Antioxidant activity of dietary canthaxanthin

Nutrition and Cancer
S T Mayne, R S Parker

Abstract

It has been suggested that canthaxanthin (CX), beta-carotene, and other carotenoids may inhibit carcinogenesis via antioxidant activity. CX has been shown to inhibit lipid peroxidation in liposomes; this experiment was designed to assess the antioxidant activity of CX in biological membranes. Chicks were fed semipurified diets supplemented with placebo beadlets or CX beadlets (5 g beadlets/kg diet; 0.5 g CX/kg diet) for five weeks. Diets were deficient in vitamin E and selenium to maximize the power of detecting an antioxidant effect of CX and to induce exudative diathesis, which is a vitamin E and selenium deficiency disease of chicks. Dietary CX had no effect on the onset, incidence, or severity of exudative diathesis. Liver homogenates from CX-fed chicks exhibited significantly (p = 0.02) decreased formation of thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances over time in ferrous ion-induced peroxidations. Because dietary CX increased hepatic alpha-tocopherol content, subsequent peroxidations were conducted in membrane fractions prepared from placebo and CX livers matched for alpha-tocopherol content. In this system, CX was marginally but inconsistently protective against peroxidation at both 15 torr O2 (p = 0.12) and 150 torr O2 (p ...Continue Reading

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