Ontogeny of intestinal safety factors: lactase capacities and lactose loads.
Ontogeny of intestinal safety factors: lactase capacities and lactose loads.
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肠道安全因素的个体发育:乳糖酶能力和乳糖负荷。
DOI:
10.1152/ajpregu.1999.276.3.r753
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1999
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Diamond,J
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O'Connor,TP;Diamond,J
We measured intestinal safety factors (ratio of a physiological capacity to the load on it) for lactose digestion in developing rat pups. Specifically, we assessed the quantitative relationships between lactose load and the series capacities of lactase and the Na+-glucose cotransporter (SGLT-1). Both capacities increased significantly with age in suckling pups as a result of increasing intestinal mass and maintenance of mass-specific activities. The youngest pups examined (5 days) had surprisingly high safety factors of 8–13 for both lactase and SGLT-1, possibly because milk contains lactase substrates other than lactose; it also, however, suggests that their intestinal capacities were being prepared to meet future demands rather than just current ones. Byday 10(and also atday 15), increased lactose loads resulted in lower safety factors of 4–6, values more typical of adult intestines. The safety factor of SGLT-1 inday 30(weanling) andday 100(adult) rats was only ∼1.0. This was initially unexpected, because most adult intestines maintain a modest reserve capacity beyond nutrient load values, but postweaning rats appear to use hindgut fermentation, assessed by gut morphology and hydrogen production assays, as a built-in reserve capacity. The series capacities of lactase and SGLT-1 varied in concert with each other over ontogeny and as lactose load was manipulated by experimental variation in litter size.