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Rat lung and liver microsomes were used to examine the effects of dietary vitamin E deficiency on membrane lipid peroxidation. Microsomes from vitamin-E-deficient rats displayed increased lipid peroxidation in comparison to microsomes from vitamin-E-supplemented controls. The extent of lipid peroxidation, as determined by measurement of thiobarbituric acid reacting materials, was enhanced by addition of reduced iron and ascorbate (or NADPH). Rats fed a vitamin-E-supplemented diet and exposed to 3 ppm NO2 for 7 days did not exhibit increases in microsomal lipid peroxidation compared to air-breathing controls. However, increases were found in microsomes prepared from rats fed a vitamin-E-deficient diet and exposed to NO2. Lung microsomes from vitamin-E-fed rats contained almost 10 times as much vitamin E as liver microsomes when expressed in terms of polyunsaturated fatty acid content. The extent of lipid peroxidation was, in turn, considerably less in lung than in liver microsomes. Lipid peroxidation in lung microsomes from vitamin-E-deficient rats was comparable to liver microsomes from vitamin-E-supplemented rats as was the content of vitamin E in these respective microsomal samples. A combination of vitamin E deficiency and NO2 exposure resulted in the greatest increases in lung and liver microsomal lipid peroxidation with the largest relative increases occurring in lung microsomes. An inverse relationship was found between the extent of lipid peroxidation and vitamin E content. Most of the peroxidation in lung microsomes appeared to proceed nonenzymatically whereas peroxidation in liver was largely enzymatic. Vitamin E appears to be assimilated by the lung during oxidant inhalation, but with dietary vitamin E deprivation, the margin for protection in lung may be less than in liver.
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Sevanian, A., Hacker, A.D. & Elsayed, N. Influence of vitamin E and nitrogen dioxide on lipid peroxidation in rat lung and liver microsomes. Lipids 17, 269–277 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02534941
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