[Metabolism of neutral lipids in hemopoietic organs and in the liver of mice with alloxan diabetes].

The metabolism of neutral lipids (free and ester-bound cholesterols, mono-, di- and triacylglycerides) was greatly impaired in liver, spleen, thymus tissues and ileocecal lymph nodes of BALB/c mice with subacute alloxan diabetes (content of sugar in blood was no less than 14 mmol/l) as shown by 3H-acetate and 14C-palmitate incorporation into the corresponding lipid fractions. The rate of neutral lipid turnover was specifically decreased in all the tissues studied. However, a considerable accumulation of these lipid fractions was found in thymus tissue. Incorporation of labelled palmitate into triacylglycerides was increased in the spleen but without obesity of the organ.