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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-GASTROINTESTINAL AND LIVER PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 288, Issue 6, Pages G1179-G1189Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00411.2004
Keywords
fatty liver; genetics of hepatic steatosis; lipogenesis; fatty acid oxidation; very low-density lipoprotein
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- NCRR NIH HHS [5M01RR00036] Funding Source: Medline
- NHLBI NIH HHS [R01-HL-59515, R01 HL-52139, R37-HL-424460] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK-56341, 5P60DK-20579, 1P30DK-52574] Funding Source: Medline
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To assess whether genetic factor(s) determine liver triglyceride (TG) levels, a 10-mouse strain survey of liver TG contents was performed. Hepatic TG contents were highest in BALB/cByJ, medium in C57BL/6J, and lowest in SWR/J in both genders. Ninety and seventy- six percent of variance in hepatic TG in males and females, respectively, was due to strain ( genetic) effects. To understand the physiological/ biochemical basis for differences in hepatic TG among the three strains, studies were performed in males of the BALB/cByJ, C57BL/6J, and SWR/J strains. In vivo hepatic fatty acid (FA) synthesis rates and hepatic TG secretion rates ranked BALB/ cByJ approximate to C57BL/ 6J > SWR/J. Hepatic 1-C-14-labeled palmitate oxidation rates and plasma beta-hydroxybutyrate concentrations ranked in reverse order: SWR/ J > BALB/ cByJ approximate to C57BL/ 6J. After 14h of fasting, plasma- free FA and hepatic TG contents rose most in BALB/ cByJ and least in SWR/J. beta-Hydroxybutyrate concentrations rose least in BALB/cByJ and most in SWR/J. Adaptation to fasting was most effective in SWR/J and least in BALB/cByJ, perhaps because BALB/cByJ are known to be deficient in SCAD, a short-chain FA oxidizing enzyme. To assess the role of insulin action, glucose tolerance test (GTT) was performed. GTT-glucose levels ranked C57BL/6J > BALB/cByJ > SWR/J. Thus strain- dependent (genetic) factors play a major role in setting hepatic TG levels in mice. Processes such as FA production and hepatic export in VLDL on the one hand and FA oxidation on the other, explain some of the strain-related differences in hepatic TG contents. Additional factor(s) in the development of fatty liver in BALB/cByJ remain to be demonstrated.
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