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Diabetes 54:2620-2627, 2005
© 2005 by the American Diabetes Association, Inc.

Marked Increase in White Adipose Tissue Blood Perfusion in the Type 2 Diabetic GK Rat

Caroline Kampf1,2, Birgitta Bodin2, Örjan Källskog2, Carina Carlsson2, and Leif Jansson2

1 Departments of Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
2 Department of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

The aim of the present study was to evaluate and cor-relate islet to brown and white adipose tissue (WAT) blood perfusion in one obese rat and one nonobese rat with type 2 diabetes (obese Zucker [OZ] and GK rats, respectively). We measured blood perfusion with a microsphere technique in anesthetized animals and subsequently estimated the blood flow to seven different WAT depots and brown adipose tissue, in addition to the whole pancreas and pancreatic islets. Both GK and OZ rats had higher islet blood perfusion than their respective control strains. Adipose tissue blood flow (ATBF) was similar to or lower than that of controls in the normoglycemic OZ rats. GK rats, however, had 5–10 times higher blood perfusion than control Wistar rats in most WAT depots. Vascular density and macrophage numbers in WAT did not differ between the different strains. The discrepancy in ATBF between the obese-normoglycemic and type 2 diabetic rats opens the intriguing possibility that changes in this blood perfusion may influence and/or modulate the ß-cell dysfunction in type 2 diabetes.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Caroline Kampf, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Rudbeck Laboratory, C5:3, SE-751 85 Uppsala, Sweden. E-mail: caroline.kampf{at}genpat.uu.se

Abbreviations: ATBF, adipose tissue blood flow; BS-1, Bandeiraea simplicifolia-1; FFA, free fatty acid; TNF-{alpha}, tumor necrosis factor-{alpha}; WAT, white adipose tissue


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