Anti-atherosclerotic Effect of Green Tea in Poluynsaturated Fatty Acids-treated Apo E KO Mice.
10.4163/kjn.2011.44.6.465
- Author:
Hyo Sook KIM
1
;
Myoungsook LEE
Author Information
1. Food and Nutrition and Research Institute of Obesity Sciences, Sungshin Women's University, Seoul 136-742, Korea. mlee@sungshin.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
green tea;
antiatherosclerosis;
4-HNE;
aorta morphology;
apoptosis
- MeSH:
Animals;
Aorta;
Apolipoproteins E;
Apoptosis;
Atherosclerosis;
Caspase 3;
Cholesterol;
Cytochromes c;
Diet;
Fatty Acids;
Fatty Acids, Unsaturated;
Heart;
Immunohistochemistry;
Linoleic Acid;
Lipid Peroxidation;
Lipid Peroxides;
Malondialdehyde;
Mice;
Plasma;
Tea;
Triglycerides
- From:The Korean Journal of Nutrition
2011;44(6):465-473
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Dietary fatty acids are under intense research to identify anti-atherogenic mechanisms, so we investigated green tea powder (GT) as a protector against atherogenesis originating from lipid peroxidation such as 4-hydroxynonemal (4-HNE) and malondialdehyde (MDA) in different dietary fatty acid-treated apo E KO mice. Growth rate and dietary efficiency were lower in apo E KO mice with or without LA compared to wild type. Plasma total cholesterol (TC) and triacylglycerol (TG) did not correspond to values in other tissues, but TG in heart tissue decreased significantly by GT after linoleic acid (LA) or docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) was administered. LA induced apoptosis as evidenced by changes in aorta morphology and immunohistochemistry. Lipid peroxides (LPO) was increased in apo E KO mice with or without LA corresponding to the accumulation of 4-HNE or MDA in the proximal aorta above the atria. GT consumption tended to reduce the primary causal mechanism of atherogenic phenomena such as oxidizability in both LA and DHA treated atherogenic mice. A high polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) diet involved the changes on stress-induced apoptotic signaling by increasing caspase 3, cytochrome c, and nuclear factor-kappaB in the heart tissue, but decreasing the bcl-2 protein. However, GT remarkably reduced the expression of apoptotic signaling, in contrast to the PUFA diet. Therefore, the potential of GT as an anti-atherosclerotic dietary antioxidant was tested in this study.
