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. 1994 Nov 15;304(Pt 1):177–182. doi: 10.1042/bj3040177

Effects of insulin treatment of diabetic rats on hepatic partitioning of fatty acids between oxidation and esterification, phospholipid and acylglycerol synthesis, and on the fractional rate of secretion of triacylglycerol in vivo.

A M Moir 1, V A Zammit 1
PMCID: PMC1137468  PMID: 7998931

Abstract

1. The hypothesis that insulin treatment of streptozotocin-diabetic rats does not alter acutely the ability of acylcarnitine synthesis to compete successfully for cytosolic long-chain acyl-CoA [Grantham and Zammit (1988) Biochem. J. 249, 409-414], was tested in vivo by using the technique of selective labelling of hepatic fatty acids in awake unrestrained rats. In the same animals, the partitioning of hepatic fatty acids between acylglycerol and phospholipid synthesis, and of newly labelled triacylglycerol between secretion into the plasma and retention in the liver, was also studied. 2. In untreated diabetic animals, the ratio of fatty acid oxidation to esterification was double that found in normal fed animals, whereas there were no differences in the values of the above-mentioned parameters of glycerolipid metabolism. Thus the insulin status of the rats only has chronic effects on specific aspects of fatty acid metabolism in the liver. 3. Treatment of diabetic rats with insulin resulted in no change in the oxidation/esterification ratio for the first 5 h after the start of insulin administration. Thereafter, there were reciprocal changes in the 14CO2 expired (an index of oxidation) and 14C label recovered in hepatic and plasma glycerolipids. However, the pattern of partitioning observed in normal fed rats was still not re-established after 8 h of insulin treatment. 4. There was a small and transient decrease in the fractional rate of triacylglycerol secretion by the liver at the start of insulin treatment and an increase in the proportion of labelled fatty acid that was utilized for phospholipid synthesis such that phospholipid labelling as a proportion of that of total glycerolipids was doubled after 8 h of insulin treatment. 5. The data are discussed in relation to the roles of insulin in mediating acute changes in hepatic fatty acid metabolism and very-low-density-lipoprotein triacylglycerol secretion by the liver.

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