Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1] Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada [2] Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences SA, Lausanne, Switzerland.
J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2014 Mar;34(3):376-9. doi: 10.1038/jcbfm.2013.221. Epub 2013 Dec 11.
Schönfeld and Reiser recently hypothesized that fatty acid β-oxidation is a source of oxidative stress in the brain. To test this hypothesis, we inhibited brain mitochondrial β-oxidation with methyl palmoxirate (MEP) and measured oxidative polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) metabolites in the rat brain. Upon MEP treatment, levels of several nonenzymatic auto-oxidative PUFA metabolites were reduced with few effects on enzymatically derived metabolites. Our finding confirms the hypothesis that reduced fatty acid β-oxidation decreases oxidative stress in the brain and β-oxidation inhibitors may be a novel therapeutic approach for brain disorders associated with oxidative stress.
舍恩菲尔德和赖泽尔最近假设脂肪酸β-氧化是大脑氧化应激的一个来源。为了验证这一假设,我们用甲基棕榈酸(MEP)抑制脑线粒体β-氧化,并测量大鼠脑中氧化多不饱和脂肪酸(PUFA)的代谢物。在 MEP 处理后,几种非酶自动氧化的 PUFA 代谢物的水平降低,而对酶衍生的代谢物影响很小。我们的发现证实了这样的假设,即减少脂肪酸β-氧化可降低大脑中的氧化应激,β-氧化抑制剂可能是治疗与氧化应激相关的大脑疾病的一种新方法。