Early-life thymectomy results in visceral adipose tissue inflammation and glucose intolerance.

ABSTRACT: We have previously demonstrated that proinflammatory T cells in adipose tissue and the liver play a mechanistic role in glucose intolerance in old mice. Further, we and others have demonstrated that early life thymectomy results in a T cell phenotype that shares many features of classical T cell aging in an otherwise young healthy mouse. In this investigation, we sought to test the hypothesis that inducing premature T cell aging via early life thymectomy results in T cell mediated inflammation of the liver and visceral adipose tissue, as well as glucose intolerance in otherwise young mice. Mice were thymectomized at three weeks of age. At 9 months of age, thymectomized mice exhibited glucose intolerance that was independent of body mass along with greater frailty. Thymectomized mice exhibi

SUBMITTER: Buckley DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12487299 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature