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PROSTAGLANDINS LEUKOTRIENES AND ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS
Volume 62, Issue 6, Pages 379-385Publisher
CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
DOI: 10.1054/plef.2000.0169
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The effect of intraperitoneal administration of alpha-tocopherol (100 mg/kg weight/24 h) on ascorbate (0-0.4 mM) induced lipid peroxidation of mitochondria isolated from rat liver, cerebral hemispheres, brain stem and cerebellum was examined. The ascorbate induced light emission in hepatic mitochondria was nearly completely inhibited by a-tocopherol (control-group: 114.32 +/- 14.4; vitamin E-group: 17.45 +/- 2.84, c.p.m. x 10(-4)). in brain mitochondria, 0.2 mM ascorbate produced the maximal chemiluminescence and significant differences among both groups were not observed. No significant differences in the chemiluminescence values between control and vitamin E treated groups were observed when the three brain regions were compared. The light emission produced by mitochondrial preparations was much higher in cerebral hemispheres than in brain stem and cerebellum. In liver and brain mitochondria from control group, the level of arachidonic acid (C20:4n6) and docosahexaenoic acid (C22:6n3) was profoundly affected. Docosahexaenoic in liver mitochondria from vitamin E group decreased by 30% upon treatment with ascorbic acid when compared with mitochondria lacking ascorbic acid. As a consequence of vitamin E treatment, a significant increase of C22:6n3 was detected in rat liver mitochondria (control-group: 6.42 +/- 0.12; vitamin E-group: 10.52 +/- 0.46). Ratios of the alpha-tocopherol concentrations in mitochondria from rats receiving vitamin E to those of control rats were as follows: liver, 7.79; cerebral hemispheres, 0.81; brain stem, 0.95; cerebellum, 1.05. In liver mitochondria, vitamin E shows a protector effect on oxidative damage. In addition, vitamin E concentration can be increased in hepatic but not in brain mitochondria. Lipid peroxidation mainly affected, arachidonic (C20:4n6) and docosahexaenoic (C22:6n3) acids. (C) 2000 Harcourt Publishers Ltd.
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