GIP receptor agonism improves dyslipidemia and atherosclerosis independently of body weight loss in preclinical mouse model for cardio-metabolic disease

Stephan Sachs, Anna Götz, Brian Finan, Annette Feuchtinger, Richard D DiMarchi, Yvonne Döring, Christian Weber, Matthias H Tschöp, Timo D Müller*, Susanna M Hofmann*

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Agonism at the receptor for the glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIPR) is a key component of the novel unimolecular GIPR:GLP-1R co-agonists, which are among the most promising drugs in clinical development for the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes. The therapeutic effect of chronic GIPR agonism to treat dyslipidemia and thus to reduce the cardiovascular disease risk independently of body weight loss has not been explored yet. METHODS: After 8 weeks on western diet, LDL receptor knockout (LDLR-/-) male mice were treated with daily subcutaneous injections of long-acting acylated GIP analog (acyl-GIP; 10nmol/kg body weight) for 28 days. Body weight, food intake, whole-body composition were monitored throughout the study. Fasting blood glucose and intraperitoneal glucose tolerance test (ipGTT) were determined on day 21 of the study. Circulating lipid levels, lipoprotein profiles and atherosclerotic lesion size was assessed at the end of the study. Acyl-GIP effects on fat depots were determined by histology and transcriptomics. RESULTS: Herein we found that treatment with acyl-GIP reduced dyslipidemia and atherogenesis in male LDLR-/- mice. Acyl-GIP administration resulted in smaller adipocytes within the inguinal fat depot and RNAseq analysis of the latter revealed that acyl-GIP may improve dyslipidemia by directly modulating lipid metabolism in this fat depot. CONCLUSIONS: This study identified an unanticipated efficacy of chronic GIPR agonism to improve dyslipidemia and cardiovascular disease independently of body weight loss, indicating that treatment with acyl-GIP may be a novel approach to alleviate cardiometabolic disease.
Original languageEnglish
Article number217
Number of pages8
JournalCardiovascular Diabetology
Volume22
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Aug 2023

Keywords

  • Atherosclerosis
  • Cardiometabolic disease
  • Dyslipidemia
  • GIP agonist
  • Mice
  • Obesity
  • acyl-GIP
  • Male
  • Animals
  • Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/drug therapy
  • Atherosclerosis/drug therapy genetics prevention & control
  • Dyslipidemias/drug therapy
  • Body Weight
  • Weight Loss

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