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Polioencephalomalacia (PEM) is the morphological characterization for softening of brain gray matter, and excess sulfur intake is one of its main causes. This study describes an outbreak of this disease in 1-to-3-month-old calves in a farm located in Santa Catarina state, Brazil. The herd consisted of 27 Jersey male calves whose diet was composed of initial feed, ground whole corn, and mineral salt. From this herd, 10 animals became ill, showing signs of apathy, anorexia and blindness, evolving to generalized weakness and death. Necropsy was performed in three of these animals, which showed flattening of the cerebral convolutions in addition to softened, yellowish areas in the cerebral cortex. Histopathological examination revealed deep laminar necrosis associated with perineuronal and perivascular edema, as well as neurons with wrinkled, eosinophilic, or vacuolated cytoplasm. The following sulfur doses were observed: 8,010mg/kg in corn, 6,385mg/kg in initial feed, 1,060mg/kg in mineral salt and 2.3mg/L in water, reaching dose values far above the accepted, totaling a daily intake of approximately 6,533.5mg sulfur/animal/day. As differential diagnosis, lead was dosed in the kidneys and liver of the three calves, with negative results. Also, the calf that sickened last was treated with 20mg/kg thiamin and 0.2mg/kg dexamethasone (IM; QID) for three days and eventually recovered. According to anatomopathological findings, excess sulfur intake and therapeutic diagnosis, sulfur poisoning was suggested as the cause of PEM in these 1-to-3-month-old calves. Occurrence of PEM is rare in calves at such a young age.(AU)
A polioencefalomalacia (PEM) é a caracterização morfológica para o amolecimento da substância cinzenta encefálica, e uma de suas principais etiologias é a ingestão excessiva de enxofre. Este trabalho descreve um surto desta enfermidade em bezerros de um a três meses de idade em uma propriedade de Santa Catarina. O lote era composto por 27 bezerros machos da raça Jersey, com alimentação composta por ração inicial, milho inteiro triturado e sal mineral. Deste lote, 10 animais adoeceram, apresentando sinais de apatia, anorexia e cegueira, com evolução para fraqueza generalizada. Nove bezerros morreram e três foram submetidos a necropsia, que demonstraram achatamento das circunvoluções cerebrais além de áreas de amolecimento e coloração amarelada no córtex cerebral. Realizou-se exame histopatológico que evidenciou necrose laminar profunda associada a edema perineuronal e perivascular, além de neurônios com citoplasma enrugado, eosinofílico ou vacuolizado. A dosagem de enxofre resultou em 8010mg/Kg no milho, 6385mg/Kg na ração, 1060mg/Kg no sal mineral e 2,3mg/L na água, atingindo valores muito acima do tolerado, totalizando a ingestão diária de cerca de 6533,5mg de enxofre/animal/dia. Como diagnóstico diferencial realizou-se dosagem de chumbo de amostras de rim e fígado dos três bezerros com resultado negativo. Ainda, o último bovino a adoecer foi tratado com 20mg/Kg de tiamina e 0,2mg/Kg de dexametasona IM, QID, durante três dias e recuperou-se. De acordo com os achados anatomopatológicos e o excesso de enxofre na dieta, sugere-se que a intoxicação por enxofre seja a causa de PEM nestes bezerros de um a três meses de idade, sendo essa enfermidade rara em bovinos tão jovens.(AU)
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Infant , Wernicke Encephalopathy/classification , Nervous System Diseases , ThiamineABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: Dietary nutrients may play a significant role in depressive disorders. However, sufficient evidences in epidemiological studies are limited. We investigated the cross-sectional association between dietary nutrients and the prevalence of depressive disorder in Korean adults using representative Korean data. METHODS: Participants were 2,938 adults aged 19 ~ 64 years from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) conducted in 2014. Dietary intakes were assessed using 24-h recall method. Depressive disorder was assessed using Patients Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9, self-depression test) as applied in 2014 KNHANES only. We defined depressive disorder as having a PHQ-9 score of ≥10, which was characterized as moderate depression and more. A multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to estimate the adjusted odd ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence interval (CIs) of depressive disorder. RESULTS: Among the 2,938 subjects, 170 were identified as having depressive disorder. The multivariate-adjusted regression analysis demonstrated that the risk of depression was significantly associated with riboflavin (OR = 0.44, 95% CI: 0.24-0.85, p for trend = 0.018), thiamin (OR = 0.48, 95% CI: 0.23-0.99, p for trend = 0.045), and vitamin C (OR = 0.57, 95% CI: 0.34-0.95, p for trend = 0.025) in the highest versus lowest tertiles of intake. CONCLUSION: The high consumption of riboflavin, thiamin, and vitamin C was associated with the low prevalence of depressive disorder in Korean adults.
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Adult , Humans , Ascorbic Acid , Depression , Depressive Disorder , Epidemiologic Studies , Korea , Logistic Models , Methods , Nutrition Surveys , Prevalence , RiboflavinABSTRACT
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Physical exercise promotes energy producing pathways requiring thiamin and riboflavin as a coenzyme. Therefore, this study investigated the effects of regular exercise training on urinary excretion of thiamin and riboflavin. MATERIALS/METHODS: Fifty rats were randomly assigned to one of two groups: non-exercise training (NT, n = 25) and regular exercise training (ET, n = 25) for 5 weeks. The rats performed moderate exercise on a treadmill (0.5-0.8 km/hour) for 30 min/day, 5 days/week. Twenty-four hour urine samples were collected at the end of the 0 week, 3rd week, and 5th week of training and thiamin and riboflavin were analyzed. RESULTS: No significant differences in thiamin and riboflavin intakes for each week were observed between the NT and ET groups. Urinary thiamin excretion of each group was the highest at the 5th week compared to the levels at 0 and 3rd week. Urinary thiamin at the 5th week was significantly lower in the ET group than in the NT group. Urinary riboflavin excretion was increased by training duration, however, no difference was observed between NT and ET for each week. At 0 and 3rd week, no significant relationships were observed between dietary intake and urinary excretion of thiamin and riboflavin, however, at the 5th week, urinary excretion was significantly increased by dietary intake only in the NT group (P < 0.05). Thiamin excretion of both NT and ET groups was significantly increased with riboflavin excretion at the 5th week (P < 0.01). CONCLUSION: Regular moderate exercise training increased urinary excretion of thiamin. Dietary intakes and urinary excretions of thiamin and riboflavin showed positive correlation in both the exercise training and non-exercise training groups as the exercise training period went by, while the correlations in the exercise training group were weaker than those in the non-exercise training group. Therefore, regular exercise training can alter the urinary excretion of thiamin and riboflavin in rats.
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Animals , Rats , Exercise , Riboflavin , Vitamin B ComplexABSTRACT
O tucumã (Astrocaryum vulgare Mart.) é um fruto nativo da Amazônia, de ocorrência principal no estado do Pará, mas também encontrado nos estados do nordeste e do centro-oeste brasileiro. O tucumã é considerado como uma excelente fonte de carotenóides com maior concentração em ß-caroteno, precursor da vitamina A, e além dos carotenóides, também é importante fonte de vitamina B2 (riboflavina). Por este motivo, o presente trabalho objetivou analisar os efeitos da irradiação gama sobre o valor nutricional do tucumã. Os frutos de tucumã foram irradiados com as doses de 0,5, 1,0 e 2,0 kGy num irradiador com fonte de césio 137. Foram determinados os teores de carotenóides totais por espectrofotometria. As análises de α e ß-caroteno, tiamina, riboflavina foram realizadas por cromatografia líquida de alta eficiência (CLAE). Foi detectado que o ß-caroteno representa 80% dos carotenóides totais e que com uma dose de 2 kGy ocorreram as maiores reduções de ß-caroteno, cerca de 7,5% em relação ao controle. Os frutos também apresentaram altos teores de riboflavina de 0,183 a 0,222 µg 100 g-1 e mantiveram a estabilidade após o processo de radiação gama, no entanto, os teores de tiamina foram baixos de 0,050 a 0,033 µg 100 g-1, e os frutos irradiados na dose de 2 kGy apresentaram reduções significativas de tiamina, cerca de 34% em relação ao controle.
The tucumã (Astrocaryum vulgare Mart.) is a native fruit of Amazônia, occurring mainly in the state of Pará, but also found in the Brazilian northeast states and in the Brazilian central-western states. The tucumã is considerated an excellent source of carotenoids with a very high concentration of ß-carotene, which is a precursor of vitamin A. In addition to carotenoids it is an important source of vitamin B2 (riboflavin) in fruits. This study aimed to analyze the effects of gamma radiation on the nutritional value of tucumã. The fruits were irradiated at doses of 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 kGy irradiator with a source of cesium 137. The carotenoids were determined by spectrophotometry. The analysis of α and ß-carotene, thiamin, riboflavin were carried out by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The ß-carotene accounts for 80% of total carotenoids in tucumã, and with a dose of 2 kGy, it showed the highest reduction of ß-carotene, about 7.5% in relation to the control. The tucumã fruit showed high levels of riboflavin from 0.183 to 0.222 µg 100 g-1, and maintained stability after the gamma radiation process. However, it had low levels of thiamine from 0.050 to 0.033 µg 100 g-1, and irradiated at a dose of 2 kGy showed significant reductions of thiamine, about 34% in relation to the control .
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Radiation , Riboflavin , Thiamine , CarotenoidsABSTRACT
Beriberi (vitamin B1 or thiamin deficiency) is neglected health problem that probably remains as a significant cause of mortality among infants in Asia. There has been very little research in the last 4 decades. Although there are few data from Laos, the clinical experience of Lao pediatricians, along with some data from Mahosot Hospital in Vientiane, suggests that beriberi is probably an important cause of infant mortality, which is currently very high in Laos. Diagnosis of infantile beriberi can be clinically if signs are evident. However, a significant number of infants may have clinical unapparent vitamin B1 deficiency, complicating their illness, which is impossible to diagnose unless biochemical assays are performed. Unapparent vitamin B1 deficiency may complicate the illness of infants presenting with other diseases and supplementary treatment with vitamin B1 could potentially improve their outcome and reduce infant mortality. Two recently published papers by the Wellcome Trust – Mahosot Hospital – Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Collaboration suggested that approximately 13% of Lao sick infants admitted with diarrhea, pneumonia and sepsis (without clinical evidence of beriberi) at the Pediatric Wards, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane had evidence of biochemical vitamin B1 deficiency particularly among those aged > 2 months. Infants with biochemical vitamin B1 deficiency had higher mortality than those who were not B1 deficient. The study also demonstrated that the activation coefficient (α), which has been used to diagnose vitamin B1 among adults living in non¬rice eating societies, cannot be reliably used for the diagnosis of vitamin B1 deficiency in infants, that basal ETK < 0.59 micromoles/min/gHb is a better biochemical marker of infantile beriberi, and that detection of the cardiac dysfunction marker troponin T may be useful indicator of infantile beriberi. The implication of the findings in these two papers were that (i) since clinical unapparent vitamin B1 deficiency is common among Lao sick infants, co¬treatment with vitamin B1 may reduce disease severity and mortality, (ii) since basal ETK is more accurate than activation coefficient (α) in the diagnosis of infantile beriberi, basal ETK should be used for the diagnosis of vitamin B1 deficiency among infants, and (iii) since troponin T may be useful in the diagnosis of infantile beriberi and as this assay is now available as a bedside test these should be evaluated as accessible markers.
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There are three varieties of mango commonly grown in the Philippines, namely: the carabao, the pico and the pahutan mangoes. Other types like the cabayo, corazon, linoboy, marianas and senora are occassionally found, besides other mangifera species like the bauno, juani and paho, which are also propagated but on a comparatively limited number. Among these different varieties, the carabao variety is conceded to be the best, due to its exceptionally fine flavorGreen and ripe Philippine mangoes of the Carabao variety, were assayed respectively for Vitamin B1 potency in international units, using the rat growth method recommended by Bulletin No. 27 of the U.S.P. Vitamin Committee. The results of the assay showed that the green carabao variety of Philippine mango has a potency of 20 international units of Vitamin B1 while the ripe mango contains 45 international units per 100 Gm. (Summary and Conclusion)
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The hormonal modulation of thiamin carrier protein in the plasma and uterine luminal secretion during the normal reproductive phases of the animal (estrous cycle and pregnancy) as well as during experimental estrogenisation was investigated in the rat using a specific and sensitive homologous radioimmunoassay procedure developed for this purpose. Following a single injection of estrogen to immature male rats, thiamin carrier protein rapidly accumulated in plasma attaining peak concentration at 48 h and declining thereafter. A 1·5- fold amplification of the inductive response was observed on secondary stimulation with the hormone. The magnitude of the response exhibited a clear dependency on the dose of the steroid hormone, whereas the time at which peak levels of thiamin carrier protein production was remained unaltered in the concentration range of the steroid tested. The inductive effect of estrogen was severely curtailed by the antiestrogens, viz., En- and Zu-clomiphene citrates, while progesterone was incapable of either modulating the estrogen-induced response or eliciting an induction by itself. Cycloheximide drastically blocked the response to estrogen. Evidence for the ability of uterus to serve as yet another independent site of thiamin carrier protein synthesis was obtained by in vitro incorporation of radioactive amino acids into immunoprecipitable thiamin carrier protein in the tissue explants of estrogenised female rats. The levels of thiamin carrier protein in uterine luminal fluid measured during estrous cycle, pregnancy and experimental estrogenisation exhibited remarkable similarity to the plasma thiamin carrier protein profiles.
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Thiamin and riboflavin content of 15 varieties of rice processed in Guandong province in 3 different milling degrees (unpolished, standard and top grade) were estimated fluorospectrophotometrically. The thiamin content was averaged 0.48?0.01mg/100g for unpolished rice,0.33?0.07mg/100g for standard second grade and 0.16?0.04 mg/100g for top grade rice. The riboflivin content was averaged 0.09 ?0.02mg/100g for unpolished, 0.07?0.01mg/100g for standard second grade and 0.05 ?0.01mg/100g for top grade rice. Rice from Cing Er Ai, Min Ke Zhati, Qi Gui Zhao, Za You, and Zhong Gui rich in thiamin and the mixed third class rice from Shangshui county was rich in riboflaflavin. Rice from both Zhong Gui and Qi Gui Zhao was rich in thiamin and riboflivin. The thiamin and riboflavin content in rice depended on the rice variety and the area where rice was grown. The thiamin content in rice from Nan Hai County was higher than that from Shangshui and Guao Yiao Counties.Certain amount of thiamin and riboflavin was lost in the same kind of rice with diffeererit millig degrees. As compared with unpolished rice, the standard second grade rice lost about 30.63% of thiamin, 22.36% of riboflavin and the top grade rice lost 65.35% and 45.00% respectively.There was some thiamin and riboflavin loss during different storage periods, 4.85% of thiamin, 4.23% of riboflavin were lost after 6 months storage, and 10.3% of thiamin, 7.04% of riboflavin lost after one year storage.In order to improve the nutrition status of the people, it is necessary to advocate people to consume fresh and standard grade rice and to encourage cultivators to grow crops rich in nutrients.
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A high-performance liquid chromatographic procedure for the simultaneous determination of vitamin B1, B2 and niacin in fortified mixed protein was developed. The sample was heated on water bath by adding 0.1N HC1 at 100℃ for 30 min. Afterward, the vitamins in the filtrate of the sample were separated on a column of u-bondapak C18 with methanol/water containing 0.005M pic B7 ion pair reagents (40:60 V/V) as mobile phase, and then the eluate was measured at 254nm. The detection limits for vitamin B1, B2 and niacin were approximately 15 ng, 5ng and 6ng respectively. The average recoveries of vitamin B1, B2 and Niacin were 92.21,90.25 and 92.33% respectively. The coefficients of variation of these vitamins were all under 6%. The method is simple, rapid and accurate, so it could also be applied to the analysis of other samples such as fortified foods and multivitamin preprati-ons etc.