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IMPORTANCE OF IMMUNONUTRITION
Volume 77, Issue -, Pages 121-131Publisher
KARGER
DOI: 10.1159/000351395
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- NEI NIH HHS [EY005121] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM103340] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS046741] Funding Source: Medline
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The significance of the selective enrichment in omega-3 essential fatty acids (docosahexaenoyl - DHA - chains of membrane phospholipids, 22C and 6 double bonds) in the nervous system (e. g. synaptic membranes and dendrites) has remained, until recently, incompletely understood. While studying mechanisms of neuronal survival, we contributed to the discovery of a docosanoid synthesized by 15-lipoxygenase-1 from DHA, which we dubbed neuroprotectin D1 (NPD1; 10R, 17S-dihydroxy-docosa-4Z, 7Z, 11E, 13E, 15E, 19Z hexaenoic acid). NPD1 is a docosanoid because it is derived from a 22C precursor (DHA), unlike eicosanoids, which are derived from the 20C arachidonic acid family of essential fatty acids not enriched in the nervous system. We found that NPD1 is promptly made in response to oxidative stress, seizures and brain ischemia-reperfusion. NPD1 is neuroprotective in experimental brain damage, retinal pigment epithelial cells, and in human brain cells. Thus, NPD1 acts as a protective sentinel, one of the very first defenses activated when cell homeostasis is threatened by neurodegenerations. NPD1 also has been shown to have a specificity and potency that provides beneficial bioactivity during initiation and early progression of neuronal and retinal degenerations, epilepsy and stroke. In short, NPD1 regulation promotes homeostatic regulation of neural circuitry integrity. Copyright (C) 2013 Nestec Ltd., Vevey/S. Karger AG, Basel
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