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The Journal of Nutrition Vol. 127 No. 6 June 1997, pp. 1219-1228
Copyright ©1997 by the American Society for Nutritional Sciences

Chronic Exercise Affects Vitamin B-6 Metabolism but Not Requirement of Growing Rats

Manuscript received 1 October 1996. Initial reviews completed 9 December 1996. Revision accepted 24 February 1997.

Fatima Hadj-Saad, Michel Lhuissier, and Jean-Claude Guilland

Laboratoire de Physiologie, Faculté de Médecine, 21033 Dijon Cedex, France

The effect of chronic exercise (forced swimming) on vitamin B-6 status and metabolism was studied in growing male rats fed deficient (0 mg pyridoxine-HCl/kg), suboptimal (2 mg pyridoxine-HCl/kg) or control (7 mg pyridoxine-HCl/kg) diets for 9 wk. Sedentary rats were fed the same diets. Body weight gain was lower in deficient rats than in both other dietary groups. Sedentary rats were heavier than trained rats of all diet groups. Erythrocyte aspartate aminotransferase, urinary 4-pyridoxic acid excretion, blood (plasma and erythrocytes) and tissue B-6 vitamers were measured. Urinary 4-pyridoxic acid, plasma pyridoxal 5'-phosphate and erythrocyte aspartate aminotransferase values of exercised and sedentary rats responded to changes in dietary pyridoxine but were not different from one another. After 9 wk of vitamin B-6 depletion, tissue concentrations of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate and pyridoxamine 5; 5'-phosphate were 41-66% and 26-49% lower, respectively, in the deficient groups than in the control groups. Larger percentage differences occurred in plasma than in tissues (95 vs. 22-66%). In liver, pyridoxal 5'-phosphate concentrations were lower, whereas pyridoxal concentrations were higher in trained than in sedentary rats. In gastrocnemius muscle, pyridoxal 5'-phosphate, pyridoxamine 5'-phosphate and total vitamin B-6 concentrations were higher in trained than in sedentary rats. Concentrations of vitamin B-6 compounds in heart, kidneys, brain and adrenals were not affected by training. On the basis of the vitamin B-6-dependent variables measured in this study, we conclude that prolonged exercise affects the metabolism of vitamin B-6, but does not increase the vitamin B-6 requirement in growing rats.

Key words: vitamin B-6, depletion, exercise, status, male rats.




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