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| Author(s): |
Camila Canteiro Leança
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina (FM/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2012-05-02 |
| Examining board members: |
Eder Carlos Rocha Quintao;
Mario Hiroyuki Hirata;
Protasio Lemos da Luz;
Helena Coutinho Franco de Oliveira;
Rosa Ferreira dos Santos
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| Advisor: | Eder Carlos Rocha Quintao |
| Abstract | |
The metabolic syndrome (MS) and the diabetes mellitus (DM) are characterized for a series of alterations in lipoprotein metabolism as hypertriglyceridemia and reduced HDL-cholesterol (HDL-C) concentration. In previous study we demonstrated that healthy non obese subjects with HDL-C concentration below 40mg/dL, when compared with those with HDL-C above 60mg/dL, present low plasma sterol markers of alimentary cholesterol intestinal absorption and high plasma sterol markers of cholesterol synthesis. Similar findings have been described by others in subjects with MS and DM, suggesting that insulin resistance participates in the origin of the disorder, although by unknown mechanisms. Considering our previous findings, the objectives of this study are to investigate the molecular mechanisms involved in alterations of cholesterol metabolism in subjects with high HDL-C (HYPERALPHA, HDL-C > 60mg/dL, n = 36) or low HDL-C (HYPOALPHA, HDL-C < 40mg/dL, n = 37) concentration by means of measuring: 1) cellular cholesterol content and gene expression of critical enzymes and receptors involved in the intracellular cholesterol regulation, having peripheral blood mononuclear cells as model; 2) parameters that regulate the plasma lipoproteins metabolism and that are influenced by insulin, such as lecithin: cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT), post-heparin hepatic (HL) and lipoprotein lipase (LPL), cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP), phospholipid transfer protein (PLTP) and pre-beta1 HDL. The exclusion criteria were: diabetes mellitus, body mass index 30Kg/m2, smoking, heavy drinking and use of medications that interfere with lipoprotein metabolism. We demonstrated that, as compared with HYPERALPHA, the HYPOALPHA group presented higher insulin, triglycerides and alanine aminotransferase concentrations, HOMA index, LCAT and HL activities and lower LPL activity and pre-beta1 HDL concentration. There was no difference between the groups in the cellular cholesterol content, expression of genes (ABCA1, ABCG1, SR-BI, LDLR, HMG CoA reductase, SREBP-1c and LXR alpha), plasma CETP and PLTP activities and carotid ultrasonography. Our results show that subjects with high or low plasma HDL-C concentration differ in relation to insulin sensitivity and in parameters involved in lipoprotein metabolism regulation. These findings were not related to the cellular cholesterol metabolism in the studied model, but they suggest that this metabolic disturbance, whose origin is unknown, precedes the appearance, in the course of the human life of other typical alterations of metabolic syndrome in the low HDL-C concentration group (AU) | |