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Improved Muscle Mitochondrial Capacity Following Gastric Bypass Surgery in Obese Subjects

Overview of attention for article published in Obesity Surgery, October 2015
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Title
Improved Muscle Mitochondrial Capacity Following Gastric Bypass Surgery in Obese Subjects
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Obesity Surgery, October 2015
DOI 10.1007/s11695-015-1932-z
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Maria Fernström, Linda Bakkman, Peter Loogna, Olav Rooyackers, Madeleine Svensson, Towe Jakobsson, Lena Brandt, Ylva Trolle Lagerros

Abstract

Weight loss resulting from low-calorie diets is often less than expected. We hypothesized that energy restriction would influence proton leakage and improve mitochondrial efficiency, leading to reduced energy expenditure, partly explaining the difficulties in weight loss maintenance. Eleven women with a median BMI of 38.5 kg/m(2) (q-range 37-40), and referred to gastric bypass surgery participated. Before surgery, and at 6 months of follow-up, muscle biopsies were collected from the vastus lateralis muscle. Mitochondria were isolated and analyzed for coupled (state 3) and uncoupled (state 4) respiration and mitochondrial capacity (P/O ratio). At follow-up, the participants had a median BMI of 29.6 kg/m(2) (28.3-32.0). State 3 increased from 20.6 (17.9-28.9) to 34.9 nmol O2/min/U citrate synthase (CS) (27.0-49.0), p = 0.01, while state 4 increased from 2.8 (1.8-4.2) to 4.2 nmol O2/min/U CS (3.1-6.1), although not statistically significant. The P/O ratio increased from 2.7 (2.5-2.8) to 3.2 (3.0-3.4), p = 0.02, indicating improved mitochondrial efficiency. Six months after gastric bypass surgery, the mitochondrial capacity for coupled, i.e., ATP-generating, respiration increased, and the P/O ratio improved. Uncoupled respiration was not enhanced to the same extent. This could partly explain the decreased basal metabolism and the reduced inclination for weight loss during energy restriction.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 32 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 7 22%
Student > Bachelor 5 16%
Researcher 4 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 3%
Other 4 13%
Unknown 8 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 12 38%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 6%
Sports and Recreations 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 10 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 May 2011.
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#5,457,673
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Outputs from Obesity Surgery
#689
of 3,375 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#66,545
of 279,318 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Obesity Surgery
#6
of 56 outputs
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