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ArticleFrontiers in physiology2012

Intestinal mucosal triacylglycerol accumulation secondary to decreased lipid secretion in obese and high fat fed mice.

John D Douglass, Nashmia Malik, Su-Hyoun Chon, Kevin Wells, Yin Xiu Zhou, Andrew S Choi, Laurie B Joseph, Judith Storch

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Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

John D DouglassDepartment of Nutritional Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Nashmia Malik
Su-Hyoun Chon
Kevin Wells
Yin Xiu Zhou
Andrew S Choi
Laurie B Joseph
Judith Storch
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · US

Funding

UMDNJ/Rutgers University CounterACT Research Center of ExcellenceU54AR055073 · NIAMS · UNIV OF MED/DENT NJ-R W JOHNSON MED SCH · PI LASKIN, JEFFREY D · 2006 to 2024
$71.4M
Supplement to DK-38389 Lipid Transport in the IntestineR01DK038389 · NIDDK · RUTGERS THE ST UNIV OF NJ NEW BRUNSWICK · PI SAMPATH, HARINI, STORCH, JUDITH · 1992 to 2025
$8.6M
NIAMS NIH HHS U54 AR055073NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK038389
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ectopic deposition of fat in liver and muscle during obesity is well established, however surprisingly little is known about the intestine. We used the ob/ob mouse and C57BL6/J mice fed a high fat (HF) diet to examine the effects of obesity and the effects of HF feeding, respectively, on intestinal mucosal triacylglycerol (TG) accumulation. Male C57BL6/J (wild-type, WT) mice were fed low fat (LF; 10% kcal as fat) or HF (45%) diets, and ob/ob mice were fed the LF diet, for 3 weeks. In this time frame, the WT-HF mice did not become obese, enabling independent examination of effects of the HF diet and effects of obesity. Analysis of intestinal lipid extracts from fed and fasted animals demonstrated that the mucosa, like other tissues, accumulates excess lipid. In the fed state, mucosal triacylglycerol (TG) levels were threefold and fivefold higher in the WT-HF and ob/ob mice, respectively, relative to the WT-LF mice. In the fasted state, mucosa from ob/ob mice had threefold higher TG levels relative to WT-LF mucosa. q-PCR analysis of mucosal mRNA from fed state mice showed alterations in the expression of several genes related to both anabolic and catabolic lipid metabolism pathways in WT-HF and ob/ob mice relative to WT-LF controls. Fewer changes were found in mucosal samples from the fasted state animals. Remarkably, oral fat tolerance tests showed a striking reduction in the plasma appearance of an oral fat load in the ob/ob and WT-HF mice compared to WT-LF. Overall, the results demonstrate that the intestinal mucosa accumulates excess TG during obesity. Changes in the expression of lipid metabolic and transport genes, as well as reduced secretion of dietary lipid from the mucosal cells into the circulation, may contribute to the TG accumulation in intestinal mucosa during obesity. Moreover, even in the absence of frank obesity, HF feeding leads to a large decrease in the rate of intestinal lipid secretion.

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absorptionenterocyteintestinelipidobesity

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PMID22375121
PMCPMC3285813
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