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- Title
Chemopreventive effects of dietary canola oil on colon cancer development.
- Authors
Bhatia, Ekta; Doddivenaka, Chaitanya; Zhang, Xiaoying; Bommareddy, Ajay; Krishnan, Padmanabhan; Matthees, Duane P; Dwivedi, Chandradhar
- Abstract
Fatty acid composition of dietary fat plays a vital role in colon tumor development in animal models. Fats containing ω-6 fatty acids (e.g., corn oil) enhanced and ω-3 fatty acids (e.g., flaxseed oil) reduced chemically induced colon tumor development in rats. The objective of the present investigation was to study the effects of dietary canola oil, a source of ω-3 fatty acid on azoxymethane-induced colon cancer development in Fischer rats and compare with dietary corn oil. Dietary canola oil significantly (P<0.05) decreased colonic tumor incidence and tumor multiplicity as compared to dietary corn oil in rats. Fatty acid analysis showed that corn oil group had higher levels of ω-6 fatty acid levels, whereas the canola oil groups exhibited higher levels of ω-3 fatty acids from the colon and serum samples of rats. For the mechanistic study, COX-2 expression in the colon samples from the canola oil group was significantly lower (P<0.05) as compared to the corn oil group. Taken together, dietary canola oil may be chemopreventive for colon tumor development in Fischer rats as compared to possibly by increasing ω-3 fatty acid levels and decreasing COX-2 levels.
- Publication
Nutrition and cancer, 2011, Vol 63, Issue 2, p242
- ISSN
1532-7914
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1080/01635581.2011.523498