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Department of Diabetes-INSERM U341, Hôtel-Dieu Hospital, 75181 Paris Cedex 04, France and * INSERM U465, 75006 Paris, France
3To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: salwa.rizkalla{at}htd.ap-hop-paris.fr.
The study was designed to evaluate the chronic regulation of plasma leptin by dietary (n-3) polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in insulin-resistant, sucrose-fed rats. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned to consume for 3 or 6 wk a diet containing 57.5% (g/100 g) sucrose and 14% lipids as either fish oil (SF) or control oils (SC). After 3 and 6 wk of consuming the SF diet, plasma leptin was 70% (P < 0.001) and 75% (P < 0.05) greater, respectively, than in rats fed the SC diet. The same result was found when plasma leptin was adjusted by total fat mass, as measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Despite high leptin levels, food intake of rats fed the SF diet was greater than in SC-fed rats without any difference in body weight or total fat mass. After 3 wk, accumulated leptin in epididymal and retroperitoneal adipose tissue was higher in the SF-fed rats than in the SC-fed rats. However, after 6 wk, tissue leptin in the SF-fed rats did not differ from that of the SC-fed rats. The SF diet increased adipose tissue glucose transporter-4 protein quantity and prevented the sucrose-induced elevations in plasma triglycerides and free fatty acids. When all SC- and SF-fed rats (both diets and feeding durations) were considered, plasma leptin levels were positively correlated with body weight (r = 0.5, P < 0.0001) and with total fat mass (r = 0.5, P < 0.0005). These results suggest that plasma leptin at a given time could be inappropriately high for a given fat mass in insulin-sensitive rats fed (n-3) PUFA.
KEY WORDS: • (n-3) polyunsaturated fatty acids • leptin • insulin-resistant rats • glucose transporters
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