[Content of ubiquinone and ubichromenol in rat liver at various levels of vitamin E saturation of the body].

Abstract

Ubiquinone and ubichromenol content was studied at different levels of organism supply with vitamin E. The content of these substances in the albino rat liver with vitamin E-deficiency is shown to decrease by 16 and 23%, respectively. The intravenous administration of alpha-tocopherol to the vitamin E-deficiency rats causes a gradual 45% increase in the ubiquinone content 4h after which remains at the same level for 8 h; the ubichromenol content 2 h latter is 1.7 times as high and then it lowers gradually up to the level in the avitaminous animals.

• Authors: L O Chernukhina, G V Donchenko, O M Zolotashko, L Y Teplyska
• Journal: Ukrains'kyi biokhimichnyi zhurnal (Ukr Biokhim Zh) 1975 Jul-Aug Vol. 47 Issue 4 Pg. 518-21 ISSN: 0041-610X [Print] Ukraine
• PMID: 1209780 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Benzopyrans
• Chromans
• Ubiquinone
• Vitamin E

Topics

• Animals
• Benzopyrans (metabolism)
• Chromans (metabolism)
• Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
• Liver (drug effects, metabolism)
• Rats
• Ubiquinone (metabolism)
• Vitamin E (pharmacology)
• Vitamin E Deficiency (metabolism)