Abstract
The present experiment was an appraisal of the relative importance of fatty acid synthesis in brown adipose tissue (BAT) in young 28 or 5 degrees C adapted rats (9 weeks old). With a low-fat diet in vivo incorporation of 3H2O into BAT fatty acids was 8 times lower during the day than during the night and was not modified by a 6-hour fast during the day (28 degrees C). Cold acclimation doubled (night) or increased 8 times (day) BAT lipogenesis. Fasting led to a halving of the diurnal rate. A high-fat diet led to large decrease in synthesis rate during the night but had a weak effect on diurnal synthesis. The specific activity of fatty acids was 3 times lower in phospholipids than in neutral lipids. A comparison between 9- and 15-week-old rats indicated that in older warm-adapted rats BAT lipogenesis decreased by half but that cold stimulation was unaltered. These results were compared with hepatic and epididymal white adipose tissue lipogenesis. In conclusion, we showed that BAT of 5 degrees C rats is an important but not the major site for the conversion of carbohydrate to fat and that the proportional involvement of each tissue is age-dependent.
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