A Relative High Dose of Vitamin E Does Not Attenuate Unweighting-Induced Oxidative Stress and Ubiquitination in Rat Skeletal Muscle

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We previously reported that intragastric administration of cysteine could be beneficial to prevent unweighting-induced ubiquitination and degradation of muscle protein in association with redox regulation [Ikemoto et al., Biol. Chem., 383 (2002), 715-721]. In this study, we investigated whether vitamin E, another potent antioxidative nutrient, also had beneficial effects on the muscle protein catabolism. However, daily intragastric supplementation of 1.5 or 15 mg/rat of α-tocopherol did not prevent weight loss of hindlimb skeletal muscle in tail-suspended rats. To elucidate the reason for the non-effectiveness of vitamin E, we further examined concentrations of oxidative stress markers, ubiquitination of muscle proteins and fragmentation of myosin heavy chain in gastrocnemius muscle of rats daily treated with 15mg of α-tocopherol. Unexpectedly, vitamin E increased concentrations of glutathione disulfide and thiobarbituric acid-reactive substance and decreased glutathione level in the muscle, compared with those of vehicle treatment, indicating that vitamin E enhanced unweighting-induced oxidative stress in skeletal muscle. The vitamin E supplementation did not suppress the ubiquitination of muscle proteins and fragmentation of myosin heavy chain caused by tail-suspension. Our results suggest that supplementation of a relative high dose of vitamin E could not inhibit ubiqultin-dependent degradation of muscle protein in tail-suspended rats possibly due to its prooxidant action. J Physiol Anthropol 21(5): 257-263, 2002 http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/en
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A Relative High Dose of Vitamin E Does Not Attenuate Unweighting-Induced Oxidative Stress and Ubiquitination in Rat Skeletal Muscle

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