Bioavailability of Oil-Based and β-Lactoglobulin-Complexed Vitamin A in a Rat Model

Table 3

Liver repletion retinol and retinyl palmitate after two and four weeks repletion (experiment 1)¹.

	2-week repletion		4-week repletion
	Retinol; (𝜇g/g of liver)	Retinyl palmate; (𝜇g/g of liver)	Retinol; (𝜇g/g of liver)	Retinyl palmate; (𝜇g/g of liver)
Regular	10.28 ± 0.98^a	237.12 ± 24.93^a	18.79 ± 6.45^a	261.97 ± 26.52^a
Vit A in oil^2	0.77 ± 0.07^b	1.65 ± 0.57^b	1.89 ± 0.52^b	4.11 ± 2.34^b
Vit A in 𝛽-lact^2	0.45 ± 0.02^b	0.00 ±  0.00^b∗	0.63 ± 0.11^b	0.00 ±  0.00^b∗
Vit A in oil-milk^2	0.07 ± 0.04^b	0.00 ±  0.00^b∗	0.00 ±  0.00^b∗	0.00 ±  0.00^b∗
Vit A in 𝛽-lact-milk^2	0.44 ± 0.08^b	0.00 ±  0.00^b∗	0.04 ±  0.07^b∗∗	0.00 ±  0.00^b∗

 ¹Values are mean ± SD; 𝑛 = 3 rats/group. Means in a column with no common superscript letters are significantly different (𝑃 < 0.05).
²Vit A: vitamin A; 𝛽-Lact: 𝛽-lactoglobulin.
*No vitamin A was detectable by the HPLC analysis.
**In one rat, vitamin A was not detectable by the HPLC analysis.