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CHUNG, SOONKYU, Ph. D. Mechanisms by Which Conjugated ...

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adipocytes from WAT in inflammation and insulin resistance. To simulate acute<br />

inflammation, we treated the cultures with the bacterial endotoxin lipopolysaccharide<br />

(LPS). LPS has been reported to induce NFκB signaling through toll-like-receptors<br />

(TRL) in macrophages (Lee et al. 2003) and adipocytes (Lin et al. 2000; Berg et al. 2004),<br />

and has been linked to insulin resistance. However, the mechanism <strong>by</strong> which LPS<br />

induces inflammation and insulin resistance in human WAT is less clear.<br />

To this end, we tested the hypothesis that LPS triggers proinflammatory cytokine<br />

expression predominately in non-adipocytes that triggers insulin resistance in adipocytes.<br />

We found that cytokine expression was predominately in the non-adipocyte fraction,<br />

which was primarily preadipocytes based on marker analyses. We also demonstrated that<br />

LPS-stimulated endotoxemia activated proinflammatory cytokine production via NFκB<br />

and MAPK signaling, predominately in preadipocytes, and decreased PPARγ activity and<br />

insulin sensitivity in adipocytes. These data demonstrate that human preadipocytes play a<br />

pivotal role in the development of insulin resistance in human adipocytes via increasing<br />

proinflammatory cytokine expression involving NFκB-and MAPK signaling.<br />

Materials and Methods<br />

Chemicals and Reagent<br />

All cell cultureware and scintillation cocktail (ScintiSafe) were purchased from<br />

Fisher Scientific (Norcross, GA). Fetal bovine serum (FBS) was purchased from<br />

Cambrex/BioWhittaker (Walkersville, MD). Monoclonal antibody for CD68 was<br />

purchased from Research Diagnostics Inc. (Boston) and CD11b/Mac-1 was purchased<br />

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