Short-Term Feeding of Atherogenic Diet to Mice Results in Reduction of HDL and Paraoxonase That May Be Mediated by an Immune Mechanism

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—Short-term feeding (up to 7 days) of an atherogenic diet to C57BL/6 low density lipoprotein receptor–deficient mice did not result in decreased hepatic paraoxonase (PON) mRNA but caused a dramatic decrease in plasma PON activity and mass. The decreased activity and mass were temporally related to an increase in plasma and high density lipoprotein (HDL) lipid hydroperoxides and to a decrease in HDL cholesterol and native apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) and apolipoprotein A-II (apoA-II). As the native apoA-I protein disappeared from the circulation, higher molecular weight forms of apoA-I appeared, some of which contained epitopes recognized by an antibody (EO6) that recognizes oxidized phospholipids. After mice consumed an atherogenic diet for 1 or 3 days, switching the mice to a low fat chow diet for 3 days resulted in a return to baseline levels of lipid hydroperoxides but only a small return toward baseline for HDL cholesterol, with no significant increase in apoA-I mass or PON activity and mass. A...

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