Ascorbic acid, glutathione and synthetic antioxidants prevent the oxidation of vitamin E in platelets
- 1 December 1989
- Vol. 24 (12), 1043-1047
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02544077
Abstract
An earlier report from this laboratory showed that tocopherol in human platelets is oxidized when the platelets are incubatedin vitro in Tyrode medium with arachidonate (or other oxidants). Arachidonate is a more potent oxidizing agent in 50 mM potassium phosphate buffer at pH 7.4 with 0.1 mM ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) than in Tyrode medium. Forty to fifty percent of total platelet tocopherol was oxidized upon incubation with 40–50 μM arachidonate in the phosphate-buffered medium. The tocopherol oxidation took place within 15 min after the addition of arachidonate. Preincubation of platelets with ascorbate blocked the oxidation of tocopherol. This is one of the first directin vitro demonstrations of the vitamin E-sparing action of vitamin C in media containing biological cellular material. Other compounds which blocked the oxidation of platelet tocopherol were ascorbyl palmitate, propyl gallate, butylated hydroxytoluene, hydroquinone and glutathione. If ascorbate or glutathione was added after the tocopherol was oxidized to the quinone there was no reversal of the oxidation.This publication has 36 references indexed in Scilit:
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