Choline bitartrate
2 sources
Mechanism of action
Several mechanisms are suggested for the cancer-promoting effect of a choline-devoid diet. These incl incr cell proliferation related to regeneration after parenchymal cell death occurs in the choline deficient liver, hypomethylation of DNA (alters expression of genes), reactive oxygen species leakage from mitochondria with incr lipid peroxidation in liver, activation of protein kinase C signaling due to accumulation of diacylglycerol in liver, mutation of the fragile histidine triad (FHIT) gene, which is a tumor suppressor gene, and defective cell-suicide (apoptosis) mechanisms. Loss of phposphatidylethanolamine N-methyl-transferase (PEMT) function may also contribute to malignant transformation of hepatocytes. /Choline/
Acetylcholine is one of the most important neurotransmitters used by neurons in the memory centers of the brain (hippocampus and septum). Choline accelerates the synth and release of acetylcholine in nerve cells. /Choline/
... Choline deficiency in cell culture causes apoptosis or programmed cell death. This appears to be due to abnormalities in cell membrane phosphatidylcholine content and an incr in ceramide, a precursor, as well as a metabolite of sphingomyelin. Ceramide accumulation, which is caused by choline deficiency, appears to activate a caspase, a type of enzyme that mediates apoptosis. /Choline/
Pharmacokinetics
Absorption
Choline is absorbed from diet as such or as lecithin. Latter is hydrolyzed by intestinal mucosa to glycerophosphoryl choline, which either passes to liver to liberate choline or to peripheral tissues via intestinal lymphatics. /Choline/
Choline are absorbed via the portal circulation ... The liver takes up the majority of choline and stores it in the form of phosphatidylcholine and sphingomyelin. Kidney and brain also accumulate choline ... Some free choline is excreted with urine ... A specific carrier is needed for the transport of free choline across the blood-brain barrier, and the capacity is especially high in neonates. /Choline/
Free choline is transported across the blood-brain barrier at a rate that is proportional to serum choline level ... In advanced age ... brain choline uptake /is decr/ ... /Choline/
During pregnancy, large amt of choline are delivered to the fetus across the placenta and this depletes maternal stores. Choline concn in amniotic fluid is 10-fold greater than that in maternal blood. At birth, humans and other mammals have plasma choline concn that are much higher than those in adults ... In rats, the liver choline concn in late pregnancy decr to less than one-third that of nonpregnant females ... /Choline/
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Metabolism
Free choline is not fully absorbed, especially after large doses, and intestinal bacteria metabolize choline to trimethylamine. /Choline/
/The/ ability to form choline /de novo via the methylation of phosphatidylethanolamine using S-adenosylmethionine as the methyl donor, mostly in the liver,/ means that some of the demand for choline can ... be met using methyl groups derived from 1-carbon metabolism (via methyl-folate and methionine). Several vitamins (folate, vitamin B12, vitamin B6, and riboflavin) and the amino acid methionine interact with choline in 1-carbon metabolism ... Methionine, methyl-tetrahydrofolate (THF), and choline can be fungible sources of methyl groups. /Choline/
Before choline can be absorbed in the gut, some is metabolized by bacteria to form betaine and methylamines (which are not methyl donors) ... Although some free choline is excreted with urine, most is oxidized in the kidney to form betaine ... /Choline/
Acetylcholine is one of the most important neurotransmitters used by neurons in the memory centers of the brain (hippocampus and septum). Choline accelerates the synth and release of acetylcholine in nerve cells. Choline used by brain neurons is largely derived from membrane lecithin /(phosphatidylcholine)/, or from dietary intake of choline and lecithin ... Choline derived from lecithin may be especially important when extracellular choline is in short supply, as might be expected to occur in advanced age because of decr brain choline uptake ... /Choline/
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