Heneicosapentaenoic acid, a metabolite resulting from the α‐oxidation of α‐Hydroxy‐Docosahexaenoic Acid, exerts neuroprotection against Alzheimer’s disease and reduces astrocytic mitochondrial activity

Joan Cabot, Sebastià Parets, Marc Miralles, Laura Trujillo‐Estrada, Antonia Gutierrez, Paula Fernández‐García, Victoria Lladó, Pablo V Escriba, Manuel Torres · 2025

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Joan Cabot and co-authors published a research paper in 2025 on a fat-based compound and the breakdown product that may carry its brain-guarding effect. The source compound, built from a fish oil fat, had already helped cells and mice with Alzheimer's-like changes. Inside the body it is trimmed into a shorter fat, and the team tested that product head-on.

Mice bred for the disease got daily doses by mouth for four months, then ran a maze test. Both the source and its product were tracked in cells and in the mice. The product shielded nerve cells from a toxic flood of signals and calmed the power plants of support cells. The work pins down which form does the guarding.

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CREATORJoan Cabot, Sebastià Parets, Marc Miralles, Laura Trujillo‐Estrada, Antonia Gutierrez, Paula Fernández‐García, Victoria Lladó, Pablo V Escriba, Manuel Torres
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE3 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11712663

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