?-Ergothioneine modulates oxidative damage in the kidney and liver of rats in vivo: studies upon the profile of polyunsaturated fatty acids

2004 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Deiana
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Oxidative Damage ◽  
Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
In Vivo Studies

scholarly journals Polyunsaturated fatty acids and peripheral artery disease

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Marlene Grenon ◽  
Millie Hughes-Fulford ◽  
Joseph Rapp ◽  
Michael S Conte
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Peripheral Artery Disease ◽  
In Vivo Studies ◽  
Peripheral Artery ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Epidemiological Surveys ◽  
Artery Disease

There is substantial evidence that polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) such as n-3 and n-6 fatty acids (FAs) play an important role in prevention of atherosclerosis. In vitro and in vivo studies focusing on the interactions between monocytes and endothelial cells have explored the molecular effects of FAs on these interactions. Epidemiological surveys, followed by large, randomized, control trials have demonstrated a reduction in major cardiovascular events with supplementation of n-3 FAs in secondary prevention settings. The evidence of beneficial effects specific to patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) remains elusive, and is the focus of this review.

scholarly journals Polyunsaturated ω-3 fatty acids inhibit ACE2-controlled SARS-CoV-2 binding and cellular entry

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Goc ◽  
Aleksandra Niedzwiecki ◽  
Matthias Rath
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Eicosapentaenoic Acid ◽  
Linolenic Acid ◽  
Cathepsin L ◽  
Saturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Monounsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
In Vivo Experiments ◽  
Lipid Compounds

AbstractThe strain SARS-CoV-2, newly emerged in late 2019, has been identified as the cause of COVID-19 and the pandemic declared by WHO in early 2020. Although lipids have been shown to possess antiviral efficacy, little is currently known about lipid compounds with anti-SARS-CoV-2 binding and entry properties. To address this issue, we screened, overall, 17 polyunsaturated fatty acids, monounsaturated fatty acids and saturated fatty acids, as wells as lipid-soluble vitamins. In performing target-based ligand screening utilizing the RBD-SARS-CoV-2 sequence, we observed that polyunsaturated fatty acids most effectively interfere with binding to hACE2, the receptor for SARS-CoV-2. Using a spike protein pseudo-virus, we also found that linolenic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid significantly block the entry of SARS-CoV-2. In addition, eicosapentaenoic acid showed higher efficacy than linolenic acid in reducing activity of TMPRSS2 and cathepsin L proteases, but neither of the fatty acids affected their expression at the protein level. Also, neither reduction of hACE2 activity nor binding to the hACE2 receptor upon treatment with these two fatty acids was observed. Although further in vivo experiments are warranted to validate the current findings, our study provides a new insight into the role of lipids as antiviral compounds against the SARS-CoV-2 strain.

Total Synthesis of DHA and DPAn-3 non-enzymatic oxylipins

Synthesis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
alexandre guy ◽  
Jérémy Merad ◽  
Thomas Degrange ◽  
Guillaume Reversat ◽  
Valérie Bultel-Poncé ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Docosahexaenoic Acid ◽  
Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Total Synthesis ◽  
Biological Properties ◽  
Chemical Structures ◽  
Structural Variety ◽  
Synthetic Strategy

Oxylipins are formed in-vivo from polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). A large structural variety of compounds is grouped under the term oxylipins, which differ from their formation mechanism (involving enzymes or not), as well as their chemical structures (cyclopentanes, tetrahydrofurans, hydroxylated-PUFA etc.). All structures of oxylipins are of great biological interests. Directly correlated to oxidative stress phenomenon, non-enzymatic oxylipins are used as systemic and/or specific biomarkers in various pathologies and more especially, they were found to have their own biological properties. Produced in-vivo as a non-separable mixture of isomers, total synthesis is a keystone to answer biological questions. In this work, we described the total synthesis of three non-enzymatic oxylipins derived from docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and docosapentanoic acid (DPAn-3) using a unique and convergent synthetic strategy.

Lack of Oxidative Damage in Serum Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids before and after Dialysis in Chronic Uremic Patients

1989 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 515-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Taccone-Gallucci ◽  
R. Lubrano ◽  
A. Belli ◽  
G. Citti ◽  
M. Morosetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Oxidative Damage ◽  
Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid Pattern ◽  
Chronic Hemodialysis ◽  
Serum Concentrations ◽  
Serum Fatty Acid ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Uremic Patients ◽  
Mononuclear Blood Cells

We described previously that in the erythrocytes and mononuclear blood cells from uremic patients on chronic hemodialysis, the membrane concentrations of malonyldialdehyde (MDA), resulting from peroxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in the membrane itself increased, and the concentrations of vitamin E (VIT E), the major antioxidizing agent, were lower. In the present study we analysed whether similar oxidative damage is seen in the serum from hemodialysis patients and whether the serum fatty acid pattern is affected. No evidence was found of oxidative damage in the serum during hemodialysis, serum concentrations of MDA and VIT E remaining constant before and after dialysis. No change was observed in serum pattern of PUFA, particularly linoleic acid. We therefore assume that the oxidative damage described in uremic patients is mainly intracellular.

scholarly journals Monitoring of changes in hepatic fatty acid and glycerolipid metabolism during the starved-to-fed transition in vivo. Studies on awake, unrestrained rats

1993 ◽  
Vol 289 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
A M B Moir ◽  
V A Zammit
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Liver Mitochondria ◽  
In Vivo Studies ◽  
Maximal Effect ◽  
Jugular Veins ◽  
Selective Labelling ◽  
Malonyl Coa ◽  
Cpt I

1. The technique of selective labelling of hepatic fatty acids in vivo [Moir and Zammit (1992) Biochem. J. 283, 145-149] has been used to monitor non-invasively the metabolism of fatty acids in the livers of awake unrestrained rats during the starved-to-refed transition. Values for the incorporation of labelled fatty acid into liver and plasma glycerolipids and into exhaled carbon dioxide after injection of labelled lipoprotein and Triton WR 1339 into rats with chronically cannulated jugular veins were obtained for successive 1 h periods from the start of refeeding of 24 h-starved rats. 2. Starvation for 24 h resulted in marked and reciprocal changes in the incorporation of label into glycerolipids and exhaled 14CO2, such that a 4-fold higher value was obtained for the oxidation/esterification ratio in livers of starved rats compared with fed animals. 3. Refeeding of starved rats did not return this ratio to the value observed for fed animals for at least 7 h; during the first 3 h of refeeding the ratio was at least as high as that for starved rats. Between 4 h and 6 h of refeeding the ratio was still approx. 70% of that in starved animals, and 2.5-fold higher than in fed rats. 4. These data support the hypothesis that the capacity of the liver to oxidize fatty acids is maintained at a high level during the initial stages of refeeding [Grantham and Zammit (1986) Biochem. J. 239, 485-488] and that control of the flux of hepatic fatty acids into the oxidative pathway is largely lost from the reaction catalysed by mitochondrial overt carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT I) during this phase of recovery from the starved state. 5. Refeeding also resulted in a rapid (< 1 h) increase in hepatic malonyl-CoA concentrations to values intermediate between those in livers of fed and starved animals. The sensitivity of CPT I to malonyl-CoA inhibition in isolated liver mitochondria was only partially reversed even after 5 h of refeeding. 6. Refeeding resulted in an acute 35% inhibition of the fraction of synthesized triacylglycerol that was secreted into the plasma; the maximal effect occurred 2-3 h after the start of refeeding. The inhibition of the fractional secretion rate was fully reversed after 5 h of refeeding. 7. The amount of 14C label that was incorporated into phospholipids as a fraction of total glycerolipid synthesis was doubled within 2 h of the start of refeeding.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

The desaturation and elongation of 14C-labelled polyunsaturated fatty acids by pike (Esox lucius L.) in vivo

1995 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. James Henderson ◽  
Moira T. Park ◽  
John R. Sargent
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Esox Lucius ◽  
Pike Esox Lucius
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