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Even though vitamin K1 helps protect fats in baby rats' blood, it doesn't help protect the proteins in their red blood cells from damage.

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Influence of plasma total antioxidant ability on lipid and protein oxidation products in plasma and erythrocyte ghost obtained from developing and adult rats pretreated with two vitamin K formulations

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2004 Dec

The study found that giving rats vitamin K1 or menadione didn’t stop damage to the proteins in their red blood cell membranes, even though it helped with some other types of damage.

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Influence of plasma total antioxidant ability on lipid and protein oxidation products in plasma and erythrocyte ghost obtained from developing and adult rats pretreated with two vitamin K formulations

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DOI: 10.1023/B:MCBI.0000049383.94541.31

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Vitamin K1 helps protect fats in the blood of baby rats, but it doesn't help protect the fats inside their red blood cells — even though the blood has more antioxidants overall.

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Adult rats don't get any antioxidant boost from vitamin K1, and their blood fats keep getting damaged — unlike baby rats, who do benefit.

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