Liver tissue, tocopherol content

Siman CM, Ericsson UJ. Effect of butylated hydroxytoluene on alpha-tocopherol content in liver and adipose tissue of rats. Toxicol Lett 1996 87(1-1) 103-8. 

When the tissues were stored at 4°C, the tocopherols in the liver and adipose (which were richest in tocopherol content per gram of wet tissue,... 

Oils that have undergone lipid peroxidation may have adverse physiological effects if consumed. Eor example, Eder (1999) found that oxidized oils in a diet could diminish the ability of rat heart and liver tissues to desaturate fatty acids. Work by Sheehy et al. in 1994 showed that the consumption of thermally oxidized sunflower oil by chicks reduces the tissue content of a-tocopherol and increases the susceptibility of tissues to lipid peroxidation. The addition of vitamin E to refined olive oil increases the stability of the oil under pro-oxidant conditions and decreases the oxidative damage caused by adriamycin in rats (Quiles et al., 1999). 

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