期刊名称：Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology
印刷版ISSN：0301-4800
电子版ISSN：1881-7742
出版年度：1995
卷号：41
期号：5
页码：499-514
DOI：10.3177/jnsv.41.499
出版社：Center for Academic Publications Japan
摘要：[14C] Menaquinone-4 was administered orally once daily at a dose of 4 mg/kg for ten days to female rats of different ages to determine its blood and tissue distribution with particular attention to its distribu-tion in bone. Animals aged 10 and 30 months were either ovariectomized or sham-operated as a control, and young rats aged 7 weeks were used as untreated controls. Blood concentrations of radioactivity at 24h after each dose during repeated administration increased daily and approached a steady state byy the seventh dose. Higher concentrations of radioactivity in blood (plasma) were observed in older animals than in the younger ones, but there was little difference between ovariectomized rats (OVX rats) and sham-operated rats (Sham rats). In tissue samples collected at 1.5h after administration, the liver, adipose tissue, spleen and adrenals showed higher concentrations of radioactivity than the other organs and the plasma. In bone tissues, the bone marrow (BM) and cancellous tissue (CT) of the femur showed radioactivity concentrations which were higher than that in the plasma, and these increased during repeated administration. Finally, at 24h after the last dose, the concentrations of radioactivity in bone tissues of older animals (BM, 5, 807.2ng eq/g; CT, 5, 264.8ng eq/g in OVX rats aged 10 months and BM, 11, 479.3ng eq/g; CT, 4, 023.0ng eq/g in OVX rats aged 30 months) were several times higher than those in younger animals (BM, 2, 771.6ng eq/g; CT, 890.2ng eq/g in 7-week-old untreated rats). The values in OVX rats were also higher than those in Sham rats. Furthermore, micro autoradiography studies of femur sections from OVX rats indicated that [14C] Menaqui-none-4 localized in cancellous tissue where bone is known to be actively remodelled. The concentrations of radioactivity in cancellous tissue and bone marrow of OVX rats aged 10 and 30 months were comparable to the pharmacologically effective concentrations of Menaquinone-4 (10-6-10-5 M) in in vitro studies on bone formation. These findings suggest that orally administered Menaquinone-4 distributes specifically into the bone tissues of ovariectomized rats and this is consistent with its effect as a therapeutic agent for osteoporosis.
