Lead poisoning in vitamin E-deficient rats.

The Journal of Nutrition
O A LevanderR J Ferretti

Abstract

Weanling male rats were fed either a vitamin E-deficient Torula yeast diet or the same diet supplemented with 100 ppm vitamin E for a period of 3 months. One group of animals fed each diet received 250 ppm lead in the drinking water, whereas another group of animals fed each diet received no lead in the water. Vitamin E deficiency per se had little or no effect on hematocrit value, reticulocyte count, spleen weight, or erythrocyte mechanical fragility in rats not poisoned with lead. On the other hand, the decreased hematocrit, increased reticulocyte count, and splenic enlargement due to lead poisoning were much more pronounced in vitamin E-deficient rats than in rats supplemented with vitamin E. The resistance to mechanical trauma of red blood cells from vitamin E-deficient lead-poisoned rats was much less than that of red cells from vitamin E-adequate lead-poisoned rats. Dietary vitamin E status had no significant influence on the increased mechanical fragility of erythrocytes from nonpoisoned rats caused by exposure to lead in vitro. These results suggest that vitamin E deficiency enhances the susceptibility of animals to the in vivo hemolytic effect of lead poisoning.

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