Silicon balance in human volunteers; a pilot study to establish the variance in silicon excretion versus intake.
In: Nutrition & Metabolism, Jg. 11 (2014-02-01), Heft 1, S. 1-17
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Background Accumulating evidence suggests a role for silicon in optimal connective tissue health. Further proof of its importance/essentiality may be provided by studies involving imposed depletion followed by 29 Si challenge to estimate metabolic balance. Prior to conducting these expensive studies, we first established the variance of estimating normal Si excretion versus intake using a single oral dose of typical dietary Si, orthosilicic acid. Methods Healthy volunteers were recruited from Loei Rajabhat University, separated into two matched groups (three males and three females/group) and maintained on a standardized diet for the three study days. One group ingested 500 ml water containing orthosilicic acid (28.9 mg Si) and the other group received 500 ml water alone, all on a fasted stomach. Blood samples and total urine and faeces were collected over the 48 h post-dose period and 24 h before-hand (baseline) and analysed for silicon by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry. Results Serum Si analysis confirmed the ready absorption of silicon from the orthosilicic acid solution. Mean total urinary and faecal Si excretions over the 24 h post-dose period accounted for 57 ± 9.5% and 39 ± 9.4% of the ingested dose, respectively. Thus in total 96.3 ± 5.8% of the ingested dose was recovered in faecal plus urinary excretions over the 24 h post-dose period. Conclusions We report that in healthy subjects (presumably in Si balance), the ingestion of a soluble dose of dietary Si results in the same quantity (within analytical error) being excreted within 24 h. It is currently not known if this all originated from the dose solution or if there was some exchange with the body Si pool but, given the low variance in these silicon balance data, isotopic studies are now merited. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Silicon balance in human volunteers; a pilot study to establish the variance in silicon excretion versus intake.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Pruksa, Supannee Sripanyakorn ; Siripinyanond, Atitaya ; Powell, Jonathan J. ; Jugdaohsingh, Ravin |
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Zeitschrift: | Nutrition & Metabolism, Jg. 11 (2014-02-01), Heft 1, S. 1-17 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2014 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1743-7075 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1186/1743-7075-11-4 |
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