201. The effect of fatty or lean fish intake on inflammatory gene expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with coronary heart disease
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Leena Pulkkinen, Arja T. Erkkilä, Matej Orešič, Matti Uusitupa, Vanessa D. de Mello, Hanna Mussalo, Marjukka Kolehmainen, Mustafa Atalay, Maria Lankinen, Ursula Schwab, and Seppo Lehto
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Male ,Endothelium ,Interleukin-1beta ,Medicine (miscellaneous) ,Blood lipids ,Coronary Disease ,Inflammation ,Biology ,Polymerase Chain Reaction ,fatty acids ,Peripheral blood mononuclear cell ,1ß ,Immune system ,Blood serum ,Dietary Fats, Unsaturated ,endothelial function ,Fatty Acids, Omega-3 ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,RNA, Messenger ,Chemokine CCL5 ,Chemokine CCL2 ,Phospholipids ,Nutrition and Dietetics ,Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha ,Fishes ,IL ,Middle Aged ,Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 ,Fish ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Seafood ,inflammation ,Immunology ,Circulatory system ,Leukocytes, Mononuclear ,gene expression ,Female ,Cholesterol Esters ,Insulin Resistance ,ICAM ,medicine.symptom ,Blood vessel - Abstract
BackgroundLittle is known about the effect of fish consumption on gene expression of inflammation-related genes in immune cells in coronary heart disease (CHD).Aim of the studyWe sought to evaluate the effect of a fatty fish (FF) or a lean fish (LF) diet on the modulation of inflammatory and endothelial function-related genes in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of subjects with CHD, and its association with serum fatty acid (FA) profile and lipid metabolic compounds.MethodsData from 27 patients randomized into an 8-week FF (n = 10; mean ± SD: 4.3 ± 0.4 portions of fish per week), LF (n = 11; 4.7 ± 1.1 portions of fish per week), or control diet (n = 6; 0.6 ± 0.4 portions of fish per week) were analyzed. The mRNA expression was measured using real-time PCR.ResultsThe effect of the intervention on the mRNA expression of the genes studied did not differ among groups. In the FF group, however, the decrease in arachidonic acid to eicosapentaenoic acid (AA:EPA) ratio in cholesterol ester and phospholipid fractions strongly correlated with the change in IL1B mRNA levels (r s = 0.60, P = 0.06 and r s = 0.86, P = 0.002, respectively). In the LF group, the decrease in palmitic acid and total saturated FAs in cholesterol esters correlated with the change in intercellular cell adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM1) expression (r s = 0.64, P = 0.04 for both). Circulating levels of soluble ICAM-1 decreased only in the LF group (P ConclusionsThe intake of FF or LF diet did not alter the expression of inflammatory and endothelial function-related genes in PBMCs of patients with CHD. However, the decrease in AA:EPA ratio in serum lipids in the FF group may induce an anti-inflammatory response at mRNA levels in PBMCs. A LF diet might benefit endothelial function, possibly mediated by the changes in serum FA composition.
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- 2009
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