The role of small heterodimer partner in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease improvement after sleeve gastrectomy in mice

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Abstract

Objective Bile acids (BA) are elevated after vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG) and farnesoid-X-receptor (FXR) is critical to the success of murine VSG. BA downregulate hepatic lipogenesis by activating the FXR-small heterodimer partner (SHP) pathway. The role of SHP in fatty liver disease improvement after VSG was tested. Methods Wild type (WT), SHP liver transgenic (SHP-Tg), and SHP knockout (SHP-KO) high-fat diet (HFD) fed mice underwent either VSG or Sham surgery. Body weight, BA level and composition, steatosis, and BA metabolism gene expression were evaluated. Results Obese WT mice post-VSG lost weight, reduced steatosis, decreased plasma alanine aminotransferase (ALT), had more BA absorptive ileal area, and elevated serum BA. Obese SHP-Tg mice post-VSG also lost weight and had decreased steatosis. SHP-KO mice were however resistant to steatosis despite weight gain on a HFD. Further SHP-KO mice that underwent VSG lost weight, but developed hepatic inflammation and had increased ALT. Conclusions VSG produces weight loss independent of SHP status. SHP ablation creates a proinflammatory phenotype which is exacerbated after VSG despite weight loss. These inflammatory alterations are possibly related to factors extrinsic to a direct manifestation of NASH.

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