Lipids are susceptible to oxidation when exposed to free radicals. Polyunsaturated fatty acids are particularly vulnerable to lipid peroxidation resulting in cell damage. What are the harmful effects of lipid peroxidation on health?
The lipid peroxidation products are highly reactive and display marked biological effects, which, depending upon their concentration, cause selective alterations in cell signaling, protein and DNA damage, and cytotoxicity. Increased formation of lipid peroxides and aldehydes has been observed in atherosclerosis, ischemia-reperfusion, heart failure, Alzheimer’s disease, rheumatic arthritis, cancer, and other immunological disorders.
Article Lipid Peroxidation Products in Human Health and Disease
LOPs may penetrate cellular membranes, allowing their entry into particular intracellular sites/organelles where many critical metabolic processes occur.
Dear Dr. Manal Hadi Kanaan Thanks a lot for your kind contribution and valuable replies on the deleterious effects of lipid peroxidation on health. Many thanks also for sharing valuable links that enriched this discussion. My sincere gratitude.
Peroxidation of lipids can disturb the assembly of the membrane, causing changes in fluidity and permeability, alterations of ion transport and inhibition of metabolic processes. Injure to mitochondria induced by lipid peroxidation can direct to further ROS generation.
Lipid peroxidation has been implicated in various diseases and pathological conditions, such as carcinogenesis, cardiovascular diseases, neurodegeneration, etc. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3834518/
The lipid peroxidation (LPO) products are highly reactive and display marked biological effects, which, depending upon their concentration, cause selective alterations in cell signaling, protein and DNA damage, and cytotoxicity. https://www.hindawi.com/journals/omcl/2013/583438/
Dear Dr Chinaza Godswill Awuchi Many thanks for your kind contribution and valuable replies with regard to adverse consequences of lipid peroxidation. Also, sharing valuable links that greatly enriched the discussion is gratefully acknowledged. My sincere gratitude.
Free radicals (OH, NO, CO), superoxide and ONOO- ions are generated as a byproduct of Oxidative Phosphorylation in the mitochondrial ETC and cause lipid peroxidation of PUFA in almost any live cell membrane to induce their structural and functional breakdown. These ROS are implicated in NDDs, CVDs, malignancies, microbial infections, ionization radiation injuries, burns, and numerous inflammatory diseases.
I wish I could write in detail. Since we have high conc of lipids in the CNS, free radical induced lipid peroxidation occurs in the CNS more frequently particularly duiring Stroke, PD, AD, and ALS, in addition to CVDs and Cardiorespiratory arrest causing fatality.
Free radical induced lipid peroxidation in response to DPCI is involved in Charnoly Body formation implicated in numerous acute and chronic diseases in addition to multiple organ failure and fatality due to systemic toximia, hypercytokinemia, and hyperthermia.
You may refer to my recent books "The Charnoly Body, A Novel Biomarker of Mitochondrial Bioenergetics and Charnolophagy in Health and Disease, published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, U.S.A.
Dear Dr. Sushil Sharma. Many thanks indeed for your kind contribution and valuable as well as comprehensive reply with regard to lipid peroxidation. My sincere gratitude.
Dear DR. Salman Kadhum Ajlan The peroxidation of membrane lipids can disturb the assembly of cell membranes, which inevitably will impact membrane fluidity, lipid-lipid, and lipid-protein interaction dynamics, membrane permeability, physicochemical properties, ion, and nutrient transport, membrane-initiated signaling pathways, and metabolic processes leading to cell death.
Dear Dr Salman Kadhum Ajlan . Enhanced formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) leads to tissue dysfunction and damage in a number of pathological conditions. Therefore, products of lipid oxidation can extend and propagate the responses and injury initiated by ROS. See the useful RG link:
Article Lipid Peroxidation Products in Human Health and Disease
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Peroxidation of lipids can disturb the assembly of the membrane, causing changes in fluidity and permeability, inhibition of metabolic processes, causing selective alterations in cell signaling, protein and DNA damage, and cytotoxicity. Injure to mitochondria induced by lipid peroxidation can direct further ROS generation.