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MOLECULAR NUTRITION & FOOD RESEARCH
Volume 58, Issue 9, Pages 1883-1896Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.201400078
Keywords
In vitro gastrointestinal digestion; Malondialdehyde; Meat consumption; N-nitroso compounds; O-6-carboxymethylguanine
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- Federal Public Service of Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment [RT 11/6250 MEATNOX]
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Scope: Epidemiological and clinical studies have demonstrated that the consumption of red haem-rich meat may contribute to the risk of colorectal cancer. Two hypotheses have been put forward to explain this causal relationship, i.e. N-nitroso compound (NOC) formation and lipid peroxidation (LPO). Methods and Results: In this study, the NOC-derived DNA adduct O-6-carboxymethylguanine (O-6-CMG) and the LPO product malondialdehyde (MDA) were measured in individual in vitro gastrointestinal digestions of meat types varying in haem content (beef, pork, chicken). While MDA formation peaked during the in vitro small intestinal digestion, alkylation and concomitant DNA adduct formation was observed in seven (out of 15) individual colonic digestions using separate faecal inocula. From those, two haem-rich meat digestions demonstrated a significantly higher O-6-CMG formation (p < 0.05). MDA concentrations proved to be positively correlated (p < 0.0004) with haem content of digested meat. The addition of myoglobin, a haem-containing protein, to the digestive simulation showed a dose-response association with O-6-CMG (p = 0.004) and MDA (p = 0.008) formation. Conclusion: The results suggest the haem-iron involvement for both the LPO and NOC pathway during meat digestion. Moreover, results unambiguously demonstrate that DNA adduct formation is very prone to inter-individual variation, suggesting a person-dependent susceptibility to colorectal cancer development following haem-rich meat consumption.
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