Table 2.
Levels of different tocopherols (T) in plasma, prostate and tumors from SCID mice treated with dietary γ-TmT.
| Treatment | Plasma (μM ± SE) | Prostate (μmol/kg ± SE) | Tumor (μmol/kg ± SE) | ||||||
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| α-T | γ-T | δ-T | α-T | γ-T | δ-T | α-T | γ-T | δ-T | |
| Control | 0.73 ± 0.08 | 0.61 ± 0.09 | 0.11 ± 0.02 | 3.76 ± 1.14 | 0.13 ± 0.05 | 0.06 ± 0.03 | 2.95 ± 0.26 | 0.29 ± 0.01 | 0.19 ± 0.01 |
| 0.1% γ-TmT | 3.80 ± 1.41 | 0.71 ± 0.09 | 0.13 ± 0.01 | 3.37 ± 0.84 | 0.33 ± 0.06 | 0.19 ± 0.03 | 3.10 ± 0.50 | 0.65 ± 0.03 | 0.37 ± 0.02 |
| 0.3% γ-TmT | 2.87 ± 1.08 | 0.99 ± 0.14 | 0.18 ± 0.03 | 4.50 ± 0.84 | 0.92 ± 0.19 | 0.48 ± 0.11 | 3.26 ± 1.02 | 0.64 ± 0.17 | 0.36 ± 0.07 |
| 0.5% γ-TmT | 5.55 ± 1.57 | 1.18 ± 0.24 | 0.23 ± 0.06 | 2.57 ± 0.74 | 0.63 ± 0.16 | 0.41 ± 0.09 | 2.16 ± 0.57 | 0.33 ± 0.03 | 0.22 ± 0.01 |
Plasma, prostate and tumors from the experiment described in Figure 1 were collected for analysis of different tocopherols (T). Levels of α-T, γ-T and δ-T were determined according to the Materials and Methods. The detection limit of each tocopherol in our analysis was 0.02 ng.