Avaliação do consumo de lipídios oxidados na indução do estresse oxidativo associado à aterosclerose em modelo animal

Abstract

NOGUEIRA, M.S. Consumption of oxidized lipids in the induction of oxidative stress associated with atherosclerosis in an animal model. 2015. 101f. [Dissertacao (Mestrado) – Faculdade de Ciencias Farmaceuticas, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, 2015]. Studies involving cell culture, animals and humans have been extensively applied in the monitoring of atherosclerosis, aiming its control or even this reversal. Among the animal models, it has been observed an appropriate response to the induction of dyslipidemia and inflammation, but a high resistance to oxidative stress induction. An alternative to overcome this limitation would be by the intake of diets containing oxidized fatty acids. However, studies that investigated the effect of consumption of peroxides and secondary products of lipid oxidation in the progression of atherosclerosis have shown controversial results. Therefore, the aim of this study was to alter an animal model for the development of atherosclerosis, aiming to raise the variation in biomarkers of oxidative stress through chronic consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids partially oxidized under concentrations naturally present in the human diet. LDL receptor “knockout” mice (C57BL / 6) were divided into 4 experimental groups. All groups received a modified fat diet containing 30% fat for 90 days. Three levels of oxidation were induced in flaxseed oil, representing low, moderate and high levels, characterized by a hydroperoxide concentration of 2.47 ± 0.02 (LOW), 3.87 ± 0.04 (MED) and 4.69 ± 0.04 LOOHs meq / kg (HIGH), respectively. The fourth group received the LOW diet, beyond diabetes mellitus type 1 through induction by streptozotocin at baseline (CONT +). The pre-oxidized flaxseed oil used to prepare the diets was maintained at 4 ° C. The pelletization changed the concentration of primary and secondary products, but proportionally, maintaining the difference between the three levels. CONT + group showed less weight gain than the others. No differences were observed between groups in relation to the lipoprotein profile. The CONT + and HIGH groups showed lower concentration of fatty acids in the liver, especially polyunsaturated fatty acids. In addition both CONT+ and HIGH groups showed higher concentrations MDA in the liver than MED and LOW groups, suggesting increased oxidative stress resulting from the intake of polyunsaturated fatty acids partially oxidized. The HIGH group also showed an increase in the thickness of the vascular wall and the size of the aorta lumen. This profile suggests that the chronic ingestion of partially oxidized polyunsaturated fatty acids contributes to increase oxidative stress in mice LDLr (-/-) , similar to that obtained with models using more aggressive forms of induction. Considering the trend of increased consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids Omega 3, the results of this study conducted with flaxseed oil highlight to the need of controlling the oxidative stability of these oils during processing and storage, since moderate oxidation levels already present atherogenic potential.