American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 53, 1436-1442, Copyright © 1991 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

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Response of vitamin B-6 content of muscle to changes in vitamin B-6 intake in men

SP Coburn, PJ Ziegler, DL Costill, JD Mahuren, WJ Fink, WE Schaltenbrand, TA Pauly, DR Pearson, PS Conn and TR Guilarte
Biochemistry Department, Fort Wayne State Developmental Center, IN.

Previous reports indicated that in growing rats the vitamin B-6 pool in muscle was relatively stable during deficiency but increased in response to increased vitamin B-6 intake. To determine whether human muscle would show a similar response 10 college-aged males received a low vitamin B-6 diet (1.76 mumol/d) for 6 wk followed by 6 wk on a self- selected diet supplemented with 0.98 mmol pyridoxine HCl/d. During depletion, excretion of pyridoxic acid rapidly adjusted to approximate the intake. Plasma pyridoxal phosphate concentrations at the end of the baseline, depletion, and supplementation periods were 81 +/- 51, 9 +/- 3, and 455 +/- 129 nmol/L, respectively, whereas muscle concentrations were 21 +/- 9, 20 +/- 4, and 25 +/- 7 nmol/g, respectively and total vitamin B-6 in muscle was 28 +/- 10, 27 +/- 4, and 35 +/- 10 nmol/g, respectively. These data provide further confirmation that the vitamin B-6 pools in skeletal muscle are resistant to depletion. They also demonstrate that in humans with constant body weight, vitamin B-6 supplementation is not associated with marked increases in vitamin B-6 in muscle.

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