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Sex Dimorphism of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) in Pparg-Null Mice

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العنوان: Sex Dimorphism of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) in Pparg-Null Mice
المؤلفون: Mariano Schiffrin, Carine Winkler, Laure Quignodon, Aurélien Naldi, Martin Trötzmüller, Harald Köfeler, Hugues Henry, Paolo Parini, Béatrice Desvergne, Federica Gilardi
المصدر: International Journal of Molecular Sciences; Volume 22; Issue 18; Pages: 9969
بيانات النشر: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: MDPI Open Access Publishing
مصطلحات موضوعية: nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), sex dimorphism, lipidomics, hepatic sex-biased gene expression
جغرافية الموضوع: agris
الوصف: Men with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are more exposed to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and liver fibrosis than women. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms of NALFD sex dimorphism are unclear. We combined gene expression, histological and lipidomic analyses to systematically compare male and female liver steatosis. We characterized hepatosteatosis in three independent mouse models of NAFLD, ob/ob and lipodystrophic fat-specific (PpargFΔ/Δ) and whole-body PPARγ-null (PpargΔ/Δ) mice. We identified a clear sex dimorphism occurring only in PpargΔ/Δ mice, with females showing macro- and microvesicular hepatosteatosis throughout their entire life, while males had fewer lipid droplets starting from 20 weeks. This sex dimorphism in hepatosteatosis was lost in gonadectomized PpargΔ/Δ mice. Lipidomics revealed hepatic accumulation of short and highly saturated TGs in females, while TGs were enriched in long and unsaturated hydrocarbon chains in males. Strikingly, sex-biased genes were particularly perturbed in both sexes, affecting lipid metabolism, drug metabolism, inflammatory and cellular stress response pathways. Most importantly, we found that the expression of key sex-biased genes was severely affected in all the NAFLD models we tested. Thus, hepatosteatosis strongly affects hepatic sex-biased gene expression. With NAFLD increasing in prevalence, this emphasizes the urgent need to specifically address the consequences of this deregulation in humans.
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اللغة: English
Relation: Biochemistry; https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22189969
DOI: 10.3390/ijms22189969
الاتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22189969
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.4F808B4A
قاعدة البيانات: BASE