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Giles, D.A.* ; Moreno-Fernandez, M.E.* ; Stankiewicz, T.E.* ; Graspeuntner, S.* ; Cappelletti, M.* ; Wu, D.* ; Mukherjee, R.* ; Chan, C.C.* ; Lawson, M.J.* ; Klarquist, J.* ; Sünderhauf, A.* ; Softic, S.* ; Kahn, C.R.* ; Stemmer, K. ; Iwakura, Y.* ; Aronow, B.J.* ; Karns, R.* ; Steinbrecher, K.A.* ; Karp, C.L.* ; Sheridan, R.* ; Shanmukhappa, S.K.* ; Reynaud, D.* ; Haslam, D.B.* ; Sina, C.* ; Rupp, J.* ; Hogan, S.P.* ; Divanovic, S.*

Thermoneutral housing exacerbates nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in mice and allows for sex-independent disease modeling.

Nat. Med. 23, 829-838 (2017)
Postprint DOI PMC
Open Access Green
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a common prelude to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, is the most common chronic liver disease worldwide. Defining the molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of NAFLD has been hampered by a lack of animal models that closely recapitulate the severe end of the disease spectrum in humans, including bridging hepatic fibrosis. Here we demonstrate that a novel experimental model employing thermoneutral housing, as opposed to standard housing, resulted in lower stress-driven production of corticosterone, augmented mouse proinflammatory immune responses and markedly exacerbated high-fat diet (HFD)-induced NAFLD pathogenesis. Disease exacerbation at thermoneutrality was conserved across multiple mouse strains and was associated with augmented intestinal permeability, an altered microbiome and activation of inflammatory pathways that are associated with the disease in humans. Depletion of Gram-negative microbiota, hematopoietic cell deletion of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) and inactivation of the IL-17 axis resulted in altered immune responsiveness and protection from thermoneutral-housing-driven NAFLD amplification. Finally, female mice, typically resistant to HFD-induced obesity and NAFLD, develop full disease characteristics at thermoneutrality. Thus, thermoneutral housing provides a sex-independent model of exacerbated NAFLD in mice and represents a novel approach for interrogation of the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying disease pathogenesis.
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Publikationstyp Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Korrespondenzautor
Schlagwörter Diet-induced Obesity; Insulin-resistance; Steatohepatitis Nash; Ambient-temperature; Inflammation; Mouse; Activation; Responses; Nafld; Cold
ISSN (print) / ISBN 1078-8956
e-ISSN 1546-170X
Zeitschrift Nature medicine
Quellenangaben Band: 23, Heft: 7, Seiten: 829-838 Artikelnummer: , Supplement: ,
Verlag Nature Publishing Group
Verlagsort New York, NY
Nichtpatentliteratur Publikationen
Begutachtungsstatus Peer reviewed
Institut(e) Institute of Diabetes and Obesity (IDO)