REGULATION OF BILE-ACID SYNTHESIS IN MAN - PRESENCE OF A DIURNAL RHYTHM
REGULATION OF BILE-ACID SYNTHESIS IN MAN - PRESENCE OF A DIURNAL RHYTHM
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DOI:
10.1172/jci111157
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
BEHRENS, JC
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作者:
DUANE, WC;LEVITT, DG;BEHRENS, JC
Regulation of bile acid synthesis in man is incompletely understood, in part because of difficulty in making measurements over short time periods when the enterohepatic circulation is intact. The possibility of a diurnal rhythm of bile acid synthesis was investigated in 3 human subjects given [26-14C]cholesterol. When this isotope of cholesterol, which is randomly labeled in the 26 and 27 positions, is converted to bile acid, the 14C is released as propionic acid randomly labeled in the 1 and 3 positions. The labeled propionic acid is then oxidized to 14CO2, output of which is a function of bile acid synthesis. However, delays in transit of the 14C through propionic acid and CO2-HCO3- pools would shift the phase and dampen the amplitude of 14CO2 output relative to an existing diurnal rhythm of bile acid synthesis. Therefore, using constant infusion methods, the turnover constants for conversion to 14CO2 of [1-14C]propionic acid and [3-14C]propionic acid were determined to be 0.36-0.59 h-1 and 0.14-0.16 h-1, respectively. Using these constants and modeling the diurnal rhythm as a cosine function, the amplitude of 14CO2 output from [26-14C]cholesterol was reduced 35% and acrophase was delayed 2.4-3.0 h relative to the diurnal rhythm of bile acid synthesis. None of the diurnal rhythm in 14CO2 output from [26-14C]cholesterol resulted from diurnal variation in propionic acid or CO2-HCO3- metabolism since constant infusion of [1-14C]propionic acid and [3-14C]propionic acid for 30 h revealed into diurnal variation in output of 14CO2. These studies demonstrate for the 1st time that humans with an intact enterohepatic circulation have a diurnal rhythm of the bile acid synthesis with an amplitude of .+-. 35-55% around mean synthesis, and a acrophase at .apprx. 0900h.