The time course for the entry of intestinally infused lipids into the blood of rats. Greenberg, Danielle, Ruth A. Kava, Dacie R. Lewis, M. R. C. Greenwood, and Gerard P. Smith. Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, and the Edward W. Bourne Behavioral Research Laboratory, The New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division White Plains, New York 10605; Department of Biology, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601; and Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616
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The early time course of the absorption of duodenally infused [14]C -labeled Intralipid into either the hepatic portal circulation or the systemic circulation was measured. Plasma radioactivity did not increase significantly at either site until 30 min after the intestinal infusion began and was maximal between 60 and 120 min. In studies on the effects of intestinal lipid infusions on sham feeding in rats we find significant suppressions of sham feeding after only 10 min. Thus, the time course for lipid absorption is different than that of the satiating effects of duodenally infused fats. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the satiating effect of fats infused into the small intestine occurs prior to the entry of absorbed fats into the blood and is not dependent on recently absorbed circulating fat.

Received 6 October 1994; accepted in final form 14 March 1995.
APS Manuscript Number R582-4.
Article publication pending Am. J. Physiol. (Regulatory Integrative
Comp. Physiology).
ISSN 1080-4757 Copyright 1995 The American Physiological Society.
Published in APStracts on  6 April 1995.