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The effect of fasting on enzyme levels in the enlarged and involuting rat pancreas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

R. A. Crass ,
P. S. Oatesa  and
R. G. H. Morgan
R. A. Crass
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
P. S. Oatesa
Affiliation:
Department of Human Biology, Curtin University of Technology, Bentley, Western Australia, 6109, Australia
R. G. H. Morgan
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
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1. The effect on pancreatic digestive enzyme levels of fasting and changes from a diet containing trypsin inhibitor (raw soya-bean flour, RSF) to diets free of trypsin inhibitor (heated soya-bean flour, HSF, or commercial rat chow) was studied in rats for up to 7 d.

2. In RSF-fed rats killed without fasting, enzyme levels were low, but after fasting for 24 h before killing there was a marked increase in all enzyme levels. Histological studies showed that pancreatic acinar cells from RSF-fed rats killed without fasting were devoid of zymogen granules, but following a 24 h fast there was a marked accumulation of zymogen granules which extend into the basal cytoplasm. Fasting either produced no change or a fall in enzyme levels in rats fasted after feeding HSF or chow continuously.

3. If animals fed on RSF were changed to HSF and either fed or fasted for 24 h up to the time of killing there was an increase in amylase (EC 3. 2. 1. 1), trypsin (EC 3. 4. 21. 4), lipase (triacylglycerol lipase; EC 3. 1. 1. 3) and protein 1 d after the change, followed by a fall over the next 6 d to levels similar to those seen in rats fed on HSF continuously.

4. Animals changed from RSF to chow showed similar effects as far as trypsin, lipase and protein were concerned, but amylase rose, to reach the level seen in rats fed on chow continuously (about ten times that seen in soya-bean-fed rats), after 2 d.

5. These results suggest that in the rats fed on RSF, pancreatic enzyme synthesis is rapid but secretion is equally rapid and intracellular enzyme levels are low. When these animals are fasted or changed to a diet free of trypsin inhibitor the rate of secretion falls but the high rate of synthesis continues for at least 24 h and enzymes accumulate in the pancreas. In studies of pancreatic enzyme levels in rats fed on trypsin inhibitor the extent of fasting before killing the animal is therefore an important variable. Such animals should probably not be fasted before study.

Type
General Nutrition papers
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 58 , Issue 3 , November 1987 , pp. 427 - 436
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1987

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