TY - JOUR
T1 - Dietary fish oil is antihypertrophic but does not enhance postischemic myocardial function in female mice
AU - Huggins, Catherine E.
AU - Curl, Claire L.
AU - Patel, Ruchi
AU - McLennan, Peter L.
AU - Theiss, Mandy L.
AU - Pedrazzini, Thierry
AU - Pepe, Salvatore
AU - Delbridge, Lea M.D.
PY - 2009/4
Y1 - 2009/4
N2 - Clinically and experimentally, a case for omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) cardioprotection in females has not been clearly established. The goal of this study was to investigate whether dietary omega-3 PUFA supplementation could provide ischemic protection in female mice with an underlying genetic predisposition to cardiac hypertrophy. Mature female transgenic mice (TG) with cardiac-specific overexpression of angiotensinogen that develop normotensive cardiac hypertrophy and littermate wild-type (WT) mice were fed a fish oil-derived diet (FO) or PUFA-matched control diet (CTR) for 4 wk. Myocardial membrane lipids, ex vivo cardiac performance (intraventricular balloon) after global no-flow ischemia and reperfusion (15/30 min), and reperfusion arrhythmia incidence were assessed. FO diet suppressed cardiac growth by 5% and 10% in WT and TG, respectively (P > 0.001). The extent of mechanical recovery [rate- pressure product (RPP) = beats/min X mmHg] of FO-fed WT and TG hearts was similar (50 ± 7% vs. 45 ± 12%, 30 min reperfusion), and this was not significantly different from CTR-fed WT or TG. To evaluate whether systemic estrogen was masking a protective effect of the FO diet, the responses of ovariectomized (OVX) WT and TG mice to FO dietary intervention were assessed. The extent of mechanical recovery of FO-fed OVX WT and TG (RPP, 50 ± 4% vs. 64 ± 8%) was not enhanced compared with CTR-fed mice (RPP, 60 ± 11% vs. 80 ± 8%, P = 0.335). Dietary FO did not suppress the incidence of reperfusion arrhythmias in WT or TG hearts (ovary-intact mice or OVX). Our findings indicate a lack of cardioprotective effect of dietary FO in females, determined by assessment of mechanical and arrhythmic activity postischemia in a murine ex vivo heart model.polyunsaturated fatty acids; ischemia-reperfusion; Langendorff perfused hearts
AB - Clinically and experimentally, a case for omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) cardioprotection in females has not been clearly established. The goal of this study was to investigate whether dietary omega-3 PUFA supplementation could provide ischemic protection in female mice with an underlying genetic predisposition to cardiac hypertrophy. Mature female transgenic mice (TG) with cardiac-specific overexpression of angiotensinogen that develop normotensive cardiac hypertrophy and littermate wild-type (WT) mice were fed a fish oil-derived diet (FO) or PUFA-matched control diet (CTR) for 4 wk. Myocardial membrane lipids, ex vivo cardiac performance (intraventricular balloon) after global no-flow ischemia and reperfusion (15/30 min), and reperfusion arrhythmia incidence were assessed. FO diet suppressed cardiac growth by 5% and 10% in WT and TG, respectively (P > 0.001). The extent of mechanical recovery [rate- pressure product (RPP) = beats/min X mmHg] of FO-fed WT and TG hearts was similar (50 ± 7% vs. 45 ± 12%, 30 min reperfusion), and this was not significantly different from CTR-fed WT or TG. To evaluate whether systemic estrogen was masking a protective effect of the FO diet, the responses of ovariectomized (OVX) WT and TG mice to FO dietary intervention were assessed. The extent of mechanical recovery of FO-fed OVX WT and TG (RPP, 50 ± 4% vs. 64 ± 8%) was not enhanced compared with CTR-fed mice (RPP, 60 ± 11% vs. 80 ± 8%, P = 0.335). Dietary FO did not suppress the incidence of reperfusion arrhythmias in WT or TG hearts (ovary-intact mice or OVX). Our findings indicate a lack of cardioprotective effect of dietary FO in females, determined by assessment of mechanical and arrhythmic activity postischemia in a murine ex vivo heart model.polyunsaturated fatty acids; ischemia-reperfusion; Langendorff perfused hearts
KW - Ischemia-reperfusion
KW - Langendorff perfused hearts
KW - polyunsaturated fatty acids
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U2 - 10.1152/ajpheart.01151.2008
DO - 10.1152/ajpheart.01151.2008
M3 - Article
C2 - 19181960
AN - SCOPUS:66249123294
SN - 0363-6135
VL - 296
SP - H957-H966
JO - American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
JF - American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
IS - 4
ER -