title: High sensitivity of PHHC rat to dietary cholesterol.
abstract: The Prague Hereditary Hypercholesterolaemic (PHHC) rat is a strain of the Wistar rat very sensitive to dietary cholesterol. The dynamics of changes in serum and liver lipids and lecithin: cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) were studied immediately after the switch to a high cholesterol diet. Immediate cumulation of free and esterified cholesterol in the liver after the increase in alimentary cholesterol intake is supposed to be the regulating step leading to a subsequent increase in serum cholesterol concentration. Activity of LCAT was negatively correlated to the concentration of free cholesterol in the liver, very early after the cholesterol diet was introduced, a possibility of a down regulation of enzyme synthesis similarly to the regulation of synthesis of cholesterol in hepatocytes was observed.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Laboratory for Atherosclerosis Research, Prague.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Befekadu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kovár
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Poledne
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood; D002791:Cholesterol, Dietary / Q000378:metabolism*; D004951:Esterification; D005260:Female; D008099:Liver / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000378:metabolism*; D009929:Organ Size; D007862:Phosphatidylcholine-Sterol O-Acyltransferase / Q000097:blood; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013997:Time Factors; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D002791:Cholesterol, Dietary; D014280:Triglycerides; D002784:Cholesterol; D007862:Phosphatidylcholine-Sterol O-Acyltransferase