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PubMed1993

Ethynylestradiol protection against methyl insufficiency in castrated male Wistar/Furth rats fed a methionine-choline-deficient diet.

The interactive effects of dietary methyl insufficiency and the estrogenic compound ethynylestradiol (EE) on the levels of S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) and S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAH) were examined in the liver, lungs and pancreas of rats. In addition, such effects on the hepatic content of 5-methyl-deoxycytidine (5-MC) in nuclear DNA were determined. Castrated male Wistar/Furth rats were fed various levels of EE in either: (i) a complete, amino acid-defined diet (diet 1); (ii) the same diet lacking in choline and methionine and supplemented with 0.9% of DL-homocystine (equimolar to methionine) (diet 2); or (iii) diet 2 but only with 0.3% DL-homocystine (diet 2M). Methyl deficiency and EE each independently produced decreased weight gains and increased relative liver weights (liver weight relative to total body weight) compared with control animals. Livers from rats fed diets 2 and 2M without EE had lower levels of SAM and lower SAM:SAH ratios than did the livers from diet 1-fed rats not treated with EE. Hepatic SAM:SAH ratios in diet 1-fed rats were not altered by EE treatment. However, EE treatment increased the hepatic contents of SAM and restored the SAM:SAH levels to normal in rats fed diet 2 or 2M. The levels of SAM + SAH in the livers of rats fed the low homocystine diet (diet 2M) were less than in those fed either diet 1 or diet 2. Thus, the addition of EE at 10 p.p.m. gave protection against reduced levels of SAM, and reduced SAM:SAH ratios in the liver, but had little effect when added to the methyl-adequate diet. No differences in hepatic 5-MC levels were observed in any of the groups as a result of either methyl deficiency or EE treatment. Methyl deprivation alone caused no discernible difference in pancreatic SAM levels but did result in a significant rise in SAH levels and thus in decreased SAM:SAH ratios. EE had no consistent effect on pancreatic SAM, SAH or SAM:SAH ratios in any of the diet groups examined. Similarly, the chronic feeding of diet 2, diet 2M or of EE had no significant effect on the SAM contents of lungs, compared with the corresponding levels in control rats. The protection conferred by EE against SAM insufficiency in the livers of rats fed a methionine- and choline-deficient diet is consistent with the relative insensitivity of female rats to the hepatotoxicity of dietary methyl insufficiency.

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PubMed1982

Can tetracycline-induced fatty liver in pregnancy be attributed to choline deficiency?

Pregnant women, especially those in their third trimester, are particularly susceptible to tetracycline-induced fatty liver. Experimental evidence obtained in rats suggest that the precipitous fall in maternal liver choline concentration nearing the end of pregnancy could lead to a severe reduction in the lipotropic activity of the liver. It is hypothesised that the liver in this state will be at much greater risk of developing fatty degeneration, especially if it is exposed to hepatotoxic agents such as tetracycline.

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