title: Effects of corn oil- and fish oil-supplemented diets on phospholipid fatty acid composition of rat liver nuclei.
abstract: The effects of dietary fat on fatty acid compositions of phospholipids in liver nuclei were investigated. By feeding a diet containing 5% corn oil or fish oil to rats, the proportions of n -6 or n -3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), respectively, were increased in phospholipids of the liver nuclei. By feeding a fat-free diet, endogenous PUFA were increased. Even after feeding the fat-free diet for 40 weeks, the n - 6 still remained at about 10% in both phosphatidylcholine (PC) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), while the n -3 PUFA remained at about 5 and 16% in PC and PE, respectively. The fatty acid compositions of phospholipids in the liver nuclei were influenced by dietary fat and were roughly similar to those in the microsomes. The proportion of n - 3 PUFA was high in PE of both the nuclear membrane and matrix. The proportion of n - 6 was higher in both PC and PE of the nuclear matrix than in those of the membrane.
authors.affiliation: Tezukayama Gakuin College, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Iritani
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fukuda
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsumura
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D003314:Corn Oil / Q000494:pharmacology*; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000032:analysis; D005395:Fish Oils / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008099:Liver / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D008862:Microsomes, Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D009685:Nuclear Envelope / Q000378:metabolism; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000378:metabolism*; D010938:Plant Oils / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains
chemical_list: D005227:Fatty Acids; D005395:Fish Oils; D010743:Phospholipids; D010938:Plant Oils; D003314:Corn Oil