Sesame Seed Lignans and γ-Tocopherol Act Synergistically to Produce Vitamin E Activity in Rats ,
- 1 December 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of Nutrition
- Vol. 122 (12), 2440-2446
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/122.12.2440
Abstract
Vitamin E activity of sesame seed, which contains only γ-tocopherol, a compound that has vitamin E activity equal to only 6–16% that of α-tocopherol, was examined in two experiments. In the first experiment, groups of rats were fed four diets: vitamin E-free control diet, α-tocopherol-containing diet, γ-tocopherol-containing diet and sesame seed-containing diet. Changes in red blood cell hemolysis, plasma pyruvate kinase activity, and peroxides in plasma and liver, as indices of vitamin E activity, were examined. The sesame seed diet has high vitamin E activity, whereas this activity was low in the γ-tocopherol diet. In plasma and liver, α-tocopherol was found in high concentration only in the α-tocopherol-fed group, and γ-tocopherol was found in high concentration only in the sesame seed-fed group, with negligible amounts of γ-tocopherol in liver of the γ-tocopherol-fed group. In the second experiment, two diets containing sesame lignan (sesaminol or sesamin) and γ-tocopherol were tested. Results in both of the sesame lignan-fed groups were comparable to those observed in the sesame seed-fed group in Experiment 1. These experiments indicate that γ-tocopherol in sesame seed exerts vitamin E activity equal to that of α-tocopherol through a synergistic interaction with sesame seed lignans.Keywords
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