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Changes in dietary lipid intake are known to alter the fatty acid composition of cardiac muscle of various animals. Because changes in cardiac muscle membrane structure and function may be involved in the pathogenesis of arrythmia and ischemia, we have examined the effects of dietary lipid supplements on the phospholipid distribution and fatty acid composition of rat atria and ventricle following 20 weeks feeding of diets supplemented with either 12% sunflower-seed oil or sheep fat.
Neither lipid supplement produced significant changes in the proportions of cholesterol, total phospholipids or phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine or diphosphatidylglycerol,—the phospholipid classes that together account for more than 90% of the total phospholipids of rat cardiac muscle. Significant changes were found in the profiles of the unsaturated fatty acids of all 3 phospholipid components of both atria and ventricle. Although similar, the changes between these tissues were not identical. However, in general, feeding a linoleic acid-rich sunflower seed oil supplement resulted in an increase in the ω-6 family of fatty acids, whereas feeding the relatively linoleic acid-poor sheep fat supplement decreased the level of ω-6 fatty acids but increased the levels of the ω-3 family, resulting in major shifts in the proportions of these families of acids. In particular, the ratio of arachidonic acid: docosahexaenoic acid (20∶4, ω-6/22∶6, ω-3), which is higher in all phospholipids of atria than ventricle, is increased by feeding linoleic acid, primarily by increasing the level of arachidonic acid in the muscle membranes. As dosahexaenoic acid does not occur in the diet, the increase in this acid which occurs after feeding animal fat, presumably arises from increased conversion of the small amounts of linolenic acid in all diets when the amount of linoleic acid present is reduced.
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Charnock, J.S., Abeywardena, M.Y., McMurchie, E.J. et al. The composition of cardiac phospholipids in rats fed different lipid supplements. Lipids 19, 206–213 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02534799
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