Recent studies on interactions between n-3 and n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids in brain and other tissues |
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Authors: | Contreras Miguel A Rapoport Stanley I |
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Institution: | Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA. |
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Abstract: | Recent literature provides a basis for understanding the behavioral, functional, and structural consequences of nutritional deprivation or disease-related abnormalities of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. The literature suggests that these effects are mediated through competition between n-3 and n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids at certain enzymatic steps, particularly those involving polyunsaturated fatty acid elongation and desaturation. One critical enzymatic site is a delta6-desaturase. On the other hand, an in-vivo method in rats, applied following chronic n-3 nutritional deprivation or chronic administration of lithium, indicates that the cycles of de-esterification/re-esterification of docosahexaenoic acid (22:6n-3) and arachidonic acid (20:4n-6) within brain phospholipids operate independently of each other, and thus that the enzymes regulating each of these cycles are not likely sites of n-3/n-6 competition. |
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