Abstract
An 8-week feeding experiment investigated the effects of lysophospholipids (LP) on growth performance, hepatic lipid metabolism, intestinal immunity and antioxidation in juvenile black seabream (Acanthopagrus schlegelii) (initial weight 4.60 ± 0.01 g) on a high-fat diet. Five experimental diets were established: normal fat diet (13 %, CON), high-fat diet (18 %, HFD) and HFD with different levels of LP (0.05 %, 0.1 %, and 0.2 %). The results indicated that dietary LP had no impact on the specific growth rate and survival rate of juvenile black seabream (P > 0.05), while 0.2 %LP supplementation reduced the intraperitoneal fat ratio (IPF) (P < 0.05). Dietary 0.1 % and 0.2 %LP supplementation reduced the total lipid content and the size and number of lipid droplets in the liver (P < 0.05). The diets supplemented with LP reduced the contents of TG and LDL-C in the serum (P < 0.05), without affecting T-CHO and HDL-C (P > 0.05). The expression of lipid transport genes including apoa, apob, fatp1, and fatp4, were markedly up-regulated with increased dietary LP supplementation (P < 0.05). Moreover, dietary 0.2 %LP supplementation notably increased mRNA expression levels of scarb1, ffar3, acsl5 and glp-1 in the intestine (P < 0.05). Dietary LP notably down-regulated the mRNA expression of genes related to the lipogenesis pathway including fas, aco and srebp-1c, while up-regulating mRNA expression of lipogenesis-related genes including cpt1α, lpl, and pparα (P < 0.05). Additionally, dietary 0.2 %LP supplementation notably increased total antioxidant capacity in the intestine and up-regulated expression levels of intestinal antioxidant genes, including mn sod, cu-zn sod, gpx, and cat (P < 0.05), fish fed diets with 0.2 %LP down-regulation of pro-inflammatory genes, including tnfα and nf-κb, and up-regulation of anti-inflammatory factors, tgfβ-1, il-10 and tight-junction protein genes including (oclna, cldni, cldn3, and tjp1b) in the intestine (P < 0.05). In conclusion, dietary LP improved intestinal fatty acid transport and liver lipolysis, alleviating intestinal oxidative damage and inflammatory reactions caused by HFD in black seabream.
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