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J. Anim Sci. 1989. 67:1455-1464.
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Effect of Ractopamine on Insulin Sensitivity and Response of Isolated Rat Adipocytes1

D. B. Hausman2,3,, R. J. Martin2, E. L. Veenhuizen4 and D. B. Anderson4

University of Georgia, Athens 30602 and Lilly Research Laboratories, Greenfield, IN 46140

Abstract

In vitro effects of the phenethanolamine ractopamine on basal and insulin-stimulated lipid metabolism were determined in adipocytes isolated from epididymal fat pads of Sprague-Dawley rats. Ractopamine appeared to be equipotent to the catecholamine isoproterenol in stimulating basal lipoiysis and inhibiting basal lipogenesis, producing maximum effects at 10–6 M. Addition of a half-maximally stimulating dose of ractopamine (5 x 10–8 M) to the incubation media decreased insulin sensitivity but not insulin responsiveness of the cells, stimulating lipoiysis and inhibiting lipogenesis only in the presence of low media insulin concentrations. This effect was totally reversed by 10 µM propranolol. Maximally effective concentrations of ractopamine (10–6 M) significantly decreased both the sensitivity and responsiveness of the isolated adipocytes to insulin. Addition of 10 µM propranolol to the incubation media effectively reversed the lipolytic and anti-lipogenic effects of 10–6 M ractopamine observed at media insulin concentrations greater than 25 µU/ml, whereas it only partially reduced the ractopamine-induced effects observed at lower insulin concentrations. The results demonstrate 1) that ractopamine has concentration-dependent effects on adipose tissue insulin sensitivity and responsiveness and 2) that these effects may be mediated, in part, through ß-adrenergic receptors.

Footnotes

1 A preliminary report of these data was presented at the 1987 Am. Inst. of Nutr. meeting, Washington, DC.

2 Dept. of Foods and Nutr., Univ. of Georgia.

3 To whom reprint requests should be sent.

4 Anim. Sci. Prod. Div., Lilly Res. Labs.






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