TITLE:
Effects of Mixed Dietary Fats on the Distribution of Triglycerides in Different Tissues of Exercised Trained Swiss Albino Mice
AUTHORS:
Shaikh Shahinur Rahman, Mohammad Ayub Ali, Mohammad Nazibur Rahman
KEYWORDS:
Triglycerides, Liver, Working Muscle, Adipose Tissue, Exercise, Mixed Diet, Swiss Albino Mice
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.2 No.11,
November
13,
2015
ABSTRACT:
During prolonged exercise, fatty acids are mobilized from triglycerides
(TG) and become an important energy source. But excess accumulation of TG in
different tissues causes abnormalities in humans. Role of high fat diet in the
distribution of TG is well established but the role of mixed dietary fat is not
clear. In our study, exercised Swiss Albino mice were subjected to feed high
fat diet and mixed fat diet (Saturated Unsaturated fat enriched diet) for the
period of four weeks to show the effect on average body weight, liver, adipose
tissue and gastrocnemius muscles and the accumulation of their triglycerides
(TG) content. This study showed that both diets had little or no effect on
average body weight, epididymal adipose tissue weight and liver TG but
decreased liver weight. Here another remarkable feature was that high fat diet
significantly reduced the accumulation of TG in epididymal adipose tissue in
comparison with mixed fat diet. The author demonstrated that mixed fat diet induced
accumulation of TG in gastrocnemius skeletal muscles of exercised mice but
decreased gastrocnemius skeletal muscles weight. Further research is required
to clarify these phenomena.