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Extracellular H2O2 release and intracellular H2O2 production were determined in rat lung alveolar macrophages, rat alveolar type II cells, and cultured bovine aortic endothelial cells. Isolated macrophages (5 h ex vivo) released 3.1 +/- 0.09 nmol H2O2.min-1.mg cell protein-1, freshly isolated (5 h ex vivo) type II cells released 0.7 +/- 0.07 nmol H2O2.min-1.mg protein-1, and cultured endothelial cells released 0.06 +/- 0.005 nmol H2O2.min-1.mg protein-1. The rate of extracellular H2O2 release decreased rapidly over time in both fresh macrophages and freshly isolated type II cells. When the measurements were repeated at different times ex vivo, the decrease was greater than 20%/h, and H2O2 release was almost undetectable 12 h ex vivo. The decrease occurred while lactate dehydrogenase release, catalase activity, and intracellular H2O2 production remained unchanged. Catalase activity was 59.3 +/- 4.9 nmol O2 produced.min-1.mg protein-1 in type II cells, 13.2 +/- 1.8 in macrophages, and 11.4 +/- 2.7 in endothelial cells. Aminotriazole is a compound that inhibits catalase in the presence of H2O2 at a rate that is proportional to the rate of intracellular H2O2 production in or near peroxisomes. Incubation of the cells with aminotriazole led to a rapid inhibition of catalase. In 15 min the reduction of catalase activity was 69% in type II cells, 53% in macrophages, and 37% in endothelial cells. When freshly isolated type II cells were exposed to hyperoxia (95% O2) for 30 min, no changes in the rate of either intracellular H2O2 production or extracellular H2O2 release were seen.
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PMID:Hydrogen peroxide production by alveolar type II cells, alveolar macrophages, and endothelial cells. 187 19

It is now becoming increasingly clear that free radicals contribute to brain damage in several conditions, such as hyperoxia and trauma. It has been more difficult to prove that free radical production mediates ischemic brain damage, but it has often been suggested that it may be a major contributor to reperfusion damage, observed following transient ischemia. Recent results demonstrate that cerebral ischemia of long duration, particularly when followed by reperfusion, leads to enhanced production of partially reduced oxygen species, notably hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). It has also been suggested that postischemic hyperoxia, e.g. an increased oxygen tension during the recirculation period, adversely affects recovery following transient ischemia. Other data support the notion that brain damage caused by permanent ischemia (stroke) is significantly influenced by production of free radicals. The present study, however, fails to show that recirculation following brief periods of ischemia (15 min) leads to an enhanced H2O2 production, and that hyperoxia aggravates the ischemic damage. This study was undertaken to reveal whether variations in oxygen supply in the postischemic period following forebrain ischemia in rats affect free radical production and the brain damage incurred. To that end, rats ventilated on N2O/O2 (70:30) were subjected to 15 min of transient ischemia. Normoxic animals were ventilated with the N2O/O2 mixture, hyperoxic animals with 100% O2, and hypoxic ones with about 10% O2 (balance either N2O/N2 or N2) during the recirculation. At the end of this period, the animals were decapitated for assessment of H2O2 production with the aminotriazole/catalase method. This method is based on the notion that aminotriazole interacts with H2O2 to inactivate catalase; thus, the rate of inactivation of catalase in aminotriazole treated animals reflects H2O2 production. In a parallel series, animals ventilated with one of the three gas mixtures in the early recirculation period, respectively, were allowed to recover for 7 days, with subsequent perfusion-fixation of brain tissues and light microscopical evaluation of the brain damage. Animals given aminotriazole, whether rendered ischemic or not, showed a reduced tissue catalase activity, reflecting H2O2 production in the brain. Hyperoxic animals failed to show increased tissue H2O2 production, while hypoxic ones showed a tendency towards decreased production. However, all three groups (hypo, normo- and hyperoxic) had similar density and distribution of neuronal damage. These results suggest that although postischemic oxygen tensions may determine the rates of H2O2 production, variations in oxygen tensions do not influence the final brain damage incurred.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Free radical production and ischemic brain damage: influence of postischemic oxygen tension. 205 15

The Fischer rat is known for its susceptibility to develop liver necrosis when challenged with paraquat (Smith et al., J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 235: 172-177, 1985). We postulated that other organs, specifically the lung, may also be more susceptible to injury and examined whether lungs from Fischer (F) rats were injured more easily when challenged with active oxygen species than Sprague-Dawley (SD) rat lungs. We aimed to investigate whether increased susceptibility to oxidant injury was related to differences in lung antioxidant defenses. Perfused lungs from both rat strains were challenged by addition of H2O2 to the perfusate or by short-term hyperoxic ventilation. To assess nonoxidant modes of lung injury, we examined lung responses after exposure to protamine sulfate or neutrophil elastase. Intravascular H2O2 or 3 h in vitro hyperoxia caused lung edema in F but not SD rats, and elastase injured F rat lungs more than the lungs from SD rats. Protamine, however, injured the lungs from both strains to a similar degree. Catalase, but not superoxide dismutase or allopurinol, protected F rat lungs against edema, resulting from 3 h in vitro hyperoxia. The lung homogenate levels for reduced glutathione or conjugated dienes and the activities of lung tissue catalase, glutathione peroxidase, and cytochrome P-450 were not different between the two strains. Lung tissue ATP levels, however, were lower in F than in SD rats. Although the F rat strain appears to have an altered oxidant-antioxidant defense balance, the exact cause of the greater susceptibility to oxidant stress of the F rat strain remains elusive.
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PMID:Lung injury in Fischer but not Sprague-Dawley rats after short-term hyperoxia. 226 Jun 76

O2 toxicity of the central nervous system (CNS) may be a result of enhanced generation of reactive O2 species such as superoxide and H2O2 at high PO2. In this study, we measured H2O2 production in six regions of the rat brain before and after convulsions induced by hyperbaric hyperoxia (HBO). H2O2 concentration was determined ex vivo using a method based on the H2O2-dependent decline in catalase activity in the presence of the irreversible inhibitor of compound I, 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole. Regional catalase activity in the brain ranged from 0.029 +/- 0.004 to 0.055 +/- 0.004 mumol O2.min-1.micrograms DNA-1 in cerebellum and medulla-pons, respectively. In the presence of aminotriazole, catalase activity declined after HBO-induced convulsions to 26-45% of normoxic values. The rates of inactivation of catalase were used to predict average steady-state values for H2O2 concentration in different brain structures. Estimated H2O2 concentrations during HBO varied from 31 to 51 pM in cerebellum and posterior subcortex and represented increases of 2.2-7.3 times normoxic values. These findings suggest that H2O2 is an important mediator of selective neuronal vulnerability to CNS O2 toxicity.
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PMID:Regional H2O2 concentration in rat brain after hyperoxic convulsions. 227 69

In order to clarify the physiological role in vivo of H2O2-detoxifying enzymes at low and high levels of O2 tension we studied catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidases (GP), and in vivo peroxidation (TBA-RS) in the lung and heart of Rana perezi frogs chronically treated with hyperoxia, aminotriazole (AT) -a CAT inhibitor-, or both. Hyperoxia did not change CAT, GP or TBA-RS. Aminotriazole caused an almost complete depletion of CAT, a 30% decrease of GP and a 132% (lung) to 200% (heart) increase of TBA-RS. Changes similar to these were found in the group treated with AT in hyperoxia. No mortality or changes in total or organ weight occurred in the experimental groups. Main conclusions are: (1) The maximal hyperoxia tolerance showed by frogs among vertebrates does not need antioxidant enzyme induction from lung or heart and is probably related to the presence of high constitutive levels of GP in relation to metabolic rate. (2) Even in normoxia the tissues present significant amounts of H2O2, and CAT is needed to avoid oxidative damage. GP does not compensate its absence. The implications of these results in relation to oxygen toxicity in man is discussed.
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PMID:Aminotriazole effects on lung and heart H2O2 detoxifying enzymes and TBA-RS at two pO2. 230 4

The effects of oxidative stress on DNA damage and associated reactions, increased polyadenosine diphosphate-ribose polymerase (PARP) activity and decreased nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) contents, have been tested in primary cultures of porcine aortic endothelial cells. The cells were treated with 50-500 microM H2O2 for 20 min or 100 microM paraquat for 3 days or were exposed to 95% O2 for 2 and 5 days. The administration of 250-500 microM H2O2 resulted in a marked increase in PARP activity and a profound depletion of ATP and NAD. Although hyperoxia had no effect on PARP activity and reduced only slightly the ATP and NAD stores, it markedly reduced the ability of endothelial cells to increase PARP activity upon exposure to DNase. Paraquat had a similar effect. Human dermal fibroblasts were also exposed to 50-500 microM H2O2 for 20 min or 95% O2 for 5 days. Their response to H2O2 differed from that of endothelial cells by their ability to maintain the ATP content at a normal level. Fibroblasts were also insensitive to the effect of hyperoxia. These results suggest that the oxidant-related DNA damage is a function of the type of oxidative stress used and may be cell-specific.
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PMID:Differential effects of hyperoxia and hydrogen peroxide on DNA damage, polyadenosine diphosphate-ribose polymerase activity, and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide and adenosine triphosphate contents in cultured endothelial cells and fibroblasts. 250 Apr 51

When exposed continuously to hyperoxia (100% O2, 760 Torr barometric pressure), rats pretreated with polyethylene glycol (PEG)-attached superoxide dismutase and catalase (PEG-SOD + PEG-CAT) lived longer (79.1 + 7.6 h) than rats pretreated with saline (60.7 +/- 2.1 h) or PEG-inactivated-SOD + PEG-inactivated-CAT (62.3 +/- 1.6 h). Rats pretreated with PEG-SOD + PEG-CAT also had less hyperoxia-induced acute oxidative edematous lung injury, as assessed by increases in lung oxidized glutathione (GSSG) contents, pleural effusions, and lung lavage albumin concentrations than saline-pretreated rats. Rats pretreated with the long-lived conjugates PEG-inactivated-SOD + PEG-inactivated-CAT or PEG-albumin also had decreased acute oxidative edematous lung injury compared with rats pretreated with PEG, SOD + CAT + PEG, SOD + CAT, or saline. In vitro studies suggested that PEG itself may have contributed to protection by scavenging hydroxyl radical (.OH) but not superoxide (O2-.) or H2O2. Compared with more effective endogenous (via preexposure to hypoxia) or exogenous (via liposomes) means for increasing lung antioxidant enzymes, PEG enzymes are less protective against lung injury from continuous hyperoxia.
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PMID:Polyethylene glycol-attached antioxidant enzymes decrease pulmonary oxygen toxicity in rats. 254 Jan 39

Cell injury from hyperoxia is associated with increased formation of superoxide radicals (O2-). One potential source for O2- radicals is the reduction of molecular O2 catalyzed by xanthine oxidase (XO). Physiologically, this reaction occurs at a relatively low rate, because the native form of the enzyme is xanthine dehydrogenase (XD) which produces NADH instead of O2-. Reports of accelerated conversion of XD to XO, and increased formation of O2- formation in ischemia-reperfusion injury, led us to examine whether hyperoxia, which is known to increase O2- radical formation, is associated with increased lung XO activity, and accelerated conversion of XD to XO. We exposed 3-month-old rats either to greater than 98% O2 or room air. After 48 h, we sacrificed the rats and measured XD and XO activities and uric acid contents of the lungs. We also measured the activities of the two enzymes in the heart as a control organ. We found that the activity of XD was not altered significantly by hyperoxia in rat lungs or hearts, but XO activity was markedly lower in the lung, whether expressed per whole organ or per milligram protein, and remained unchanged in the heart. Lung uric acid content was also significantly lower with hyperoxia. The decrease in lung XO activity may reflect inactivation of the enzyme by reactive O2 metabolites, possibly as a negative feedback mechanism. The concomitant decrease in uric acid content suggests either decreased production mediated by XO due to its inactivation or greater utilization of uric acid as an antioxidant. We examined these postulates in vitro using a xanthine/xanthine oxidase system and found that H2O2, but not uric acid, has an inhibitory effect on O2- formation in the system. We therefore conclude that hyperoxia is not associated with increased conversion of XD to XO, and that the exact contribution of XO to hyperoxic lung injury in vivo remains unclear.
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PMID:Hyperoxia and xanthine dehydrogenase/oxidase activities in rat lung and heart. 254 69

1. In order to clarify the relative role of catalase (CAT) and glutathione peroxidases (GSH-Px) at normal and high O2 tensions, Rana perezi frogs were chronically treated with aminotriazole (AT), hyperoxia, or both. 2. A 100% survival was observed with both treatments. Hyperoxia increased liver catalase and kidney TBA-RS and decreased GSH-Px. 3. AT caused quantitatively higher alterations than hyperoxia in both organs: CAT was depleted, TBA-RS increased (114% in kidney) and GSH-Px decreased. 4. It is concluded that in Rana perezi (a) CAT, in spite of its much higher KM and Vmax in relation to GSH-Px, is needed to avoid oxidative stress even in normoxia; (b) normoxic tissues have significative amounts of H2O2; (c) GSH-Px does not compensate the lack of CAT.
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PMID:Catalase is needed to avoid tissue peroxidation in Rana perezi in normoxia. 257 77

The lung is especially sensitive to a variety of vastly different agents and conditions including hyperoxia, certain drugs and xenobiotics, particulate debris, and ischemia/reperfusion. There is a growing body of experimental data to suggest that most, if not all, of these agents or conditions mediate pulmonary injury by forming reactive O2 metabolites such as O2-., H2O2.OH, HOCl, and RNHCl. The presence mechanisms by which these different agents converge to produce free radical-mediated pulmonary injury is not entirely clear. The lung does contain several metabolic pathways that will produce large amounts of reactive O2 metabolites. For example, hyperoxia-induced pulmonary injury may be mediated by oxidants produced by both mitochondrial and microsomal electron transport. Certain drugs and xenobiotics may be metabolized by nonspecific flavoproteins found in the mitochondrial electron transport chain and associated with microsomal mixed function oxidase system to yield a variety of free radicals and oxidants. Inhalation of particulate debris will activate resident phagocytic leukocytes to produce large quantities of cytotoxic oxidants. Ischemia and reperfusion appear to produce substantial amounts of xanthine oxidase-derived oxy-radicals that recruit and activate inflammatory phagocytes to produce cytotoxic HOCl and N-chlorinated oxidants. Finally, inappropriate metabolism of arachidonate by prostaglandin synthetase in the presence of NADH (NADPH) produces a burst of O2-. The fact that the lung contains so many different metabolic avenues for oxidant and free radical production suggests that this particular organ may be the most sensitive to oxidative insult.
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PMID:Metabolic sources of reactive oxygen metabolites during oxidant stress and ischemia with reperfusion. 265 Sep 65


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