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© 2008 American Society for Nutrition J. Nutr. 138:1101-1106, June 2008

Nutrient Requirements and Optimal Nutrition

Vitamin A Concentrations in Piglet Extrahepatic Tissues Respond Differently Ten Days after Vitamin A Treatment1,2

Ting Sun, Rebecca L. Surles and Sherry A. Tanumihardjo*

Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: sherry{at}nutrisci.wisc.edu.


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Periodic supplementation to infants and young children is encouraged in developing countries by the WHO. We investigated vitamin A (VA) in extrahepatic tissues of piglets after supplementation with retinyl acetate to determine long-term storage. 3, 4-Didehydroretinyl acetate (DRA) as a tracer was used to evaluate uptake from chylomicra in 4 h. Sows were fed a VA-depleted diet throughout pregnancy and lactation. Male castrated piglets (n = 28, 11.6 ± 0.5 d) from these sows were weaned onto a VA-free diet for 1 wk, assigned to 4 groups, and dosed orally with 0, 26.2, 52.4, or 105 µmol VA. After 10 d, 5.3 µmol DRA was administered to determine short-term uptake of 3, 4-didehydroretinol (DR). Four hours later, piglets were killed; adrenal glands, kidney, lung, and spleen were collected and analyzed for retinol and DR. Retinol concentrations of kidney and adrenal gland were higher than control, but treated groups did not differ. Retinol concentration was highest in kidney (1.70–2.52 nmol/g), followed by adrenal gland (0.30–0.48 nmol/g), lung (0.15–0.21 nmol/g), and spleen (0.11–0.15 nmol/g). Total retinol in kidney and spleen was different among the groups (P < 0.05). Unesterified retinol was the major VA form; the percent retinol of total VA was lowest in adrenal glands. DR did not differ among the groups. In 4 h, the minimum estimated chylomicron contribution to tissue DR was 63–280% higher than the maximum DR exposure from retinol-binding protein. Constant dietary intake may be important in maintaining VA concentrations in extrahepatic tissues.


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Vitamin A (VA)3 is essential for growth, epithelial maintenance, vision, and reproduction of humans and animals (1). Preformed VA is found in animal foods (e.g. dairy, eggs, and liver) and provitamin A carotenoids are found in many fruits and vegetables. After absorption, some VA can be distributed to tissues via chylomicra (2) and excess VA is mainly stored in the liver as retinyl esters (3). In the liver, retinyl esters can be hydrolyzed to retinol and released into blood complexed with retinol-binding protein (RBP), which circulates with transthyretin in a molar ratio of 1:1 (4,5) to be transported to target tissues (6). The uptake of retinol from RBP by tissues is mediated by a receptor (7). Recently, it has been proposed that lung and perhaps other tissues require steady input from dietary VA to maintain tissue concentrations (8).

Children with VA deficiency have a higher risk of blindness and dying from infectious disease than VA-sufficient children. More than 250 million children <5 y of age have insufficient VA to maintain optimal health. VA supplements are periodically given to infants and children to improve VA status (9). Supplements have ranged from 25,000 to 50,000 IU (26.2 and 52.4 µmol) retinyl ester for infants at immunization contacts to 100,000 and 200,000 IU (105 and 210 µmol) for infants and preschool children administered biannually. VA supplements may change VA status (10–12) and decrease the mortality rate of infants (13–17) but do not always result in an adequate VA status (18). A lactating sow-piglet model showed that liver VA reserves of young infants improve after direct or maternal supplementation but not dose dependently (19–21). When piglets from sows on a VA-depleted diet were administered 0, 26.2, 52.4, or 105 µmol VA, 26.2 µmol did not result in a mean liver reserve >0.07 µmol/g liver (the deficiency cutoff) and 24% of piglets were still VA deficient after 52.4 or 105 µmol VA (19).

In contrast to liver, the storage and distribution of VA in extrahepatic tissues of piglets have not been studied after VA supplementation. The distribution of VA in extrahepatic tissues was studied in rat (8,22–24), monkey (25), gilt (26), and seal (27). Extrahepatic tissues are involved in VA metabolism, especially during VA deficiency. Kidney has an auxiliary role during VA deficiency (28) due to increased acyl CoA:retinol acyl transferase activity. Lung contains retinyl esters (1,8,29,30) and can metabolize retinyl palmitate from chylomicron remnants into retinoic acid (31). Greater utilization of retinol in lungs may be necessary for lung development of prenatal rats (32). Spleen can take up VA from perfused chylomicra or emulsions (33). Adrenal glands contain a significant amount of retinoic acid for development (34). In transthyretin-deficient mice, although the concentration of circulating retinol-RBP was low (i.e. 5% of normal), VA status in extrahepatic tissue remained normal (35).

If some tissues receive VA predominantly through chylomicron delivery, continued intake through supplements, fortified foods, or food would be needed to maintain optimal health. However, current practices include periodic supplementation to infants at immunization contacts and to children < 5 y of age biannually (9). Periodic supplementation may not maintain optimal tissue levels in critical organs if chylomicron delivery is necessary. The objectives of this study were to determine the distribution of VA in extrahepatic tissues of weaned piglets after graded VA supplementation 10 d after administration and to evaluate the uptake of newly ingested 3, 4-didehydroretinol (DR) by these tissues 4 h after dosing with 3, 4-didehydroretinyl acetate (DRA). In sows, DR esters peaked in the serum at 3 h after dosing, demonstrating that DR can be used as a chylomicron tracer (36). In piglets given standard 5.3-µmol doses of DRA, DR bound to RBP continued to rise or began to peak at 4 h (37). Furthermore, piglets are a good model because of similar body weight to infants and therefore identical dose sizes can be used as those periodically administered in public health programs (i.e. 25,000–100,000 IU).


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    Animals. This study was approved by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Animal Care and Use Committee. Sows (n = 15), crossbreeds of Large White and Landrace, had 2.4 ± 0.5 parities when assigned to this protocol. They were fed a standardized fortified feed until conception (20) and a feed without added VA during gestation and lactation. Male castrated piglets (n = 28; 11.6 ± 0.5 d old) were selected from 6 sows and weaned to a VA-free feed. At 1 wk, piglets were assigned to 4 treatment groups (n = 7/group) and received oral doses of 0, 7.5, 15, or 30 mg VA (0, 26.2, 52.4, or 105 µmol retinyl acetate) dissolved in corn oil (19) at age 18.6 ± 0.5 d. These doses are the same levels as those periodically given to infants. Piglets were maintained on the VA-free feed for 10 d. On the day they were killed, they were dosed with 1.5 mg (5.3 µmol) DRA and killed 4 h later at age 28.6 ± 0.5 d (Table 1). In addition to the liver and blood (19), the adrenal glands, kidney, lung, and spleen were collected, placed on dry ice, and frozen at –80°C. For comparison to reference values at birth, tissues were collected from 7 piglets that died after birth from other sows fed a normal VA feed (20) and analyzed for retinol and DR content.


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  		TABLE 1 Characteristics of piglets 10 d after treatment with graded doses of VA (0, 26.2, 52.4, or 105 µmol retinol as retinyl acetate)

 
    Piglet tissue analysis. Kidney (2 g) and sodium sulfate (6 g) were ground together in a mortar. Purified retinyl butyrate (2.65 nmol) was added to determine extraction efficiency. Dichloromethane was used to extract retinol and retinyl esters and filtered into a 25-mL volumetric flask; 10 mL extract was dried under argon and dissolved in 100 µL 50:50 methanol:dichloromethane; 50 µL was injected. The Waters HPLC system included a SunFire C18 (5 µm, 4.6 x 250 mm) reverse-phase column, 1525 binary pump, 717 autosampler, and 2996 photodiode array detector. The mobile phase was 85:15 acetonitrile:dichloroethane (v:v) with 0.05% triethylamine as a modifier. The elution was 1 mL/min between 0 and 7 min and ramped to 2 mL/min by 10 min; run time was 40 min. Retinol and retinyl esters were analyzed at 325 nm and DR was analyzed at 350 nm.

Lung (5 g), adrenal gland (0.5 g), or spleen (2 g) were ground with sodium sulfate in a mortar; 0.99, 0.20, and 0.40 nmol retinyl butyrate was added, respectively. The samples were extracted with 20 mL dichloromethane 3 times. The extract was dried in a round-bottom flask using a rotary evaporator. The residue was dissolved in 1 mL dichloromethane (3 times) and transferred to a glass tube (13 x 100 mm). The combined solution was dried under argon and redissolved in 100 µL 50:50 methanol:dichloromethane; 70 µL was injected. HPLC analysis of lung was the same as that for kidney. For adrenal and spleen, a gradient with solvent A [70:30 acetonitrile:water (v:v) (0.05% triethylamine)] and B [85:15 acetonitrile:dichloroethane (v:v) (0.05% triethylamine)] was: 0 min, B = 0%; 5 min, B = 50%; 20 min, B = 100%. The flow rate was 1 mL/min for 20 min and ramped to 2 mL/min by 27 min; run time was 55 min.

Retinol, retinyl esters (linoleate, oleate, palmitate, and stearate), and DR peaks were identified by comparing their retention times with standards, as well as characteristic spectra. Retinol and retinyl esters were quantified using retinyl butyrate and the Formula for retinol (1832) and combined for the retinol concentration (nmol/g tissue) or total retinol in each tissue (nmol/tissue). DR was quantified using its Formula (1455). All values were calculated based on tissue wet weight.

The percent retention of VA in piglet tissues for treatment groups was calculated: total amount of retinol in the treatment group minus the control, divided by the ingested VA amount. Percent retention of DR in piglet tissues was calculated from the recovered 5.3 µmol DRA dose (19). Based on DR concentrations in the serum of the piglets, the minimum chylomicron contribution to the tissues was estimated by determining the maximum exposure to DR on RBP in the 4-h period after supplementation and subtracting it from the total measured DR.

    Statistical analysis. SAS software (version 9.1) was used. ANOVA and multiple comparisons with the Student-Newman-Keuls test were used to investigate the effects of VA treatment on retinol and retinyl esters among different tissues (38). {alpha} = 0.05 was considered significant. We used Levene's test for homogeneity of variances to test for unequal variances. One-way ANOVA was used to evaluate the effect of different VA doses within each tissue and 2-way ANOVA among tissues (VA treatment x tissue) on retinol concentration, total amount of retinol, retention of ingested VA, DR concentration, and retention of DR. Two-way ANOVA was also used to assess the difference in concentrations affected by treatment and compounds in the same tissue (VA treatment x retinol or retinyl ester). Data were expressed as means ± SD.


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    Retinol in different tissues. Retinol concentration was the sum of unesterified retinol and retinyl esters. At 10 d after treatment, the retinol concentration of the VA treatment groups (Fig. 1A) was higher than that of the control group for adrenal gland (P < 0.05) and kidney (P < 0.01), but the VA treatment groups did not differ. For lung and spleen, retinol concentration did not differ among groups. The retinol concentration was higher in kidney than in adrenal gland and it was higher in adrenal gland than in lung and spleen (P < 0.05), which did not differ from one another.


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  		FIGURE 1  Data are means ± SD, n = 7. Within a tissue, labeled means without a common letter differ, P < 0.05.

 
Total retinol in kidney (Fig. 1B) was higher in the 15 and 30 mg VA groups than in the control group (P < 0.05). For spleen, total retinol in the 15 mg group did not differ from 30 mg but was higher than the control and 7.5 mg groups (P < 0.05). The control, 7.5, and 30 mg groups did not differ. The total amount of retinol in adrenal gland and lung did not differ among groups (Fig. 1B). Kidney contained the highest amount of total retinol (P < 0.01), followed by lung, spleen, and adrenal glands, and spleen and adrenal glands did not differ. The groups given 15- and 30-mg treatments had significantly higher total retinol than controls (P < 0.01), but they did not differ from each other.

    Retention of ingested VA in piglet tissues. Retention of ingested VA in the 7.5 mg group was significantly higher than that in the 30 mg group for adrenal gland (P < 0.05); no other differences were found (data not shown). The retention of VA from the supplements was the highest in kidney (0.03–0.09%) and the other tissues did not differ.

    Concentration of retinol and retinyl esters in piglet tissues. Unesterified retinol concentration in the adrenal glands and kidney of the control group were lower than that of the VA treatment groups (P < 0.01) and concentrations of retinyl esters in control kidney were lower than that of the 15 mg VA group (P < 0.01) (Table 2). For control and VA treatment groups, the retinol concentration was much higher than that of retinyl esters in each extrahepatic tissue (P < 0.01). Retinol concentrations were highest in kidney, followed by adrenal, lung, and spleen (P < 0.01). Retinyl ester concentrations were the highest in kidney, followed by adrenal (P < 0.01). Retinol was higher than the esters in each extrahepatic tissue (P < 0.05). Unesterified retinol was 66–73% of total retinol in adrenal gland, 86–89% in kidney, 93–96% in lung, and 79–81% in spleen.


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  		TABLE 2 Retinol and retinyl ester concentrations of adrenal gland, kidney, lung, and spleen of adult pigs, piglets given different doses of VA, and reference piglets that died shortly after birth12

 
The reference piglets that died just after birth from sows on a standard diet had a liver retinol concentration of 0.035 ± 0.019 µmol/g, which was lower than that of the VA-treated piglets but not the controls. Retinol and retinyl esters in kidney were lower than the study groups and higher than or similar to that in adrenal gland, lung, and spleen (Table 2). Retinol concentrations in this study were compared with adult pigs with normal VA status (26). Liver, adrenal glands, and lung had a higher total retinol concentration and kidney was in the same range as this study, but the percentage as retinyl esters was higher (Table 2).

    DR concentration and retention in piglet tissues. DR was not detected in the extrahepatic tissues of the reference piglets that died just after birth but was detected in all tissues of piglets dosed with DRA. The DR concentration in adrenal gland was 0.11 ± 0.05 nmol/g, 0.10 ± 0.05 nmol/g in kidney, 0.07 ± 0.03 nmol/g in lung, and 0.13 ± 0.10 nmol/g in spleen. The DR concentrations did not differ among the groups within a tissue. Spleen contained a higher DR concentration than lung (P < 0.01) but not higher than adrenal gland and kidney. Retention of DR in each tissue did not differ among the 4 groups. The ratio of DR:total retinol (DR:R) was 0.19 ± 0.08 – 0.31 ± 0.13 for adrenal gland, 0.03 ± 0.02 – 0.07 ± 0.04 for kidney, 0.31 ± 0.19 – 0.47 ± 0.30 for lung, and 0.60 ± 0.39 – 1.40 ± 1.27 for spleen. The treatment groups did not differ in ratio (P = 0.075) and no interaction was found between organ and treatment (P = 0.76). However, the DR:R difference among organs was significant (P < 0.0001), which was the highest in spleen, followed by lung and kidney. DR:R in adrenal gland did not differ from kidney or lung. DR:R in kidney was similar to that in serum of these piglets (19).

    Estimation of the chylomicron contribution to DR concentrations in the tissues. At 4 h, the mean DR concentration in the serum was 0.0913 µg/L (0.321 nmol/L). The minimum chylomicron contribution to each tissue was estimated by assuming that the DR bound to RBP incrementally increased by 0.00038 ng (0.0013 pmol) DR·mL–1·min–1 from time 0 to 4 h, which is reasonable based on prior data in piglets with similar VA status (37). Gastrointestinal [106 ± 9 mL·min–1·100 g–1 tissue)] (39) and cerebral blood flow [73–101 mL·min–1·100 g–1 tissue)] (40) have been measured in piglets. The value of 100 mL blood–1·min–1·100 g–1 tissue) was used for this estimation. We assumed this value is reasonable for the organs studied, because the calculation is corrected for organ weight. The reported range of hematocrits for piglets is 0.26–0.41 (41). The mid-value hematocrit used for this calculation was 0.34; therefore, 66 mL plasma was estimated to pass through 100 g tissue in 1 min. Eq. 1 was used to calculate the amount of DR that passed through 100 g of tissue in 4 h:

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Thus, 7.3 ng DR on RBP circulated to 1 g tissue/min (Table 3). Using mean tissue weight, the maximum DR through RBP delivery and the minimum DR amount from chylomicron delivery measured in the tissue were estimated. The minimum chylomicron contribution ranged from 63% higher in lung to 280% higher in spleen than the maximum DR amount that passed through the tissue in 4 h bound to RBP (Table 3).


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  		TABLE 3 Estimation of the minimum chylomicron contribution to tissue DR within 4 h after 5.3 µmol DRA was administered to piglets on a VA-deficient diet

 

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This study uniquely determined extrahepatic retinol concentrations in response to supplemental VA treatment and estimated the chylomicron contribution to tissue concentrations by using an analogue of retinol (i.e. DR) in piglets fed a VA-free diet. The doses used were the same as those provided to infants <1 y of age in developing countries. The retinol concentration in kidney and adrenal glands responded to VA treatment measured 10 d after administration. Kidney contained more VA than adrenal gland, lung, and spleen. Kidney plays an important role in the recycling of retinol-RBP and RBP has been detected in the proximal convoluted tubules in rat kidneys (42). Raccoon dogs, silver foxes (43), and marmoset monkeys (24) have similar VA concentrations in kidney and liver, suggesting a specific function of kidney in VA metabolism and storage of retinol and retinyl esters in addition to excretion of VA in the urine (43). Retinol concentrations in extrahepatic tissues, such as kidney, lung, and adrenal gland, were much lower than that in liver of adult pigs (26) and rats (24,44). Piglets used in this study had liver retinol concentrations of 0.025, 0.066, 0.094, and 0.12 µmol retinol/g liver for the 0, 26.2, 52.4, or 105 µmol VA groups, respectively (19). Most tissues cannot store large amounts of VA relative to liver (45). By comparing tissues within the control group, total retinol concentration of control liver was 82, 15, 165, and 237 times that in adrenal gland, kidney, lung, and spleen, respectively. The retention of ingested VA in the piglet liver was 21.3–38.2% (19), which was much higher than that in the extrahepatic tissues.

The rank of total retinol concentration in tissues agrees with that of Schweigert et al. in adult pigs, which was: liver > kidney > adrenal glands > lung (26). The mean retinol concentrations in VA-sufficient adult pigs (liver stores of 740 nmol/g) were 2.05 nmol/g for kidney, 0.74 nmol/g for adrenal gland, and 0.46 nmol/g for lung (26), which were similar to our data in these piglets. Lespine et al. (44) measured retinol and retinyl ester concentrations in several tissues to verify that total parenteral nutrition with retinyl palmitate allows an adequate supply of VA to peripheral tissues. Orally fed VA-deficient control rats had increased VA content of kidney and lung after treatment. Retinol as a percentage of total VA was higher in kidney than lung; retinol increased in kidney and retinol and retinyl esters increased in lung after refeeding (44). Ten days after VA dosage, we observed a substantial increase in retinol concentration in kidney but not in lung, implicating that chylomicron delivery to lung is an important contribution.

In VA-adequate animals, unesterified retinol in extrahepatic tissues is usually lower than retinyl ester concentration (26,43,46,47) but is a higher percentage (e.g. 38–47%) of total retinol than in liver (26). In these piglets, the distribution of retinol and retinyl esters in extrahepatic tissues differed from those reported in adult pigs (26). Unesterified retinol was the major form, accounting for 66–96% of total retinol concentrations. The VA status of the adult pigs (740 nmol/g liver) and piglets (70 nmol/g liver) were vastly different, resulting in less storage as esters in the piglets. Hydrolysis of esters may have occurred during storage (48) or thawing (49). Although the storage temperature was –80°C, extrahepatic retinyl ester hydrolase is still moderately active at that low temperature (48). This changes the VA profile but does not affect total VA concentrations.

Retention of DR in piglet liver was 23–51%, which was much higher than that in the extrahepatic tissues. More DR was found in the piglet livers for the VA treatment groups than the control group (19) but did not differ in the kidney, adrenal glands, lung, and spleen. Thus, tissue uptake was relatively similar in the 4-h time frame and did not change due to differences in VA status of the piglets. Retinol concentration in kidney and adrenal glands increased in response to VA treatment compared with control, but the 3 treatment groups did not differ. Therefore, the chylomicron contribution, which occurs within a few hours of VA ingestion, may be limited and has a finite capacity not affected by increasing doses. The spleen had a higher DR concentration than the lung, but the lung took up more total DR presumably due to its size. Because retinol concentration did not differ in spleen and lung 10 d after dosing with VA, frequent dietary intake of VA would be needed for maintaining concentrations.

In 4 h, the minimum chylomicron contribution was 63 and 280% higher in lung and spleen, respectively, than the maximum amount of DR that passed through the tissue in 4 h on RBP. Future studies should assess changes with time in tissue concentrations to better assess these findings. A limitation of this study is that the lag time of the processing and absorption of the DR was not assessed. In rats and sows, the rise from 1 to 3.5 h (50) and 0 to 5 h (36) of DR bound to RBP is quite linear, but values between 0 and 1 h have not been assessed. Nonetheless, the DR exposure extrapolated in the first hour of this study represents only 6% of the total in the calculation. Furthermore, because the chylomicron contribution is calculated by difference, a lag in DR exposure to tissue from RBP would increase the chylomicron contribution to the tissue, strengthening our arguments.

Spleen and lung are active in the immune response (51,52) and VA plays an integral role in immunity. Any initial storage of VA that occurred in these tissues may have been utilized before sampling at 10 d after dosage. The spleen is involved in both innate and adaptive immune processes in humans (51). The lung has constant exposure with the environment and is therefore one of the first defenses to inhaled antigens (52). The DR:R was much higher in these 2 tissues than the kidney or serum. We interpret this to mean that DR was rapidly taken up by these tissues from the chylomicra and initial stores of VA from the VA dose given 10 d prior were low. This is in agreement with the hypothesis set forth by Ross and Li (8). If these 2 essential immune system organs need a constant supply of VA for proper function from the diet or supplements, current practices of biannual supplementation to children may not be optimal. Although few dispute the benefits of VA supplementation to preschool children in the prevention of mortality and overt VA deficiency (53), perhaps food-based approaches to the global VA problem need to be considered (54) alongside of supplementation programs to mitigate morbidity and maintain optimal health.


   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 
We thank Jordan Mills in nutritional sciences for his help in developing the methods for VA analysis. We are grateful for the continued support of Thomas Crenshaw, professor of animal science, in the orchestration of our swine studies.


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1 Supported by NIHNIDDK 61973, and USDA National Research Initiative grants 2003-35200-13754 and 2007-35200-17729. Back

2 Author disclosures: T. Sun, R. L. Surles, and S. A. Tanumihardjo, no conflicts of interest. Back

3 Abbreviations used: DR, 3, 4-didehydroretinol; DRA, 3, 4-didehydroretinyl acetate; DR:R, ratio of 3, 4-didehydroretinol to total retinol; RBP, retinol-binding protein; VA, vitamin A. Back

Manuscript received 11 February 2008. Initial review completed 7 March 2008. Revision accepted 14 March 2008.


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