Guest guest Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 Colleagues, the following is FYI and does not necessarily reflect my own opinion. I have no further knowledge of the topic. If you do not wish to receive these posts, set your email filter to filter out any messages coming from @nutritionucanlivewith.com and the program will remove anything coming from me. --------------------------------------------------------- Public release date: 8-Jan-2009 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-01/asfb-ffl010809.php Contact: Nick Zagorski nzagorski@... American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology For fats, longer may not be better Appearing in the January issue of JLR Researchers have uncovered why some dietary fats, specifically long-chain fats, such as oleic acid (found in olive oil), are more prone to induce inflammation. Long-chain fats, it turns out, promote increased intestinal absorption of pro-inflammatory bacterial molecules called lipopolysaccharides (LPS). This study appears in the January issue of JLR. While dietary fats that have short chains (such as those found in milk and cheese products) can be absorbed directly into the bloodstream from the intestines, long-chain fats need to be first packaged by the intestinal cells into particles known as chylomicrons (large complexes similar to HDL and LDL particles). Eckhardt and colleagues at the University of Kentucky wondered whether some unwanted LPS particles, routinely shed by the bacteria that inhabit the human gut, might also be sneaking in the chylomicrons. Their hypothesis turned out to be correct; when they treated cultured human intestinal cells with oleic acid they observed significant secretion of LPS together with the chylomicron particles, a phenomenon that was not observed when the cells were treated with short-chain butyric acid. Similar findings were found in mouse studies; high amounts of dietary oleic acid, but not butyric acid, promoted significant absorption of LPS into the blood and lymph nodes and subsequent expression of inflammatory genes. Eckhardt and colleagues believe these findings may pave the way for future therapies for Crohn's disease and other inflammatory bowel disorders. In addition, they note that this study once again highlights the importance of the diverse bacteria that call our intestines home. ### From the article: " Chylomicrons promote intestinal absorption of lipopolysaccharides " by Sarbani Ghoshal, Jassir Witta, Jian Zhong, Willem de Villiers and Eckhardt Article link: http://www.jlr.org/cgi/content/full/50/1/90 Corresponding Author: Eckhardt, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington. Tel: * 81741; email: eeckh2@... Note: This article also features a commentary available at http://www.jlr.org/cgi/content/full/50/1/1 -- ne Holden, MS, RD " Ask the Parkinson Dietitian " http://www.parkinson.org/ " Eat well, stay well with Parkinson's disease " " Parkinson's disease: Guidelines for Medical Nutrition Therapy " http://www.nutritionucanlivewith.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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