Müller, Valentina Luise Schüppel, Martina Lichtenegger, Michael Rychlik, Hannelore Daniel, Martin Klingenspor, Dirk Haller

Publikation: Beitrag in FachzeitschriftArtikelBegutachtung

32 Zitate (Scopus)

Abstract

Scope: The causal relationship between diet-induced obesity and metabolic disorders is not clear yet. One hypothesis is whether the obese state or high-fat diet per se affects intestinal barrier function provoking metabolic comorbidities. Methods and results: In three independent experiments with AKR/J, SWR/J, or BL/6J mice, we addressed the impact of genetic background, excess body fat storage, duration of high-fat feeding, and quality/quantity of dietary fat on glucose tolerance and gut barrier integrity in vivo and ex vivo. Impaired glucose tolerance in diet-induced obese BL/6J and AKR/J mice was not accompanied by an altered intestinal barrier function. Enforced dietary challenge by prolonged feeding and increasing fat quantity in BL/6J mice still failed to aggravate metabolic and intestinal deterioration. Despite a low-grade inflammatory status in adipose tissue, barrier function of BL/6J mice fed lard high-fat diet revealed no evidence for a diet-induced loss in barrier integrity. Conclusion: None of our results provided any evidence that gut barrier function is a subject to dietary regulation and obesity per se seems not to cause gut barrier impairment.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)968-978
Seitenumfang11
FachzeitschriftMolecular Nutrition and Food Research
Jahrgang59
Ausgabenummer5
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 1 Mai 2015

Fingerprint

Untersuchen Sie die Forschungsthemen von „Diet-induced obesity causes metabolic impairment independent of alterations in gut barrier integrity“. Zusammen bilden sie einen einzigartigen Fingerprint.

Dieses zitieren