title: The effect of dietary supplementation with eicosapentaenoic acid on the phospholipid and fatty acid composition of erythrocytes of marmoset.
abstract: Adult male marmoset monkeys were fed eicosapentaenoic acid (20:5n-3) as the ethyl ester in diets containing either 32% (reference diet, no added cholesterol) or 7% (atherogenic diet with 0.2% added cholesterol) linoleic acid (18:2n-6) for 30 wk. No changes were seen in the level of phosphatidylcholine (PC) or phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) but minor changes were observed in both the sphingomyelin (SPM) and phosphatidylinositol plus phosphatidylserine (PI+PS) fractions of erythrocyte lipids. The extent of total n-3 fatty acid incorporation into membrane lipids was higher in atherogenic diets (polyunsaturated/monounsaturated/saturated (P/M/S) ratio 0.2:0.6:1.0) than reference diets (P/M/S ratio 1:1:1) and this was true for both PE (33.4 +/- 1.0% vs 24.3 +/- 1.1%) and PC (9.3 +/- 0.5% vs 4.9 +/- 0.3%). Although suitable controls for cholesterol effects were not included in the study, earlier results obtained with marmosets lead us to believe such effects were probably small. Regardless of basic diet (atherogenic, reference), 20:5n-3 was preferentially incorporated into PE (10.8 +/- 0.2%, 6.0 +/- 0.02%) while smaller amounts were incorporated into PC (6.9 +/- 0.4%, 3.2 +/- 0.2%). The major n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid found in PE in response to dietary 20:5n-3 was the elongation metabolite 22:5n-3 in both the atherogenic (17.7 +/- 0.7%) and reference (14.3 +/- 1.0%) dietary groups; 22:6n-3 levels were less affected by diet (4.7 +/- 0.3% and 3.9 +/- 0.2%, respectively).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, Australia.
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Gibson
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Neumann
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Burnard
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Rinaldi
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Patten
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: McMurchie
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002144:Callithrix; D002791:Cholesterol, Dietary / Q000494:pharmacology; D004036:Diet, Atherogenic; D004041:Dietary Fats / Q000494:pharmacology*; D015118:Eicosapentaenoic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000097:blood* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D019787:Linoleic Acid; D008041:Linoleic Acids / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines / Q000097:blood; D010714:Phosphatidylethanolamines / Q000097:blood; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000097:blood* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012016:Reference Values; D013109:Sphingomyelins / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D002791:Cholesterol, Dietary; D004041:Dietary Fats; D005227:Fatty Acids; D008041:Linoleic Acids; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines; D010714:Phosphatidylethanolamines; D010743:Phospholipids; D013109:Sphingomyelins; D019787:Linoleic Acid; D015118:Eicosapentaenoic Acid