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  • Title: Absorption and retention of selenium from intrinsically labeled egg and selenite as determined by stable isotope studies in humans.
    Author: Sirichakwal PP, Young VR, Janghorbani M.
    Journal: Am J Clin Nutr; 1985 Feb; 41(2):264-9. PubMed ID: 4038573.
    Abstract:
    A study was carried out with four healthy young adult men, consuming a self-selected diet, to investigate quantitative aspects of the gastrointestinal absorption, urinary excretion, and body retention of egg selenium in comparison with selenite. The approach involved simultaneous consumption of egg biologically labeled (intrinsic) with the stable isotope 74Se and a dose of selenite labeled with 76Se (extrinsic label). Four labeled test diets, given on days 6, 16, 26, and 36 of the study were employed, each differing in their protein source: test diet I, 74Se-labeled egg white; diet II, 74Se-labeled egg yolk (high labeling dose) plus balanced L-amino acid mixture; diet III, 74Se-labeled egg yolk (low labeling dose) plus balanced amino acid mixture; and diet IV, balanced amino acid mixture extrinsically labeled with both 74SeO32- and 76SeO32-. The latter diet was included to assess the magnitude of any cross-isotope methodological bias. Fractional absorption (means +/- SEM) for Diet IV was 0.771 +/- 0.010 for the 74SeO32- and 0.656 +/- 0.021 for the 76SeO32- (ratio: 0.851 +/- 0.020); reflecting a small overall cross-isotope bias. Accepting the measurements made with 74SeO32- as the more accurate, experimentally determined values of absorption for the extrinsic tag were adjusted accordingly. The corrected absorption for these diets (% of dose) was (mean +/- SEM; first value for intrinsic label, second value for extrinsic label): diet I, 54.1 +/- 0.7 and 55.4 +/- 2.2; diet II, 76.7 +/- 0.8 and 83.0 +/- 1.8; diet III, 79.0 +/- 1.5 and 85.2 +/- 4.0.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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