title: Biphasic effect of oleic acid on hepatic cholesterogenesis.
abstract: Livers isolated from adult male rats were perfused in vitro with oleic acid (0.6 mM) as a complex with bovine serum albumin. Albumin alone was infused in control experiments. Oleic acid exerted a biphasic effect on incorporation of 3H2O into cholesterol, which was inhibitory during the first hour of perfusion, but exhibited a net stimulatory effect over a four hour period. No differences were observed in total activity or apparent phosphorylation state of HMG-CoA reductase after one hour of perfusion, with or without addition of oleic acid, implying that some other step limits the rate of cholesterol synthesis during this interval. After four hours of perfusion, HMG-CoA reductase activity was higher in livers perfused with oleic acid than in those perfused in its absence, in agreement with the observed differences in rates of cholesterol synthesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, University of Tennessee, Memphis 38163.
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Cagen
authors.forename: T V
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Fungwe
authors.forename: H G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Wilcox
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Heimberg
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic; D006903:Hydroxymethylglutaryl CoA Reductases / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008099:Liver / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D019301:Oleic Acid; D009829:Oleic Acids / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010477:Perfusion; D051381:Rats; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D005227:Fatty Acids; D009829:Oleic Acids; D014280:Triglycerides; D019301:Oleic Acid; D002784:Cholesterol; D006903:Hydroxymethylglutaryl CoA Reductases