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Trial reportNutrients2015

Increased PUFA Content and 5-Lipoxygenase Pathway Expression Are Associated with Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Inflammation in Obese Women with Type 2 Diabetes.

Mattijs M Heemskerk, Martin Giera, Fatiha El Bouazzaoui, Mirjam A Lips, Hanno Pijl, Ko Willems van Dijk, Vanessa van Harmelen

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Trial report in Nutrients, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mattijs M HeemskerkDepartment of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands. m.m.heemskerk@lumc.nl.
Martin GieraCenter of Proteomics and Metabolomics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands. m.a.giera@lumc.nl.
Fatiha El BouazzaouiDepartment of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands. f.el_bouazzaoui@lumc.nl.
Mirjam A LipsDepartment of Medicine, division Endocrinology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands. m.a.lips@lumc.nl.
Hanno PijlDepartment of Medicine, division Endocrinology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands. h.pijl@lumc.nl.
Ko Willems van DijkDepartment of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands.
Vanessa van HarmelenDepartment of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300 RC, The Netherlands. V.J.A.van_Harmelen@lumc.nl.
Leiden University Medical Center · NLNetherlands Metabolomics Centre · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Obese women with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have more inflammation in their subcutaneous white adipose tissue (sWAT) than age-and-BMI similar obese women with normal glucose tolerance (NGT). We aimed to investigate whether WAT fatty acids and/or oxylipins are associated with the enhanced inflammatory state in WAT of the T2DM women. Fatty acid profiles were measured in both subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue (vWAT) of 19 obese women with NGT and 16 age-and-BMI similar women with T2DM. Oxylipin levels were measured in sWAT of all women. Arachidonic acid (AA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) percentages were higher in sWAT, but not vWAT of the T2DM women, and AA correlated positively to the gene expression of macrophage marker CD68. We found tendencies for higher oxylipin concentrations of the 5-LOX leukotrienes in sWAT of T2DM women. Gene expression of the 5-LOX leukotriene biosynthesis pathway was significantly higher in sWAT of T2DM women. In conclusion, AA and DHA content were higher in sWAT of T2DM women and AA correlated to the increased inflammatory state in sWAT. Increased AA content was accompanied by an upregulation of the 5-LOX pathway and seems to have led to an increase in the conversion of AA into proinflammatory leukotrienes in sWAT.

Indexed as

Signal Transduction5-Lipoxygenase-Activating ProteinsAdultAntigens, CDAntigens, Differentiation, MyelomonocyticArachidonate 5-LipoxygenaseArachidonic AcidCD68 MoleculeDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2DipeptidasesDocosahexaenoic AcidsFemaleHumansInflammationInflammation MediatorsIntra-Abdominal Fat5-Lipoxygenase-Activating ProteinsALOX5AP protein, humanALOX5 protein, humanAntigens, CDAntigens, Differentiation, MyelomonocyticArachidonate 5-LipoxygenaseArachidonic AcidCD68 antigen, humanCD68 MoleculeCNDP2 protein, humanDipeptidasesDocosahexaenoic AcidsInflammation MediatorsLeukotrienesarachidonic acidgene expressionleukotrieneslipidomicsomega-3 fatty acids

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PMID26378572
PMCPMC4586557
OpenAlexW2136369074

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