Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 34, 875-884, Copyright © 1993 by Lipid Research, Inc.

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Hypertriglyceridemia in nephrotic rats is due to a clearance defect of plasma triglyceride: overproduction of triglyceride-rich lipoprotein is not an obligatory factor

G Yoshino, T Hirano, K Nagata, E Maeda, Y Naka, Y Murata, T Kazumi and M Kasuga
Second Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University School of Medicine, Japan.

This study was conducted to determine whether overproduction of triglyceride-rich lipoprotein is an obligatory factor for experimental hypertriglyceridemia in nephrotic rats. Nephrosis was induced in male Wistar rats by administration of 150 mg/kg puromycin aminonucleoside. Nephrotic rats had slightly increased triglyceride secretion rate (TGSR) estimated using Triton WR1339 (0.53 +/- 0.05 vs. 0.45 +/- 0.04 mg/min, P < 0.05 vs. control rats) and marked hypertriglyceridemia (330.4 +/- 78.6 mg/dl). Rats made diabetic by 40 mg/kg streptozotocin were normotriglyceridemic (66.3 +/- 12.1 mg/dl) but had suppressed TGSR (0.33 +/- 0.09 mg/min). Experimental nephrosis was induced in diabetic rats. Their TGSR remained suppressed (0.35 +/- 0.06 mg/min) but they had marked hypertriglyceridemia (296.6 +/- 72.4 mg/dl) suggesting further impairment of triglyceride removal from the circulation in diabetic rats caused by nephrosis. Endogenously radiolabeled very low density lipoprotein (VLDL)-triglyceride from donor rats was reinjected into normal recipient rats. [3H]VLDL from the experimental groups (the rats with nephrosis, diabetes with nephrosis, and diabetes alone) were more slowly cleared by normal rats than VLDL from normal rats. These results suggest that circulating insulin is essential for increased triglyceride secretion in experimental nephrosis and that nephrotic hypertriglyceridemia can be induced only by a triglyceride removal defect. Therefore, hypersecretion of triglyceride-rich lipoprotein is not an obligatory factor for nephrotic hypertriglyceridemia.
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