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Administration of beta- and gamma-isomers of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) at 800 ppm dietary level for 2 weeks to albino rats produced noticeable hepatocellular damage as indicated by elevations in serum aminotransferases and decreases in hepatic soluble enzymes. Although serum total LDH activity was not altered, the LD5 isoenzyme was proportionately higher in the HCH isomers treated animals. Treatment of rats with beta- and gamma-isomers of HCH increased the hepatic glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and aldolase activities suggesting a higher rate of glucose oxidation. Liver glucose-6-phosphatase activity was decreased in these animals indicating inactivation of gluconeogenesis in liver. Dietary beta- and gamma-HCH decreased the liver mitochondrial DNP/Mg++/Ca++-activated ATPases thus affecting the energy metabolism. An unaltered ratio of DNP/Mg++-ATPase, a study of swelling pattern of hepatic mitochondria, and NAD+ permeability test suggested the maintenance of structural integrity of mitochondrial membrane in these pesticide fed animals. Liver microsomal Na+,K+-ATPases were lower in these animals.
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PMID:Biochemical changes produced by beta- and gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane isomers in albino rats. 246 8

A patient with Graves' disease associated with severe muscle weakness who was finally diagnosed as polymyositis by pathological examination of the muscle is reported. A 28-year-old women was incidentally found to have hyperthyroidism when she consulted a hospital for the evaluation and treatment of anemia in 1979. She was treated with methimazole for approximately a month when she stopped the medication by herself. Approximately two yr later (Nov. 4, 1981) she consulted another hospital with complaints of palpitation and muscle weakness. Diagnosis of hyperthyroidism due to Graves' disease and thyrotoxic myopathy were made, followed by the treatment with radioiodine (4 mCi of 131I). She was further treated with propylthiouracil (PTU). Four yr after the treatment, serum thyroid hormone concentration declined to the lower level than normal and serum TSH concentration increased. She was subsequently treated with synthetic I-T4. Despite the fact she became euthyroid with the treatment, muscle weakness as well as elevated concentrations of muscle enzymes were not improved. Muscle biopsy was made in July 1983, and she was diagnosed as immune polymyositis and treatment with prednisolone and cyclophosphamide in addition to PTU or I-T4, was started. With the treatment, serum LDH decreased to the normal range. However she still has muscle weakness and serum concentrations of CPK and aldolase are still in higher levels than normal range.
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PMID:A case of Graves' disease associated with polymyositis. 209 Jun 76

ATPase activity of uterus and ovary was markedly elevated in presence of gossypol and decreased in presence of lactic acid indicating activation and inhibition of energy metabolism by gossypol and lactic acid respectively. The elevated levels of glycogen in uterus indicate inhibition of glycogenolysis as supported by phosphorylase activity. Whereas in ovary the glycogen depletion indicates activation of glycogenolysis supported by phosphorylase activity. The activity levels of aldolase and G-6-PDH decreased in the uterus in presence of gossypol and increased in presence of lactic acid. The same were elevated in ovary indicating the activation of hexose mono and diphosphate pathways. Lactic acid accumulated in presence of both gossypol and lactic acid with a depletion in level of pyruvic acid in both the tissues. This situation in the uterus indicates the condition of anti-implantation in presence of both gossypol and lactic acid. The NAD-LDH activity was inhibited in presence of gossypol and activated in presence of lactic acid in both tissues.
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PMID:In vitro effects of gossypol and lactic acid on rat uterus and ovary during implantation and antiimplantation. 263 59

Three groups of three horses each were, respectively, infected with 5000, 20,000 and 50,000 larvae of Trichinella spiralis. The strain used was isolated from a human biopsy during horsemeat-related outbreaks of trichinellosis in France. Transient muscular disorders were only observed in two of the horses infected with 50,000 larvae but none of the horses had fever. A significant increase in blood eosinophils was noticed in 5 horses. Serum LDH, aldolase and CPK peaked at the fifth week post-infection. Specific IgG assayed by indirect immunofluorescence and ELISA, appeared 2-5 weeks post-infection and disappeared between 16 and 40 weeks. The distribution of T. spiralis larvae was maximal in the tongue, masseters and diaphragm, but a large decrease in the number of larvae recovered from the muscles was noticed among the horses slaughtered at the beginning and end of the experiment. In muscular histological sections, larvae were observed in an intramyofibrillar position and were surrounded by a mild to severe inflammatory reaction.
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PMID:Experimental trichinellosis in horses: biological and parasitological evaluation. 265 99

A case of polymyositis with repeated dysphagia and muscle weakness associated with peculiar findings of skin was reported. The patient was a 67-year-old man. His birth and development was normal. There was no family history of neuromuscular disease. On 26th March 1987 he was admitted to a hospital because of dysarthria and dysphagia after fever and diagnosed as having viral myositis. His conditions improved spontaneously with bed rest and he left hospital on 14th April. On 23rd April he had chill and sore throat with fever. On 27th he was admitted to the same hospital because of dysarthria and muscle weakness of the proximal portion of the upper limbs. These symptoms also improved with bed rest. He had repeated these symptoms several times and then he was admitted to our hospital on 12th June. On examination he showed the skin pigmentation under the right eye and the eruption in the back of hands and the buttocks. Muscle weakness was observed in the proximal portion of the upper limbs and the neck flexor. Laboratory tests in admission were as follows: sGOT 49 mU/ml, sGPT 104 mU/ml, LDH 1064 mU/ml, CPK 565 mM/ml, aldolase 25.2 IU/1/37 degrees C. Electromyography showed the typical myogenic changes and biopsy of left biceps brachii revealed inflammatory cells in the muscle fiber which are specific to polymyositis. Immuno-histochemical study is performed to analyse the subpopulation of mononuclear cells in biopsied muscle and skin. Mononuclear cells infiltrated into perimysium, endomysium and epidermis were positive for T11 and T8, but less positive for T4, B1 and Leu11. On the basis of these findings he was diagnosed as having "polymyositis syndrome".
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PMID:[A case of polymyositis with repeated dysphagia and muscle weakness associated with peculiar findings of skin]. 280 15

A method is presented by which rat facial processes from different stages were obtained in pure fraction. The morphology, and protein and DNA contents in free dissected facial processes were determined. Facial processes of embryonic rats aged 9-15 days were analyzed by isoelectric focusing for their isoenzymic distribution of four enzymes: lactate dehydrogenase, creatine phosphokinase, fructose diphosphate aldolase and phosphoglycerate mutase. A dominance of LDH-5, LDH-4 and LDH-3 isoenzymes was observed. As a comparison, LDH isoenzymes from mandibular and maxillary processes of rat embryos aged 9-11 days only revealed LDH-5 and to a smaller extent LDH-4. The results support the presence of a prominent anaerobic metabolism in these tissues during early facial development. The change to LDH-3 development correlates well with the formation of new blood vessels. From the ninth embryonic day, isoenzyme BB of creatine phosphokinase was present and during days 10-15 MB and MM developed. Isoenzyme A4 of fructose diphosphate aldolase was present from the ninth embryonic day and isoenzymes A3C and A2C2 developed during days 10-15. From the tenth embryonic day, isoenzyme BB of phosphoglycerate mutase was present and during days 10-15 isoenzyme MB and MM developed. Isoenzyme development was first seen in mandibular processes, followed by maxillary, lateral nasal and medial nasal processes, and it preceded morphologic evidence of skeletal muscle formation.
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PMID:Isoenzyme changes during rat facial development. 293 43

The age-related changes in the activities of five glucose-metabolizing enzymes (hexokinase, HK; glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, G6P-DH; aldolase, ALD; phosphofructokinase, PFK; and lactate dehydrogenase, LDH) were investigated in the walls of left and right ventricles of rats of various age-groups (1-24 months). Age-related changes were found in the activities of all of the enzymes in both ventricles during growth (with significant decreases between 2 and 6 months of age) and in the levels of PFK and LDH in the left ventricle during ageing (with a significant increase between 12 and 24 months of age). The distribution of the enzyme activities across the wall of both ventricles was quite uniform in young, adult and mature rats (the distribution of G6P-DH activity in the left ventricle wall at 2 months of age was the only notable exception) but became non-uniform in the old rats with regard to G6P-DH, PFK, LDH and probably HK in the left ventricle and G6P-DH and HK in the right ventricle. These data support the hypothesis that alterations connected with ageing do not lead to a generalized decline of cardiac metabolic capacity, and that they are also the result of specific adaptive modifications, perhaps related to alteration in the distribution of the work load and/or of nutrition across the ventricular wall.
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PMID:Changes in the transmural distribution of glucose-metabolizing enzymes across the left and right ventricular wall of rat heart during growth and ageing. 296 12

Srivastava and Bernhard [Srivastava, D. K. & Bernhard, S. A. (1986) Science 234, 1081-1086] have proposed that glycolytic enzymes form multienzyme complexes for the direct transfer of metabolites from the producing enzyme to the utilizing one. We have reinvestigated the evidence for direct transfer of NADH between its complexes with alpha-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH; EC 1.1.1.8) and L-lactate dehydrogenase (LDH; EC 1.1.1.27). The results reveal the following. (i) Proper treatment of the kinetics of and equilibrium data for the transfer of NADH between GPDH and LDH indicates that NADH transfer proceeds by a free-diffusion mechanism and not by direct transfer through a ternary complex. (ii) The koff for NADH from its GPDH complex is 60 sec-1 rather than 9.4 sec-1 in Tris.HCl buffer (pH 7.4) at 25 degrees C. With this value one can explain kcat = 50 sec-1 for LDH-catalyzed hydrogenation of pyruvate with GPDH-bound NADH as coenzyme. (iii) Steady-state kinetics show that LDH inhibits the GPDH-catalyzed reaction simply by reducing the concentration of free NADH. Similarly, aldolase inhibits the GPDH-catalyzed reduction of dihydroxyacetone phosphate to glycerol-3-phosphate by binding to the substrate. The proposed direct transfer of NADH between GPDH and LDH is therefore mainly based on a misinterpretation of the experimental data.
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PMID:Reexamination of the kinetics of the transfer of NADH between its complexes with glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and with lactate dehydrogenase. 319 95

Changes in carbohydrate metabolism were studied in midgut gland, muscle, and gill tissues of marine prawn Penaeus indicus exposed to a sublethal concentration (0.3 ppm) of phosphamidon. A significant decrease in glycogen and pyruvate and an increase in lactate content were observed in all phosphamidon-exposed prawn tissues after 96 hr. An increase in phosphorylase a and aldolase activity levels suggested the increased formation of triose sugars during phosphamidon toxicity. LDH activity was considerably decreased and an increment in lactate content was observed which indicates reduced mobilization of pyruvate into the citric acid cycle. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity was considerably increased, suggesting the enhanced oxidation of glucose in the hexose monophosphate shunt pathway. Krebs cycle enzymes such as NAD-isocitrate dehydrogenase, succinate dehydrogenase, and malate dehydrogenase were found to be decreased, suggesting the impairment in mitochondrial oxidative metabolism due to the acute toxic impact of phosphamidon. Cytochrome-c oxidase and Mg2+ ATPase activity levels were also decreased considerably, suggesting impaired energy synthesis and breakdown during phosphamidon toxicity, as a result of reduced oxidation of glucose aerobically. The increase in acid and alkaline phosphatase activities indicates the enhanced breakdown of phosphate to release energy in view of inhibiton or impairment in the ATPase system during phosphamidon-induced stress. These results suggest that phosphamidon has a profound effect on the oxidative metabolism of prawn which results in the triggering of compensatory metabolic pathways for survivability.
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PMID:Modulation of carbohydrate metabolism in the selected tissues of marine prawn, Penaeus indicus (H. Milne Edwards), under phosphamidon-induced stress. 337 38

Eight enzymes, e.g. lactate dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase, fructose-diphosphate aldolase, sorbitol dehydrogenase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, hexokinase, phosphofructokinase and pyruvate kinase were estimated quantitatively in the rat lens from 37 to 1,211 days of age, by spectrophotometric methods. The activity was expressed as mU/g LWW. All enzymes measured showed declining activities, but LDH, ALD, SDH, G-6-PDH, HK and PFK gave a significant decrease during ageing when plotted semi-logarithmically from 37 to 1,211 days. SDH and G-6-PDH showed a statistically significant difference between the enzymes from the male and the female lenses. The female lens always had a lower activity than the male lens. Of all enzymes the specific activity, expressed as mU/l mg protein, was calculated. This specific activity appeared to be rather constant during ageing, except for ALD. In the female lenses, the specific activity of 7 enzymes was lower than in the male lenses. For ALD the specific activity decreased significantly in the male lens from 5.32 at 37 days to 0.88 at 1,211 days. In the female lens this significant decrease was from 4.97 to 0.81.
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PMID:The quantification of eight enzymes from the ageing rat lens, with respect to sex differences and special reference to aldolase. 340 13


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