Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 31, 2159-2166, Copyright © 1990 by Lipid Research, Inc.

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Studies on the regulation of cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase and HMG- CoA reductase in rat liver: effects of lymphatic drainage and ligation of the lymph duct

JE Akerlund and I Bjorkhem
Department of Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.

Lymphatic drainage leads to a significant stimulation of both the cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase and HMG-CoA reductase activity in rats (Bjorkhem et al. 1978. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 85: (532-540). This finding was confirmed here and it was also shown that ligation of the lymph duct leads to a similar but less pronounced effect. Ligation of the lymph duct or lymph fistulation of bile duct-ligated or cholestyramine-treated rats did not further increase 7 alpha- hydroxylase or the HMG-CoA reductase activity. However, treatment of lymph fistula rats with cholestyramine led to a significant further stimulation of both 7 alpha-hydroxylase and HMG-CoA reductase activity. Intravenous infusion of lymph into bile fistula rats led to a significant inhibition of both cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase activity and HMG-CoA reductase activity. A corresponding infusion of cholesterol- enriched Intralipid led to inhibition of HMG-CoA reductase without effect on cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase activity. The results show that cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase is feedback-regulated by bile acids in a situation where the flux of cholesterol to the liver is interrupted also. The possibility is discussed that there is a factor in the lymph that down-regulates cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase. If such a factor exists, it requires an intact enterohepatic circulation for its effect. The stimulatory effect of cholestyramine on HMG-CoA reductase also in lymph fistula rats shows that the previously demonstrated suppressive effect of bile acids on HMG-CoA reductase is not only due to the effect of bile acids on intestinal absorption of cholesterol.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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