Effects of dietary fish oil on human mammary carcinoma and on lipid-metabolizing enzymes

Lipids
C E BorgesonR C Reitz

Abstract

The growth rate of a human mammary carcinoma, MX-1, was significantly reduced in athymic "nude" mice fed fish oil. Tumors from the fish oil-fed animals also showed a greater sensitivity to two anti-neoplastic agents, mitomycin C and doxorubicin. Mitochondria were isolated from control livers, host livers and tumors from fish oil- and corn oil-fed animals, and increased levels of 20:5n-3 and 22:6n-3 were found in mitochondrial lipids in all three tissues from the fish oil-fed animals. To investigate the effect of dietary n-3 fatty acids on lipid metabolism, the activity of the acyl-CoA:carnitine acyltransferase and three acyl-CoA desaturases were measured. Carnitine acyltransferase activity toward all four acyl-CoA substrates tested was markedly increased in mitochondria from liver by feeding fish oil. In mitochondria from tumors, feeding fish oil resulted in an increased activity toward only 18:3n-3. These data suggest that fish oil may induce an increase in the oxidation of fatty acids. The delta 9-desaturase activity was decreased in microsomes from liver and tumor from fish oil-fed animals. However, both the delta 6 and delta 5 desaturases were increased in tumor and in control liver as a result of feeding fish oil. The delt...Continue Reading

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