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Regulation of Lipid Metabolism and of Insulin Sensitivity by PPARs

Hepatic -oxidation and carnitine palmitoyltransferase I in neonatal pigs after dietary treatments of clofibric acid, isoproterenol, and medium-chain triglycerides

¹Department of Animal Science, ²Interdepartmental Nutrition Program, and ³Functional Genomics Program, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Submitted 3 December 2004 ; accepted in final form 21 February 2005

A suckling piglet model was used to study nutritional and pharmacologic means of stimulating hepatic fatty acid -oxidation. Newborn pigs were fed milk diets containing either long- or medium-chain triglycerides (LCT or MCT). The long-chain control diet was supplemented further with clofibric acid (0.5%) or isoproterenol (40 ppm), and growth was monitored for 10–12 days. Clofibrate increased rates of hepatic peroxisomal and mitochondrial -oxidation of [1-¹⁴C]-palmitate by 60 and 186%, respectively. Furthermore, malonyl-CoA sensitive carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT I) activity increased 64% (P < 0.05) in pigs receiving clofibrate. Increased CPT I activity was not congruent with changes in message, as elevated abundance of CPT I mRNA was not detected (P = 0.16) when assessed by qRT-PCR. Neither rates of -oxidation nor CPT activities were affected by dietary MCT or by isoproterenol treatment (P > 0.1). Collectively, these findings indicate that clofibrate effectively induced hepatic CPT activity concomitant with increased fatty acid -oxidation.

acyl-CoA oxidase; fatty acid oxidase; malonyl-CoA; peroxisome; peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor

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