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1 Center for Oral Health Research, College of Dentistry, 159 HSRB, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0305, USA; and
2 Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
* corresponding author, knlaks0{at}uky.edu
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ABSTRACT |
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)-3 fatty acids (FA) dietary supplementation would modulate inflammatory reactions leading to periodontal disease in infected rats. Rats were fed fish oil (-3 FA) or corn oil (n-6 FA) diets for 22 weeks and were infected with P. gingivalis. Rats on the -3 FA diet exhibited elevated serum levels of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), documenting diet-induced changes. PCR analyses demonstrated that rats were orally colonized by P. gingivalis; increased IgG antibody levels substantiated this infection. P. gingivalis-infected rats treated with -3 FA had significantly less alveolar bone resorption. These results demonstrated the effectiveness of an -3 FA-supplemented diet in modulating alveolar bone resorption following P. gingivalis infection, and supported that -3 FA may be a useful adjunct in the treatment of periodontal disease. Abbreviations: PUFA, polyunsaturated fatty acid; EPA, eicosapentanoic acid; DHA, docosahexanoic acid; and PCR, polymerase chain-reaction.
KEY WORDS: P. gingivalis • -3 PUFA • periodontal disease • alveolar bone loss • IgG antibody
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INTRODUCTION |
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Dietary fish oil has been demonstrated to: protect mice against infection with numerous extracellular bacterial pathogens, regulate serum triglycerides and cholesterol levels, inhibit synthesis of lipid mediators of inflammation (PGE2, arachidonic acid, cyclo-oxygenase, 5-lipoxygenase), alter cellular functions of polymorphonuclear leukocytes, modulate lymphocyte proliferation and cytokine production, and increase endogenous host anti-oxidant capacity, e.g., SOD and catalase (Alam et al., 1991; Blok et al., 1992; Fernandes and Venkataraman, 1993). These effects have been proposed to account for the potent anti-inflammatory properties of omega ()-3 fatty acids (FA) in human, non-human primate, and rodent disease models. While much of the attention over the last decades has focused on the beneficial effects of fish oil, particularly the -3 FA components, on a variety of chronic inflammatory diseases (cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis), few studies have examined its effects on the chronic immuno-inflammatory lesions of periodontal disease. In a recent study, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), principal -3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) present in fish oil, were shown to decrease osteoclast activation in vitro (Sun et al., 2003). Campan et al.(1996, 1997) reported that human experimental gingivitis appeared to be modified by -3 FA, although no definitive conclusions were provided. It has also been reported that the n-6 PUFA levels in the serum are higher in periodontitis patients, suggesting that an imbalance between n-6 and n-3 fatty acids may contribute to susceptibility to oral bone loss (Requirand et al., 2000). Topical application of n-3 or n-6 fatty acids failed to inhibit the development of experimental gingivitis (Eberhard et al., 2002), although Rosenstein et al.(2003) suggested that dietary fatty acid supplementation in adult periodontitis correlated with an improvement in gingival inflammation. Treatment of rats with fish oil significantly reduced osteoclasts and pre-osteoclasts following pulp exposure (Indahyani et al., 2002), significantly reduced the gingival tissue levels of lipid inflammatory mediators in LPS-induced experimental periodontitis (Vardar et al., 2004), and reduced osteoclastic activity and alveolar bone resorption, suggesting that this model may be useful in exploring host-bacterial interactions leading to periodontitis (Iwami-Morimoto et al., 1999). The hypothesis tested in this investigation was that a fish-oil-supplemented diet would modulate the host response to oral P. gingivalis infection, determined by decreased alveolar bone resorption in rats.
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Animals and Diets
Female Sprague-Dawley rats (8–9 wks old, Harlan, Indianapolis, IN, USA) were maintained in groups (n = 2) housed under microisolator conditions and fed standard pelleted chow (Harlan Teklad) and H2O ad libitum during acclimation (1 wk). All procedures were performed in accordance with the approved guidelines set forth by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at the University of Kentucky. The diets were prepared according to the American Institute of Nutrition diet AIN-76A (Rao et al., 2001; Dyets Inc., Bethlehem, PA, USA), with the addition of 17% menhaden/3% corn oil (fish oil diet) and 5% corn oil only (corn oil diet). An aliquot of the diets was also analyzed by Dyets Inc. for fatty acid composition. The total diet composition is available at www.dyets.com. The corn oil (CO) diet contained 60% n-6 linoleic acid, whereas the fish oil (FO) diet contained high levels (24.6%) of -3 PUFA (EPA and DHA). These diets were received in bulk, repackaged into small air-tight packets (1 packet/day/group), and stored at –20°C. All diets were supplemented with equal amounts of vitamin E to minimize peroxidative damage during storage. Following acclimation, rats were randomized into fish oil and corn oil groups and were provided the appropriate diet for 8 wks until antibiotic administration and P. gingivalis infection (Fig. 1
). Groups of rats infected with P. gingivalis 381 (n = 21, FO; n = 20, CO) or strain A7A1-28 (n = 21, FO; n = 20, CO) were compared with control uninfected rats (n = 13). Rats were continued on fish and corn oil diets ad libitum for the duration of the experiment. Leftover diet from the previous day was discarded to minimize oxidation of lipids.
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). Oral microbial samples from anesthetized rats were collected by means of sterile cotton swabs at 1, 5, 9, and 11 wks post-infection. The swabs were suspended in 300 µL of Tris-EDTA (TE) buffer. Blood was collected, and sera were stored at –20°C for IgG antibody analysis. Rats were killed; skulls were removed, autoclaved, and defleshed, and maxillae and mandibles were hemisected and trimmed for radiographic evaluation of alveolar bone loss.
P. gingivalis Identification
The oral microbial samples were boiled in TE buffer with an equal volume of 1 N NaOH, and DNA was dissolved in 40 µL of sterile distilled water. PCR was carried out in 50 µL volume with 10 pM of primer, 1 mM of each deoxynucleotide triphosphate, and 1.5 mM MgCl2. A two-unit quantity of Taq DNA polymerase (Invitrogen Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA, USA) in the manufacturer’s buffer was used with a GeneAmp PCR System. The PCR oligonucleotide species-specific primers for both strains used 16S rDNA for P. gingivalis: (forward) 5' GGT AAG TCA GCG GTG AAA CC 3' and (reverse) 5' ACG TCA TCC ACA CCT TCC TC 3'. After denaturation at 94°C for 5 min, 35 PCR cycles were performed, with each cycle consisting of 30 sec of denaturation at 94°C, 30 sec of annealing at 55°C, and 60 sec of polymerization at 72°C and final extension at 72°C for 7 min. PCR products were analyzed by 1.5% agarose gel electrophoresis and stained with ethidium bromide for detection of a 601-bp product.
Fatty Acid Composition of Serum
A 100-µL quantity of serum, collected at the end of the study period, was used for the extraction of total lipids, with oxidation prevented by the addition of butylated hydroxytoluene. The organic phase containing total lipid was dried under a stream of nitrogen, and the residue was methylated (Bhattacharya et al., 2003). Fatty acid methyl esters were separated by gas-liquid chromatography and identified and quantified by comparison of retention times with fatty acid methyl ester standards (68A; Nu Chek, Elysian, MN, USA) (Bhattacharya et al., 2003).
Radiographic Assessment of Alveolar Bone Resorption
We trimmed the hemisected maxillae and mandibles to reduce the bucco-lingual dimensions to allow the teeth to be close to the radiographic film. Each jaw was secured, by means of rope wax, to Kodak Ultra Speed size 2 films (Kodak, Rochester, NY, USA), and a Planmeca Prostyle Intra x-ray unit (Planmeca, Roselle, IL, USA) was placed at a right angle to the film. Each jaw was radiographed with an exposure time of 0.05 sec at a setting of 70 KvP and 8 mA. Radiographs were analyzed for alveolar bone height, with decreased bone level (i.e., resorption) as the primary outcome parameter of the study. We used radiographs projected at a 5x size to obtain linear measures from the CEJ to the bone height at mesial and distal interproximal surfaces (2 sites per tooth) of each of the 2 molars and 1 premolar in each quadrant (Reed and Polson, 1984). So that comparability of the results could be ensured, the measures were determined by investigators blinded as to the group designation and routinely calibrated with a set of standard radiographs from the rats. The summation of bone resorption in mm was tabulated and analyzed for intra- and inter-group differences.
Statistical Analysis
Descriptive evaluation of the alveolar bone and antibody data are presented as mean ± SD. Statistically significant differences between the groups were determined by ANOVA and the Holm-Sidak post hoc multiple-comparisons test (SigmaStat 3.0, SYSTAT Software Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) for normally distributed data. Data determined to be non-normal were analyzed by the Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA on ranks, and multiple comparisons were adjusted by Dunn’s method (SigmaStat 3.0).
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RESULTS |
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). Moreover, the n-6/n-3 ratio was significantly decreased in the fish-oil-fed rats, consistent with an elevated peroxidizability index, and supporting the likelihood of a decreased oxidative stress/lower inflammatory environment in the treated animals.
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) demonstrated that nearly all rats were infected with the strains of P. gingivalis during the experimental period. Moreover, the oral infection elicited significant levels of serum IgG antibody in all groups (homologous, Fig. 2) compared with uninfected control animals. As would be expected, there was also substantial cross-reactivity of antibody elicited by the 2 strains (x-reactive, Fig. 2).
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). P. gingivalis-infected rats fed a fish oil diet enriched in -3 FA demonstrated significantly decreased alveolar bone resorption around both mandiblular and maxillary teeth, compared with rats fed the corn oil diet, with alveolar bone levels in the fish-oil-treated animals being comparable with those in the control uninfected rats.
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DISCUSSION |
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-3 FA dietary supplementation altered the serum fatty acid profile of rats, with increased levels of EPA and DHA, both having been shown to possess anti-inflammatory properties (Geusens et al., 1994). The literature is replete with evidence supporting that EPA/DHA composition in serum reflects changes, in the membranes of most cells (Alam et al., 1991; Kitajka et al., 2002), which alter their functional properties. As examples, EPA, DHA, fish oil, and linoleic acid have been shown to regulate/activate several genes—such as fatty acid synthase, hormone-sensitive lipase, lipoprotein-lipase, phosphoenol-pyruvate carboxy-kinase, and CCAAT/enhancer binding protein 
and leptin mRNA levels—in rat adipose tissues (Raclot et al., 1997), genes controlling synaptic plasticity, and cytoskeleton and signal transduction in the rat hippocampus (Kitajka et al., 2002), and increased transthyretin transcription in the rat hippocampus (Puskas et al., 2003). Thus, it might be expected that both resident cells and infiltrating inflammatory/immune cells in gingival tissues would also reflect functional alterations. This study demonstrated our ability to colonize rats orally with 2 strains of P. gingivalis for an extended 12-week interval and determined the resulting alveolar bone resorption. The microbial plaque samples showed oral infection with this pathogen. Four observations were derived from serum IgG antibody levels to P. gingivalis: (1) Significant increases in serum IgG antibody provided additional evidence of oral infection; (2) a systemic response to the oral infection confirmed a challenge to the systemic immune apparatus; (3) the IgG antibodies demonstrated some cross-reactivity for each of these strains, as would be expected based upon previous immune response data (Kesavalu et al., 1992); and (4) IgG antibody levels in the fish-oil-fed rats demonstrated a consistent trend toward lower levels than in the corn oil groups. These findings suggest that the fish-oil-fed animals were more resistant to colonization and/or expansion of P. gingivalis in the oral cavity, or that decreasing the localized inflammatory response to infection dampened the resulting acquired immune response to the infection. The non-quantitative PCR procedure used to document P. gingivalis colonization/infection from plaque samples in this study cannot address variations in the level of P. gingivalis infection; however, future studies incorporating real-time quantitative PCR could potentially discriminate and quantitate the bacteria detected in the oral microbial samples. Moreover, extension of these studies will provide evidence to demonstrate the characteristics of host response regulation in gingival tissues (Ebersole et al., 2005).
Analysis of the data clearly demonstrates that, in rats, a fish-oil-enriched diet inhibited alveolar bone resorption resulting from P. gingivalis infection, when compared with rats on a corn oil diet. Moreover, this dietary supplementation strategy appeared to have a magnitude of effect such that the -3 FA groups had alveolar bone levels comparable with those in the uninfected animals. There have been numerous studies in animal models and humans suggesting that fish oil/-3 FA dietary supplements could be used to modulate chronic inflammatory responses and lesions in other diseases, e.g., rheumatoid arthritis (Geusens et al., 1994), and during osteoporosis in both ovariectomized and autoimmune-disease-prone mice (Sun et al., 2003; Bhattacharya et al., 2005). Data are rather limited with regard to anti-inflammatory molecules affecting chronic inflammation in periodontal disease, although a recent study showed that hyperlipidemia may be associated with periodontitis (Moeintaghavi et al. 2005), and a review of hyperlipidemia and periodontal disease in rats suggested that dietary lipids can modulate immune/inflammatory responses (Cutler and Iacopino, 2003). The ability for investigators to identify various dietary supplements that could modulate destructive localized gingival inflammatory responses would be an important contribution to the repertoire of therapies used to manage chronic periodontal disease. This report provides initial data suggesting an important utility for a dietary omega-3 FA treatment strategy in human periodontal disease. Further studies are required to determine critical anti-/pro-inflammatory mediators in gingival tissues that are modulated by the omega-3 FA-enriched fish oil supplements.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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Received September 28, 2005; Last revision March 30, 2006; Accepted April 25, 2006
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