Apolipoprotein B and triacylglycerol secretion in human triacylglycerol hydrolase transgenic mice
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Apolipoprotein B (apoB)-containing lipoproteins play a critical role in whole body lipid homeostasis and the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. The assembly of hepatic apoB-containing lipoproteins, VLDL, is governed by the availability of lipids, including triacylglycerol (TG). The majority of TG associated with VLDL is derived from the hepatic cytoplasmic lipid stores by a process involving lipolysis followed by reesterification. Microsomal triacylglycerol hydrolase (TGH) has been demonstrated to play a role in the lipolysis/reesterification process. To evaluate the potential regulatory role of TGH in hepatic VLDL assembly, we developed inducible transgenic mice expressing a human TGH minigene under the control of the mouse metallothionein promoter. Induction of human TGH by zinc resulted in liver-specific expression of the enzyme associated with 3- to 4-fold increases in lipolytic activity that could be attenuated with a TGH-specific inhibitor. Augmented TGH activity led to increased secretion of newly synthesized apoB and plasma TG levels. These results suggest that increased hepatic expression of TGH leads to a more proatherogenic plasma lipid and apoB profile.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".