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Increased susceptibility to diet-induced gallstones in liver fatty acid binding protein knockout mice.


ABSTRACT: Quantitative trait mapping identified a locus colocalizing with L-Fabp, encoding liver fatty acid binding protein, as a positional candidate for murine gallstone susceptibility. When fed a lithogenic diet (LD) for 2 weeks, L-Fabp(-/-) mice became hypercholesterolemic with increased hepatic VLDL cholesterol secretion. Seventy-five percent of L-Fabp(-/-) mice developed solid gallstones compared with 6% of wild-type mice with an increased gallstone score (3.29 versus 0.62, respectively; P < 0.01). Hepatic free cholesterol content, biliary cholesterol secretion, and the cholesterol saturation index of hepatic bile were increased in LD-fed L-Fabp(-/-) mice. Chow-fed L-Fabp(-/-) mice demonstrated increased fecal bile acid (BA) excretion accompanied by decreased ileal Asbt expression. By contrast, there was an increased BA pool and decreased fecal BA excretion in LD-fed L-Fabp(-/-) mice, associated with increased proximal intestinal Asbt mRNA expression, suggesting that intestinal BA absorption was enhanced in LD-fed L-Fabp(-/-) mice. The increase in biliary BA secretion and enterohepatic pool size in LD-fed L-Fabp(-/-) mice was accompanied by downregulation of Cyp7a1 mRNA and increased intestinal mRNA abundance of Fgf-15, Fxr, and Fabp6. These findings suggest that changes in hepatic cholesterol metabolism and biliary lipid secretion as well as changes in enterohepatic BA metabolism increase gallstone susceptibility in LD fed L-Fabp(-/-) mice.

SUBMITTER: Xie Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2666184 | biostudies-literature | 2009 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Increased susceptibility to diet-induced gallstones in liver fatty acid binding protein knockout mice.

Xie Yan Y   Newberry Elizabeth P EP   Kennedy Susan M SM   Luo Jianyang J   Davidson Nicholas O NO  

Journal of lipid research 20090109 5


Quantitative trait mapping identified a locus colocalizing with L-Fabp, encoding liver fatty acid binding protein, as a positional candidate for murine gallstone susceptibility. When fed a lithogenic diet (LD) for 2 weeks, L-Fabp(-/-) mice became hypercholesterolemic with increased hepatic VLDL cholesterol secretion. Seventy-five percent of L-Fabp(-/-) mice developed solid gallstones compared with 6% of wild-type mice with an increased gallstone score (3.29 versus 0.62, respectively; P < 0.01).  ...[more]

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