VITAMIN-B6 DEFICIENCY IMPAIRS INTERLEUKIN-2 PRODUCTION AND LYMPHOCYTE-PROLIFERATION IN ELDERLY ADULTS
VITAMIN-B6 DEFICIENCY IMPAIRS INTERLEUKIN-2 PRODUCTION AND LYMPHOCYTE-PROLIFERATION IN ELDERLY ADULTS
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DOI:
10.1093/ajcn/53.5.1275
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发表时间:
1991-05-01
影响因子:
7.1
通讯作者:
GERSHOFF, SN
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作者:
MEYDANI, SN;RIBAYAMERCADO, JD;GERSHOFF, SN
The effect of vitamin B-6 deficiency on immune response was studied in eight healthy elderly adults. The protocol consisted of a 5-d baseline (BL) period; a vitamin B-6-depletion period of less-than-or-equal-to 20 d; three stages of vitamin B-6-repletion, each lasting 21 d; and a 4-d final phase. The amounts of vitamin B-6 ingested during the different phases of the study were 3.00, 15.00, 22.50, and 33.75-mu-g.kg body wt-1. d-1, respectively. During the final phase the subjects ingested 50 mg vitamin B-6/d. Fasting blood was collected at the end of each period. Vitamin B-6 depletion significantly decreased percentage and total number of lymphocytes, mitogenic responses of peripheral blood lymphocytes to T- and B-cell mitogens, and interleukin 2 production. These indices returned to BL values after the third vitamin B-6-repletion period, when the total vitamin B-6 intakes were 1.90 +/- 0.18 mg/d for women and 2.88 +/- 0.17 mg/d for men. Vitamin B-6 deficiency impairs in vitro indices of cell-mediated immunity in healthy elderly adults. This impairment is reversible by vitamin B-6 repletion.