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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 54, 896-902, Copyright © 1991 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc
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TR Kramer, N Schoene, LW Douglass, JT Judd, R Ballard-Barbash, PR Taylor, HN Bhagavan and PP Nair
Vitamin and Mineral Laboratory, US Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD 20705.
We sought to determine whether fish-oil supplementation would suppress blastogenesis in vitro of concanavalin A (ConA)-stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and, if so, whether it could be reversed with increased intake of vitamin E. Healthy males ate a controlled basal diet providing a total of 40% of energy from fat when fed in conjunction with 15 g/d of either placebo oil (PO) or fish-oil concentrate (FOC) fortified with 15 mg alpha-tocopherol/d for three periods. The subjects were supplemented with PO for 10 wk (PO), with FOC for 10 wk (FOC), and with FOC plus an additional 200 mg alpha- tocopherol/d for 8 wk (FOC+E). During FOC supplementation mitogenic responsiveness of PBMCs to ConA was suppressed, but this effect was reversed by concurrent supplementation with all-rac-alpha-tocopherol (FOC+E). There was a significant positive relationship (P less than 0.001) between plasma alpha-tocopherol concentrations and responsiveness of T lymphocytes to ConA.
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