RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Dietary Inulin Alleviates Hepatic Steatosis and Xenobiotics-Induced Liver Injury in Rats Fed a High-Fat and High-Sucrose Diet: Association with the Suppression of Hepatic Cytochrome P450 and Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 4α Expression
JF Drug Metabolism and Disposition
JO Drug Metab Dispos
FD American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
SP 1677
OP 1687
DO 10.1124/dmd.106.010645
VO 34
IS 10
A1 Junko Sugatani
A1 Tadashi Wada
A1 Makoto Osabe
A1 Kasumi Yamakawa
A1 Kouichi Yoshinari
A1 Masao Miwa
YR 2006
UL http://dmd.aspetjournals.org/content/34/10/1677.abstract
AB Inulin enzymatically synthesized from sucrose is a dietary component that completely escapes glucide digestion. Supplementing inulin to a high-fat and high-sucrose diet (HF) ameliorated hypertriglycemia and hepatic steatosis in 8-week-fed rats by suppressing elevated levels of serum triacylglycerols, fatty acids, and glucose, and the accumulation of hepatic triacylglycerols and fatty acids. Inulin intake prevented phenobarbital (PB)- and dexamethasone-induced liver injuries in the HF group. No significant alteration in the baseline expression of CYP2B, CYP2C11, CYP3A, and NADPH-cytochrome P450 (P450) reductase mRNAs and proteins was found. In contrast, baseline and PB-treated expressions of CYP2E1 mRNA were reduced in HF-fed rats. The induction of P450s in response to PB was affected by the nutritional status of the rats; mRNA levels of CYP2B1 and CYP3A1 after PB treatment, as assessed by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction analysis were reduced in the inulin-supplemented HF (HF+I) group, compared with those in the HF group. Western blot analysis detected the corresponding changes of CYP2B and CYP3A proteins. These alterations were correlated with changes in hepatic thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances. Furthermore, no significant difference in the expression of nuclear receptors constitutive androstane receptor, pregnane X receptor, and retinoid X receptor α and coactivator peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ coactivator 1α proteins was found in the hepatic nucleus between the HF and HF+I groups, but the expression of hepatocyte nuclear factor α (HNF4α) protein was significantly reduced in the HF+I group. Taken together, these results indicate that inulin intake ameliorates PB-induced liver injury, associated with a decline in lipid accumulation and PB-induced expression of CYP2B and CYP3A, which may be related by a reduction in the nuclear expression of HNF4α. The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics