Role of dietary lipids and butylated hydroxy anisol (BHA) administration on albino rats. Part II. Liver and heart unsaturated fatty acids

✍ Scribed by Abu-El-Zahab, H. S. H. ;Aida, M. A. Saad ;El-Sisi, S. F.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 584 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0027-769X
• DOI: 10.1002/food.19930370607

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Adult male albino rats were supplemented with edible plant oils, corn maize and cotton seed oils and their semihydrogenated forms (Heliopolis and Sultan cooking fat). In general, the supplementation of tested oils produced increasing effect on the levels of total unsaturated fatty acids (UFA), C18: 1, C18:2 and C20:4 UFA of liver and heart of rats. Liver content of UFA showed very highly significant increases in the levels of C18: 1 and C18:2 in all groups of rats fed with tested oils accompanied with non significant changes in total UFA and C20:4 levels. Heart content of UFA showed increases in the levels of C18: 1 and C18:2 and insignificant changes observed in total UFA and C20:4, except, in rats fed with sultan cooking fat, showed a significant increase in the level of total UFA. The level of increase in C18: 1 and C18:2 was very highly significant in case of rats fed corn maize oil and Sultan cooking fat, and significant in case of rats fed cotton seed oil and Heliopolis cooking fat.

Also, liver and heart UFA contents were significantly increased after antioxidant (Butylated hydroxy anisol, BHA) administration. Addition of BHA to tested diets abolished or minimized fatty infiltration produced by dietary fatty diet in the liver cells.