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Differential effect of saturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids on hepatic glucose metabolism in humans

Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298

Submitted 8 August 2003 ; accepted in final form 11 April 2004

Prolonged infusions of lipid and heparin that achieve high physiological free fatty acid (FFA) concentrations inhibit hepatic (and peripheral) insulin sensitivity in humans. These infusions are composed largely of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA; linoleic and linolenic). It is not known whether fatty acid composition per se affects hepatic glucose metabolism in humans. To address this issue, we examined the impact of enteral infusions of either palm oil (48% palmitic, 35% oleic, and 8% linoleic acids) or safflower oil (6% palmitic, 12% oleic, 74% linoleic acids) in 14 obese nondiabetic subjects. ²H₂O was administered to determine the contribution of gluconeogenesis to endogenous glucose production (EGP), and a primed continuous infusion of [6,6-²H]glucose was administered to assess glucose appearance. As a result of the lipid infusions, plasma FFA concentrations increased significantly in both the palm oil (507.5 ± 47.4 to 939.3 ± 61.3 µmol/l, P < 0.01) and safflower oil (588.2.0 ± 43.0 to 857.8 ± 68.7 µmol/l, P < 0.01) groups after 4 h. EGP was similar at baseline (12.4 ± 1.8 vs. 11.2 ± 1.0 µmol·kg FFM^–1·min^–1). During a somatostatin-insulin clamp, the glucose infusion rate was significantly lower (AUC glucose infusion rate 195.8 ± 50.7 vs. 377.8 ± 38.0 µmol/kg FFM, P < 0.01), and rates of EGP were significantly higher (10.7 ± 1.4 vs. 6.5 ± 1.5 µmol·kg FFM^–1·min^–1, P < 0.01) after palm oil compared with safflower oil, respectively. Baseline rates of gluconeogenesis and glycogenolysis were also similar. However, after lipid infusion, rates of glycogenolysis were suppressed by safflower oil but not by palm oil. Thus these studies demonstrate, for the first time in humans, a differential effect of saturated fatty acids and PUFA on hepatic glucose metabolism.

hepatic autoregulation; gluconeogenesis; glycogenolysis

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