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3689482

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-1-19
pubmed:abstractText
Recent human studies suggest rapid in vivo hydrolysis of the lipid-lowering drug, pantethine, to the vitamin pantothenic acid and the small aminothiol compound, cysteamine. To test whether the active agent is a hydrolysis product, we repeated three experimental models of pantethine's effect with pantothenate and cysteamine. In vitro experiments with human fetal fibroblasts showed equivalent modulation of cholesterol and methyl sterol synthesis by pantethine, cysteamine, or cystamine (the disulfide of cysteamine), but pantothenate had no effect. Similarly, in vivo experiments with 0.5% cholesterol-fed rabbits showed oral pantethine or equimolar cystamine significantly lowered plasma cholesterol, while pantothenate, cystine, and 2-hydroxyethyl disulfide did not. Lastly, diabetic male rats (40 mg/kg streptozotocin) fed 0.1% pantethine and lower plasma free fatty acids after 2 weeks than controls, an effect not seen with pantothenate and largely duplicated by cystamine. The efficacy of pantethine has previously been attributed to altered vitamin metabolism and increased coenzyme A concentration. Pantethine did increase CoA levels 45% in rat liver homogenates while equivalent amounts of cystamine or pantothenate did not. However, a causal relationship between CoA levels and pantethine's action as a hypolipemic agent has never been shown. At least in 3 independent experimental models, the lipomodulating effect of pantethine appears instead to be mediated by the hydrolysis product cysteamine.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0021-9150
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
68
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
41-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1987
pubmed:articleTitle
Pantethine lipomodulation: evidence for cysteamine mediation in vitro and in vivo.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology, University of Utah Medical School, Salt Lake City 84132.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't