Fatty acid metabolism and ketone body metabolism are biochemically linked
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Peer-reviewed biochemical literature establishes that fatty acid metabolism and ketone body metabolism are biochemically linked, demonstrating that fatty acid oxidation directly leads to ketone body synthesis and utilization across various tissues.
Abstract Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a multifactorial metabolic–endocrine disorder in women of reproductive age in which lipid metabolism disorders and chronic low-grade inflammation reinforce and amplify each other. Recently, the ketogenic diet (KD), which is a high-fat, very-low-carbohydrate dietary intervention, has drawn attention because of its metabolic regulation and anti-inflammatory properties. This review integrates current evidence to elucidate how aberrant fatty acid turnover, adipose tissue dysfunction, and adipokine imbalance trigger convergent proinflammatory pathways, thus forming an “inflammatory hub” that links insulin resistance, hyperandrogenemia, impaired folliculogenesis, and heightened cardiovascular risk in PCOS. The mechanisms by which strict carbohydrate restriction promotes fatty acid β-oxidation and hepatic ketogenesis are delineated, thereby reprogramming cellular metabolism. The principal ketone body, β-hydroxybutyrate, directly suppresses the nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain–like receptor family pyrin domain containing 3 inflammasome, remodels the gut microbiota, and attenuates nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells signaling, thus yielding multitarget anti-inflammatory effects. Unlike isocaloric high-fat diets, which lead to obesity, inflammation, and insulin resistance, the KD lowers triacylglycerols and the proportion of small, dense low-density lipoprotein particles; enhances whole-body insulin sensit
Transport and metabolism of fatty acids by isolated rumen epithelium.
1. The metabolism of even-numbered saturated (acetic acid to stearic acid) and unsaturated (oleic acid and linolenic acid) fatty acids by diaphragms of isolated rumen epithelium has been investigated. 2. When fatty acids are presented to the papillae surface, ketone bodies are released from the opposite (muscle) side of the tissue. 3. When the concentration of octanoate or decanoate is increased to a critical value, which varies inversely with the chain length of the fatty acid, the respiration of the tissue is inhibited and ketone body synthesis is diminished. Under these conditions unmetabolized fatty acid crosses the tissue down a concentration gradient. 4. The inhibitions by octanoate and decanoate are more marked when the fatty acid is presented to both surfaces of the rumen epithelium. 5. During the oxidation of octanoate and decanoate at non-inhibitory concentrations, small quantities of shorter chain fatty acids, including acetate, are produced.
Published in The Biochemical journal (1966)
The relationship between fat synthesis and oxidation in the liver after re-feeding and its regulation by thyroid hormone.
The administration of glucose to 48 h-starved euthyroid or hyperthyroid rats led to decreased blood concentrations of fatty acids and ketone bodies in both groups, but fatty acid concentrations were higher and ketone-body concentrations lower in the latter group. Decreased ketonaemia was not due to increased ketone-body clearance. Flux through carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1 was increased, consistent with the effects of hyperthyroidism on enzyme activity demonstrated in vitro. Correlations between the concentrations of ketone bodies and long-chain acylcarnitine measured in freeze-clamped liver samples indicated that a lower proportion of the product of beta-oxidation was used for ketone-body synthesis. Citrate concentrations were unaffected by hyperthyroidism, but lipogenesis was increased. The results are discussed in relation to the factors controlling hepatic carbon flux and energy requirements after re-feeding.
Published in The Biochemical journal (1987)
MELLITUS, there is a great increase in fatty acid metabolism and impaired or absent carbohydrate metabolism … acetic acid (ah-se’tik) a short-chain, satu- rated fatty acid, the characteristic component of vinegar. It … only carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. (See also FATTY ACID.) _ inorganic a., an acid containing no carbon
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