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Einfluss der Ernährung und von Genussmitteln auf Risikofaktoren für das Auftreten von ischämischem Herzinfarkt und Schlaganfall
(2005) Eckoldt, Joachim; Bode, Christiane
Background and aims of the study: Arteriosclerotic changes of blood vessels which contribute to coronary heart disease (CHD) and ischemic stroke are influenced by risk factors like cigarette smoking, overweight, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, missing physical exercise and nutritional factors, such as alcohol consumption. Beyond this, the concentrations of serum lipids, antioxidants, coagulation factors or other risk factors, such as C-reactive protein, and homocysteine are considered to be additional factors that indicate an enhanced or lowered risk of atherosclerosis. In this study we examined the effect of nutritional factors, in particular alcohol consumption, on various plasma components that are believed to play a role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Multiple epidemiologic studies suggest that moderate alcohol consumption reduces the mortality from cardiovascular diseases and that this effect is chiefly mediated by elevation of high-density lipoprotein (HDL). This cross-sectional study assessed the effect of moderate alcohol consumption and other life-style factors on the composition of HDL in healthy working males. An additional goal of the present study was to find out whether there is an association between alcohol consumption and the concentration of vitamins and cardio-protective substances. Methods: We included a collective of healthy men (n = 284, age 23-66 years), investigated with respect to cardiovascular risk factors. The average daily alcohol consumption, nutrient intake, smoking and other life-style factors was assessed by a computer based questionnaire. Group 1 (n = 62) comprised subjects with an average daily alcohol consumption of 0-5g, group 2 (n = 175): 5-30g, and group 3 (n = 47): 30-70g. In addition, the study design made it possible to subdivide groups 2 and 3 in a so called ?beer drinker group 2+3? (> 80 % beer), a ?wine drinker group 2+3? (> 80 % wine) and persons without preference of a certain alcoholic beverage. Results: The alcohol groups showed no significant differences in the nutritional profile (nutrients, energy intake, and metabolic rate). The markers for regular, higher alcohol consumption (g-GT and MCV) were positive correlated to the amount of alcohol consumption. There was no correlation between the great number of clinical laboratory parameters and the amount or kind of alcohol consumption. Thereby the groups are comparable in view of these laboratory parameters. Besides, there were no indications for the existence of diseases, which might influence blood lipid and vitamin concentrations. Antioxidative substances in the blood: Dietary assessment: The intake of vitamin B2, B6, B12, folic acid, retinol, ß-carotene and other carotenoids, as assessed by the computer interview was comparable in groups 1-3. The subjects in group 1 had a higher supply of the vitamins C, B1 and a-tocopherol, ?beer drinker Gr. 2+3? had a higher intake of vitamin B2, B6 and folic acid. Blood measurements: Antioxidative vitamins: The vitamin B2 status in erythrocytes (EGRAC) was lower in group 3 (vs. group 1 and 2). The plasma level of ß-carotene and ß-cryptoxanthin was lower in group 3 than in group 1. Vitamins that influence homocysteine metabolism (including homocysteine): Influence of beer and wine: The status of vitamin B6 and the concentration of free plasma pydridoxal phosphate in group 3 was significantly higher than in group 1. These results cannot explain the postulated positive influence of moderate or higher alcohol consumption through improvements of the vitamin status and the concentration of vitamins in the blood. The vitamins in beer improved the vitamin status only in case of vitamin B6, no effect was calculated in case of vitamin B2 and folic acid. Higher alcohol consumption (group 3) made the vitamin status respectively the plasma concentration of vitamin B2, ß-carotene and ß-cryptoxanthin lower compared with group 1 ? in spite of comparable supply. Coagulation factors, markers of inflammation: The coagulation factors prothrombin time and fibrinogen as well as the ?newer? risk factors C-reactive protein and homocysteine were not correlated to the amount or the kind of alcohol. Lipoproteins: The serum concentration of total cholesterol, cholesterol ester, phospholipids, apolipoprotein A-1 and A-2 was higher in group 3. Moderate and higher alcohol consumption raises the concentration of cholesterol in the high-density lipoproteins (HDL) (including subfractions) ? independent of the sort of alcoholic beverage. The concentration of cholesterol in the low- (LDL) (including subfractions), very-low (VLDL) and intermediate-density lipoproteins (IDL) in the blood was not influenced by alcohol consumption. Composition of HDL: The induced increase of HDL cholesterol was lower in the subfraction HDL3 as in the subfractions HDL2b und HDL2a. Besides we found qualitative changes of the HDL-components: the phospholipid component increased more than the other HDL-components. This phenomenon might play a beneficial role in the mechanism of atherosclerosis. Conclusions: Vitamins: The changes of antioxidative vitamins and vitamins influencing homocysteine metabolism observed in persons with moderate and increased alcohol consumption do not explain the antiatherogenic effect of alcohol. On the other hand, our study confirmed a positive association of moderate alcohol consumption with HDL plasma levels ? independent of other nutritional factors. In addition, alcohol might induce qualitative alterations of HDL composition (more pronounced increased of HDL2 relative increase of the phospholipid component). The pathophysiological significance of this phenomenon remains unclear.
Einfluss eines Glukoseentzugs auf die Strahlenempfindlichkeit von Tumorzellen und Normalzellen
(2018) Ampferl, Rena; Dittmann, Klaus
Radiotherapy is a major pillar of cancer treatment. However, the maximal dose that can be applied to a tumor is limited by side-effects of the irradiated normal tissue. Therefore, to improve treatment success, it is of significant interest to develop new treatment strategies that selectively enhance the cytotoxic effect of radiation in tumor cells while sparing healthy tissue. For this purpose, it is necessary to exploit differences between tumor cells and normal cells. Thus, tumor cells are characterized by metabolizing glucose preferentially to lactate regardless of the availability of oxygen (Warburg effect, aerobic glycolysis), while normal cells oxidize most of the glucose in the mitochondria if oxygen is present. Because the Warburg effect only produces low amounts of ATP per molecule of glucose when compared to mitochondrial glucose oxidation, tumor cells rely on high glucose supply. Hence, it was the aim of this study to investigate whether a glucose starvation during radiotherapy, which requires energy-dependent repair of DNA damage, is an appropriate strategy to selectively enhance radiosensitivity of tumor cells, but not of normal cells. It was shown that glucose starvation inhibited proliferation of the tumor cell lines A549 and FaDu, but not that of the normal fibroblasts HSF7. Moreover, deprivation of glucose induced cell death selectively in tumor cells, which occurred mainly via necrosis. Combining glucose starvation with radiotherapy led to selective radiosensitization of both tumor cell lines, which was accompanied by impaired repair of radiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks (DNA DSBs). In this context, it turned out that in tumor cells glucose is essential for the late stage of DNA DSB repair starting from 13 h after irradiation. Furthermore, an inhibition of radiation-induced histone acetylation as well as KAP1 phosphorylation could be observed in tumor cells following glucose starvation, indicating an impairment of radiation-induced chromatin relaxation. Because opening of the chromatin structure is particularly important for the repair of DNA DSBs within heterochromatin and because these DSBs are the ones that are repaired at late time points after irradiation, it can be assumed that in tumor cells glucose starvation mainly impairs the repair of heterochromatic DNA DSBs. Further investigations revealed that in tumor cells glucose starvation does not cause lack of nuclear acetyl-CoA, which is the substrate for the acetylation of histones, and therefore this could be excluded as cause of the observed inhibition of histone acetylation. However, it is known that the histone deacetylase Sirt1 is activated in response to glucose starvation. Histone deacetylation by Sirt1 could counteract radiation-induced histone acetylation, thus impairing chromatin relaxation as well as repair of DNA DSBs after irradiation. In fact, it was shown that inhibition of Sirt1 by sirtinol can partly abrogate the impaired repair of radiation-induced DNA DSBs that was observed in tumor cells under glucose-free conditions. However, the inhibitory effect of glucose starvation on DNA DSB repair in tumor cells could not only be observed under glucose-free conditions. Thus, reducing the glucose concentration to 0.5 g/l was enough to impair DSB repair following irradiation to the same degree as after total deprivation of glucose. Furthermore, it turned out that under glucose-free conditions DNA DSB repair in tumor cells was promoted by autophagy already after irradiation with 2 Gy. Finally, it was shown that, in addition to DNA DSB repair, also tumor metabolism is influenced by glucose starvation. Thus, deprivation of glucose impaired the radiation-induced switch of glucose metabolism that was characterized by increased aerobic glycolysis and decreased mitochondrial glucose oxidation, and this can also contribute to radiosensitization of the cells. In contrast to tumor cells, glucose starvation neither caused radiosensitization nor impaired the repair of radiation-induced DNA DSBs in normal fibroblasts. Moreover, in these cells, glucose starvation had no influence on histone acetylation and KAP1 phosphorylation after irradiation. These results demonstrate that glucose starvation is an appropriate in vitro strategy to selectively sensitize tumor cells to radiotherapy without influencing the radiosensitivity of normal cells.
Tocotrienols, tocopherols and tocomonoenols : characterization in Costa Rican palm oils, and intracellular and tissue distribution as a function of the hepatic alpha-tocopherol transfer protein
(2018) Irías-Mata, Andrea Paola; Frank, Jan
Vitamin E is a generic term for a group of micronutrients exhibiting the biological activity of alpha-tocopherol. Initially, four tocopherols (T) and four tocotrienols (T3) were recognized as the naturally occurring vitamin E compounds. The main difference among T and T3 is the 3-fold unsaturated 16-carbon side chain of the T3 compared to the saturated 16-carbon side chain of the T. Recently, a group of four vitamin E compounds with a single double bond at carbon 11 were discovered, namely tocomonoenols (T1). Edible oils are the major source of T, T3, and of T1. As a fat-soluble vitamin, the vitamin E is absorbed after oral intake and transported in the circulation to the liver, where vitamin E undergoes sorting by the action of the alpha-hepatic-tocopherol transfer protein (TTP) and the cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes. alpha-T is preferentially secreted into the bloodstream, while the non-alpha-T congeners are metabolized by CYP to the carboxyethylhydroxychromanols (CEHC), which are excreted via urine and feces. The TTP has been recognized as necessary for the maintenance of normal alpha-T concentrations in plasma and extrahepatic tissues. Interestingly, TTP might also protect the non-alpha-T congeners from side-chain degradation, and therefore prevent their metabolic degradation. The present thesis aimed at increasing our knowledge of the non-αT congeners of vitamin E with respect to their occurrence in food, their intracellular localization upon uptake into liver cells, and their tissue distribution in mammals. A potential role of the TTP in the intracellular and intra-organismic trafficking of the non-alpha-T congeners was a second focus of the current investigations. To this purpose, the vitamin E profiles and contents in oils of three Elaeis Guineensis, two Elaeis Oleifera, and one hybrid OxG palm fruit genotypes from Costa Rica were determined after mechanical extraction with a screw press and chemical extraction with hexane. Vitamin E profiles in the palm oils were similar, irrespective of the genotype and extraction procedure, and alpha- and gamma-T3 were the most abundant congeners. alpha-T1 was found in oils from five of the six varieties. Hexane extraction yielded up to 2.5-fold higher total vitamin E compared to screw press extraction. The two most abundant tocotrienols in the oils were selected for further studies with respect to their cellular uptake and intracellular distribution in cultured liver cells with and without stable expression of TTP and compared to their respective tocopherol counterparts. After uptake, all four congeners were primarily associated with the lysosomes, endoplasmic reticulum and plasma membrane. Overall, the results conclude that neither the structural differences between the four congeners, nor the TTP-expression are important factors behind the intracellular trafficking (uptake and distribution) of the congeners in cultured liver cells. Finally, an animal study was performed to examine the tissue distribution of alpha-T1 in mice in comparison to alpha-T. Besides was investigated the influence of TTP. Wild-type and TTP knockout mice were fed a standard diet with either alpha-T or alpha-T1 for 2 weeks. Concentrations were measured in blood and several tissues. alpha-T1 was only found in blood, not in tissues. Loss of TTP function in knockout mice resulted in almost complete depletion of alpha-T in all tissues. Interestingly, alpha-T1 was still present in blood. In conclusion, alpha-T1 reached the blood in mice with and without TTP function, suggesting that TTP may not, or only to a limited extent, be required for the secretion of alpha-T1 into the systemic circulation. Since more is known about alpha-T than the non-alpha-T congeners, new opportunities for further research on the biological activities and consequent health benefits of the non-alpha-T congeners have arisen based on the contributions of the present thesis.

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