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(Journal of Nutrition. 2001;131:2364-2369.)
© 2001 The American Society for Nutritional Sciences


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Dietary (n-3) Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Exert Antihypertensive Effects by Modulating Calcium Signaling in T Cells of Rats1

Carole Triboulot, Aziz Hichami, Anne Denys and Naim A. Khan2

UPRES Lipids & Nutrition, Faculty of Life Sciences, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon 21000, France

2To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: naim.khan{at}u-bourgogne.fr.

After 10 wk of feeding an experimental diet enriched with (n-3) polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), i.e., eicosapentaenoic acid [EPA, 20:5(n-3)] and [DHA, 22:6(n-3)] (EPAX), blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), but not in normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats was reduced relative to rats fed an unsupplemented control diet. Concavalin A–stimulated T-cell proliferation was diminished in both strains of rats fed the PUFA/EPAX diet. The experimental diet lowered secretion of interleukin-2 in SHR, but not in WKY rats compared with rats fed the control diet. To determine whether there was a defect in calcium homeostasis in T cells during hypertension, we employed the following agents: caffeine, which recruits calcium from the cytosolic Ca2+-induced Ca2+-release pool; ionomycin, which at low concentrations opens calcium channels; and thapsigargin (TG), which mobilizes [Ca2+]i from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) pool. Caffeine-induced increases in [Ca2+]i were not modified by the PUFA/EPAX diet. The ionomycin-induced increases in [Ca2+]i in T cells from SHR were greater than in those from WKY rats; consumption of the PUFA/EPAX diet did not modify Ca2+ influx in cells of either strain. The TG-induced increases in [Ca2+]i in T cells from SHR were greater than those in cells from WKY rats. Interestingly, consumption of the experimental diet reduced TG-evoked increases in [Ca2+]i in T cells from SHR and increased those in T cells from WKY rats, indicating that the PUFA/EPAX diet could reverse the calcium mobilization from the ER pool in T cells. These results suggest that (n-3) PUFA exert antihypertensive effects and modulate T-cell calcium signaling during hypertension in rats.


KEY WORDS: • (n-3) fatty acids • hypertension • calcium • immunomodulation • rats







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