GLAVIND, J. and N. TRYDING. On the digestion and absorption of 1i)operoxides. Acta physiol. scand. 1960. 49. 97-102. -The purpose of the work was to study the fate of orally ingested peroxides. Lipoperoxides were given by mouth to rats with cannulated thoracic duct. No lipoperoxide could be found in the lymph. Pancreatic juice, bile, and lymph were shaken with lipoperoxides at suitable temperature and pH. At intervals free fatty acids, total lipoperoxide, and, after chromatographic separation on alumina, peroxide-containing esters and peroxide-containing free fatty acids were determined. Pancreatic juice splits lipoperoxides with the formation of peroxide-containing fatty acids, and generally also produces a decrease of total lipoperoxide. Bile and lymph alone have no effect on lipoperoxides. The results suggest that the essential site of the destruction of the lipoperoxides ingested with the food is the intestinal mucosa.The normal diet regularly contains a larger or smaller quantity of lipoperoxides (lipids containing peroxide-groups). On the other hand, the lipids from different parts of the organism only contain negligible amounts of peroxides.
This general observation is confirmed by experiments. DUBOULOZ, FONDARAIand LACARDE (1949) fed large amounts of lipoperoxides to rats, but none could be recovered in the adipose tissue. We have made similar experiments with the same result. Such studies suggest the existence of a mechanism for the elimination