Hepatic HMGCoA reductase in human cholelithiasis: effects of chenodeoxycholic and ursodeoxycholic acids.

Abstract:

:To study further the role of hepatic cholesterol synthesis in patients with gallstones, the activity of the rate-limiting step in cholesterogenesis, hydroxymethyl glutaryl co-enzyme A reductase (HMGCoAR), was measured in operative wedge liver biopsies from ten patients with untreated cholesterol gallstones, six with pigment stones and ten controls. Hepatic HMGCoAR was also measured in six patients with cholesterol-rich gallstones treated for 1-24 months with 14.6-18.6 mg chenodeoxycholic acid (CDCA) kg-1 day-1, in two patients with radiolucent pigment stones treated with 17.3 and 17.7 mg CDCA kg-1 day-1 and in ten other patients with cholesterol-rich stones given 4.5-7.2 mg ursodeoxycholic acid kg-1 day-1 for 1-6 months. HMGCoAR activity was also related to the free and esterified cholesterol content of both hepatic homogenates and the microsomal fractions. Compared with the controls (HMGCoAR activity 14.6 +/- 1.6 (SEM) pmole mg microsomal protein-1 min-1), the mean activity in untreated cholesterol cholelithiasis was 32.2 +/- 2.0 (P < 0.001), but was near normal in patients with pigment stones (16.2 +/- 1.5). In cholesterol gallstone patients, chenodeoxycholic acid treatment reduced the mean enzyme activity by 51% compared with the untreated gallstone group (P < 0.001) and in smaller doses, ursodeoxycholic acid therapy lowered it by 40% (P < 0.001) but in the two patients with pigment stones, CDCA did not seem to affect HMGCoAR activity. Despite this four-fold variation in enzyme activity, there were no significant differences in mean free or esterified cholesterol concentrations in whole liver homogenates or in the microsomal fraction from any of the patient groups.

journal_name

Eur J Clin Invest

authors

Maton PN,Ellis HJ,Higgins MJ,Dowling RH

doi

10.1111/j.1365-2362.1980.tb00040.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1980-08-01 00:00:00

pages

325-32

issue

4

eissn

0014-2972

issn

1365-2362

journal_volume

10

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