Metabolic effects of dietary stearic acid in mice: changes in the fatty acid composition of triglycerides and phospholipids in various tissues

Autor: Andrea Bonanome, Michael J. Bennett, Scott M. Grundy
Rok vydání: 1992
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Zdroj: Atherosclerosis. 94:119-127
ISSN: 0021-9150
Popis: The fatty acid patterns of triglycerides and phospholipids extracted from adipose tissue, liver, heart, kidney, spleen, and lung of 3 groups of C57BL/6 mice were determined after feeding diets rich in palmitic acid (16:0) (high palmitic: 16:0 = 45.1% of total fatty acids), stearic acid (18:0) (high stearic: 18:0 = 42.9% of total fatty acids) and oleic acid (18:1) (high oleic: 18:1 = 79.7% of total fatty acids) for 9 months. Triglyceride content of adipose, liver, heart, kidney, lung and spleen tissues was significantly enriched in palmitic acid in mice fed the high palmitic diet (range among all tissues: 19.9% +/- 0.2% to 29.0% +/- 1.9% of total fatty acids) and in oleic acid in mice fed the high oleic diet (range 56.0% +/- 1.9% to 71.6% +/- 1.2%). The stearic acid content of organ triglycerides in mice fed the high stearic diet ranged from 3.7% +/- 0.3% to 10.8% +/- 1.2%; however, the content of oleic acid on this diet (range: 57.0% +/- 1.8% to 71.4% +/- 1.7%) was similar to the one observed in mice fed the high oleic diet. In all organs, phospholipids had a significantly higher percentage of stearic acid (range: 23.5% +/- 0.9% to 51.5% +/- 6.6%) than triglycerides, regardless of diet. To evaluate the production of oleate from stearate and palmitate, 2 groups of mice were fed the high palmitic and the high stearic diets for 1 week and then injected intravenously with [1-14C]palmitate and [1-14C]stearate and the amount of labelled oleate in liver triglycerides was measured.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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