Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 30, 1211-1217, Copyright © 1989 by Lipid Research, Inc.

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Chronic dietary fat and cholesterol inhibit the normal postprandial stimulation of plasma cholesterol metabolism

PE Fielding, EM Jackson and CJ Fielding
Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco.

The response of parameters of plasma cholesterol metabolism was studied in baboons adapted either to a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet or a high- fat, high-cholesterol diet. Animals adapted to the low-fat diet responded to a single low-fat or high-fat meal, as do normal humans, by a stimulation of cholesterol transport from blood cells to plasma, a stimulation of esterification of cholesterol, and a stimulation of cholesteryl ester transfer to very low and low density lipoproteins. While fasting rates of esterification and transfer increased as a result of diet-induced hypercholesterolemia, the postprandial response was reversed, so that postprandial metabolism was characterized by a movement of cholesterol from plasma to blood cells, an inhibition of cholesterol esterification, and a net transfer of cholesteryl esters from VLDL and LDL to HDL. These data indicate that the effects of postprandial lipemia on plasma cholesterol metabolism critically depend upon fasting plasma cholesterol levels.
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