Spontaneous liver disease in wild-type C57BL/6JOlaHsd mice fed semisynthetic diet

Spontaneous liver disease in wild-type C57BL/6JOlaHsd mice fed semisynthetic diet

Mouse models are frequently used to study mechanisms of human diseases. Recently, we observed a spontaneous bimodal variation in liver weight in C57BL/6JOlaHsd mice fed a semisynthetic diet. We now characterized the spontaneous variation in liver weight and its relationship with parameters of hepati...

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Veröffentlicht in:PLOS ONE 2020-09, Vol.15 (9)
Hauptverfasser: Ronda, Onne A.H.O, van de Heijning, Bert J.M, de Bruin, Alain, Thomas, Rachel E, Martini, Ingrid, Koehorst, Martijn, Gerding, Albert, Koster, Mirjam H, Bloks, Vincent W, Jurdzinski, Angelika, Mulder, Niels L, Havinga, Rick, van der Beek, Eline M, Reijngoud, Dirk-Jan, Kuipers, Folkert, Verkade, Henkjan J
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Zusammenfassung:Mouse models are frequently used to study mechanisms of human diseases. Recently, we observed a spontaneous bimodal variation in liver weight in C57BL/6JOlaHsd mice fed a semisynthetic diet. We now characterized the spontaneous variation in liver weight and its relationship with parameters of hepatic lipid and bile acid (BA) metabolism. In male C57BL/6JOlaHsd mice fed AIN-93G from birth to postnatal day (PN)70, we measured plasma BA, lipids, Very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL)-triglyceride (TG) secretion, and hepatic mRNA expression patterns. Mice were sacrificed at PN21, PN42, PN63 and PN70. Liver weight distribution was bimodal at PN70. Mice could be subdivided into two nonoverlapping groups based on liver weight: 0.6 SD 0.1 g (approximately one-third of mice, small liver; SL), and 1.0 SD 0.1 g (normal liver; NL; p
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203