Perturbation and age-related changes in the fatty acid pattern of soleus muscle phospholipids and triglycerides in rats depleted in long-chain polyunsaturated ω3 fatty acids

  • Authors:
    • Willy J. Malaisse
    • Laurence Portois
    • Abdullah Sener
    • Yvon A. Carpentier
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  • Published online on: December 1, 2007     https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.20.6.897
  • Pages: 897-904
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Abstract

Altered D-glucose metabolism prevails in the soleus muscle of rats depleted in long-chain polyunsaturated ω3 fatty acids (ω3). In these animals, the prior intravenous injection of an ω3-rich medium-chain triglyceride:fish oil emulsion (ω3-FO rats), as compared to that of an ω3-poor medium-chain triglyceride:olive oil emulsion (ω3-OO rats), may either correct or aggravate selected metabolic variables. This study deals with the fatty acid pattern of soleus phospholipids and triglycerides in control animals versus ω3-depleted rats not injected with any lipid emulsion (ω3-NI rats) and in ω3-OO versus ω3-FO rats. In each group of ω3-depleted rats, age-related changes were also monitored. The ω3-depleted rats displayed low long-chain polyunsaturated ω3 fatty acid content, facilitated metabolism of long-chain polyunsaturated ω6 fatty acids, and increased Δ9-desaturase activity. Both the age-related changes in lipid variables and those attributable to the prior intravenous injection of the ω3-rich lipid emulsion consisted either in a move towards normalization or in the opposite direction, i.e. towards aggravation of the defect found in the ω3-depleted rats. Emphasis is placed, therefore, on the unusual situation found in the soleus muscle of ω3-depleted rats, in which both lipid and metabolic variables may be either favourably or adversely affected by the same environmental factor(s).

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Malaisse W , Portois L, Sener A and Carpentier YA: Perturbation and age-related changes in the fatty acid pattern of soleus muscle phospholipids and triglycerides in rats depleted in long-chain polyunsaturated ω3 fatty acids. Int J Mol Med 20: 897-904, 2007
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Malaisse, W. ., Portois, L., Sener, A., & Carpentier, Y.A. (2007). Perturbation and age-related changes in the fatty acid pattern of soleus muscle phospholipids and triglycerides in rats depleted in long-chain polyunsaturated ω3 fatty acids. International Journal of Molecular Medicine, 20, 897-904. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.20.6.897
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Malaisse, W. ., Portois, L., Sener, A., Carpentier, Y. A."Perturbation and age-related changes in the fatty acid pattern of soleus muscle phospholipids and triglycerides in rats depleted in long-chain polyunsaturated ω3 fatty acids". International Journal of Molecular Medicine 20.6 (2007): 897-904.
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Malaisse, W. ., Portois, L., Sener, A., Carpentier, Y. A."Perturbation and age-related changes in the fatty acid pattern of soleus muscle phospholipids and triglycerides in rats depleted in long-chain polyunsaturated ω3 fatty acids". International Journal of Molecular Medicine 20, no. 6 (2007): 897-904. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.20.6.897