Rat vitamin E status and heart lipid peroxidation: Effect of dietary α-Linolenic acid and marine n?3 fatty acids |
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Authors: | Anne Javouhey-Donzel Lucien Guenot Véronique Maupoil Luc Rochette Gérard Rocquelin |
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Affiliation: | (1) Unité de Toxicologie Nutritionnelle, INRA, BV 1540, 17 rue Sully, 21034 Dijon cedex, France;(2) Laboratoire de Physiopathologie et Pharmacologie Cardiovasculaires Expérimentales, Faculté de Médecine, 21033 Dijon cedex, France |
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Abstract: | Three groups of sixteen male rats each were fed semipurified diets containing 15% by weight of lipid for a period of 4 wk.
The diets contained the same amount of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) (20% of total fatty acids) and saturated fatty acids
(19% of total fatty acids). Dietary PUFA were represented exclusively by linoleic acid (18∶2 diet), or 10% linoleic acid and
10% linolenic acid (18∶3 diet), or 10% linoleic acid and 10% long-chain n−3 fatty acids (LCn−3 diet). The overall amount of
vitamin E was similar in the three diets,i.e, 140, 133 and 129 mg/kg diet, respectively. Following appropriate extraction, tocopherol levels in heart, liver, brain, adipose
tissue (AT) and plasma were measured by high-performance liquid chromatography. The level of vitamin E in the heart decreased
with n−3 PUFA diets, most markedly with LCn−3 PUFA. Liver and AT vitamin E contents also decreased with n−3 PUFA diets when
expressed as μg/mg total lipids and μg/mg phospholipids, respectively. Total plasma vitamin E was lower in rats fed the LCn−3
diet, but there was no significant difference when expressed as μg/mg total lipids. Brain vitamin E was not affected by the
various diets.In vitro cardiac lipid peroxidation was quantified by the thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) test. Heart homogenates
were incubated at 37°C for 15 and 30 min in both the absence (uninduced) or presence (induced) of a free radical generating
system (1 mM xanthine, 0.1 IU per mL xanthine oxidase, 0.2 mM/0.4 mM Fe/ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid). TBARS release was
time-independent but significantly higher when LCn−3 fatty acids were fed to rats in either the uninduced or induced system.
The study demonstrated that n−3 PUFA diets can influence vitamin E status of rats even in short-term experiments and can change
the susceptibility of the heart toin vitro lipid peroxidation. |
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