Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 34, 157-163, Copyright © 1993 by Lipid Research, Inc.

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Measurement of human lipogenesis using deuterium incorporation

CA Leitch and PJ Jones
Division of Human Nutrition, School of Family and Nutritional Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

In order to determine human triglyceride fatty acid (TG-FA) synthesis rates, the incorporation of deuterium from the plasma water pool in vivo into TG-FA was measured over 48 h in six healthy males under steady state conditions. Subjects consumed a nutritionally complete liquid diet as six evenly spaced small meals per day for 3 days and drank 0.7 g D2O/kg estimated body water, (99.8 APE) at 0800 h on day 2. D2O was added to the liquid diets to maintain plasma deuterium enrichment at plateau over days 2 and 3. Blood samples were obtained prior to dosing and every 4 h thereafter. Total TG-FA were obtained from plasma at each timepoint and combusted. The resultant water was vacuum-distilled into Zn-containing Pyrex tubes, reduced to hydrogen gas, and analyzed for deuterium abundance by isotope ratio mass spectrometry. TG-FA deuterium enrichment reached a plateau at approximately 12 h post-dose. To establish the amount of newly synthesized TG-FA in the total plasma TG-FA pool, two models were developed relating the maximum observed deuterium enrichment to the calculated theoretical maximum enrichment. In model A, it was assumed that TG-FA come solely from chylomicrons. This yields a value of 8.8 +/- 4.6 g/day (mean +/- SD) de novo synthesized TG-FA. On the opposite extreme in model B, it was assumed that all the TG-FA are derived from recycled very low density lipoprotein (VLDL); the amount of newly synthesized TG-FA calculated by this model was 1.7 +/- 0.8 g/day.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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