Heparin and human lipid metabolism.
Heparin and human lipid metabolism.
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DOI:
10.1016/s0140-6736(69)91801-7
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发表时间:
1969-05
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影响因子:
168.9
通讯作者:
D. Rutstein;W. Castelli;R. Nickerson
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作者:
D. Rutstein;W. Castelli;R. Nickerson
Blood-samples were collected from healthy volunteers before a test-meal of fat or carbohydrate or before a prolonged fast, and then before and after the intravenous injection of heparin. The serum was analysed biochemically and was tested in a tissue-culture model designed to assess the intracellular deposition of lipids. Heparin led to increased lipid deposition, and this could be correlated with an increase in serum-levels of non-esterified fatty acids (N.E.F.A.), but not with the decreased concentration of triglycerides, cholesterol, and phospholipids. This heparin-induced lipid deposition was more striking in hypercholesterolæmic individuals. Intracellular lipid deposition is reversible. Gas-liquid chromotography suggested that fatty acids tend to become saturated as they are incorporated within the tissue-culture cells. Taken together with other published evidence that high N.E.F.A. levels are associated with arrhythmias and death in patients with myocardial infarction, these results point to a possible danger in the use of heparin in such cases, and to the need for further work on the role of N.E.F.A. in coronary heart-disease and for controlled trials of the value of heparin in the treatment and prevention of acute myocardial infarction.