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Larson, K. R., Jayakrishnan, D., Sauza, K. A. S., Goodson, M. L., Chaffin, A. T., Davidyan, A., … Ryan, K. K. (2024). FGF21 induces skeletal muscle atrophy and increases amino acids in female mice: a potential role for glucocorticoids. Endocrinology.
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Larson, Karlton R., Devi Jayakrishnan, Karla A. Soto Sauza, Michael L. Goodson, A. T. Chaffin, A. Davidyan, Suraj Pathak, et al. “FGF21 Induces Skeletal Muscle Atrophy and Increases Amino Acids in Female Mice: a Potential Role for Glucocorticoids.” Endocrinology (2024).
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Larson, Karlton R., et al. “FGF21 Induces Skeletal Muscle Atrophy and Increases Amino Acids in Female Mice: a Potential Role for Glucocorticoids.” Endocrinology, 2024.
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@article{karlton2024a,
title = {FGF21 induces skeletal muscle atrophy and increases amino acids in female mice: a potential role for glucocorticoids.},
year = {2024},
journal = {Endocrinology},
author = {Larson, Karlton R. and Jayakrishnan, Devi and Sauza, Karla A. Soto and Goodson, Michael L. and Chaffin, A. T. and Davidyan, A. and Pathak, Suraj and Fang, Yanbin and Magaña, Diego Gonzalez and Miller, Benjamin F and Ryan, Karen K.}
}
Fibroblast growth factor-21 (FGF21) is an intercellular signaling molecule secreted by metabolic organs, including skeletal muscle, in response to intracellular stress. FGF21 crosses the blood brain barrier and acts via the nervous system to coordinate aspects of the adaptive starvation response, including increased lipolysis, gluconeogenesis, fatty acid oxidation, and activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis. Given its beneficial effects for hepatic lipid metabolism, pharmaceutical FGF21 analogues are in clinical trials treatment of fatty liver disease. We predicted pharmacologic treatment with FGF21 increases HPA axis activity and skeletal muscle glucocorticoid signaling and induces skeletal muscle atrophy in mice. Here we found a short course of systemic FGF21 treatment decreased muscle protein synthesis and reduced tibialis anterior weight; this was driven primarily by its effect in female mice. Similarly, intracerebroventricular FGF21 reduced TA muscle fiber cross sectional area; this was more apparent among female mice compared to male littermates. In agreement with the reduced muscle mass, the topmost enriched metabolic pathways in plasma collected from FGF21-treated females were related to amino acid metabolism, and the relative abundance of plasma proteinogenic amino acids were increased up to three-fold. FGF21 treatment increased hypothalamic Crh mRNA, plasma corticosterone, and adrenal weight, and increased expression of glucocorticoid receptor target genes known to reduce muscle protein synthesis and/or promote degradation. Given the proposed use of FGF21 analogues for the treatment of metabolic disease, the study is both physiologically relevant and may have important clinical implications.
