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Direct and indirect vitamin A supplementation strategies result in different plasma and tissue retinol kinetics in neonatal rats
Many questions remain regarding vitamin A (VA) supplementation of infants. Herein we compared direct oral VA supplementation of the neonate and indirect treatment through maternal dietary VA (M-VA) treatment on VA status and kinetics in neonatal rats. Treatments included direct VA combined with reti...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4959858/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27264735 http://dx.doi.org/10.1194/jlr.M067165 |
Sumario: | Many questions remain regarding vitamin A (VA) supplementation of infants. Herein we compared direct oral VA supplementation of the neonate and indirect treatment through maternal dietary VA (M-VA) treatment on VA status and kinetics in neonatal rats. Treatments included direct VA combined with retinoic acid (RA) [D-VARA; VA (6 mg/kg) + 10% RA, given orally to neonates on postnatal day (P)2 and P3] and indirect VA supplementation through increased M-VA, compared with each other and oil-treated neonates. [(3)H]retinol was administered orally to all neonates on P4. Plasma and tissue [(3)H]retinol kinetics were determined from 1 h to 14 days post-dosing. D-VARA versus placebo dramatically increased liver and lung retinol, but only in the first 8–10 days. In M-VA neonates, liver and lung VA increased progressively throughout the study. Compartmental modeling of plasma [(3)H]retinol showed that both D-VARA and indirect M-VA reduced retinol recycling between plasma and tissues. Compartmental models of individual tissues predicted that D-VARA stimulated the uptake of VA in chylomicrons to extrahepatic tissues, especially intestine, while the uptake was not observed in M-VA neonates. In conclusion, indirect maternal supplementation had a greater sustained effect than D-VARA on neonatal VA status, while also differentially affecting plasma and tissue retinol kinetics. |
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