Abstract
Acute myocardial ischemia was studied in Sprague-Dawley rats fed a normal diet and in rats fed an essential fatty acid deficient (EFAD) diet for 11 weeks. EFAD diet rats had a significantly lower body weight than control rats, and exhibited a striking difference in left ventricular phospholipid content characterized by a large increase in palmitoleic and oleic acids and a marked decrease in linoleic acid. Despite these differences, EFAD diet rats subjected to acute myocardial ischemia showed no difference in the severity of ischemic damage to the myocardium as assessed by myocardial creatine kinase activity.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 404-405 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | IRCS Medical Science |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| State | Published - 1985 |
| Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology