Dietary fat and fatty acids modulate cholesterol cholelithiasis in the hamster |
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Authors: | Bertram I Cohen Erwin H Mosbach Nariman Ayyad Shigeo Miki Charles K McSherry |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York, 10003 New York, New York;(2) Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Medical Center, First Avenue at 16th Street, 10003 New York, NY;(3) Present address: Department of Surgery, Kyushu University Faculty of Medicine, 812 Fukuoka, Japan |
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Abstract: | We tested two hypotheses, i) whether the type and the amount of fat in the diet will affect the formation of cholesterol gallstones
in the hamsters, and ii) whether palmitic acid, a major fatty acid component of butterfat, can act as a potentiator of cholesterol
cholelithiasis in the hamster. Young, male golden Syrian hamsters (Sasco) were fed a semipurified diet containing casein,
corn starch, cellulose and cholesterol (0.3%) to which various types and amounts of fat (butterfat, olive oil, menhaden oil,
corn oil) were added. All diets contained 2% corn oil to supply essential fatty acids to the growing hamsters. No deaths or
illness occurred during the experiment. Animals fed the semipurified diet plus 4% butterfat (group 1) had a gallstone incidence
of 63%. Replacement of butterfat with either olive oil, corn oil or menhaden oil prevented the formation of cholesterol gallstones
entirely (groups 2–4). When total butterfat was increased from 4% to 8% (group 8), the incidence of cholesterol gallstones
increased to 80%. Substitution of 4% olive oil (group 5), corn oil (group 6), or menhaden oil (group 7) for the additional
4% butterfat significantly reduced gallstones to 35%, 45% and 30%, respectively. The replacement of 4% butterfat with 1.2%
palmitic acid gave the highest incidence of cholesterol gallstones (95%). These results suggest that butterfat (and one of
its components, palmitic acid) intensifies gallstone formation in this model whereas mono- and polyunsaturated fats act as
inhibitors of cholesterol cholelithiasis. A fatty acid, possibly palmitic acid, appears to act as lithogen in our model. |
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