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. 1968 Mar;47(3):612–623. doi: 10.1172/JCI105757

Rate-limiting steps in steady-state intestinal absorption of trioctanoin-l-14C

Effect of biliary and pancreatic flow diversion

Susanne Bennett Clark 1, Peter R Holt 1
PMCID: PMC297207  PMID: 5637147

Abstract

During continuous intraduodenal infusion of emulsified fat in rats, a steady state of intestinal absorption is achieved.

Maximal steady-state absorption of trioctanoin, a medium-chain triglyceride (MCT), by unanesthetized, restrained rats was found to be the same after total bile diversion as in controls (1560 μmoles of fatty acid per hr).

After pancreatic and bile diversion, absorption of MCT was still one-third as rapid as in controls, and mucosal uptake apparently occurred in the form of unhydrolyzed triglyceride. Returning bile to the intestinal lumen during pancreatic diversion did not increase the absorption rate.

From intestinal tissue lipid-14C concentrations measured during steady-state maximal absorption it was possible to calculate turnover times for labeled lipid passing through the mucosal cells. Mucosal turnover times of about 4 min for control and bile-diverted rats, and about 20 min for animals with pancreatic diversion were obtained.

The rate-limiting step in octanoic acid absorption in control and bile-diverted rats was probably mucosal penetration. During absorption of unhydrolyzed triglyceride by pancreatic flow-diverted rats, both passage from the lumen into the mucosal cell and intracellular lipolysis were rate-controlling factors.

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