iScience (Sep 2021)

Medium-chain triglycerides inhibit long-chain triglyceride-induced GIP secretion through GPR120-dependent inhibition of CCK

  • Yuki Murata,
  • Norio Harada,
  • Shigenobu Kishino,
  • Kanako Iwasaki,
  • Eri Ikeguchi-Ogura,
  • Shunsuke Yamane,
  • Tomoko Kato,
  • Yoshinori Kanemaru,
  • Akiko Sankoda,
  • Tomonobu Hatoko,
  • Sakura Kiyobayashi,
  • Jun Ogawa,
  • Akira Hirasawa,
  • Nobuya Inagaki

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 9
p. 102963

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Summary: Long-chain triglycerides (LCTs) intake strongly stimulates GIP secretion from enteroendocrine K cells and induces obesity and insulin resistance partly due to GIP hypersecretion. In this study, we found that medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) inhibit GIP secretion after single LCT ingestion and clarified the mechanism underlying MCT-induced inhibition of GIP secretion. MCTs reduced the CCK effect after single LCT ingestion in wild-type (WT) mice, and a CCK agonist completely reversed MCT-induced inhibition of GIP secretion. In vitro studies showed that medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs) inhibit long-chain fatty acid (LCFA)-stimulated CCK secretion and increase in intracellular Ca2+ concentrations through inhibition of GPR120 signaling. Long-term administration of MCTs reduced obesity and insulin resistance in high-LCT diet-fed WT mice, but not in high-LCT diet-fed GIP-knockout mice. Thus, MCT-induced inhibition of GIP hypersecretion reduces obesity and insulin resistance under high-LCT diet feeding condition.

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