PMID: 6164913Jan 20, 1981Paper

Response of white adipocyte of mouse and rabbit to catecholamines and ACTH. 1. Correlation of cyclic AMP levels and initial rates of lipolysis

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
C C Fan, R J Ho

Abstract

Hormone stimulated lipolysis of mouse and rabbit adipocytes as measured by both free fatty acid and glycerol release, is proportionally elevated with increase in the adipocyte cAMP level up to 1 nmol/g. The correlation coefficients are 0.94 and 0.97 for FFA/cAMP and glycerol/cAMP respectively. Increments in cAMP greater than 1 nmol/g show no correlation with increase in lipolysis. The release of lipolytic products, glycerol and free fatty acids, from white adipocytes in response to ACTH, epinephrine or norepinephrine was measured using radiochemical assays in short term incubation systems, with cAMP levels measured at the same time and from the same cell sample. Under the conditions studied, epinephrine is a more effective lipolytic hormone than ACTh in mouse adipocyte, and ACTH is more effective than epinephrine in rabbit adipocyte. The effect of catecholamines on the rabbit adipocyte is not modified by phentolamine (10 microM), but it is potentiated by 1-methyl-3-isobutyl xanthine (0.1 mM). The results suggest that cAMP mediates the action of these lipolytic hormones in white adipocytes of mouse and rabbit.

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