Effects of 3,5-diiodo-L-thyronine on the liver of high fat diet fed rats


Submitted: December 4, 2015
Accepted: December 28, 2015
Published: June 27, 2016
Abstract Views: 1443
PDF: 862
Publisher's note
All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.

Authors

  • Marco Giammanco Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9853-6329
  • Stefania Aiello Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
  • Alessandra Casuccio Department of Sciences for Health Promotion and Mother-Child Care, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
  • Maurizio La Guardia Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
  • Luca Cicero Institute for Experimental Veterinary Medicine of Sicily, Palermo, Italy.
  • Roberto Puleio Institute for Experimental Veterinary Medicine of Sicily, Palermo, Italy.
  • Irene Vazzana Institute for Experimental Veterinary Medicine of Sicily, Palermo, Italy.
  • Giovanni Tomasello Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
  • Giovanni Cassata Institute for Experimental Veterinary Medicine of Sicily, Palermo, Italy.
  • Gaetano Leto Department of Sciences for Health Promotion and Mother-Child Care, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
  • Danila Di Majo Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Experimental studies have highlighted that the administration of 3,5-diiodo-L-thyronine (T2) to rats fed diets rich in lipids induces a decrease of cholesterol and triglycerides plasma levels and body weight (BW) without inducing liver steatosis. On the basis of these observations we carried out some experimental in vivo studies to assess the effects of multiple high doses of T2 on the pituitary thyroid axis of rats fed diet rich in lipids. Fifteen male Wistar rats were divided into three groups of five animals each. The first group (N group) received standard diet, the second group was fed with a high fat diet (HFD group), while the third group (HFDT2 group) was additionally given T2 intraperitoneally at a dose level of 70 µg/100 g of BW three times a week up to four weeks. At the end of the treatment, blood sample from each animal was collected, centrifuged and the serum was stored at -20°C. The serum concentrations of thyroidstimulating hormone (TSH), triiodothyronine, thyroxine, adrenocorticotropic hormone, triglycerides, cholesterol, glucose, alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, alkaline phosphatase were then determined. In addition, liver of rats was examined by histology in order to assess the presence and degree of steatosis. The administration of T2 to rats fed with a high fat diet suppressed TSH secretion (P=0.013) while no steatosis was observed in the liver of these animals. Our data show that multiple administrations of high doses of T2 to rats fed diets rich in lipid inhibit TSH secretion and prevent the onset of liver steatosis in these animals.

Marco Giammanco, Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Palermo, Palermo
Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences
Stefania Aiello, Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Palermo, Palermo
Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences
Alessandra Casuccio, Department of Sciences for Health Promotion and Mother-Child Care, University of Palermo, Palermo
Department of Sciences for Health Promotion and Mother-Child Care “G. D’Alessandro”
Maurizio La Guardia, Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, University of Palermo, Palermo
Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies
Giovanni Tomasello, Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Palermo, Palermo
Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences
Gaetano Leto, Department of Sciences for Health Promotion and Mother-Child Care, University of Palermo, Palermo
Department of Sciences for Health Promotion and Mother-Child Care “G. D’Alessandro”
Danila Di Majo, Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Palermo, Palermo
Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neurosciences
Giammanco, M., Aiello, S., Casuccio, A., La Guardia, M., Cicero, L., Puleio, R., Vazzana, I., Tomasello, G., Cassata, G., Leto, G., & Di Majo, D. (2016). Effects of 3,5-diiodo-L-thyronine on the liver of high fat diet fed rats. Journal of Biological Research - Bollettino Della Società Italiana Di Biologia Sperimentale, 89(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/jbr.2016.5667

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Citations