role of high-fat diet in stress response of drosophila高脂肪饮食在果蝇的应激反应.pdfVIP

Role of High-Fat Diet in Stress Response of Drosophila 1 1,2,3 Erilynn T. Heinrichsen , Gabriel G. Haddad * 1 Department of Pediatrics (Division of Respiratory Medicine) and Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, 2 Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, 3 Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, California, United States of America Abstract Obesity is associated with many diseases, one of the most common being obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), which in turn leads to blood gas disturbances, including intermittent hypoxia (IH). Obesity, OSA and IH are associated with metabolic changes, and while much mammalian work has been done, mechanisms underlying the response to IH, the role of obesity and the interaction of obesity and hypoxia remain unknown. As a model organism, Drosophila offers tremendous power to study a specific phenotype and, at a subsequent stage, to uncover and study fundamental mechanisms, given the conservation of molecular pathways. Herein, we characterize the phenotype of Drosophila on a high-fat diet in normoxia, IH and constant hypoxia (CH) using triglyceride and glucose levels, response to stress and lifespan. We found that female flies on a high-fat diet show increased triglyceride levels (p,0.001) and a shortened lifespan in normoxia, IH and CH. Furthermore, flies on a high-fat diet in normoxia and CH show diminished tolerance to stress, with decreased survival after exposure to extreme cold or anoxia (p,0.001). Of interest, IH seems to rescue this decreased cold tolerance, as flies on a high-fat diet almost completely recovered fr