Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids modulate responses of pigs to mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infection
1996
Turek, J.J. | Schoenlein, I.A. | Watkins, B.A. | Van Alstine, W.G. | Clark, L.K. | Knox, K.
Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) are immunomodulators, but few studies have examined how these dietary components influence infectious respiratory disease. Groups of nine pigs were fed casein and corn starch-based diets containing 10.5 g/100 g corn oil (CO), linseed oil (LO), menhaden oil (MO), linseed + corn oil (LC, 1:1) and menhaden + corn oil (MC, 1:1). As a methodological control, one group of pigs (n = 15) was fed a commercial ration (control diet; C). Pigs inoculated intratracheally with Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae after 4 wk of consuming the diets were killed 3 wk later. Gross lung lesions in MO-fed pigs were less (P < 0.05) than those in LC- and MC-fed pigs. Pigs fed MO had less peribronchial inflammation (P < 0.05) than all other groups. Gross lung lesions correlated negatively with basal in vitro alveolar macrophage tumor necrosis factor (TNF) production in pigs fed diets that contained negligible levels of (n-3) PUFA (C and CO). Basal macrophage TNF production did not correlate with lung lesion scores for diets containing more (n-3) PUFA than C or CO (LO, MO, LC and MC). For pigs fed the LO, MO, LC and MC diets, mean gross lung lesions increased as the mean ratio of (n-3):(n-6) PUFA in alveolar macrophage lipids decreased. Serum levels of alpha 1 acid glycoprotein (AGP) were less (P < 0.05) in pigs fed MO, and there was a rise in mean lung lesions scores for each PUFA-fed group as mean AGP levels increased. These results indicate that dietary PUFA can affect disease pathogenesis and that the (n-3):(n-6) PUFA ratio may modulate the host response.
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