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. 2019 Apr 7;176(14):2539–2558. doi: 10.1111/bph.14633

Table 4.

Studies on regulation of β3‐adrenoceptor protein and mRNA by agonist exposure

Intervention Protein mRNA Reference
In vivo treatments of animals
Rat brown adipose tissue
Ro 16‐8741, 0.87 mg·kg−1 orally, every 24 hr Decrease Decrease Revelli, Muzzin, & Giacobino, 1992
Noradrenaline 2 × 250 μg injection, 8 hr n.r. Decrease Granneman & Lahners, 1992
Isoprenaline 2 × 200 μg injection, 8 hr n.r. Decrease
BRL 26,830, 2 × 2 mg injection, 8 hr n.r. Decrease
Mouse brown adipose tissue
CL 316,243, 1 mg·kg−1 injection, 1–24 hr n.r. Decreasea Hutchinson et al., 2000
Rat white adipose tissue
Noradrenaline 2 × 250 μg injection, 8 hr n.r. Decrease Granneman & Lahners, 1992
Isoprenaline 2 × 200 μg injection, 8 hr n.r. Decrease
BRL 26,830, 2 × 2 mg injection, 8 hr n.r. Decrease
BRL 26,830, 10 mg·kg−1 injection, 4 hr n.r. Decrease Granneman & Lahners, 1995
FR 149,175, 0.1–3.2 mg·kg−1 twice daily p.o., 2 weeks n.r. No change Hatakeyama et al., 2004
Mouse white adipose tissue
CL 316,243, 1 mg·kg−1 injection, 1–24 hr n.r. Decrease Hutchinson et al., 2000
Mouse ileum
CL 316,243, 1 mg·kg−1 injection, 1–24 hr No change (63–77) No change Hutchinson et al., 2000
In vitro treatments of tissues and cells natively expressing β3‐adrenoceptor
Neonatal rat cardiomyocytes
Noradrenaline 100 μM, 24 hr Increase Increase Germack & Dickenson, 2006
Noradrenaline 100 mM, 72 hr n.r. Increase Watts et al., 2013
Hamster brown adipocytes
Isoprenaline 1 μM, 2–8 hr n.r. Decrease Klaus et al., 1995
Noradrenaline 1 μM, 2–8 hr n.r. Decrease
D7114, 1 μM, 2–8 hr n.r. Decrease
Mouse brown adipocytes
Noradrenaline 100 nM, 24 hr n.r. Decrease Bengtsson, Redegren, Strosberg, Nedergaard, & Cannon, 1996
3T3‐F442 mouse adipocytes
Isoprenaline 100 μM, 4–30 hr Increase (39) Increase Thomas, Holt, Schwinn, & Liggett, 1992
Isoprenaline 100 μM, 2–8 hr n.r. Decrease Granneman & Lahners, 1994
Isoprenaline 100 μM, 4 hr n.r. Decrease Granneman & Lahners, 1995
Human myometrial strips
Salbutamol or SR 59,119, 10 μM, 15 hr n.r. No change Rouget et al., 2004
SK‐N‐MC human neuroblastoma cells
Isoprenaline 100 μM, 2–6 hr n.r. No change Granneman & Lahners, 1994
Isoprenaline 1–100 nM, 1–24 hr No change (189) n.r. Curran & Fishman, 1996
In vitro treatments of cells transfected with β3‐adrenoceptor
CHW cells
Isoprenaline 100 μM, 6–24 hr No change (5,900) n.r. Liggett et al., 1993
Isoprenaline 10 μM, 1–24 hr No change (281) No change Nantel, Marullo, Krief, Strosberg, & Bouvier, 1994
Isoprenaline 10 μM, 2–24 hr No change (200–350) n.r. Nantel et al., 1995
CHO cells
Isoprenaline 100 μM, 0–24 hr No change (3,000) n.r. Chambers et al., 1994
HEK 293 cells
Isoprenaline 100 μM, 1 hr No change (750) n.r. Chaudhry & Granneman, 1994
Isoprenaline 10 μM, 24 hr No change (306) n.r. Michel‐Reher & Michel, 2013
L cells
Isoprenaline 10 μM, 1–24 hr Decrease (122) Decrease Nantel et al., 1994
Isoprenaline 10 μM, 3–24 hr Decrease (200–350) n.r. Nantel et al., 1995
M1 cells
Mirabegron 10 nM, 6–24 hr Decrease n.r. Milano et al., 2018

Note: Where available, baseline β3‐adrenoceptor density (fmol·mg−1·protein) is shown in parentheses. Note that some of the mRNA expression changes were transient, that is, not found at all time points investigated. Studies in transfected cells refer to the human receptor. For details, see Sections 4 and 5. n.r.: not reported.

a

Decrease observed for β3a‐ but not β3b‐adrenoceptor.