Fish oil-supplemented parenteral diets normalize splanchnic blood flow and improve killing of translocated bacteria in a low-dose endotoxin rat model

Abstract

In this model, diets enriched with fish oil abolish the endotoxin-induced decrease of nutritive blood flow to the gut and ameliorate the bactericidal defense of the splanchnic region. The lower count of viable bacteria in the fish oil groups is more related to an improved killing of translocated bacteria than a reduction of the translocation rate.