Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2010
Keywords
Adipocytes, Animal model, Bone adiposity, Fat mass, Obesity, Osteoporosis, Proinflammatory cytokines
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnutbio.2009.10.002
Abstract
Osteoporosis and obesity remain a major public health concern through its associated fragility and fractures. Several animal models for the study of osteoporotic bone loss, such as ovariectomy (OVX) and denervation, require unique surgical skills and expensive set up. The challenging aspect of these age-associated diseases is that no single animal model exactly mimics the progression of these human-specific chronic conditions. Accordingly, to develop a simple and novel model of post menopausal bone loss with obesity, we fed either a high fat diet containing 10% corn oil (CO) or standard rodent lab chow (LC) to 12-month-old female C57Bl/6J mice for 6 months. As a result, CO fed mice exhibited increased body weight, total body fat mass, abdominal fat mass and reduced bone mineral density (BMD) in different skeletal sites measured by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry. We also observed that decreased BMD with age in CO fed obese mice was accompanied by increased bone marrow adiposity, up-regulation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ, cathepsin k and increased proinflammatory cytokines (interleukin 6 and tumor necrosis factor α) in bone marrow and splenocytes, when compared to that of LC fed mice. Therefore, this appears to be a simple, novel and convenient age-associated model of post menopausal bone loss, in conjunction with obesity, which can be used in pre-clinical drug discovery to screen new therapeutic drugs or dietary interventions for the treatment of obesity and osteoporosis in the human population.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, v. 21, issue 12, p. 1162-1169
This article is the post-print author version. Final version available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnutbio.2009.10.002
Scholar Commons Citation
Halade, Ganesh V.; Rahman, Md M.; Williams, Paul J.; and Fernandes, Gabriel, "High Fat Diet-Induced Animal Model of Age-Associated Obesity and Osteoporosis" (2010). Internal Medicine Faculty Publications. 74.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/intmed_facpub/74
