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. 1966 May;99(2):323–332. doi: 10.1042/bj0990323

Studies on lipogenesis in vivo. Effect of dietary fat or starvation on conversion of [14C]glucose into fat and turnover of newly synthesized fat

G R Jansen 1, C F Hutchison 1, M E Zanetti 1
PMCID: PMC1265000  PMID: 5944242

Abstract

1. Lipogenesis was studied in vivo by giving mice 250mg. meals of [U-14C]glucose and measuring the disposition and incorporation of label. About 48% of the 14C dose was eliminated as 14CO2 in the first 2hr. At 60min. after administration, 1·0, 1·9 and 11·9% of the dose was recovered as liver glycogen, liver fatty acid and carcass fatty acid respectively. Of the [14C]glucose converted into fat in the epididymal pads about 90% was present as glyceride fatty acid and 10% as glyceride glycerol. 2. Hepatic synthesis of fatty acid was depressed by dietary fat to a much greater extent than was synthesis outside the liver. Both feeding with fat and starvation decreased the proportion of the label taken up by adipose tissue present as fat (triglyceride) and increased the proportion of triglyceride label present as glyceride glycerol. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the primary action of both these conditions in decreasing fat synthesis is to inhibit synthesis of fatty acids. 3. Turnover of body fat labelled in vivo from [U-14C]glucose was estimated from the decline in radioactivity measured over the first 24hr. of the experiment. The half-life of liver and extrahepatic fatty acids (excluding epididymal fat) was 16hr. and 3 days respectively. In contrast, no measurable decrease in radioactivity of the fatty acids of epididymal fat was observed for 7 days after administration of the [U-14C]glucose.

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