gamma tocopherol content of 7 iranian sesame seeds (sesamum indicum l.) was determined by high performance liquid chromatography using c8 column and methanol, water and butanol as mobile phase. the gamma-tocopherol content varied from 563 to 1095 mg/kg in oil and 293 to 569 mg/kg in sesame seed and was in broad agreement with the codex range. a large variation was found in the concentration of ...

Although the role of tocopherol in the nutrition of small laboratory animals has been extensively investigated, relatively little attention has been given to the requirement of larger domestic animals. Evidence is conflicting about any function or effect tocopherol may have on pig nutrition. Bratzler, Loosli, Krukovsky & Maynard (1950) found that tocopherol supplementation of a diet low in toco...

BACKGROUND Tocopherols are important antioxidants in vegetable oils; when present as vitamin E, tocopherols are an essential nutrient for humans and livestock. Rapeseed (Brassica napus L, AACC, 2 n = 38) is one of the most important oil crops and a major source of tocopherols. Although the tocopherol biosynthetic pathway has been well elucidated in the model photosynthetic organisms Arabidopsis...

The Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT) showed higher prostate cancer incidence in men supplemented with high-dose α-tocopherol. We, therefore, examined whether presupplementation plasma α-tocopherol or γ-tocopherol was associated with overall or high-grade prostate cancer. A stratified case-cohort sample that included 1,746 incident prostate cancer cases diagnosed through J...

Serum alpha-tocopherol of98(62 male and 36 female) cancer patients and 30 (13 male and 17 female) control healthy subjects was investigated. The cancer patients showed a significantly low level of alpha-tocopherol as compared to control healthy subjects. Also, significantly higher levels of serum alpha-tocopherol were found in complete remission patients as compared to the partial response...

INTRODUCTION: Strenuous exercise in sedentary individuals increases the acute risk of atherothrombotic events and depletes endogenous antioxidants. Supplementation with the antioxidant tocopherol ameliorates the risk; however it is unclear whether α-tocopherol, γ-tocopherol or a combination of both is more efficacious. We therefore measured the effects of γ-,αand mixed tocopherol supplementatio...

INTRODUCTION: Strenuous exercise in sedentary individuals increases the acute risk of atherothrombotic events and depletes endogenous antioxidants. Supplementation with the antioxidant tocopherol ameliorates the risk; however it is unclear whether α-tocopherol, γ-tocopherol or a combination of both is more efficacious. We therefore measured the effects of γ-,αand mixed tocopherol supplementatio...

Tocopherols are lipophilic antioxidants that are synthesized exclusively in photosynthetic organisms. In most higher plants, aand g-tocopherol are predominant with their ratio being under spatial and temporal control. While a-tocopherol accumulates predominantly in photosynthetic tissue, seeds are rich in g-tocopherol. To date, little is known about the specific roles of aand g-tocopherol in di...

The phytosterol and tocopherol contents of almond kernel oil were evaluated in three cultivars, including the Spanish cultivar ‘Marcona’ French cultivars ‘Ferragnès’ ‘Ferraduel’, grown under two different agro-climatic conditions, Zaragoza (Spain) Meknès (Morocco). analysis variance showed significant effects genotype on content, Δ5-Avenasterol, Δ7-Campesterol, Stigmasterol isomers. location ef...

Vitamin E consists of eight different variants: α-, β-, γ-, and δ-tocopherols (saturated phytyl tail) and α-, β-, γ-, and δ-tocotrienols (unsaturated phytyl tail). Cancer prevention studies with vitamin E have primarily utilized the variant α-tocopherol. To no avail, a majority of these studies focused on variant α-tocopherol with inconsistent results. However, γ-tocopherol, and more recently δ...