The Effects of Calcium Channel Blocker Benidipine and Calmodulin Antagonist W7 on GDP-Binding Capacity of Brown Adipose Tissue in Mice |
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Authors: | Yuh-Min Song Pi-Yao Lin Ming-Der Chen |
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Affiliation: | (1) Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, 407, Taiwan, Republic of China;(2) Department of Chemistry, Tunghai University, Taichung, 407, Taiwan, Republic of China;(3) General Education Center, Overseas Chinese Institute of Technology, No. 100 Chiao-Kwang Road, Taichung, 407, Taiwan, Republic of China |
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Abstract: | It has been suggested that increased dietary calcium intake can attenuate obesity. Calcium antagonists, such as benidipine, also have been shown to have an anti-obesity effect. However, the mechanism for calcium-related anti-obesity effect has not yet been established. A defective brown adipose tissue thermogenesis has been shown in obese rodents. This study was designed to examine the direct effects of calcium channel blocker benidipine and calmodulin antagonist W7 administration on the adaptive thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue taken from the genetically obese mice and their lean controls. The GDP binding to brown-fat cell mitochondria was used as a brown adipose tissue thermogenic index. The results show that benidipine treatment had no marked effect on brown-fat cell GDP-binding capacities in both obese and lean mice. However, GDP-binding capacities were significantly reduced in both obese and lean mice after the W7 administration. The results of this study support the previous finding that benidipine did not have direct thermogenic effect on brown adipose tissue and suggest that the change in intracellular calmodulin availability might contribute to the adaptive thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue. |
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Keywords: | Benidipine Brown adipose tissue Calcium Calmodulin GDP binding |
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