Transcriptomic analysis of visceral adipose from healthy and diabetic obese subjects

• Published in: Indian journal of endocrinology and metabolism Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 446 - 450
• Main Authors: Mathur, SandeepKumar, Jain, Priyanka, Mathur, Prashant, Punjabi, Poonam, Agarwal, Atima, Sharma, Abhay
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: India Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd 01.05.2013; Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd; Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
• Subjects: Analysis; Brief Communication; Care and treatment; Development and progression; Diabetes; Genetic aspects; Glucose metabolism; Health aspects; microarray; Overweight persons; Physiological aspects; transcriptional analysis; visceral adipose tissue; India; microarray; transcriptional analysis; Diabetes; visceral adipose tissue
• ISSN: 2230-8210; 2230-9500
• DOI: 10.4103/2230-8210.111639

Understanding the role of visceral fat accumulation in the occurrence and progression of metabolic syndrome is of considerable interest. In order to understand the difference between visceral tissue biology of healthy and unhealthy obese individuals, we have used microarray profiling to compare genome-wide expression differences between visceral adipose tissue biopsies obtained from obese diabetics, and those from age and body mass index (BMI) matched normal glucose tolerance subjects. Whereas genes upregulated in diabetics showed enrichment of natural killer cell mediated cytotoxicity, the downregulated genes showed enrichment of biosynthesis of unsaturated fatty acids. Given the known inhibitory effect of unsaturated fatty acids on inflammation and natural killer cell number or activity, our results suggest that visceral inflammation resulting from decreased levels of unsaturated fatty acids may underlie progression of diabetes in obese individuals.