%0 Journal Article
%T The role of mediastinal adipose tissue 11¦Â-hydroxysteroid d ehydrogenase type 1 and glucocorticoid expression in the development of coronary atherosclerosis in obese patients with ischemic heart disease
%A Fatmahan Atalar
%A Selcuk Gormez
%A Baris Caynak
%A Gokce Akan
%A Gamze Tanriverdi
%A Sema Bilgic-Gazioglu
%A Demet Gunay
%A Cihan Duran
%A Belhhan Akpinar
%A Ugur Ozbek
%A Ahmet Buyukdevrim
%A Zeliha Yazici
%J Cardiovascular Diabetology
%D 2012
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1475-2840-11-115
%X Our objective was to evaluate the role of EAT and MAT 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11¦Â-HSD-1) and glucocorticoid receptor (GCR) expression in comparison with subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) in the development of coronary atherosclerosis in obese patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), and to assess their correlations with CD68 and fatty acids from these tissues.Expression of 11¦Â-HSD-1 and GCR was measured by qRT-PCR in EAT, MAT and SAT of thirty-one obese patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting due to CAD (obese CAD group) and sixteen obese patients without CAD undergoing heart valve surgery (controls). 11¦Â-HSD-1 and GCR expression in MAT were found to be significantly increased in the obese CAD group compared with controls (p£¿<£¿0.05). In the obese CAD group, 11¦Â-HSD-1 and GCR mRNA levels were strongly correlated in MAT. Stearidonic acid was significantly increased in EAT and MAT of the obese CAD group and arachidonic acid was significantly expressed in MAT of the obese male CAD group (p£¿<£¿0.05).We report for the first time the increased expression of 11¦Â-HSD-1 and GCR in MAT compared with EAT and SAT, and also describe the interrelated effects of stearidonic acid, HOMA-IR, plasma cortisol and GCR mRNA levels, explaining 40.2% of the variance in 11¦Â-HSD-1 mRNA levels in MAT of obese CAD patients. These findings support the hypothesis that MAT contributes locally to the development of coronary atherosclerosis via glucocorticoid action.In obesity, fat depots localized around the heart are reported to contribute to the pathogenesis of coronary artery disease (CAD) [1-3]. Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) generates various bioactive molecules which significantly affect cardiac function, and their association with the severity of CAD was has also been reported [2,4]. Human and animal studies have demonstrated EAT is located near to the arteries and that segments of an artery surrounded by EAT develop atherosclerosis faster than the intra-m
%K Mediastinal adipose tissue
%K Glucocorticoid
%K Inflammation
%K Coronary artery disease
%K Stearidonic acid
%K Cortisol
%U http://www.cardiab.com/content/11/1/115