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  • Caffeine activates preferentially alpha1-isoform of 5'AMP-activated protein kinase in rat skeletal muscle. 20645930

    Abstract Aim: Caffeine activates 5'AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), a signalling intermediary implicated in the regulation of glucose, lipid, and energy metabolism in skeletal muscle. Skeletal muscle expresses two catalytic alpha subunits of AMPK, alpha1 and alpha2, but the isoform specificity of caffeine-induced AMPK activation is unclear. The aim of this study was to determine which alpha isoform is preferentially activated by caffeine in vitro and in vivo using rat skeletal muscle. Methods: Rat epitrochlearis muscle was isolated and incubated in vitro in the absence or presence of caffeine. In another experiment, the muscle was dissected after intravenous injection of caffeine. Isoform-specific AMPK activity, the phosphorylation status of AMPKalpha Thr(172) and acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) Ser(79), the concentrations of ATP, phosphocreatine (PCr), and glycogen, and 3-O-methyl-d-glucose (3MG) transport activity were estimated. Results: Incubation of isolated epitrochlearis muscle with 1 mM of caffeine for 15 min increased AMPKalpha1 activity, but not AMPKalpha2 activity; concentrations of ATP, PCr and glycogen were not affected. Incubation with 3 mM of caffeine activated AMPKalpha2 and reduced PCr and glycogen concentrations. Incubation with 1 mM of caffeine increased the phosphorylation of AMPK and ACC and enhanced 3MG transport. Intravenous injection of caffeine (5 mg kg(-1)) predominantly activated AMPKalpha1 and increased 3MG transport without affecting energy status. Conclusion: Our results suggest that of the two alpha isoforms of AMPK, AMPKalpha1 is predominantly activated by caffeine via an energy-independent mechanism and that activation of AMPKalpha1 increases glucose transport and ACC phosphorylation in skeletal muscle.
    Document Type:
    Reference
    Product Catalog Number:
    07-303
    Product Catalog Name:
    Anti-phospho-Acetyl CoA Carboxylase (Ser79) Antibody - (Anti-phospho-Acetyl CoA Carboxylase (Ser79) Antibody)

  • Caffeine promotes glutamate and histamine release in the posterior hypothalamus. 25031227

    Histamine neurons are active during waking and largely inactive during sleep, with minimal activity during rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep. Caffeine, the most widely used stimulant, causes a significant increase of sleep onset latency in rats and humans. We hypothesized that caffeine increases glutamate release in the posterior hypothalamus (PH) and produces increased activity of wake-active histamine neurons. Using in vivo microdialysis, we collected samples from the PH after caffeine administration in freely behaving rats. HPLC analysis and biosensor measurements showed a significant increase in glutamate levels beginning 30 min after caffeine administration. Glutamate levels remained elevated for at least 140 min. GABA levels did not significantly change over the same time period. Histamine level significantly increased beginning 30 min after caffeine administration and remained elevated for at least 140 min. Immunostaining showed a significantly elevated number of c-Fos-labeled histamine neurons in caffeine-treated rats compared with saline-treated animals. We conclude that increased glutamate levels in the PH activate histamine neurons and contribute to caffeine-induced waking and alertness.
    Document Type:
    Reference
    Product Catalog Number:
    AB176

  • Caffeine acutely activates 5'adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase and increases insulin-independent glucose transport in rat skeletal muscles. 19608206

    Caffeine (1,3,7-trimethylxanthine) has been implicated in the regulation of glucose and lipid metabolism including actions such as insulin-independent glucose transport, glucose transporter 4 expression, and fatty acid utilization in skeletal muscle. These effects are similar to the exercise-induced and 5'adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK)-mediated metabolic changes in skeletal muscle, suggesting that caffeine is involved in the regulation of muscle metabolism through AMPK activation. We explored whether caffeine acts on skeletal muscle to stimulate AMPK. Incubation of rat epitrochlearis and soleus muscles with Krebs buffer containing caffeine (> or =3 mmol/L, > or =15 minutes) increased the phosphorylation of AMPKalpha Thr(172), an essential step for full kinase activation, and acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase Ser(79), a downstream target of AMPK, in dose- and time-dependent manners. Analysis of isoform-specific AMPK activity revealed that both AMPKalpha1 and alpha2 activities increased significantly. This enzyme activation was associated with a reduction in phosphocreatine content and an increased rate of 3-O-methyl-d-glucose transport activity in the absence of insulin. These results suggest that caffeine has similar actions to exercise by acutely stimulating skeletal muscle AMPK activity and insulin-independent glucose transport with a reduction of the intracellular energy status.,
    Document Type:
    Reference
    Product Catalog Number:
    07-303
    Product Catalog Name:
    Anti-phospho-Acetyl CoA Carboxylase (Ser79) Antibody - (Anti-phospho-Acetyl CoA Carboxylase (Ser79) Antibody)

  • Caffeine - 19565

    Document Type:
    Certificate of Analysis
    Lot Number:
    19565
    Product Catalog Number:
    19-156

  • Caffeine consumption prevents diabetes-induced memory impairment and synaptotoxicity in the hippocampus of NONcZNO10/LTJ mice. 22514596

    Diabetic conditions are associated with modified brain function, namely with cognitive deficits, through largely undetermined processes. More than understanding the underlying mechanism, it is important to devise novel strategies to alleviate diabetes-induced cognitive deficits. Caffeine (a mixed antagonist of adenosine A(1) and A(2A) receptors) emerges as a promising candidate since caffeine consumption reduces the risk of diabetes and effectively prevents memory deficits caused by different noxious stimuli. Thus, we took advantage of a novel animal model of type 2 diabetes to investigate the behavioural, neurochemical and morphological modifications present in the hippocampus and tested if caffeine consumption might prevent these changes. We used a model closely mimicking the human type 2 diabetes condition, NONcNZO10/LtJ mice, which become diabetic at 7-11 months when kept under an 11% fat diet. Caffeine (1 g/l) was applied in the drinking water from 7 months onwards. Diabetic mice displayed a decreased spontaneous alternation in the Y-maze accompanied by a decreased density of nerve terminal markers (synaptophysin, SNAP25), mainly glutamatergic (vesicular glutamate transporters), and increased astrogliosis (GFAP immunoreactivity) compared to their wild type littermates kept under the same diet. Furthermore, diabetic mice displayed up-regulated A(2A) receptors and down-regulated A(1) receptors in the hippocampus. Caffeine consumption restored memory performance and abrogated the diabetes-induced loss of nerve terminals and astrogliosis. These results provide the first evidence that type 2 diabetic mice display a loss of nerve terminal markers and astrogliosis, which is associated with memory impairment; furthermore, caffeine consumption prevents synaptic dysfunction and astrogliosis as well as memory impairment in type 2 diabetes.
    Document Type:
    Reference
    Product Catalog Number:
    AB5905
    Product Catalog Name:
    Anti-Vesicular Glutamate Transporter 1 Antibody - (Anti-Vesicular Glutamate Transporter 1 Antibody)

  • Caffeine regulates frontocorticostriatal dopamine transporter density and improves attention and cognitive deficits in an animal model of attention deficit hyperactivity ... 22561003

    Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) likely involves dopaminergic dysfunction in the frontal cortex and striatum, resulting in cognitive and motor abnormalities. Since both adenosine and dopamine modulation systems are tightly intertwined, we tested if caffeine (a non-selective adenosine receptor antagonist) attenuated the behavioral and neurochemical changes in adolescent spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR, a validated ADHD animal model) compared to their control strain (Wistar Kyoto rats, WKY). SHR were hyperactive and had poorer performance in the attentional set-shifting and Y-maze paradigms and also displayed increased dopamine transporter (DAT) density and increased dopamine uptake in frontocortical and striatal terminals compared with WKY rats. Chronic caffeine treatment was devoid of effects in WKY rats while it improved memory and attention deficits and also normalized dopaminergic function in SHR. Additionally, we provide the first direct demonstration for the presence of adenosine A(2A) receptors (A(2A)R) in frontocortical nerve terminals, whose density was increased in SHR. These findings underscore the potential for caffeine treatment to normalize frontocortical dopaminergic function and to abrogate attention and cognitive changes characteristic of ADHD.
    Document Type:
    Reference
    Product Catalog Number:
    MAB369
    Product Catalog Name:
    Anti-Dopamine Transporter Antibody, NT, clone DAT-Nt - (Anti-Dopamine Transporter Antibody, NT, clone DAT-Nt)