Research Article
Hydroxyurea Therapy Mobilises Arachidonic Acid from Inner Cell Membrane Aminophospholipids in Patients with Homozygous Sickle Cell Disease
Table 4
Fatty acid composition of red blood cell sphingomyelin of HU-untreated (
) and treated (
) HbSS patients and HbAA healthy controls (
).
| Fatty acids | HbSS (untreated) | HbSS (treated) | HbAA (healthy control) |
| 16:0 | 21.1 ± 4.3* | 25.3 ± 3.5 | 26.1 ± 2.2++ | 18:0 | 8.7 ± 2.2* | 11.9 ± 3.5 | 11.3 ± 2.0++ | 20:0 | 2.0 ± 0.2 | 1.00 ± 0.2××× | 1.44 ± 0.2+++ | 22:0 | 8.1 ± 1.5* | 6.6 ± 1.3 | 7.6 ± 1.1 | 24:0 | 25.3 ± 4.8*** | 18.5 ± 2.9×× | 21.6 ± 2.6+ | ∑saturates | 63.9 ± 3.8 | 63.8 ± 3.1××× | 68.2 ± 1.4++ |
| 16:1n-7 | tr. | tr. | tr. | 18:1n-7 | 0.3 ± 0.1*** | 0.7 ± 0.1×× | 0.5 ± 0.1+++ | 18:1n-9 | 3.8 ± 1.9 | 3.4 ± 0.6××× | 2.0 ± 0.3++ | 24:1n-9 | 17.8 ± 3.6** | 14.2 ± 1.7 | 13.9 ± 1.7++ | ∑monoenes | 21.9 ± 2.8*** | 18.3 ± 2.0× | 16.5 ± 1.8+++ |
| 18:2n-6 | 2.1 ± 1.1 | 2.3 ± 0.6 | 2.0 ± 0.3 | 18:3n-6 | tr. | tr. | tr. | 20:2n-6 | 0.4 ± 0.3** | 0.1 ± 0.04×× | 0.09 ± 0.04++ | 20:3n-6 | 0.3 ± 0.1** | 0.5 ± 0.1×× | 0.3 ± 0.1 | 20:4n-6 | 3.7 ± 1.3* | 4.9 ± 1 | 5.1 ± 1.3++ | 22:4n-6 | 1.8 ± 1.0 | 2.0 ± 0.8× | 1.3 ± 0.4 | 22:5n-6 | 1.4 ± 0.6 | 1.3 ± 0.6 | 1.1 ± 0.3 | ∑metabolites | 7.5 ± 2.9 | 8.4 ± 1.9 | 7.9 ± 2.1 | ∑n-6 | 9.6 ± 3.5 | 10.8 ± 1.7 | 9.9 ± 2.2 |
| 18:3n-3 | tr. | tr. | tr. | 20:5n-3 | 0.11 ± 0.02*** | 0.07 ± 0.02 | 0.06 ± 0.02+++ | 22:5n-3 | 0.4 ± 0.2 | 0.45 ± 0.2 | 0.4 ± 0.1 | 22:6n-3 | 1.4 ± 0.7 | 1.8 ± 0.8 | 1.7 ± 0.6 | ∑metabolites | 1.9 ± 0.8 | 2.4 ± 0.9 | 2.1 ± 0.7 | ∑n-3 | 1.9 ± 0.8 | 2.4 ± 0.9 | 2.1 ± 0.7 |
| N6/N3 | 5.3 ± 1.6 | 5.3 ± 1.7 | 4.9 ± 1.1 |
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tr.: trace. HU-untreated versus treated HbSS patients: *, **, ***. HU-untreated HbSS patients versus HbAA healthy controls: +, ++, +++. HU-treated HbSS patients versus HbAA healthy controls: ×, ××, ×××.
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