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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-3-23
pubmed:abstractText
Earlier studies have revealed an impairment of jejunal absorption of long chain fatty acids in experimental uremia. We investigated the intestinal absorption of butyric acid which is a short chain fatty acid in experimental renal failure (RF). Sprague-Dawley rats were randomized into the RF group which had subtotal nephrectomy, a sham-operated control group, and a pair-fed group. In vivo recirculating perfusion (n = 5) and in vitro everted sac incubation (n = 8) were employed. The in vitro experiments were repeated substituting the serosal buffer by either predialysis or postdialysis sera from uremic individuals, or normal serum (n = 10). The rate of in vivo butyric acid absorption was significantly lower while the in vitro absorption was significantly higher in the RF group than those observed in the sham-operated and pair-fed groups which showed comparable values. The normality of butyric acid absorption in the pair-fed animals despite comparable weight loss with the RF group tends to exclude anorexia and weight loss as a cause of altered butyric acid transport in RF animals. The disparity between the in vivo and in vitro data is suggestive of an inhibitory influence of uremic environment which is present in vivo and absent in vitro. This viewpoint was corroborated by the observed fall in butyric acid absorption by sacs containing predialysis uremic serum as compared with those containing normal or postdialysis sera. The latter further suggests that the inhibitory factor(s) is dialyzable.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0037-9727
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
190
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
150-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-2
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Effect of experimental azotemia on intestinal transport of butyric acid.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine 92717.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, In Vitro