Influence of medium-chain triglycerides on lipid metabolism in the chick |
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Authors: | Gilbert A Leveille Ronald S Pardini Jerry Ann Tillotson |
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Affiliation: | (1) United States Army Medical Research and Nutrition Laboratory, Fitzsimons General Hospital, Denver, Colorado;(2) Present address: Animal Sciences Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill. |
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Abstract: | The effect of corn oil, coconut oil, and medium-chain triglyceride (MCT, a glyceride mixture consisting almost exclusively
of fatty acids of 8 and 10 carbons in length) ingestion on lipid metabolism was studied in chicks. In chicks fed cholesterol-free
diets, MCT ingestion elevated plasma total lipids and cholesterol and depressed liver total lipids and cholesterol when compared
to chicks receiving the corn oil diet. As a consequence of the opposite effects of MCT ingestion on plasma and liver cholesterol
and total lipids, the plasma-liver cholesterol pool was not altered. When cholesterol was included in the diets, dietary MCT
depressed liver and plasma total lipids and cholesterol as compared with corn oil, consequently also lowered the plasmaliver
cholesterol pool.
The in vitro cholesterol and fatty acid synthesis from acetate-1-14C was higher in liver slices from chicks fed MCT than in those from chicks fed corn oil. The percentage of radioactivity from
acetate-1-14C incorporated into the carboxyl carbon of fatty acids by liver slices was not altered by MCT feeding, indicating that the
increased acetate incorporation represented de novo fatty acid synthesis. The conversion of palmitate-1-14C to C18 acids was increased in liver of chicks fed MCT, implying that fatty acid chain elongating activity was also increased. Studies
on the conversion of stearate-2-14C to mono- and di-unsaturated C18 acids showed that hepatic fatty acid desaturation activity was enhanced by MCT feeding. Data are presented on the plasma
and liver fatty acid composition of chicks fed MCT-, corn oil-, or coconut oil-supplemented diets.
The principles of laboratory animal care, as promulgated by the National Society for Medical Research, were observed. |
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