title: [Interconversions of ubiquinone and ubichromenol in rat liver under the effect of alpha-tocopherol].
abstract: Incubation of ground liver preparation isolated from vitamin E-deficient rats resulted in correlated in time changes of ubiquinone and ubichromenol contents and their ration in tissues. A suggestion is made on the possibility of ubiquinone and ubichromenol interconversions and of the existence of a system controlling (depending on a functional state of the organism) a certain ratio of the quinones contents in animal tissues. Possible biochemical role of ubichromenol in animals is discussed.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001578:Benzopyrans / Q000378:metabolism*; D002839:Chromans / Q000378:metabolism*; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D014451:Ubiquinone / Q000378:metabolism*; D014810:Vitamin E / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014811:Vitamin E Deficiency / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D001578:Benzopyrans; D002839:Chromans; D014451:Ubiquinone; D014810:Vitamin E; C003740:ubichromenol
vernacular_title: Veaimoprevrashcheniia ubikhinona i ubikhromenola v pecheni krys pod bliianiem alfa-tokoferola.