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Lu, Yingchang, Boekschoten, Mark V, Wopereis, Suzan, Müller, Michael 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5930-9905 and Kersten, Sander
(2011)
Comparative transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis of fenofibrate and fish oil treatments in mice.
Physiological Genomics, 43 (23).
pp. 1307-1318.
ISSN 1094-8341
Abstract
Elevated circulating triglycerides, which are considered a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, can be targeted by treatment with fenofibrate or fish oil. To gain insight into underlying mechanisms, we carried out a comparative transcriptomics and metabolomics analysis of the effect of 2 wk treatment with fenofibrate and fish oil in mice. Plasma triglycerides were significantly decreased by fenofibrate (-49.1%) and fish oil (-21.8%), whereas plasma cholesterol was increased by fenofibrate (+29.9%) and decreased by fish oil (-32.8%). Levels of various phospholipid species were specifically decreased by fish oil, while levels of Krebs cycle intermediates were increased specifically by fenofibrate. Plasma levels of many amino acids were altered by fenofibrate and to a lesser extent by fish oil. Both fenofibrate and fish oil upregulated genes involved in fatty acid metabolism and downregulated genes involved in blood coagulation and fibrinolysis. Significant overlap in gene regulation by fenofibrate and fish oil was observed, reflecting their property as high or low affinity agonist for peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-α, respectively. Fenofibrate specifically downregulated genes involved in complement cascade and inflammatory response. Fish oil specifically downregulated genes involved in cholesterol and fatty acid biosynthesis and upregulated genes involved in amino acid and arachidonic acid metabolism. Taken together, the data indicate that despite being similarly potent toward modulating plasma free fatty acids, cholesterol, and triglyceride levels, fish oil causes modest changes in gene expression likely via activation of multiple mechanistic pathways, whereas fenofibrate causes pronounced gene expression changes via a single pathway, reflecting the key difference between nutritional and pharmacological intervention.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | amino acids,analysis of variance,animals,blood coagulation,cholesterol,fatty acids,fenofibrate,fibrinolysis,fish oils,gene expression profiling,lipid metabolism,male,metabolomics,mice,mice, inbred c57bl,oligonucleotide array sequence analysis,peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors,phospholipids,statistics, nonparametric,transcriptome,triglycerides,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Nutrition and Preventive Medicine Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Gastroenterology and Gut Biology Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Metabolic Health |
| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2014 18:10 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jun 2024 14:46 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/47668 |
| DOI: | 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00100.2011 |
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