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Modification of hepatic vitamin E stores in vivo. II. Alterations in plasma and liver vitamin E content by 1,2-dibromoethane.

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:Previous studies with methyl ethyl ketone peroxide (MEKP), a radical generator, showed depletion of plasma vitamin E and liver glutathione (GSH) levels prior to a decrease of liver vitamin E levels. Since hepatic pools of this vitamin may serve to maintain circulating levels of vitamin E under conditions of oxidative challenge, we have evaluated the similarity of response after treatment with 1,2-dibromoethane (DBE), a compound that is not known to generate oxyradicals or to induce lipid peroxidation in vivo. Treatment of normal rats with DBE caused a depletion in hepatic vitamin E levels 1 day after treatment; however, in contrast to our prior findings with MEKP this depletion after DBE treatment was observed in tandem with elevations in the plasma content of vitamin E. Liver vitamin E depletion was neither dependent upon a sustained liver GSH depletion nor upon hepatocellular death. Mobilization and export of hepatic vitamin E did not result in an immediate whole body redistribution of this vitamin in that pulmonary and renal levels of vitamin E remained normal under conditions of liver vitamin E depletion. Moreover, the stimulus that resulted in exportation of liver vitamin E was maintained by daily treatments with DBE. DBE caused a substantial elevation above control values in liver GSH content and these elevations were also maintained by daily DBE treatments. In experiments to assess the influence of prandial replacement of vitamin E on the extent of depletion in response to DBE treatment, rats were fed a vitamin E-deficient diet for 2 days prior to treatment. This short pulse of a vitamin E-deficient diet delayed (to 2 days) both the elevation in liver GSH content and the depletion of liver vitamin E and hastened (to 1 day) the elevation in plasma vitamin E concentration. These observations suggest the presence of at least two pools of liver vitamin E and that one of these pools, which comprises at least 30% of the total hepatic vitamin E content, is able to be mobilized and exported in response to chemical challenge. The stimulus that resulted in liver vitamin E exportation in response to DBE treatment seems to result from wholly intrahepatic processes and may not be a direct response to lipid peroxidation. Moreover, the similarity between the time-course and the extent of hepatic vitamin E depletion observed after treatment with either MEKP or DBE suggests a similarity in physiochemical processes that function to mobilize hepatic vitamin E stores.

journal_name

Arch Biochem Biophys

journal_title

Archives of biochemistry and biophysics

authors

Warren DL,Brown MK,Reed DJ

doi

10.1016/0003-9861(91)90218-8

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1991-08-01 00:00:00

pages

440-8

issue

eissn

0003-9861

issn

1096-0384

pii

0003-9861(91)90218-8

journal_volume

288

pub_type

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Modification of hepatic vitamin E stores in vivo. II. Alterations in plasma and liver vitamin E content by 1,2-dibromoethane.