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  • Title: Effect of dietary vitamin E on antioxidant status and antioxidant enzyme activities in Sprague-Dawley rats.
    Author: Lii CK, Ko YJ, Chiang MT, Sung WC, Chen HW.
    Journal: Nutr Cancer; 1998; 32(2):95-100. PubMed ID: 9919618.
    Abstract:
    The effect of dietary vitamin E on plasma, red blood cells (RBC), hepatic antioxidant status, and antioxidant enzyme activities was investigated. Three groups of six Sprague-Dawley rats were fed 0, 100, or 1,500 ppm vitamin E for eight weeks. Plasma alpha-tocopherol level was increased significantly by increasing dietary vitamin E (p < 0.05). Plasma lipid peroxidation (thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances) stimulation by 1 mM t-butyl hydroperoxide was correlated with dietary vitamin E level and was significantly greater in rats fed no vitamin E than in rats fed 100 or 1,500 ppm vitamin E (p < 0.05). RBC reduced glutathione (GSH) level was positively correlated with dietary vitamin E and was significantly greater in rats fed 1,500 ppm vitamin E than in rats fed 0 or 100 ppm vitamin E (p < 0.05). RBC oxidized glutathione was negatively correlated with dietary vitamin E. GSH redox status was expressed as the GSH-to-total GSH ratio; the ratio was also positively correlated with dietary vitamin E and was significantly greater in rats fed 1,500 ppm vitamin E than in rats fed no vitamin E (p < 0.05). For antioxidant enzymes, superoxide dismutase activity in hepatic cytosolic fraction was significantly greater in rats fed 1,500 ppm vitamin E than in rats fed 100 ppm vitamin E. Hepatic GSH reductase activity was significantly greater in rats fed 100 ppm vitamin E than in rats fed no vitamin E (p < 0.05). Dietary vitamin E had no effect on plasma vitamin C and protein thiol levels. In the systems studied, results indicated that dietary vitamin E selectively influences plasma vitamin E level, RBC GSH status, and hepatic cytosolic superoxide dismutase and GSH reductase activities.
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