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SUBMITTER: Kassis T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4888550 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kassis Timothy T Yarlagadda Sri Charan SC Kohan Alison B AB Tso Patrick P Breedveld Victor V Dixon J Brandon JB
American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology 20160311 10
Dietary lipids are transported from the intestine through contractile lymphatics. Chronic lipid loads can adversely affect lymphatic function. However, the acute lymphatic pump response in the mesentery to a postprandial lipid meal has gone unexplored. In this study, we used the rat mesenteric collecting vessel as an in vivo model to quantify the effect of lipoproteins on vessel function. Lipid load was continuously monitored by using the intensity of a fluorescent fatty-acid analog, which we in ...[more]