Evidence for separate pathways of chylomicron and very low-density lipoprotein assembly and transport by rat small intestine
- 1 December 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
- Vol. 247 (6) , G599-G610
- https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpgi.1984.247.6.g599
Abstract
The hydrophobic surfactant Pluronic L-81 (L-81) inhibits the intestinal formation and transport of chylomicrons (CM) but not of very low-density lipoprotein-sized (VLDL) particles. Whether infusion of egg lecithin results mainly in secretion of VLDL by the small intestine and whether L-81 has any effect on their formation and secretion was studied. Intestinal fistula rats were infused intraduodenally at a rate of 3 ml/h with a lipid emulsion containing 20 mM egg lecithin and 19 mM sodium taurocholate for 8 h. This was then followed by another 8 h of infusion of a similar lipid emulsion but with 0.5 mg/h of L-81 added. Lymphatic lipid output was measured and lymph lipoproteins were sized by use of EM. Whether L-81 was present or not, no significant difference was detected in the lymphatic triglyceride, phospholipid, or cholesterol outputs. Based on agarose gel electrophoresis, sizing of intestinal lymph lipoproteins and also the determination of lipid in the intestinal lymph CM and VLDL as separated by ultracentrifugation, VLDL were the major lipoproteins present in lymph during the infusion of egg lecithin. Thus, intraduodenal infusion of egg lecithin in the rat results mainly in the transport of VLDL and is not affected by the administration of L-81. CM and VLDL evidently are assembled separately by the enterocytes. The usefulness of L-81 in further investigating the pathways and regulation of intestinal lipoprotein synthesis, assembly and secretion was indicated.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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