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In three fully crossed, three-way, two-by-two-by-four experiments, male weanling Long-Evans rats were fed a basal diet supplemented with vanadium (ammonium metavanadate)-at 0 and 1 μg/g, cystine at 3.0 and 8.5 mg/g, and iron (ferric sulfate) at 0 (Expts. 1 and 2) or 5 (Expt. 3), 15, 100, and 500 μg/g. After 6 wk, a relationship between vanadium and iron that was influenced by dietary cystine was found. The interaction among vanadium, iron, and cystine was demonstrated best by the hematocrit and hemoglobin findings, which were similar. In all Expts., hematocrits were depressed in rats fed the two lower levels of iron. In Expts. 2 and 3, vanadium deprivation exacerbated the depression of hematocrits in rats fed 15 μg iron and 3.0 mg cystine/g diet. In Expt. 1, the effect was similar, but less marked. On the other hand, in Expts. 1 and 3 when supplemental cystine was 8.5 mg/g, vanadium deprivation did not exacerbate, but tended to alleviate the depression of hematocrits in rats fed 15 μg iron/g diet. When dietary iron was 15 μg/g in Expt. 2, the exacerbation of the depression of hematocrits by vanadium deprivation was much less in rats fed 8.5 rather than 3.0 mg cystine/g diet. Dietary vanadium had little effect on depressed hematopoiesis in severely iron-deficient rats. The findings indicated that vanadium neither substitutes for iron at some metabolic site, nor stimulates iron absorption; but has a positive influence on the utilization of iron after absorption.
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Nielsen, F.H., Uhrich, K. & Uthus, E.O. Interactions among vanadium, iron, and cystine in rats growth, blood parameters, and organ Wt/body Wt ratios. Biol Trace Elem Res 6, 118–132 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02916929
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Index Entries
- Vanadium, interaction with iron and cystine
- iron, interaction with vanadium and cystine
- cystine, interaction with vanadium and iron
- vanadium-iron-cystine interactions
- rats, V, Fe, cystine interactions in
- growth in rats, and V, Fe, and cystine interactions
- blood parameters in rats, and V, Fe, and cystine interactions
- organ wt/body wt ratios in rats, and V, Fe, and cystine interactions