Is a dietary n-3 fatty acid supplement able to influence the cardiac effect of the psychological stress?

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Delphine Rousseau
Daniel Moreau
Daniel Raederstorff
Jean Pierre Sergiel
Heinz Rupp
Reto Müggli
Alain Grynberg
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[1] INRA,Dept VFEH
[2] Unité de Nutrition Lipidique,Molecular Cardiology Laboratory, Centre of Internal Medicine
[3] LPPCE,undefined
[4] faculté de médecine,undefined
[5] F. Hoffmann La Roche SA,undefined
[6] University of Marburg,undefined
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Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry | 1998年 / 178卷
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stress; heart; dietary fatty acids; blood pressure; rats; docosahexaenoic acid;
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Epidemiological studies suggest that n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) are involved in the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Stress is known to increase the incidence of CVD and the present study was realised to evaluate some physiological and biochemical effects of dietary docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in male Wistar rats subjected to a psycho social stress. Rats were fed for 8 weeks a semi-purified diet containing 10% of either sunflower seed oil or the same oil supplemented with DHA. This food supply represented 50% of their daily requirement. The remaining 50% were supplied as 45 mg food pellets designed to induce stress in rats by an intermittent-feeding schedule process. The control group (n = 12) was fed the equivalent food ration as a single daily feeding. The physiological cardiovascular parameters were recorded by telemetry through a transmitter introduced in the abdomen. At the end of the experimentation, the heart and adrenals were withdrawn and the fatty acid composition and the catecholamine store were determined. Dietary DHA induced a pronounced alteration of the fatty acid profile of cardiac phospholipids (PL). The level of all the n-6 PUFAs was reduced while 22:6 n-3 was increased. The stress induced a significant increase in heart rate which was not observed in DHA-fed group. The time evolution of the systolic blood pressure was not affected by the stress and was roughly similar in the stressed rats of either dietary group. Conversely, the systolic blood pressure decreased in the unstressed rats fed DHA. Similar data were obtained for the diastolic blood pressure. The beneficial effect of DHA was also observed on cardiac contractility, since the dP/dtmax increase was prevented in the DHA-fed rats. The stress-induced modifications were associated with an increase in cardiac noradrenaline level which was not observed in DHA-fed rats. The fatty acid composition of adrenals was significantly related to the fatty acid intake particularly the neutral lipid fraction (NL) which incorporated a large amount of DHA. Conversely, n-3 PUFAs were poorly incorporated in adrenal phospholipids. Moreover the NL/PL ratio was significantly increased in the DHA fed rats. The amount of adrenal catecholamines did not differ significantly between the groups. These results show that a supplementation of the diet with DHA induced cardiovascular alterations which could be detected in conscious animals within a few weeks. These alterations were elicited by a reduced heart rate and systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
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