Patent Application: US-59537908-A

Abstract:
the present invention relates to monitoring of oxidative metabolism and is , particularly , directed to a method for the estimation of lipid peroxide load or the consequent inflammatory state of a subject by measuring the concentration of oxidized hdl lipids of said subject . in addition , the invention is also directed to methods for elimination of lipid peroxidation products , and attenuation of the resulting oxidative stress and inflammatory state in human body , by increasing the lipid peroxide transporting capacity of hdl .

Description:
each hdl particle contains phospholipids , cholesteryl esters , triglycerides and free cholesterol , as well as peripheral ( apolipoproteins c ) and integral ( apolipoprotein a ) protein moieties . the lipid and apolipoprotein c moieties of hdl are in continuous dynamic change between other lipoprotein particles , peripheral tissues and the liver , while the integral apolipoprotein a remains the same throughout the lifespan of the hdl particle . measurement of “ hdl oxidation ” can be based on determination of oxidized hdl lipids or , alternatively , oxidatively modified apolipoprotein a . when the measurement is based on oxidized hdl lipids , it is indicative of the overall lipid peroxide load in the body ( indicated by the total amount of lipid peroxides carried by hdl ) and , at the same time , of the lipid peroxide transporting capacity of hdl ( indicated by the amount of lipid peroxides per hdl particle ). on the contrary , quantification of oxidative modifications of apolipoprotein a is indicative of protein - modifying free radical activity in vessel wall . thus , even though the term “ oxidized hdl ” can be applied to both ways of determining hdl oxidation , the biological mechanisms of which they are indicative , are not the same . based on the data presented in this application , measurement of oxidized hdl lipids can be used for the estimation of lipid peroxide load , the resulting oxidative stress and inflammatory state . the measurement of oxidized hdl lipids can thus be applied for diagnosis , follow - up of treatment and study of lipid peroxide - related physiological and pathophysiological conditions , such as ageing , neurodegeneration , atherosclerosis , cancer , diabetes and cataract . in addition , the measurement of oxidized hdl lipids can thus be applied for diagnosis , follow - up of treatment and study of inflammation - related physiological and pathophysiological conditions , such as rheumatoid arthritis , inflammatory bowel disease ( including crohn &# 39 ; s disease ), inflammatory skin diseases , hiv / aids , atherosclerosis and autoimmune disorders . furthermore , based on the data presented in this application , strengthening of the lipid peroxide transporting capacity of hdl can thus be used for the prevention and treatment of lipid peroxide - related pathophysiological conditions , such as neurodegeneration , atherosclerosis , cancer , diabetes and cataract , and also for the prevention and treatment of inflammation - related pathophysiological conditions , such as rheumatoid arthritis , inflammatory bowel disease ( including crohn &# 39 ; s disease ), inflammatory skin diseases , hiv / aids , atherosclerosis and autoimmune disorders . for the analysis of oxidized hdl lipids , hdl may first have to be isolated from serum or plasma samples . this is typically carried out , e . g ., with the use of precipitation methods ( such as use of the phosphotungstic acid ), centrifugation methods , methods based on lipoprotein density or electrophoretic mobility of hdl . oxidized hdl lipids can be assayed by the diene conjugation method , as thiobarbituric acid reactants , as malondialdehyde , isoprostanes , oxidized cholesterol or oxidized phospholipids . for analysis of oxidative lipid modifications of hdl , immunological methods may also be used , which are based on the use of specific antibodies recognizing various lipid oxidation - specific epitopes . the lipid peroxide transporting capacity of hdl can be strengthened by increasing the concentration of hdl , by increasing the amount or activity of the cholesterol transfer protein , or by enhancing the lipid peroxide sequestering capacity of the hdl particles . the concentration of hdl can be increased by life style - dependent factors , drugs , or by dietary means . hdl - increasing life style - dependent factors include physical exercise , weight loss and smoking cessation . hdl increasing drugs are typically those that have been designed to treat lipid disorders , including niacin , cholesterylamine , gemfibrozil , statins and sobetirome . dietary means for increasing hdl concentration include cutting ingestion of trans fats , increasing the proportion of polyunsaturated fatty acids and fiber in the diet , increasing the consumption of fruits , vegetables and legumes . the dietary means for increasing hdl concentration also include functional foods , where the effects are due to specific hdl - affecting ingredients . the lipid peroxide sequestering capacity of hdl particles may be enhanced by modifying the amounts or relative proportions of native lipids in various hdl lipid classes . the amounts and relative proportions of the native lipids in various hdl lipid classes can be modified by drugs affecting lipid metabolism , or by dietary means . the dietary means include supplements , or functional foods , with lipids or lipid precursors as the active ingredients . subjects in the first study were male , top national level endurance runners ( n = 24 ), who performed a maximal treadmill test . subjects in the second study were healthy volunteers of both sexes ( n = 13 ), who consumed a standard meal rich in lipid peroxides . subjects in the third study were healthy volunteers of both sexes ( n = 62 ), who participated in a cross - sectional study on atherosclerosis risk factors . subjects in the fourth study were normolipidemic healthy volunteers ( n = 2 ), reportedly having no detectable inflammatory disorders during the past 2 months . the subjects performed a maximal run , which consisted of a velocity - incremented continuous treadmill run . the duration of each stage of the test was 2 min , whereafter the velocity was increased by 1 km / h for each consecutive stage until exhaustion . blood samples were taken before , immediately after , as well as 15 and 90 minutes after the exercise . before the study the subjects were asked to maintain their normal lifestyle habits and not to make any changes to the diet or in the physical activity . the test subjects had a standardized breakfast in the morning at 8 o &# 39 ; clock . the subjects were not allowed to eat anything until 11 o &# 39 ; clock when the baseline ( oh ) blood sample was drawn . after the baseline blood sample , subjects consumed a standard hamburger meal and 4 dl of fruit juice . further blood samples were taken at 30 , 60 , 120 , 240 and 360 min time points after baseline measurement . the subjects were not allowed to eat , but they were allowed to drink water during the 6 h test period . the subjects were given ibuprofen ( burana ®, orion , espoo , finland ) as the anti - inflammatory treatment for 3 consecutive days at a dose of 3 × 400 mg . blood samples were taken at 9 o &# 39 ; clock in the morning on days 0 ( baseline value ), 1 , 2 and 3 . oxidized hdl lipids were measured by the spectrophotometric diene conjugation method in lipids extracted from isolated hdl . isolation of hdl from serum samples was based on phosphotungstic acid precipitation . after isolation of hdl , lipids were extracted and the spectrophotometric analysis performed as described for oxidized ldl lipids 7 . the coefficients of variation ( cv ) for the assay ( within - and between - assay precisions ) were & lt ; 5 %. hplc analysis was performed with a shimadzu 10advp . luna 5μ silica column , 250 × 4 . 6 mm , was used . detection of oxidized hdl lipids was based on uv detector operating at 234 nm . the eluent was 4 % propanol in hexane , and the flow rate was 1 ml / min . lipid classes were located by the hplc elution volume correlations with standard samples . oxidized ldl lipids were measured by determining the level of baseline ldl diene conjugation . in brief , serum ldl cholesterol was isolated by precipitation with buffered heparin . lipids were extracted from the samples and the amount of peroxidized lipids in samples was determined by degree of conjugated diene double bonds analyzed spectrophotometrically at 234 nm 3 . the coefficients of variation ( cv ) for the assay ( within - and between - assay precisions ) were & lt ; 4 . 5 %. cholesterol ( hdl and ldl ) was measured using standard enzymatic methods ( roche diagnostics gmbh , mannheim , germany ). hdl cholesterol concentration was measured after phosphotungstic acid precipitation . in the first study ( physical exercise ) serum malondialdehyde was determined as total ( free and protein - bound ) malondialdehyde converted to the 2 , 4 - dinitrophenyl - hydrazine derivative . the assay was performed with hplc with 1 , 1 , 3 , 3 - tetraethoxypropane as the standard . in the fourth study ( anti - inflammatory treatment ) malondialdehyde concentration was determined spectrophotometrically as thiobarbituric acid reactants . as a measure of lipid peroxides , malondialdehyde differs from ( hdl and ldl ) diene conjugation in that the former merely represents hydrophilic end products of lipid peroxidation , while the latter are hydrophobic primary products of peroxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids . total peroxyl radical trapping antioxidant potential ( trap ) was estimated ex vivo by the potency of serum samples to resist abap - induced peroxidation . trolox served as a standard radical scavenger . antioxidant vitamin ( α - tocopherol , γ - tocopherol , β - carotene , retinol , ubiquinol - 10 ) concentrations were analyzed by standard hplc procedures with uv - detection . the aim of the first study was to investigate the lipid peroxide transporting function of ldl and hdl , the main carriers of endogenous lipids , under conditions of increased lipid peroxidation in human body in vivo . physical exercise is known to increase lipid peroxidation , especially in actively functioning muscle tissues . the maximal treadmill test in the present study clearly elevated lipid peroxide levels of subjects , as verified by the increased concentration of the peroxidation indicator , malondialdehyde ( before run mda : 1 . 72 ± 0 . 71 ; after run 2 . 41 ± 1 . 12 μmol / l ). concentration of oxidized hdl lipids , and the ratio of oxidized hdl lipids / hdl cholesterol , increased substantially during the exercise , and were elevated still 90 min after the treadmill test ( fig2 ). opposite to this , the concentration of oxidized ldl lipids , and the ratio of oxidized ldl lipids / ldl cholesterol were not increased by exercise ( fig3 ). on the contrary , there was a decreasing trend in the concentration of oxidized ldl lipids 90 min after the exercise . hplc analysis showed that the exercise - induced oxidized hdl lipids were almost exclusively cholesteryl esters , with a minor contribution from the oxidized phospholipid fraction ( fig4 ). the increase in oxidized hdl was not due to impairment of antioxidant functions , since serum total antioxidant capacity ( trap ) of subjects rather increased during the exercise , and no decreases were seen in the concentrations of antioxidant vitamins . in the second study , another physiological experimental model was used , where the levels of lipid peroxides were increased due to ingestion of peroxide - rich food . for this purpose , human volunteers ( n = 13 ) consumed a standard hamburger meal ( containing a total of 1300 μmol of lipid peroxides ); blood samples were taken before and 30 , 60 , 120 , 240 and 360 min after the meal . in parallel with physiological absorption mechanisms , concentrations of the water - soluble lipid peroxidation product , malondialdehyde , increased rapidly due to the meal , the peak concentration being at 30 min after meal ( 32 %, p = 0 . 001 ; fig5 ). the lipid soluble peroxidation products in hdl increased slowly , and were highest at the last time point , 6 hours after consumption of the meal ( 22 %, p = 0 . 002 ; fig6 ). this was another demonstration of the fact that hdl responds to elevated lipid peroxide concentrations by increasing the peroxide transport . as an extension to this finding , the physiological significance of the peroxide removing function of hdl was further investigated . for this purpose , individuals with high / low basal hdl levels were compared to each other in the “ peroxide - rich meal ” model . it has been earlier found in this model that the amount of peroxidized lipids rise both in triglyceride rich fraction and ldl , reaching peak values 2 to 4 hours after the meal , whereafter the values gradually return to premeal levels . the peroxide - rich meal - induced increase in oxidized ldl lipids is potentially atherogenic , correlating strongly with bmi and insulin resistance . subjects of the present study were divided into high and low hdl - cholesterol groups , and they were compared to each other with regard to the meal - induced effects on oxidized ldl lipids ( expressed as the incremental area under the curve [ iauc 6 h ] concentration of oxidized ldl lipids ). it was found that among subjects with low basal hdl , the meal - induced rise in oxidized ldl lipids was significantly higher compared to those with high basal hdl ( table 1 ). it should be noted that the basal hdl level did not affect the postprandial elevation ( iauc 6 h ) of triglyceride concentrations ( table 1 ). this finding is indicative of the fact that the lipid - peroxide removing function of hdl is significant for the clearance of lipid peroxidation products from the body . together , the above results show that the human body responds to increased presence of peroxidized lipids by transporting via hdl the excess of peroxidation products from tissues . this is a novel finding and demonstration of the fact that hdl acts as a physiological vehicle in the elimination of peroxidized lipids . this means that by measuring the concentration of oxidized hdl lipids it is possible to have a direct and accurate measure of the level of lipid peroxide - dependent oxidative state in tissues . this also means that the capacity of hdl to transport lipid peroxidation products is important for the body clearance of lipid peroxides and , hence , for the risk of lipid peroxide - related diseases . previous in vitro studies have shown that the intracellular peroxidized lipids are related to the inflammatory state at a cellular level . the aim of the third study was to investigate whether the concentration of oxidized hdl lipids would correlate with the inflammatory state in the body . for this purpose , the inflammation marker crp was analyzed in serum samples from 62 healthy volunteers , and compared to oxidized lipoprotein lipid and serum lipid concentrations . it was found that crp correlated with oxidized hdl lipids , but not with the oxidized ldl lipids , nor with the conventional serum lipids : total , ldl - and hdl - cholesterol or triglycerides ( table 2 ). the analyses were made in serum samples collected from 62 healthy 24 - 39 year old volunteers . this data show that the concentration of oxidized hdl lipids is related to the level of hscrp , but hscrp does not correlate with oxidized ldl lipids , nor with the conventional lipids . a further analysis of the same study population was done by dividing the subjects into low , medium and high tertiles according to their oxidized lipoprotein lipid concentrations . the data showed that the levels of oxidized hdl lipids and crp were closely related , while no such relation was found for crp and oxidized ldl lipids ( table 3 ). the analyses were made in serum samples collected from 62 healthy 24 - 39 year old volunteers . the study population was divided into six groups according to the oxidized lipoprotein lipid concentrations . the mean (± sd ) oxidized hdl and ldl concentrations of the low , medium and high tertiles , as well as the mean hscrp concentrations of the same individuals , are shown in the table . the data show that the levels of oxidized hdl lipids and hscrp are closely related . no such relation is found for crp and oxidized ldl lipids . in the fourth study , human volunteers were treated with the anti - inflammatory drug burana ®. in support of the working hypothesis , anti - inflammatory treatment decreased both the total amount of oxidized hdl lipids and the ratio of oxidized hdl lipids / hdl cholesterol ( fig7 ). serum malondialdehyde concentration as well as the total antioxidant capacity remained unchanged . this result further confirms the fact that oxidized hdl lipids are related to the inflammatory state , and can be used for its estimation . 1 . stocker , r . & amp ; keaney , j . f . jr . 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