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DHA supplemented in peptamen diet offers no advantage in pathways to amyloidosis: is it time to evaluate composite lipid diet?
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  21931647     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Numerous reports have documented the beneficial effects of dietary docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) on beta-amyloid production and Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, none of these studies have examined and compared DHA, in combination with other dietary nutrients, for its effects on plaque pathogenesis. Potential interactions of DHA with other dietary nutrients and fatty acids are conventionally ignored. Here we investigated DHA with two dietary regimes; peptamen (pep+DHA) and low fat diet (low fat+DHA). Peptamen base liquid diet is a standard sole-source nutrition for patients with gastrointestinal dysfunction. Here we demonstrate that a robust AD transgenic mouse model shows an increased tendency to produce beta-amyloid peptides and amyloid plaques when fed a pep+DHA diet. The increase in beta-amyloid peptides was due to an elevated trend in the levels of beta-secretase amyloid precursor protein (APP) cleaving enzyme (BACE), the proteolytic C-terminal fragment beta of APP and reduced levels of insulin degrading enzyme that endoproteolyse beta-amyloid. On the contrary, TgCRND8 mice on low fat+DHA diet (based on an approximately 18% reduction of fat intake) ameliorate the production of abeta peptides and consequently amyloid plaques. Our work not only demonstrates that DHA when taken with peptamen may have a tendency to confer a detrimental affect on the amyloid plaque build up but also reinforces the importance of studying composite lipids or nutrients rather than single lipids or nutrients for their effects on pathways important to plaque development.
Authors:
Zareen Amtul; Mary Keet; Lin Wang; Peter Merrifield; David Westaway; Richard F Rozmahel
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't     Date:  2011-09-08
Journal Detail:
Title:  PloS one     Volume:  6     ISSN:  1932-6203     ISO Abbreviation:  PLoS ONE     Publication Date:  2011  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-09-20     Completed Date:  2012-03-01     Revised Date:  2012-04-26    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101285081     Medline TA:  PLoS One     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  e24094     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. zamtul@uwo.ca
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Alzheimer Disease / metabolism,  pathology
Amyloid Precursor Protein Secretases / metabolism
Amyloid beta-Peptides / genetics,  metabolism
Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor / genetics,  metabolism
Amyloidosis / metabolism*,  pathology,  prevention & control
Animals
Aspartic Acid Endopeptidases / metabolism
Brain / drug effects,  metabolism,  pathology
Diet*
Dietary Fats / administration & dosage
Dietary Supplements
Docosahexaenoic Acids / administration & dosage*
Down-Regulation / drug effects
Fatty Acids / metabolism
Gene Expression / drug effects
Immunohistochemistry
Insulysin / metabolism
Mice
Mice, Transgenic
Oligopeptides / administration & dosage*
Plaque, Amyloid / metabolism
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
Up-Regulation / drug effects
Grant Support
ID/Acronym/Agency:
MOP49546//Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Chemical
Reg. No./Substance:
0/Amyloid beta-Peptides; 0/Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor; 0/Dietary Fats; 0/Fatty Acids; 0/Oligopeptides; 0/Peptamen; 25167-62-8/Docosahexaenoic Acids; EC 3.4.-/Amyloid Precursor Protein Secretases; EC 3.4.23.-/Aspartic Acid Endopeptidases; EC 3.4.23.46/BACE1 protein, human; EC 3.4.24.56/Insulysin
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