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Colesterol en Ratas y Conejos
Colesterol en Ratas y Conejos
DISSERTATION
By
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Approved by
AiAaviser g
DepaMnent of Physiology
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION Page
1 . Rabbits........................................ 11
a) Cholesterol analyses....................... 13
b) Lipid-phoephorue analyses.................. 13
2 . Rats........................................... 13
a) Cholesterol analyses....................... 16
b) Lipid-phosphorus analyses.................. l6
c) Table 1. Distribution of tissue samples.... 17
3* Calibration curve.............................. 21
a) Table 2 . dotation and content of tubes 22
RESULTS
1. Organization of tables......................... 2 S
2 . Rabbits........................................ 29
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3. Rate............................................ 31
4, Glossary for tables k to 9 ..................... 33
CONCLUSIONS.............................................. 62
SUMMARY.................................................. 6U
LITERATURE CITED......................................... 68
AUTOBIOGRAPHY............................................ 75
DIETARY CHOLESTEROL ON FREE AND BOUND
CHOLESTEROL AND LIPID-PHOSPHORUS
CONTENT OF RABBIT AND RAT
AORTA, HEART MUSCLE,
PLASMA AND
ADRENAL
I. INTRODUCTION
genic stimulus in, at least, the rabbit, soon found its way
rabbits and chic hens are the only experimental animals known
remarked (6 ):
fully elucidated.
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After Anitschkow and Ch&latow had prepared the way
its human counterpart (12, 1^, 15, 16, 17). Only within
occurring In the blood (2*0. The view was put forth that
condition per se, for it has been shown that when cholesterol*
was shown many years ago (23), and, more recently, the
mental data for the various tissue analyses from the rat, a
stimulus.
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these same tissues from the rat which is, unlike the rabbit,
cholesterol-supplemented diets.
adrenal, heart muscle and plasma exist for only one species
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Chalnomatlo balance.
analyses so that the right and left adrenals from all animals
Cholesterol analyses
Lipid-phosphorus analyses
Lipid-phosphorus was determined by the Youngburg and
1*
measurement.
e.g., "A," NB,fl ”C." The aorta and heart muscle samples
to wet the sand and tissue, and eaoh tissue was ground
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and pestle was rinsed twice with ca. 0 ml. portions of the
extraction.
macerated adrenal was soraped from the walls of the tube with
desorlbed above.
this point on, all tissue samples and the true blank were
the standard and true blank tubes were read, in that order.
the true blank, and then all tissue unknowns were read. The
was repeated for the duplicate samples with the second set
Calibration curve
page 2 lt).
l.lJ-04 gm. KHgPOjj. (Reagent) dried (at 110 °C.) was placed
0 .0 £S mg. P/ml.
Two sets of absorbency tubes were labeled according to
TABLE 2
Sinoe for each tube the mgm. P/ml. was known, then the
ro
■*=■
Percent
TABLE J
A. Llpld-phosphorus
1. Tissue samples:
2. Plasma samples:
B. Statistical formulas
1. Mean:
x * a given observation.
analyses.
(P).
Tables 5 &&& & are arranged as follows: line 1 identifies
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value (P).
results*
A. RABBITS.
The C/P ratio was determined for all tissues under study, and
were determined for all animals, and these data are summarized
controls*
B. RATS.
data of the ether controls with the normal controls, one finds
(P10.02) for the plasmas and 29# (P<0.01) for the adrenals.
study.
comparisons•
GLOSSARY FOR TABLES k TO 9
f * free cholesterol.
e * esterlfled cholesterol.
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TABLE 4
Summary of mean values of free and ester Ifled cholesterol and llpld-phosphorus concentra
tion in the Indicated rabbit tissues from animals fed a 'normal1■
a Bcholesterol-ln-ethera or an "ether"-supplemented diet
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000
A S.D.t 0.25 0.08 0.02 0.02 0 .0 1 0.01 0.84
S.E.* 0.07 0.02 0.01 0.01 4.50 5 .6 6 0.004
ssa
OOO
OOO
D S.D.± 2.55 1.06 2 6 2 .8 6 0.01
S.E.i 0.90 0.?2 0.02 9 2 .9 3 0.004 IM
Mean 0.01 0.1k 0.01 20.05 0.07
E fl.D.S
S.E.±
0.75
0.25
0.08
0.02
0.01
0.01 0.01 16.19
|*5.95
4 4 .7 2
14.91
S:S
0 .0 2
O .0 3
0 .0 1
0 .0 0 5
0.02
0.01
2.97
0.55
o.ld
STATISTICAL ANALYSES
TABLE 5
Mean S. U4 1 .S5 1 ^ .5 1
S.D.i 252*§2
3 .5 s 3.09 0 .Uo
S.E.i s . 25 0 .S9 0 .1 3
E-A % UU 31 ^ IS U7
P > 0 .1 0 > 0 .3 0 > 0 .1 0 > 0 .2 0
STATISTICAL ANALYSES
LA * - 16 29
P >0.30 >0.20
Summary of mean Taluee of free and eeterified cholesterol and llpld-phosphorus concentra
tion in the Indicated rat tissues from animals fed a "normal",
a "cholesterol-ln-ether" or an "ether"-supplemented diet
OOO
N K nH
OOO
Mean
.O .O.O
OOO
£ h h
...
A S.D.* 0.20 0.82 0.03 0.01 10.70 0.03 0.01 0.01
S.E.l 0.06 0.26 0.01 0 .0 0 4 in 3.57 0.01 0.003 0.004 0.15
Mean 3.08 0.23 0.02 0.14 0.004 14.19 51.40 0.14 0.02 0.05 3.20
D S.D.* O.78 0.03 0.02 0.01 0.007 2.20 7.35 0.02 0.01 0.01 0.61
S.E.* 0.02 0.27 0.01 0.01 0.002 0.002 0.78 4.01 0.01 0.003 0 .0 0 4 0.20
Mean 0.33 2.49 0.24 0.03 0.14 0.01 17.24 51.69 0 .1 2 0.02 2 .8 6
0 0•
OOO
E S.D.i 0.07 0.59 O.O3 0.02 0.01 0.004 1.91 3.26 0.04 0.01 0.74
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S.E.A 0.02 0.20 0.01 0.01 0.002 0.001 0.64 1.09 0 .0 1 0.002 0.25
TABLE 0
Mean
S.D.t
S.E.t
z2.14
m 2.01
2.67
o .s t
0.20
* 1 %
2.27
STATISTICAL ANALYSES
E-A % 36 09 ^7 46
P * 0 .0 5 <0.05 * 0.01 *0.01
DuE % 0 -4 1 -17
P 1.0 > 0.00 >0.90 >0.10
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TABLE 9
STATISTICAL ANALYSES
E-A * 17 7,
P <0.05 >0.1(0
n g % -12 3
M P * 0 .0 5 >0 . 2 0
IV DISCUSSION
CHOLESTEROL.
53$ 5*0• The basic rat diet used in the present study
salt molecules, the smaller the ratio the more efficient the
which, had the usual dietary fat been present, would otherwise
cholesterol greater than that for the free sterol, but the
this flndlr£ parallels exactly that for the rabbit aorta for
the same dietary comparison, i.e., for both speoles the ether
atherosclerotic lesion.
human, that both the normal intima and the early athero-
sclerotic lesions.
interesting findings.
LIPID-PH08PH0RUS.
of the tissues under study are of such nature that they are
in-ether fed rabbits when these are compared with the ether
liver (7 7 ).
The phospholipid oontent of the aorta of the cholesterol-
filtrate which have found their way into the arterial wall
in mischief therein.
earlier In the present work, that rats whose food has been
39, 40, 4l, 42, 4 3 ) has been observed to oecur also in the
CHQLSSTEHOL/LIPID-PHOSPHORUS RATIOS.
ratio is increased.
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ORGAN WEIGHT/BODY WEIGHT RATIOS.
may be the basis for the present finding, vis., that such
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corticosteroid hormones.
V CONCLUSIONS
follows.
(4) the C/P ratios are increased in the aorta, heart muscle
sterol- in- ether; (6) pretreatment of the baslo diet with ether
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eholeeterol-in-ether-eupplemented diets.
VI SUMMARY
heart muscle and plasma from rabbits and rats fed cholesterol
given pair of mean values for the various dietary groups are
RABBITS.
llpld-phosphorus concentration.
rabbits,
RATS.
group E rats,
studied.
group D rats.
group D rats.
rats.
Instructor.
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