Effects of nonketotic streptozotocin diabetes on apolipoprotein B synthesis and secretion by primary cultures of rat hepatocytes.
AUTOR(ES)
Sparks, J D
RESUMO
The effects of hypoinsulinemic nonketotic streptozotocin diabetes on hepatic apo B synthesis and secretion was studied in primary cultures of rat hepatocytes. Diabetic rats were characterized by their significantly elevated serum glucose, apo B, and triglyceride levels, while serum insulin levels were less than a third of normal. Serum transminase activities of diabetic rats were significantly elevated when compared with control rats, which was attributed to an increase in liver transaminase activity in diabetic rats. The pattern of enzyme activities of hepatocytes reflected that observed in livers of donor rats and the pattern was retained by primary cultures of hepatocytes over the culture period. Hepatocytes from diabetic rats secreted only one third of the apo B secreted by hepatocytes from control rats, which was determined by monoclonal immunoassay of rat total apo B. Decreases in secretion were confirmed by measurement of secretory [35S]methionine-labeled lipoprotein apo B radioactivity. The decreased apo B content of media of hepatocytes from diabetic rats was not due to increased apo B catabolism since hepatocytes from diabetic rats were shown to degrade less lipoprotein-apo B than hepatocytes from normal rats in control experiments. In addition, the apo B content of detergent-solubilized hepatocytes from diabetic rats was significantly less than that of hepatocytes from control rats. These results suggest that insulin is necessary for normal hepatic apo B synthesis and secretion and that the hyperlipidemia associated with hypoinsulinemia in vivo is primarily of intestinal origin.
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