The addition of arachidonic acid (AA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) to infant formula was recently approved in North America. In piglets, dietary AA is linked to elevations in bone mass.The objective was to investigate the effects of varied amounts of dietary AA on bone modeling and bone ma...
Arachidonic Acid (ARA), an omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA), is an essential fatty acid for human beings. ARA plays important roles as a structural lipid associated predominantly with phospholipids in blood, liver, muscle and other major organ systems. ARA is also a precursor of many...
When rapid brain and retina development take place during the third trimester, long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFAs), which are structural and functional components of most cell membranes, are selectively transferred from the mother to the fetus.6,7 Of these, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA...
Functional classification and pathway assignment was performed using KEGG with the annotated unique sequences. As shown in Additional file1, the relatively complete pathways that the unique sequences were assigned to were related to translation, replication and repair, amino acid metabolism and energy a...
Using dietary PUFA consumption and national schizophrenia incidence rates in 24 countries, we found that incidence rates of schizophrenia were inversely correlated with arachidonic acid (AA) and ω-6 LCPUFA consumption (rAA = −0.577, p < 0.01; rω-6 LCPUFA = −0.626, p < 0.001). More...
Figure 1. Red blood cell (RBC) fatty acid composition among breastfed and formula-fed infants. (A) Infants were grouped by feeding type. In the formula-fed infant group, only docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) was increased, while other key n3 LC-PUFA were decreased or tended to be decreased. In...
Fatty acids (FA) are important biological constituents, with metabolic, structural, and signaling roles, it is well established that the quantity and quality of dietary fats during pregnancy have relevant effects for the mother and offspring health [3,4]. Linoleic acid (LA; 18:2n-6) and α-...