title: Effects of calcium ionophore on vitamin E-deficient rat muscle.
abstract: Damage to skeletal muscles may be mediated via free radicals or intracellular calcium overload. To look for inter-relationships between these pathways we have examined the effect of intracellular Ca overload on muscles from rats fed on either a vitamin E-deficient or vitamin E-sufficient diet and assessed the non-enzymic lipid peroxidation in these muscles by examining the production of thiobarbituric acid reactive substances by homogenates. Vitamin E-deficient muscles were more susceptible to Ca-induced intracellular enzyme efflux and this was acutely corrected by supplementation of the external medium with 230 mumol alpha-tocopherol/l. Vitamin E-deficient muscles showed increased levels of basal lipid peroxides and were more susceptible to iron-catalysed lipid peroxidation. Addition of the Ca ionophore A23187 increased lipid peroxidation in vitamin E-deficient muscle homogenates, but had the opposite effect in vitamin E-sufficient muscles. These results demonstrate that vitamin E-deficient muscle has an increased susceptibility to intracellular Ca overload, but that this effect cannot be explained by a direct stimulatory effect of the ionophore on non-enzymic lipid peroxidation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Liverpool.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Phoenix
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Jackson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000001:Calcimycin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D003402:Creatine Kinase / Q000378:metabolism; D005260:Female; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D015227:Lipid Peroxidation / Q000187:drug effects; D009132:Muscles / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism*; D011458:Prostaglandins E / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013997:Time Factors; D014811:Vitamin E Deficiency / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D011458:Prostaglandins E; D000001:Calcimycin; D003402:Creatine Kinase; D002118:Calcium