Perinatal programming by diets with essential fatty acid deficient/high saturated fatty acids or different n-6/n-3 ratios for diseases in adulthood

2015 ◽  
Vol 117 (10) ◽  
pp. 1513-1521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birgitta Strandvik
1959 ◽  
Vol 197 (4) ◽  
pp. 893-896 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takuya Hayashida ◽  
Oscar W. Portman

The effect of feeding diets deficient in essential fatty acids on the composition of adrenal lipids and on the secretory activity of adrenocortical hormones was studied. Rats which were fed diets devoid of fat had lower levels of tetraenoic and pentaenoic acids and higher levels of trienoic acids in both the total lipid and cholesterol ester fraction than did rats receiving a supplement of corn oil. There was a greater accumulation of cholesterol esterified with saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids in the adrenals of the rats fed essential fatty acid-deficient diets. The adrenals of the essential fatty acid-deficient rats secreted smaller quantities of steroid hormones in vitro under the stimulation of ACTH.


1990 ◽  
Vol 259 (1) ◽  
pp. G116-G124 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Hjelte ◽  
T. Melin ◽  
A. Nilsson ◽  
B. Strandvik

[3H]arachidonic acid (20:4) and [14C]linoleic acid (18:2) were fed in a triolein emulsion to essential fatty acid-deficient (EFAD) rats and to age-matched controls. Tissues were analyzed for radioactivity of different lipid classes after 1, 2, and 4 h. As in earlier studies [Nilsson and Melin. Am. J. Physiol. 255 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 19): G612-G618, 1988], control rats retained more [3H]20:4 than [14C]18:2 in all organs except adipose tissue. In EFAD rats, recovery of [14C]18:2 was increased in small intestine, liver, heart, and kidneys. In comparison to controls, EFAD rats retained much more [14C]18:2 in phospholipids of these organs. The increase in the incorporation of both 3H and 14C into phosphatidylethanolamine was particularly pronounced. Another striking feature was the drastic increase in the retention after 4 h of 14C in cardiolipin, which is specifically located in the inner mitochondrial membrane. In contrast, incorporation of both 3H and 14C into phosphatidylinositol was decreased or unchanged in EFAD rats. Although fecal fat excretion was increased there was no evidence for a malabsorption or an increased retention in intestinal triacyglycerol of the radioactive fatty acids in EFAD rats. The proportion of [14C]18:2 that had been converted to [14C]20:4 was generally low but increased significantly with time in the liver and intestine of EFAD rats.


1977 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. G. Hassam

1.Essential fatty acid-deficient rats were fed γ-linolenic acid (18:3ω6) at 2 % dietary energy and α-linolenic acid (18:3ω3) at 0, 1.6, 2.8 and 4.0 % of the dietary energy.2.18:3ω3 at 1.6% apparently inhibits the synthesis of the C20 and C22 ω6 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (ω6 LC-PUFA) metabolized from 18:3ω6.3.However, increasing the dietary levels of 18:3ω3 from 1.6 to 4.0% has no further influence.4.The results suggest that dietary 18:3ω6 is an efficient precursor for the ω6 LC-PUFA synthesis even in the presence of 18:3ω3.


1985 ◽  
Vol 54 (03) ◽  
pp. 563-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
M K Salo ◽  
E Vartiainen ◽  
P Puska ◽  
T Nikkari

SummaryPlatelet aggregation and its relation to fatty acid composition of platelets, plasma and adipose tissue was determined in 196 randomly selected, free-living, 40-49-year-old men in two regions of Finland (east and southwest) with a nearly twofold difference in the IHD rate.There were no significant east-southwest differences in platelet aggregation induced with ADP, thrombin or epinephrine. ADP-induced platelet secondary aggregation showed significant negative associations with all C20-C22 ω3-fatty acids in platelets (r = -0.26 - -0.40) and with the platelet 20: 5ω3/20: 4ω 6 and ω3/ ω6 ratios, but significant positive correlations with the contents of 18:2 in adipose tissue (r = 0.20) and plasma triglycerides (TG) (r = 0.29). Epinephrine-induced aggregation correlated negatively with 20: 5ω 3 in plasma cholesteryl esters (CE) (r = -0.23) and TG (r = -0.29), and positively with the total percentage of saturated fatty acids in platelets (r = 0.33), but had no significant correlations with any of the ω6-fatty acids. Thrombin-induced aggregation correlated negatively with the ω3/6ω ratio in adipose tissue (r = -0.25) and the 20: 3ω6/20: 4ω 6 ratio in plasma CE (r = -0.27) and free fatty acids (FFA) (r = -0.23), and positively with adipose tissue 18:2 (r = 0.23) and 20:4ω6 (r = 0.22) in plasma phospholipids (PL).The percentages of prostanoid precursors in platelet lipids, i. e. 20: 3ω 6, 20: 4ω 6 and 20 :5ω 3, correlated best with the same fatty acids in plasma CE (r = 0.32 - 0.77) and PL (r = 0.28 - 0.74). Platelet 20: 5ω 3 had highly significant negative correlations with the percentage of 18:2 in adipose tissue and all plasma lipid fractions (r = -0.35 - -0.44).These results suggest that, among a free-living population, relatively small changes in the fatty acid composition of plasma and platelets may be reflected in significant differences in platelet aggregation, and that an increase in linoleate-rich vegetable fat in the diet may not affect platelet function favourably unless it is accompanied by an adequate supply of ω3 fatty acids.


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