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. 1988 Nov 1;255(3):929–935. doi: 10.1042/bj2550929

Secretion and storage of newly synthesized hepatic triacylglycerol fatty acids in vivo in different nutritional states and in diabetes.

J M Duerden 1, G F Gibbons 1
PMCID: PMC1135330  PMID: 3214432

Abstract

Hepatic lipid synthesis was measured in rats in vivo with 3H2O, and the appearance of label in triacylglycerol and its constituent fatty acid and glycerol moieties was determined. In rats treated with Triton WR1339, the amount of newly synthesized fatty acid secreted as very-low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) triacylglycerol was greater during the dark phase of the diurnal cycle than during the light phase (11.3 versus 4.8 mumol of 3H2O/3 h per g of liver respectively). However, the total mass of VLDL triacylglycerol secreted remained constant, as did the amount of label in the secreted triacylglycerol glycerol. Newly synthesized fatty acids comprised only a small proportion of the total VLDL triacylglycerol fatty acids (TGFA) at both times (dark phase, 7.7%; light phase, 2.4%). Starvation for 24 h resulted in a small increase in the secretion of VLDL triacylglycerol. However, the contribution from newly synthesized fatty acids was decreased. Similar effects were observed in streptozotocin-diabetic animals. During the light and dark phases of the cycle, similar quantities of newly synthesized TGFA entered the hepatic cytosol, and these amounts were much smaller than those secreted as VLDL triacylglycerol. The mass of cytosolic triacylglycerol showed a diurnal variation, with a greater concentration during the light phase than in the dark. In diabetes, the mass of triacylglycerol was increased in the cytosol, as was the incorporation of labelled acylglycerol glycerol. Diabetes also abolished the diurnal variation in the quantity of cytosolic triacylglycerol. In each group of animals the specific radioactivity of the microsomal triacylglycerol was similar to that of the respective newly secreted plasma VLDL. The specific radioactivity of the cytosolic triacylglycerol was only 15.8% (dark phase) or 16.8% (light phase) that of the microsomal triacylglycerol. This increased to 35.5% in the starved animals and 40.2% in the diabetic animals.

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