Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 34, 1675-1685, Copyright © 1993 by Lipid Research, Inc.

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Bile acid excretion and cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase expression in hypercholesterolemia-resistant rabbits

JA Poorman, RA Buck, SA Smith, ML Overturf and DS Loose-Mitchell
Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Medical School at Houston 77225.

We have developed a partially inbred substrain of New Zealand white rabbits (CRT/mlo) that are resistant to the hypercholesterolemia that accompanies cholesterol feeding to normal rabbits. The plasma cholesterol concentration of normal rabbits increases dramatically from about 30 mg/dl to > 300 mg/dl after they are fed a 0.1% cholesterol- enriched diet for 3-4 months. Cholesterol-fed CRT/mlo animals, however, maintain a cholesterol level of about 30 mg/dl during the entire cholesterol feeding period. In addition to the low plasma cholesterol level, measurements of cellular cholesterol indicate that the hepatic cholesterol content of the cholesterol-fed resistant rabbit remains markedly lower than it does in normal animals fed the same diet. The only mechanism for removal of significant quantities of cholesterol carbon from the body is via the fecal excretion of cholesterol, neutral sterol metabolites, and bile acids. In comparison to the basal, low- cholesterol diet, we observed that cholesterol-fed resistant rabbits had increased excretion of lithocholic acid, while excretion of this bile acid by cholesterol-fed normal rabbit remained similar to basal diet levels. Deoxycholic acid excretion, the other main bile acid excreted in the feces of rabbits, was decreased in response to cholesterol challenge in animals with either resistant or normal phenotypes, but the decrease was significantly less in the resistant rabbits. Thus, the resistant rabbits excreted relatively more lithocholic and deoxycholic acid than did the cholesterol-fed normal rabbit. The difference in bile acid excretion was also manifest by a higher than normal level of cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase activity and cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase mRNA in the livers from resistant versus normal rabbits. As cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase is the putative rate-limiting step of bile acid synthesis, we believe that the increased excretion of bile acids by resistant animals is due, at least in part, to increased levels of cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase expression.
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