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Query: EC:1.9.3.1 (cytochrome oxidase)
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The five major antioxidants enzymes, cytochrome oxidase (COX), GSH, and GSSG, and endogenous and in vitro stimulated lipid peroxidation (TBA-RS) were assayed in the lung of old (28 months) and young (9 months) adult rats due to the almost total absence of data of this kind in this tissue, which is normally exposed to relatively high pO2 throughout life. Catalase, selenium (Se)-dependent GSH peroxidase (GPx), GSH reductase, GSH, GSSG, GSSG/GSH, and in vivo and in vitro TBA-RS showed similar values in old and young animals. The decrease observed for non Se-dependent GPx disappeared when the values were expressed in relation to COX activity. Only superoxide dismutase showed a clear decrease when referred both to protein and COX activity. These results suggest that lung aging is not accelerated in old age due to a decrease in the antioxidant capacity of the tissue. Nevertheless, they are compatible with a continuous damage of the lung tissue by free radicals throughout the life span.
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PMID:Aging and lung antioxidant enzymes, glutathione, and lipid peroxidation in the rat. 164 50

Old rats (28 months), when compared with young adults (9 months), did not show differences in activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD) or selenium-dependent and -independent glutathione peroxidases (GPx), or in levels of GSH, GSSG, GSSG/GSH and endogenous peroxidation in liver and brain. Rates of stimulated peroxidation in vitro were decreased in the livers of old rats. Old animals showed decreased levels of hepatic catalase and glutathione reductase. Nevertheless, when enzyme activities were referred to cytochrome oxidase activity these decreases disappeared, and GPx and SOD (brain) were even increased in old rats.
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PMID:Anti-oxidant defences and peroxidation in liver and brain of aged rats. 217 82

The activity of antioxidant enzymes was measured in cardiac and skeletal muscle in rats aged either 4, 15, or 27 months. Generally, regardless of age, heart contains a greater content of these enzymes than skeletal muscle. Whereas skeletal muscle showed age-dependent increases in glutathione peroxidase, glutathione reductase, and catalase activities, heart tissue showed increases in only the glutathione peroxidase activity. Neither tissue showed any significant age-dependent change in cytosolic or mitochondrial superoxide dismutase content or in cytochrome oxidase.
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PMID:Antioxidant enzyme activities in heart and skeletal muscle of rats of different ages. 254 89

1. The effects of riboflavin deficiency on growth, whole-body oxygen consumption, cytochrome c oxidase (EC 1.9.3.1) activity and GDP-binding capacity of brown adipose tissue were measured in three groups of rats: sucking pups, weanling rats, and dams. Control groups were weight-matched, pair-fed or fed ad lib. 2. Riboflavin deficiency reduced growth rate and increased the activation coefficient of erythrocyte glutathione reductase (NAD(P)H) (EC 1.6.4.2), as predicted. In sucking pups it also reduced whole-body O2 consumption per unit body-weight, especially after noradrenaline stimulation. In weanling rats, however, it increased O2 consumption both before and after noradrenaline stimulation. 3. Cytochrome c oxidase (EC 1.9.9.1) activity of brown adipose tissue was not consistently affected by riboflavin deficiency. Binding of [3H]GDP to the mitochondria was increased in the deficient weanling rats. 4. Weanling rats therefore, seemed better able to withstand the effects of severe depletion. Their reduced growth and increased non-shivering thermogenesis helped to counteract the unfavourable ratio of riboflavin:other tissue-building materials. The relevance for thermoregulation in riboflavin-deficient children is discussed.
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PMID:Riboflavin deficiency, metabolic rate and brown adipose tissue function in sucking and weanling rats. 254 28

Carbohydrate restriction and caloric restriction (60% restriction of calories in relation to controls in both cases) were imposed on OF1 mice during 8 weeks in their growing phase. The three groups of animals ingested the same amount of vitamins and minerals. Kidney ascorbate strongly decreased in both restriction groups. Nevertheless, global caloric restriction significantly increased kidney antioxidant glutathione (GSH)/oxidized glutathione (GSSG) ratio, a sign of a reduced kidney oxidative stress. Increased glutathione peroxidase and cytochrome oxidase activities and decreased in vivo peroxidation were found in the kidney when the restriction was performed by substituting carbohydrates by nonnutritive bulk. No significant changes were observed for superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione reductase, glutathione, uric acid, malondialdehyde (HPLC), or in vitro sensitivity to peroxidation in the kidney. The results, reported for the first time in this tissue, show that short-term caloric restriction can increase the capacity for enzymatic decomposition of hydroperoxides and can decrease oxidative stress in the kidney, thus suggesting a role for free radical metabolism in the caloric restriction phenomenon.
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PMID:Caloric and carbohydrate restriction in the kidney: effects on free radical metabolism. 818 43

Growing OF1 mice were treated on a short-term basis with ad libitum, caloric-restricted, or carbohydrate-restricted diets, maintaining the same intake of vitamins and minerals in the three groups. Caloric intake was 60% of controls both in the caloric-restricted and in the carbohydrate-restricted groups. Neither global nor carbohydrate restriction changed liver superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione peroxidase, glutathione reductase, cytochrome oxidase, GSH, uric acid, or malondialdehyde (HPLC). Ascorbate was decreased in both restricted groups. Carbohydrate restriction, but not caloric restriction, increased unsaturation indexes of fatty acids in all lipid classes analyzed and increased sensitivity to peroxidation by one order of magnitude. It is concluded that short-term caloric restriction does not seem to increase antioxidants and decrease peroxidation in the mouse liver whereas long-term restriction can avoid decreases of antioxidants and increases of peroxidation during aging. Our experiments support the prevailing view that the caloric restriction phenomenon is due to a reduction in calories themselves instead of to a reduction in carbohydrates. This last manipulation strongly increases sensitivity to peroxidative damage in the liver. The results show that in vivo fatty acid unsaturation is a main factor in determining the sensitivity to lipid peroxidation.
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PMID:Relationship between lipid peroxidation, fatty acid composition, and ascorbic acid in the liver during carbohydrate and caloric restriction in mice. 821 21

Previous studies have shown that the increase of the enzymatic antioxidant defense that takes place in the fetal rat lung at the end of gestation can be accelerated by the synthetic glucocorticoid dexamethasone and diminished by metyrapone, a blocker of glucocorticoid synthesis. Since it is known that the fetal adrenal does not start to synthesize corticosterone until the last 20% of gestation, pregnant rats were bilaterally adrenalectomized on the first day of gestation in order to clarify the role of the endogenous maternal hormone on the development of the enzymatic and nonenzymatic antioxidant systems of fetal lung. This early adrenalectomy did not change fetal lung catalase, glutathione peroxidase, glutathione reductase, cytochrome oxidase, GSH, ascorbate, and uric acid at term. The presence of the maternal glands is not essential for lung antioxidant development in the fetus and that the stimulus of fetal corticosterone during the last 20% of gestation is enough to achieve a normal maturation of the fetal lung enzymatic and nonenzymatic antioxidant systems.
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PMID:Effect of early maternal adrenalectomy on antioxidant enzymes, GSH, ascorbate, and uric acid in the rat fetal lung at term. 825 57

The activity of some enzymes associated with peroxide metabolism and cytochrome oxidase activity was measured in cortex, striatum, hypothalamus, and hippocampus from brains of rats aged either 4, 15, or 27 months. Cytochrome oxidase activity was greatest in the cortex, but no significant age-related changes in the activity of cytochrome oxidase, superoxide dismutase, or glutathione peroxidase were found in any of the brain areas. In contrast, glutathione reductase activity increased as a function of age in all regions. In general, the activity of catalase fell on maturation of the animal to adulthood and then showed a trend to increase with age.
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PMID:The effect of age on the activity of enzymes of peroxide metabolism in rat brain. 838 67

1. Five antioxidant enzymes and cytochrome oxidase were measured in three vital organs of seven animal species of different vertebrate classes. 2. Minimal superoxide dismutase activities were found in the brain of homeotherms and in the lung of amphibia. Catalase (CAT) was maximal in liver and minimal in brain. 3. Possession of both Se dependent and independent glutathione peroxidase (GPx) is widespread in vertebrate organs. Similarities in tissue distribution were found among enzymes which use hydroperoxides (Se and non-Se GPx and CAT) or glutathione (both GPx and glutathione reductase) as substrates. 4. The results also suggest that the high aerobic capacity of the liver strongly influences the activities of the antioxidant enzymes in this tissue across vertebrate species, whereas other factors such as tissue pO2 can be more important in the lung.
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PMID:A comparative study of free radicals in vertebrates--I. Antioxidant enzymes. 839 90

The age dynamics of activities of enzymes which catalysis several stages of metabolism (hexokinase, phosphofructokinase, pyruvate kinase, lactate dehydrogenase, 2,3-diphosphoglycerate mutase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, isocitrate dehydrogenase and cytochrome oxidase) and antioxidant system (superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase) was studied in the bone marrow erythroid cells of pig during the 10-day period after birth as well as in the cells of 30 days old animals. It was established that in the neonatal period of development the reorganization of energy metabolism in pig bone marrow erythrokaryocytes took place. It consisted in the intensification of oxidative processes and in a great measure was directed on the activation of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate mutase formation in the nature red cells. During the early period after birth the activation of antioxidant system in erythroid cells of pig bone marrow was observed.
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PMID:[Changes in various links of metabolism and the antioxidant system in the bone marrow erythroid cells of the pig during the neonatal period]. 1044 74


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