Monkey myocardial lipidosis

These results appear to indicate that cardiac lipids of the pig do not respond to the feeding of high fat diets with or without docosenoic acids. The rat, on the other hand, after the initial acute myocardial lipidosis, appears to adapt after about 1 week to dietary docosenoic acids. The monkey does not appear to adapt well to high fat diets however, docosenoic acids do not appear to have any additional effects on total heart lipids or heart triglycerides. 

An earlier study done with squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) showed the presence of myocardial lipid droplets after 1 week on a diet which contained either HEAR oil or a lard/corn oil mixture (Beare-Rogers and Nera, 1972). After 10 weeks on the diet, more lipidosis was seen in the squirrel monkeys fed HEAR oil than in the ones that received the lard/corn oil mixture. 

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