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The distributioa of Se in Hb and the effects of Se intake and its chemical forms oil the distribution were studied. The results showed that Se in human Hb was all located in globin and divided equally in a and ? chains. However, a part of Se could fall from Hb during the process of isolation when more Se as SeMet was taken and "excess" Se appeared in Hb. It was implicated that there were at least two kinds of linkage between Se and Hb --tight and loose.Regarding the components of amino acid in ? and ? chains, we assumed that a tight linkage between Se and Hb was in the form of SeMet, which was incorporated into Hb by dietary Se during the synthesis of Hb; the loose linkage was formed by a part of "excess" Se and CyS, especially No.93 CyS in ? chain, being unstable sclcnotrisulf ide or selenopersulfide, which broke easily by reduction during isolation. They might be utilized first by human body when Se was required.
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The effect of Vitamin E on the metabolism of selenium in weaning Wistar rats raised with low selenium and low vitamin E Keshan disease diet and with the basal diet supplemented with selenium and/or a-tocopherol acetate was investigated. The results showed that:(1)On the same level of selenium in the diets, a-tocopherol supplemented to the diets might increase the selenium level of liver. No significant effect was found in other organs.(2)Whether the selenium was deficient in the diet or not, the GSHPx activities in blood, heart and liver of vitamin E deficient animals were lower than that of animals supplemented with vitamin E.(3)Supplementation of vitamin E to the diet decreased the selenium excretion in urine, and increased the selenium retention in tissues both in selenium deficient group and in selenium supplemented group.
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1. Experiments were conducted to compare the blood glutathione peroxi-dase activity of rats fed low selenium diets (0.0042 and 0.0084ppm Se) mainly composed of rice, corn and soybean grown in Keshan Disease endemic areas with that of rats fed the contrast diets (0.073 and 0.074 ppm Se) composed of the same grains grown in non-endemic areas and with that of rats fed stock diets (0.307 ppm Se). The enzyme activities of the endemic grain-feeding groups were lower than that of the non-endemic grain-feeding groups, but the enzyme activities of these groups were significantly lower than that of the stock diet group. The difference of the percentage of ascorbic acid-induced oxidation of hemoglobin to methemoglobin, choleglobin and Heinz bodies in vitro in different groups were in the same trend as that of the glutathione peroxidase activity.2. When rats were fed the low selenium diets for three months supplementing with sodium selenite, both the blood selenium levels and glutathione peroxidase activities were increased to the levels of the stock diet group within 50 days.
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Blood GSHpx activities of populations living in Keshan disease affected and non-affected areas were examined. The enzyme activities of people in affected areas were lower than that in non-affected areas. That of agricultural population is lower than that of workers and staff members living in same affected areas. The enzyme activities of patient suffering from Keshan disease were a little lower than that of other children. After oral administration of Na2SeO3 for one year, the enzyme activities of children in affected areas increased to the same level of that in non-affected areas. Significant correlation was found between selenium concentration of blood and hair and GSHpx activities.
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In this work, some interference in the assay of vitamin E in liver and serum was studied and the method was improved.The sample must be protected from oxidative attack. The interference of high vitamin A content in liver could be removed by H2SO4. The amount of KOH for saponification must be in keeping with the amount of sample assayed both in synthetic a-tocopherol and in biological material by fluorometry. A linear correlation of the fluorescence and the vitamin E content was obtained when 0.5ml of 10 N KOH was used for the saponification of 0.5-100?g of ?-tocopheryl acetate.