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We measured gastric emptying of fat and water from a solid-liquid meal in healthy volunteers using a tubeless scintigraphic method. Selenium-75 glycerol triether, incorporated in butter, was the lipid-phase marker, and technetium-99m, ingested with 250 ml water, the non-lipid-phase marker. In seven of these subjects we also measured the gastric emptying of solids and liquids with technetium-99m bound to cooked egg whites as the solid-phase marker and indium-111 ingested with 250 ml water as the marker of the solid and aqueous phases. Emptying and intragastric repartition of each marker were measured by detection of radioactivity changes over the abdominal area using a gammacamera. The stability and the specificity of the labeling was checked for each marker. Mean gastric emptying rate (expressed as percentage ingested marker emptied per hr) of lipids (17.4±2.4) was much lower than that of the rest of the meal (34.2±1.8) and slightly, but significantly, lower than that of solids (22.8±1.8). An intragastric layering of fat above nonlipids was observed only after the first postprandial hour and remained moderate. Thus, lipids are emptied more slowly than any other component of an ordinary meal, and this is not due only to layering of fat above water.
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The authors thank Dr. DeJong of the Byk-Mallinckrodt Laboratories for kindly supplying us with [75Se]GTE, and Dr. Chavaudra for assistance in radiation exposure determination.
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Jian, R., Vigneron, N., Najean, Y. et al. Gastric emptying and intragastric distribution of lipids in man. Digest Dis Sci 27, 705–711 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01393765
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