title: [Effect of streptozotocin diabetes on the in vivo conversion of gamma-linolenic and dihomo-gamma-linolenic 14C acids to arachidonic acid in the rat kidney and in the rat body].
abstract: Streptozotocin diabetic rats were administered the same tracer dose of either [1 14C] gamma-linolenic acid or [2 14C] dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid by stomach tube seven days after streptozotocin injection. They were killed 48 hours later and the radioactivity in individual fatty acids of the kidneys and the whole animal determined by radio-gas chromatography. Results were compared to those obtained in non diabetic rats similarly prepared. With either radioactive precursor, 14C radioactivity incorporated into arachidonic acid, only as specific radioactivity of this acid, were considerably decreased in diabetic rats compared with normal rats, while the weights of renal and whole rat arachidonic acid were the same in the two groups of animals. These results suggest that, in vivo, streptozotocin diabetes causes a partial inhibition of the delta 5-desaturation of dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid, considered as a secondary step in linoleic acid metabolism, both in the kidneys and the whole rat as in the liver.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Poisson
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Blond
mesh_terms: D015126:8,11,14-Eicosatrienoic Acid / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D016718:Arachidonic Acid; D001095:Arachidonic Acids / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000378:metabolism*; D005231:Fatty Acids, Unsaturated / Q000378:metabolism*; D007668:Kidney / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D008042:Linolenic Acids / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012016:Reference Values; D017962:alpha-Linolenic Acid
chemical_list: D001095:Arachidonic Acids; D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D005231:Fatty Acids, Unsaturated; D008042:Linolenic Acids; D017962:alpha-Linolenic Acid; D016718:Arachidonic Acid; D015126:8,11,14-Eicosatrienoic Acid
vernacular_title: Influence du diabète streptozotocique sur la conversion in vivo des acides gamma-linolénique et dihomo-gamma-linolénique 14C en acide arachidonique dans les reins et le rat entier.