title: Myocardial vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) contents of spontaneously hypertensive and Wistar-Kyoto normotensive rats.
abstract: As a membrane-associated antioxidant, tissue vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) may help protect heart muscle from irreversible necrosis during myocardial ischemia. The vitamin E content of heart-muscle membrane from the spontaneously hypertensive (SH) rat, an animal model of cardiovascular disease, has been determined and compared to that of the myocardial membranes of the Wistar-Kyoto normotensive (W/K) parent strain. It was found that SH-rat myocardial membranes contained some 3-fold less vitamin E than did cardiac membranes in the normotensive strain. These data demonstrate that SH-rat myocardium is deficient in membrane alpha-tocopherol and, hence, in its lipid-soluble antioxidant capacity with respect to heart muscle of the normotensive animal.
authors.affiliation: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. Nutley, New Jersey 07110.
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Janero
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Burghardt
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000378:metabolism*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D009206:Myocardium / Q000032:analysis*; D051381:Rats; D011918:Rats, Inbred SHR / Q000378:metabolism*; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains / Q000378:metabolism*; D014810:Vitamin E / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D014810:Vitamin E