Effects of Dietary Omega-3 Fatty Acids on Rod ERG Function in Very-Low-Birth-Weight Neonates

David G. Birch; David G. Birch; Eileen E. Birch; Eileen E. Birch; Dennis R. Hoffman; Dennis R. Hoffman; Ricardo D. Uauy; Ricardo D. Uauy

doi:10.1364/NAVS.1991.MB4

Noninvasive Assessment of the Visual System
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1991),
paper MB4
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Effects of Dietary Omega-3 Fatty Acids on Rod ERG Function in Very-Low-Birth-Weight Neonates

David G. Birch, Eileen E. Birch, Dennis R. Hoffman, and Ricardo D. Uauy

Noninvasive Assessment of the Visual System 1991

Santa Fe, New Mexico United States
4–7 February 1991
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D. G. Birch, E. E. Birch, D. R. Hoffman, and R. D. Uauy, "Effects of Dietary Omega-3 Fatty Acids on Rod ERG Function in Very-Low-Birth-Weight Neonates," in Noninvasive Assessment of the Visual System, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1991), paper MB4.

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Abstract

Linoleic acid (18:2 ϖ6) and alpha-linolenic acid (18:3 ϖ3) are considered essential fatty acids (EFA) for mammals because of the inability of animal tissues to synthesize them and the resulting deficiency syndromes when they are removed from the diet. Animal tissues, especially the liver, have the necessary enzymes for EFA elongation and desaturation. As shown in Figure 1, these enzymes generate a family of compounds for each EFA: ϖ6 derivatives from linoleic acid (18: ϖ6) and ϖ3 derivatives from alpha-linolenic acid (18:3 ϖ3).

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