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BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION
卷 112, 期 1, 页码 1-7出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114514000440
关键词
Tryptophan; Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease; Intestinal permeability; Serotonin; Serotonin re-uptake transporter
资金
- 'Center for Nutritional Medicine' Tubingen/Hohenheim, Germany [TP7.AI]
- Competence Network of Obesity, group 'Obesity and GI tract' - Federal Ministry of Education and Research [01GI0843]
Intestinal serotonin (5-hydroxytrypamine, 5-HT) metabolism is thought to play a role in gut functions by regulating motility, permeability and other functions of the intestine. In the present study, we investigated the effect of tryptophan (TRP), the precursor of 5-HT, supplementation on intestinal barrier functions and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). An established mouse model of NAFLD induced by feeding a fructose-rich diet (N group) was used in the present study. TRP was administered orally for 8 weeks to C57BL/6J control or NAFLD mice. NAFLD-related liver parameters (hepatic TAG and Oil Red O staining), intestinal barrier parameters (tight-junction protein occludin and portal plasma lipopolysaccharides (LPS)) and 5-HT-related parameters (5-HT, 5-HT transporter (SERT) and motility) were measured. We observed reduced duodenal occludin protein concentrations (P=0.0007), high portal plasma LPS concentrations (P-0.005) and an elevated liver weight: body weight ratio (P-0.01) in the N group compared with the parameters in the control group. TRP supplementation led to an increase in occludin concentrations (P=0.0009) and consecutively reduced liver weight: body weight ratio (P=0.009) as well as overall hepatic fat accumulation in the N group (P=0.05). In addition, the N group exhibited reduced SERT protein expression (P=0.002), which was normalised by TRP supplementation (P=0.02). For the first time, our data indicate that oral TRP supplementation attenuates experimental NAFLD in mice. The underlying mechanisms are not clear, but probably involve stabilisation of the intestinal barrier in the upper small intestine and amelioration of the dysregulated intestinal serotonergic system.
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