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Beta3-adrenergic agonists are well-recognited to promote lipid mobilisation and adipose tissue remodeling in rodents, leading to multilocular fat cells enriched in mitochondria. However, effects of beta3-adrenergic agonists on glucose transport are still controversial. In this work, we studied in white adipose tissue (WAT) the influence of sustained beta3-adrenergic stimulation on the glucose transport and on the mitochondrial monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity. As one-week administration of CL 316243 (CL, 1 mg/kg/d) induces beta-adrenergic desensitization in rat but not in guinea pig adipocytes, attention was paid to compare these models. When expressing glucose uptake as nmoles of 2-deoxyglucose/100 mg cell lipids, maximally stimulated uptake was increased in adipocytes of WAT from treated rats but not from treated guinea pigs. However, basal hexose uptake was also increased in CL-treated rats and, as a consequence, the dose-dependent curves for insulin stimulation were similar in control and CL-treated rats when expressed as fold increase over basal. Insulin-induced lipogenesis was unchanged in rat or guinea pig adipocytes after CL-treatment. The glucose carriers GLUT4 and corresponding mRNA were increased in subcutaneous WAT or in brown adipose tissue (BAT) but not in visceral WAT or muscles of CL-treated rats. There was an increase of MAO activity in WAT and BAT, but not in liver, of CL-treated rats while no change was detected in guinea pigs. These findings show that only rat adipocytes, which are beta3-adrenergic-responsive, respond to chronic beta3-AR agonist by an increase of GLUT4 content and MAO activity, despite a desensitization of all beta-adrenoceptor subtypes.