Leptin in hepatic fibrosis: evidence for increased collagen production in stellate cells and lean littermates of ob/ob mice

Hepatology : Official Journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
Neeraj K SaxenaFrank A Anania

Abstract

Leptin is a 16-kd hormone that mediates a range of metabolic effects by using a transduction pathway from the long form of the leptin receptor, OB-R(L,) through Janus kinase-signal transducer and activator of transcription (Jak-Stat) signaling components. Leptin is produced by hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) but only following their "activation." Because activation of stellate cells is a central event in the fibrotic response to liver injury, we hypothesized that leptin may directly stimulate fibrogenesis in activated stellate cells via OB-R(L). We analyzed leptin receptors and their signaling partners in a stellate cell line (HSC-T6) as well as in primary stellate cell isolates. We also examined the effect of leptin on stellate cell expression of alpha(2)(I) collagen messenger RNA (mRNA) levels by ribonuclease protection analysis (RPA). Finally, we examined the role of leptin in in vivo fibrogenesis by inducing a wounding response in ob/ob mice, which lack functional leptin. HSC-T6 and culture-activated stellate cells expressed OB-R(L). Scatchard analysis verified specific binding of leptin to HSCs, with an association constant (K(d)) equal to 660 +/- 5.8 pmol/L. Exposure of HSCs to leptin resulted in significant increases in al...Continue Reading

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