Study of the effects of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids: Molecular mechanisms involved in intestinal inflammation

Authors

  • Bianca Knoch Food, Metabolism & Microbiology Section, Food & Textiles Group, AgResearch Grasslands and Institute of Food, Nutrition & Human Health, Massey University
  • Matthew P.G. Barnett Food, Metabolism & Microbiology Section, Food & Textiles Group, AgResearch Grasslands
  • Nicole C. Roy Food, Metabolism & Microbiology Section, Food & Textiles Group, AgResearch Grasslands
  • Warren C. McNabb Food, Metabolism & Microbiology Section, Food & Textiles Group, AgResearch Grasslands

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/gya.086508

Keywords:

Dietary n-3 and n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid, Gene, Intestinal inflammation

Abstract


The use of “omics” techniques in combination with model systems and molecular tools allows to understand how foods and food components act on metabolic pathways to regulate transcriptional processes. Polyunsaturated fatty acids have distinctive nutritional and metabolic effects because they give rise to lipid mediated products and affect the expression of various genes involved in intestinal inflammation. The present review focuses on the molecular effects of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids on intestinal inflammation.

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Knoch B, Barnett MP, Roy NC, McNabb WC. Study of the effects of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids: Molecular mechanisms involved in intestinal inflammation. Grasas aceites [Internet]. 2009Mar.30 [cited 2024Mar.28];60(1):8-21. Available from: https://grasasyaceites.revistas.csic.es/index.php/grasasyaceites/article/view/540

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