Lipid Metabolism Disorders Clinical Trial
Official title:
The Dual Role of Intramyocellular Lipids in Mediating Insulin Resistance: Assessing the Mechanisms of the Athlete's Paradox
Accumulation of intramyocellular lipids (IMCLs) due to increased supply of fatty acids can induce defects in the insulin signaling cascade, causing skeletal muscle insulin resistance. However, the causes for muscle insulin resistance are not well understood. The association of elevated IMCLs and insulin resistance has been shown in obese humans and individuals with type 2 diabetes as well as several animal models of insulin resistance. Despite the strong relationship between IMCLs and insulin resistance, this suggested relationship disappears when well-trained endurance athletes are included into this consideration as this group is highly insulin sensitive. This metabolic enigma has been termed the 'athlete's paradox'. The aim of this project is to resolve the mechanisms contributing to the athlete's paradox.
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is characterized by an increasing insensitivity of muscle, fat and liver cells to the hormone insulin. About 9% of the global population is affected by this condition and mortality risk is twice as high in individuals with diabetes compared to similar-aged people without diabetes. Muscle is of particular importance for glucose homeostasis, since in healthy subjects it accounts for 80-90% of postprandial insulin-stimulated glucose disposal. After cellular uptake of glucose by the specialized glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4), glucose is phosphorylated and stored as glycogen. In individuals with obesity or T2D, the capacity for insulin to facilitate glucose uptake and glycogen synthesis is impaired. This reduced response of a given insulin concentration to exert its biological effect is termed insulin resistance. Subsequent diminished insulin secretion due to β-cell failure results in fasting hyperglycemia and overt diabetes. Importantly, muscle insulin resistance is the initial defect occurring in the development of T2D and precedes the clinical development of the disease by up to 20 years. Intracellular defects in glucose transport have been identified as the limiting step for insulin-mediated glucose uptake into skeletal muscle. Impaired muscle glucose transport activity is likely a consequence of ectopic lipid accumulation and subsequent dysregulation of intramyocellular fatty acid metabolism. Indeed, results from normal weight, nondiabetic adults suggest that intramyocellular triglyceride content is a strong predictor for muscle insulin resistance. Of note, the development of insulin resistance occurred without changes in intramyocellular triglyceride content, thus dissociating the amount of these neutral storage lipids from insulin resistance. Instead, the bioactive lipid species diacylglycerols (DAG) and ceramides have been implicated in interfering with insulin signaling and glucose homeostasis in obese and insulin resistant individuals and individuals with T2D by activating members of the protein kinase C (PKC) family while ceramides mediate an increase in protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) and an association of PKCζ and protein kinase B (PKB)/Akt2. To add another layer of complexity, DAGs seem to exert their detrimental intracellular effects in a subspecies- (mostly C18:0, C18:1, or C18:2 DAGs) and stereo-selective manner (sn-1,2 stereoisomer DAG). Taken together, excessive amounts of bioactive intramyocellular lipids (IMCLs) contribute to defective insulin signaling in obese individuals and patients with T2D. Surprisingly, endurance athletes have comparable amounts of IMCLs, but remain highly insulin sensitive. This metabolic conundrum has been termed "athlete's paradox". This study therefore aims at resolving this conundrum with mass-spectrometry based state-of-the-art methodology by analysing lipid subspecies in endurance-trained athletes, untrained healthy individuals and insulin-resistant individuals. ;
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