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Transcription profiling of rat liver from animals treated with acute progressive feed restriction in liver and white adipose tissue sampled at 4 and 10 days

ABSTRACT: Acute progressive feed restriction (APFR) represents a specific form of caloric restriction in which feed availability is increasingly curtailed over a period of a few days to a few weeks. It is often used for control animals in toxicological and pharmacological studies on compounds causing body weight loss to equalize weight changes between experimental and control groups and thereby, intuitively, to also set their metabolic states to the same phase. However, scientific justification for this procedure is lacking. In the present study, we analyzed by DNA microarrays the impact on hepatic gene expression in rats of two APFR regimens that caused identical diminution of body weight (19%) but differed slightly in duration (4 vs. 10 days). In addition, white adipose tissue (WAT) was also subjected to the transcriptomic analysis on day-4. The data revealed that the two regimens led to distinct patterns of differentially expressed genes in liver, albeit some major pathways of energy metabolism were similarly affected (particularly fatty acid and amino acid catabolism). The reason for the divergence appeared to be entrainment by the longer APFR protocol of peripheral oscillator genes, which resulted in derailment of circadian rhythms and consequent interaction of altered diurnal fluctuations with metabolic adjustments in gene expression activities. WAT proved to be highly unresponsive to the 4-day APFR as only 17 mRNA levels were influenced by the treatment. This study demonstrates that body weight is a poor proxy of metabolic state and that the customary protocols of feed restriction can lead to rhythm entrainment. Experiment Overall Design: Thirteen feed restricted and thirteen control animals, each hybridized to a single array. Pre-processing was performed by group: all WAT samples together in one group, all four-day liver samples in a second group, and all ten-day liver samples in a third.

ORGANISM(S): Rattus norvegicus

SUBMITTER: Paul Boutros

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-9121 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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