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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1979-3-24
pubmed:abstractText
During fat absorption, active synthesis of cholesterol, phospholipids, and specific apolipoproteins are required for chylomicron formation and secretion. In the inherited disease abetalipoproteinema, chylomicrons cannot be made in response to fat feeding, and they as well as low and very low density lipoproteins are completely absent from plasma. The genetic defect in the disease is presumed to be an inability to synthesize apolipoprotein B, the apoprotein common to all the above lipoprotein classes, but such a defect has not been directly demonstrated. With peroral intestinal biopsies and immunofluorescence and intracellular localization of apolipoprotein B within jejunal epithelial cells of five normal subjects and have shown that its content increases markedly after fat feeding. In two patients with abetalipoproteinemia no apolipoprotein B was seen by immunofluorescence techniques in the jejunal mucosa in the fasting state or after a fatty meal. Intestinal synthesis of apolipoprotein B appears not to occur in abetalipoproteinemia.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0016-5085
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
76
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
288-92
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1979
pubmed:articleTitle
Immunofluorescence studies of apolipoprotein B in intestinal mucosa. Absence in abetalipoproteinemia.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Case Reports