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The observed antitumor activity of this sE dietary supplementation was an unexpected experimental result as sE was not previously reported to have antitumor activity although vitamin E may give modest protection against the risk of breast cancer [ 5 ] . Based on the observed antitumor activity of high dose sE in the diet, it became important to investigate if the sE supplement, when fed at such a high dose, was associated with the modification of the fatty acid composition of mitochondrial and microsomal membranes and if the sE was acting as an antioxidant or possibly a prooxidant in tumor and in host tissues.
HO-1 catalyzes the breakdown of prooxidant heme to biliverdin with release of carbon monoxide and iron ion.
Doxorubicin (DOX) is a cytotoxic drug with prooxidant properties known to cause genotoxic damage resulting in an increase in number of erythrocytes with a micronucleus.
[ 28 ] suggest that vitamin E, when combined with DOX, may increase levels of toxic products in the heart and in the tumor while Liu and Tan [ 27 ] suggest that vitamin E may have prooxidant properties at high dosage levels.
The micronuclei results in Table 5suggest that while sE protects against lipid peroxidation, it did not protect the genome of erythroblasts against the prooxidant effects of DOX in this study.