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Tsuzuki S. A point of view on human fat olfaction - do fatty derivatives serve as cues for awareness of dietary fats? Biomed Res 2023; 44:127-146. [PMID: 37544735 DOI: 10.2220/biomedres.44.127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/08/2023]
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Fat (triglycerides) consumption is critical for the survival of animals, including humans. Being able to smell fat can be advantageous in judging food value. However, fat has poor volatility; thus, olfaction of fat seems impossible. What about fatty acids that comprise fat? Humans smell and discriminate medium-chain fatty acids. However, no conclusive evidence has been provided for the olfactory sense of long-chain fatty acids, including essential acids such as linoleic acid (LA). Instead, humans likely perceive the presence of essential fatty acids through the olfaction of volatile compounds generated by their oxidative breakdown (e.g., hexanal and γ-decalactone). For some people, such scents are pleasing, especially when they come from fruit. Nonetheless, it remains unclear whether the olfaction of these volatiles leads to the recognition of fat per se. Nowadays, people often smell LA-borne aldehydes such as E,E-2,4-decadienal that occur appreciably, for example, from edible oils during deep frying, and are pronely captivated by their characteristic "fatty" note, which can be considered a "pseudo-perception" of fat. However, our preference for such LA-borne aldehyde odors may be a potential cause behind the modern overdose of n-6 fatty acids. This review aims to provide a view of whether and, if any, how we olfactorily perceive dietary fats and raises future purposes related to human fat olfaction, such as investigating sub-olfactory systems for detecting long-chain fatty acids.
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- Satoshi Tsuzuki
- Laboratory of Nutrition Chemistry, Division of Food Science and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
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Harter TS, Damsgaard C, Regan MD. Linking environmental salinity to respiratory phenotypes and metabolic rate in fishes: a data mining and modelling approach. J Exp Biol 2022; 225:274262. [PMID: 35258603 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.243421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The gill is the primary site of ionoregulation and gas exchange in adult teleost fishes. However, those characteristics that benefit diffusive gas exchange (large, thin gills) may also enhance the passive equilibration of ions and water that threaten osmotic homeostasis. Our literature review revealed that gill surface area and thickness were similar in freshwater (FW) and seawater (SW) species; however, the diffusive oxygen (O2) conductance (Gd) of the gill was lower in FW species. While a lower Gd may reduce ion losses, it also limits O2 uptake capacity and possibly aerobic performance in situations of high O2 demand (e.g. exercise) or low O2 availability (e.g. environmental hypoxia). We also found that FW fishes had significantly higher haemoglobin (Hb)-O2 binding affinities than SW species, which will increase the O2 diffusion gradient across the gills. Therefore, we hypothesized that the higher Hb-O2 affinity of FW fishes compensates, in part, for their lower Gd. Using a combined literature review and modelling approach, our results show that a higher Hb-O2 affinity in FW fishes increases the flux of O2 across their low-Gd gills. In addition, FW and SW teleosts can achieve similar maximal rates of O2 consumption (ṀO2,max) and hypoxia tolerance (Pcrit) through different combinations of Hb-O2 affinity and Gd. Our combined data identified novel patterns in gill and Hb characteristics between FW and SW fishes and our modelling approach provides mechanistic insight into the relationship between aerobic performance and species distribution ranges, generating novel hypotheses at the intersection of cardiorespiratory and ionoregulatory fish physiology.
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- Till S Harter
- Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Zoophysiology, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark.,Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Département de sciences biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada, H3T 1J4
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Ciezarek A, Gardner L, Savolainen V, Block B. Skeletal muscle and cardiac transcriptomics of a regionally endothermic fish, the Pacific bluefin tuna, Thunnus orientalis. BMC Genomics 2020; 21:642. [PMID: 32942994 PMCID: PMC7499911 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-020-07058-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2019] [Accepted: 09/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Background The Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) is a regionally endothermic fish that maintains temperatures in their swimming musculature, eyes, brain and viscera above that of the ambient water. Within their skeletal muscle, a thermal gradient exists, with deep muscles, close to the backbone, operating at elevated temperatures compared to superficial muscles near the skin. Their heart, by contrast, operates at ambient temperature, which in bluefin tunas can range widely. Cardiac function in tunas reduces in cold waters, yet the heart must continue to supply blood for metabolically demanding endothermic tissues. Physiological studies indicate Pacific bluefin tuna have an elevated cardiac capacity and increased cold-tolerance compared to warm-water tuna species, primarily enabled by increased capacity for sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium cycling within the cardiac muscles. Results Here, we compare tissue-specific gene-expression profiles of different cardiac and skeletal muscle tissues in Pacific bluefin tuna. There was little difference in the overall expression of calcium-cycling and cardiac contraction pathways between atrium and ventricle. However, expression of a key sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium-cycling gene, SERCA2b, which plays a key role maintaining intracellular calcium stores, was higher in atrium than ventricle. Expression of genes involved in aerobic metabolism and cardiac contraction were higher in the ventricle than atrium. The two morphologically distinct tissues that derive the ventricle, spongy and compact myocardium, had near-identical levels of gene expression. More genes had higher expression in the cool, superficial muscle than in the warm, deep muscle in both the aerobic red muscle (slow-twitch) and anaerobic white muscle (fast-twitch), suggesting thermal compensation. Conclusions We find evidence of widespread transcriptomic differences between the Pacific tuna ventricle and atrium, with potentially higher rates of calcium cycling in the atrium associated with the higher expression of SERCA2b compared to the ventricle. We find no evidence that genes associated with thermogenesis are upregulated in the deep, warm muscle compared to superficial, cool muscle. Heat generation may be enabled by by the high aerobic capacity of bluefin tuna red muscle.
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- Adam Ciezarek
- Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park Campus, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK. .,Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK.
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- Department of Biology, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA, USA
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- Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park Campus, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK
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- Department of Biology, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA, USA
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Roy BC, Ando M, Itoh T, Tsukamasa Y. Structural and ultrastructural changes of full-cycle cultured Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) muscle slices during chilled storage. JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 2012; 92:1755-1764. [PMID: 22227737 DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.5542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2011] [Revised: 10/30/2011] [Accepted: 11/01/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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BACKGROUND This study examined the structural and ultrastructural changes of dorsal and ventral muscle tissues of full-cycle cultured Pacific bluefin tuna (PBT), Thunnus orientalis Temminck & Schlegel 1844, cut into slices simulating sashimi and placed in chilled storage for varying periods. Structural and ultrastructural changes were determined in order to understand the physical texture by breaking strength measurement. RESULTS Progressive deterioration of myofibril structure was observed during chilled storage (4 °C) of PBT muscle slices over 5 days post mortem. Muscle degradation included detachment between myofibres, detachment of the plasmalemma, disruption of mitochondria, loss of Z-line density and alignment, cementation of myofibrils, loss of the hexagonal arrangement of thick versus thin myofilaments and migration of subsarcolemmal nuclei to intermyofibrillar spaces. CONCLUSION Loss of myofibre-myofibre adhesion, detachment of the plasmalemma and disruption of other components did not lower the breaking strength of PBT muscle. This provides evidence that the muscle breaking strength of PBT is not only associated with the detachment of myofibres or detachment of the plasmalemma. Other factors that produce cement-like substances, such as cementation of the myofibrillar components and degradation of the sarcoplasmic reticulum, may also increase breaking strength.
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- Bimol Chandra Roy
- Laboratory of Aquatic Food Science, Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Agriculture, Kinki University, Nara 631-8505, Japan.
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Savina MV, Emelyanova LV, Brailovskaya IV. Bioenergetics of the lower vertebrates. Molecular mechanisms of adaptations to anoxia and hypoxia. J EVOL BIOCHEM PHYS+ 2009. [DOI: 10.1134/s0022093009020029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Bernal D, Dickson KA, Shadwick RE, Graham JB. Review: Analysis of the evolutionary convergence for high performance swimming in lamnid sharks and tunas. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2001; 129:695-726. [PMID: 11423338 DOI: 10.1016/s1095-6433(01)00333-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Elasmobranchs and bony fishes have evolved independently for more than 400 million years. However, two Recent groups, the lamnid sharks (Family Lamnidae) and tunas (Family Scombridae), display remarkable similarities in features related to swimming performance. Traits separating these two groups from other fishes include a higher degree of body streamlining, a shift in the position of the aerobic, red, locomotor muscle that powers sustained swimming to a more anterior location in the body and nearer to the vertebral column, the capacity to conserve metabolic heat (i.e. regional endothermy), an increased gill surface area with a decreased blood-water barrier thickness, a higher maximum blood oxygen carrying capacity, and greater muscle aerobic and anaerobic enzyme activities at in vivo temperatures. The suite of morphological, physiological, and biochemical specializations that define "high-performance fishes" have been extensively characterized in the tunas. This review examines the convergent features of lamnid sharks and tunas in order to gain insight into the extent that comparable environmental selection pressures have led to the independent origin of similar suites of functional characteristics in these two distinctly different taxa. We propose that, despite differences between teleost and elasmobranch fishes, lamnid sharks and tunas have evolved morphological and physiological specializations that enhance their swimming performance relative to other sharks and most other high performance pelagic fishes.
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- D Bernal
- Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine and Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093-0204, USA.
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Korsmeyer K, Dewar H, Lai N, Graham J. The aerobic capacity of tunas: Adaptation for multiple metabolic demands. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/0300-9629(95)02061-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Korsmeyer K, Dewar H, Lai N, Graham J. Tuna aerobic swimming performance: Physiological and environmental limits based on oxygen supply and demand. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(95)02044-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Dickson KA. Locomotor muscle of high-performance fishes: What do comparisons of tunas with ectothermic sister taxa reveal? ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/0300-9629(95)02056-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Mathieu-Costello O, Brill RW, Hochachka PW. Structural basis for oxygen delivery: muscle capillaries and manifolds in tuna red muscle. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. PART A, PHYSIOLOGY 1996; 113:25-31. [PMID: 8729736 DOI: 10.1016/0300-9629(95)02059-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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We summarize our morphometric data on fiber vascularization and aerobic capacity in red muscle of tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis), compared to intensely aerobic flight muscles of hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus, BW 3-4 g) and bat (Eptesius fuscus, BW 15-16 g, Pipistrellus hesperus, BW 3-5 g). Three characteristic features of high flux paths for oxygen: (a) small fiber size, (b) dense capillary network and (c) high mitochondrial volume density were found in tuna, but they were not as pronounced as in hummingbird and bat flight muscles. A particular arrangement of capillary manifolds, also seen in flight muscle of birds but not in bats, was found in tuna, forming dense envelopes of capillary branches around portions of muscle fibers. However, all indexes of fiber capillarization were relatively low in tuna red muscle for its mitochondrial volume, compared with other intensely aerobic muscles. Capillary length per unit volume of mitochondria, and capillary surface per mitochondrial inner (and outer) membrane surface area, were about one half of those in hummingbird or bat flight muscles. Consistent differences exist in the size of the capillary network for the size of the mitochondrial compartment in highly aerobic red muscle of tuna compared with bird and mammal.
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- O Mathieu-Costello
- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0623, USA
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Chapter 1 Design for a high speed path for oxygen: tuna red muscle ultrastructure and vascularization. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/s1873-0140(06)80004-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Chapter 10 Metabolic organization of thermogenic tissues of fishes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/s1873-0140(06)80013-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Endothermy in fish: thermogenesis, ecology and evolution. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-89124-2.50015-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2023]
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Garin D, Rombaut A, Fréminet A. Determination of glucose turnover in sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax. Comparative aspects of glucose utilization. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. B, COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1987; 87:981-8. [PMID: 3665443 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(87)90422-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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1. Parameters of in vivo glucose utilization by sea bass (132 +/- 6 g, mean +/- SEM) acclimated at 15 degrees C in sea-water were measured after single injection of labelled glucose. 2. Glucose turnover rate (RG; mumol . min-1 . kg-1) was found to be 0.55-065 (2-3H glucose) and 0.34 +/- 0.42 (U14C glucose). 3. Glucose transit time was 443-449 min, glucose mass 233-261 mumol . kg-1, and glucose recycling 37%. 4. Oxygen consumption (MO2) amounted to 94 +/- 6.2 mumol . min-1 . kg-1. 5. The comparison with other fish species, mammals and birds, taking into account body size, temperature, diet, exercise, in poikilotherms and homeotherms leads to the calculation of a glucose turnover index (RGI = RG x 6 x 100 x MO2(-1)). 6. Value of this, generally lower in ectotherm teleosts (2-9), than in endotherms: mammals, birds and thunidae (22-60), confirms the minor quantitative importance of glucose in the metabolism of most fish.
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- D Garin
- Laboratoire de Physiologie générale et comparée, Université Claude Bernard-Lyon, Villeurbanne
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Ultrastructural observations and pH-measurements on red and white muscle from Antarctic fish. Polar Biol 1986. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00443402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Guppy M, Davison W. The hare and the tortoise: metabolic strategies in cardiac and skeletal muscles of the skink and the chameleon. THE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY 1982; 220:289-95. [PMID: 7086386 DOI: 10.1002/jez.1402200304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Two lizards--a skink capable of fast short dashes, and a chameleon, incapable of fast movement--have been studied to determine the degree of metabolic diversity that exists in this group of reptiles. Oxygen uptake measurements, skeletal muscle histochemistry, and enzyme and metabolite levels in cardiac and skeletal muscles reveal that the skink has a higher metabolic potential, both aerobic and anaerobic, than the chameleon. The difference, however, is not as large as is indicated by the behaviors of the two lizards. Levels of citrate synthase and B-hydroxybutaryl CoA dehydrogenase in the hearts of both the lizards are high and indicate mammalian-level metabolic capabilities.
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Dunn JF, Davison W, Maloiy GM, Hochachka PW, Guppy M. An ultrastructural and histochemical study of the axial musculature in the African lungfish. Cell Tissue Res 1981; 220:599-609. [PMID: 6457691 DOI: 10.1007/bf00216763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Red, intermediate, and white axial muscle fibres of African lungfish were studied using histochemical techniques and electron microscopy. Gross dissection revealed the presence of a small wedge of red coloured muscle along the lateral line. This wedge was shown by histochemical demonstrations of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, of adenosine triphosphatases, and of lipid to be composed of a mosaic of red and intermediate fibres measuring 23.63 and 34.30 micrometer in average diameter, respectively. The bulk of the myotome was composed of white fibres having an average diameter of 67.35 micrometer. Mitochondrial density, capillarity and lipid content were very low for all fibres. These data suggest that the axial musculature is geared primarily for anaerobic function. The mosaic arrangement of fibres, and the lack of a subsarcolemmal band of mitochondria suggests that the lungfish have a muscle organisation that is transitional between lower vertebrates and amphibians.
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