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Tamoxifen citrate (TAM), is widely used for treatment of breast cancer. It showed a degree of hepatic carcinogenesis. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the antioxidant capacity of green tea (Camellia sinensis) extract (GTE) against TAM-induced liver injury. A model of liver injury in female rats was done by intraperitoneal injection of TAM in a dose of 45mg Kg(-1) day(-1), i.p. for 7 successive days. GTE in the concentration of 1.5 %, was orally administered 4 days prior and 14 days after TAM-intoxication as a sole source of drinking water. The antioxidant flavonoid; epicatechin (a component of green tea) was not detectable in liver and blood of rats in either normal control or TAM-intoxicated group, however, TAM intoxication resulted in a significant decrease of its level in liver homogenate of tamoxifenintoxicated rats. The model of TAM-intoxication elicited significant declines in the antioxidant enzymes (glutathione-S-transferase,glutathione peroxidase, superoxide dismutase and catalase) and reduced glutathione concomitant with significant elevations in TBARS (thiobarbituric acid reactive substance) and liver transaminases; sGPT (serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase) and sGOT (serum glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase) levels. The oral administration of 1.5 % GTE to TAM-intoxicated rats, produced significant increments in the antioxidant enzymes and reduced glutathione concomitant with significant decrements in TBARS and liver transaminases levels. The data obtained from this study speculated that 1.5 % GTE has the capacity to scavenge free radical and can protect against oxidative stress induced by TAM intoxication. Supplementation of GTE could be useful in alleviating tamoxifen-induced liver injury in rats.
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PMID:Hepatoprotective effect of green tea (Camellia sinensis) extract against tamoxifen-induced liver injury in rats. 1620 36

Administration of simvastatin (80 mg/kg, po. evening dose) and gemfibrozil (600 mg/kg, po twice) for 30 days produced significant decrease in the level of reduced glutathione, superoxide dismutase, catalase and increase in the level of lipid peroxidation and various serum parameters (creatine phosphokinase, lactate dehydrogenase, serum glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase, creatinine, urea and blood urea nitrogen). This suggested involvement of oxidative stress in rhabdomyolysis. Increase in the level of reduced glutathione, superoxide dismutase, catalase and decrease in the level of lipid peroxidation and serum parameters after administration of antioxidant CoQ10 (10 mg/kg.ip) proved the protective effect of CoQ10 in rhabdomyolysis.
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PMID:Protective effect of coenzyme Q10 in simvastatin and gemfibrozil induced rhabdomyolysis in rats. 1623 14

Ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) has been reported to induce apoptotic cellular death in myocardium. This study tested the hypothesis that caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE), one of the active components of propolis, may ameliorate myocardial apoptosis and oxidative myocardial injury. Wistar rats were divided into 4 groups: (i) sham operated, (ii) I/R, (iii) I/R+CAPE, and (iv) I/R+glutathione (GSH). CAPE (10 micromol/kg) was infused iv 10 min before occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery (30 min) followed by reperfusion (120 min). GSH (5 mg/kg) was infused iv after the occlusion and immediately before reperfusion. The TdT-mediated in situ nick end-labeling (TUNEL) method was used to evaluate apoptotic activity. I/R resulted in myocardial apoptosis, alterations of antioxidant status, elevation of serum creatine kinase (CK) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) activities, evidence of lipid peroxidation, and elevated nitric oxide levels, compared to the sham-operation group. No apoptotic cells were found in the myocardial tissue of sham-operated rats. The TUNEL-positive myocardial cells averaged 60%, 30%, and 40% in the I/R, I/R+CAPE, and I/R+GSH groups, respectively. This study demonstrates that pretreatment with CAPE provides cardio-protection from I/R injury. The I/R+CAPE group showed reduced apoptosis, attenuated NO production, elevated myocardial superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity, and diminished serum CK and AST activities, compared to the I/R group.
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PMID:In vivo effects of caffeic acid phenethyl ester on myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury and apoptotic changes in rats. 1625 62

The chemopreventive and cytotoxic effect of ethanol extract of Bauhinia variegata (EBV) was evaluated in N-nitrosodiethylamine (DEN, 200 mg/kg) induced experimental liver tumor in rats and human cancer cell lines. Oral administration of ethanol extract of Bauhinia variegata (250 mg/kg) effectively suppressed liver tumor induced by DEN as revealed by decrease in DEN induced elevated levels of serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (SGPT), serum glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (SGOT), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), total bilirubin, gamma glutamate transpeptidase (GGTP), lipid peroxidase (LPO), glutathione peroxidase (GPx) and glutathione S-transferase (GST). The extract produced an increase in enzymatic antioxidant (superoxide dismutase and catalase) levels and total proteins when compared to those in liver tumor bearing rats. The histopathological changes of liver samples were compared with respective controls. EBV was found to be cytotoxic against human epithelial larynx cancer (HEp2) and human breast cancer (HBL-100) cells. These results show a significant chemopreventive and cytotoxic effect of ethanol extract of Bauhinia variegata against DEN induced liver tumor and human cancer cell lines.
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PMID:Chemoprevention and cytotoxic effect of Bauhinia variegata against N-nitrosodiethylamine induced liver tumors and human cancer cell lines. 1625 58

We have examined the protective effect of taurine on the myocardial antioxidant defense system in isoprenaline (isoproterenol)-induced myocardial infarction in rats, an animal model of myocardial infarction in man. Levels of diagnostic marker enzymes in plasma, lipid peroxides and reduced glutathione, and the activity of glutathione-dependent antioxidant enzymes and anti-peroxidative enzymes in the heart tissue were determined. Intraperitoneal administration of taurine significantly prevented the isoprenaline-induced increases in the levels of alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, lactate dehydrogenase, and creatine phosphokinase in the plasma of rats. Taurine exerted an antioxidant effect against isoprenaline-induced myocardial infarction by preventing the accumulation of lipid peroxides and by maintaining the level of reduced glutathione and the activity of glutathione peroxidase, glutathione-S-transferase, catalase and superoxide dismutase at near normality. The results indicated that the cardioprotective potential of taurine was probably due to the increase of the activity of the free radical enzymes, or to a counteraction of free radicals by its antioxidant nature, or to a strengthening of myocardial membrane by its membrane stabilizing property.
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PMID:Protective effect of taurine on myocardial antioxidant status in isoprenaline-induced myocardial infarction in rats. 1625 60

The current study was designed to assess the effect of immobilization stress on liver toxicity induced by topical as well as oral administration of 7,12-dimethyl benz(a)anthracene (DMBA) in Swiss Albino rats. The experimental animals were divided into six groups. Group 1 animals were exposed to chronic restraint stress alone for 10 days (3h/day), shaved back of animals in group II were painted with 0.5% solution of DMBA twice a week for 4 weeks. Group III animals were first exposed to restraint stress similar to group I followed by DMBA application as in group II, group IV animals were orally administered four doses of 0.5% DMBA solution. (1ml/rat) at weekly intervals, while group V animals were first exposed to restraint stress as in group I followed by oral dose of DMBA similar to group IV. The untreated Group VI animals served as controls. Rats were sacrificed after a period of 4 weeks following DMBA administration. Biochemical measurements were carried out on liver tissues and serum/plasma of control and treated animals. Restraint stress was found to have marked effect on DMBA induced alteration of liver function as revealed by the increase in tissue marker enzymes viz glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (GOT), glutamate pyruvate transaminase (GPT), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), acid phosphatase (ACP), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) with a significant further decrease in antioxidant enzymes catalase (CAT), superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione-S-transferase (GST), glutathione reductase (GR) as compared to controls and DMBA alone(topical/oral) or stress alone treated rats. Increased lipid peroxidation was accompanied by a significant decrease in the level of total reduced glutathione (GSH). The changes in the levels of marker enzymes and in vivo antioxidants in serum/plasma were comparable to that of liver. The results of the present study indicate that immobilization stress markedly enhances DMBA induced alteration of liver and circulatory antioxidant status of the rats irrespective of the mode of DMBA administration though with a predominant effect on orally infused DMBA.
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PMID:Enhancement of pro-oxidant effect of 7,12-dimethylbenz (a) anthracene (DMBA) in rats by pre-exposure to restraint stress. 1627 Dec 82

The preventive effect of neutropenia on carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced hepatotoxicity was examined in rats. In rats treated once with CCl4 (1 ml kg(-1), i.p.), the serum levels of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST), indices of liver cell damage, and the hepatic activity of myeloperoxidase (MPO), an index of tissue neutrophil infiltration, increased at 6 h after the intoxication and further increased at 24 h. The liver of CCl4 -treated rats showed an increase in the concentration of thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS), an index of lipid peroxidation, and decreases in superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and reduced glutathione (GSH) concentration at 6 h after the intoxication followed by a further increase in TBARS concentration and further decreases in SOD activity and GSH concentration at 24 h with increased xanthine oxidase (XO) activity at 24 h. Neutropenic treatment with anti-rat neutrophil antiserum (2 ml kg(-1), i.p.) at 0.5 h after CCl4 intoxication attenuated the increases in serum ALT and AST activities and hepatic MPO activity and TBARS concentration and the decreases in hepatic SOD activity and GSH concentration found at 6 and 24 h after CCl4 intoxication and the increase in hepatic XO activity found at 24 h after the intoxication. This neutropenia reduced the necrotic and degenerative changes with inflammatory cell infiltration in the liver cell of CCl4 -treated rats. These results indicate that neutropenia prevents CCl4 -induced hepatotoxicity in rats by attenuating the disruption of hepatic reactive oxygen species metabolism mediated by neutrophils accumulating in the liver tissue.
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PMID:Preventive effect of neutropenia on carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatotoxicity in rats. 1627 9

The aim of this study was to investigate the histological and biochemical changes in liver of rats exposed to cigarette smoke and effects of caffeic acid phenetyl ester (CAPE) on these changes. For this purpose, 21 male Wistar rats were divided into three groups. Animals in Group I were used as control. Rats in Group II were exposed to cigarette smoke and rats in Group III were exposed to cigarette smoke and injected daily with CAPE. At the end of the 60-days experimental period, all rats were killed by decapitation and blood samples were obtained. Serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), total bilirubin levels and hepatic superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px ), malondialdehyde (MDA) contents were determined. Following routine histological procedures, liver tissue specimens were examined under a light microscope. The levels of ALT, AST, total bilirubin, SOD, GSH-Px and MDA were significantly increased in rats exposed to cigarette smoke compared with those of the controls. Light microscopic examination of liver specimens from rats exposed to cigarette smoke revealed mononuclear cell infiltration and that some of the hepatocytes had a hyperchromatic nucleus and enlarged sinusoids. The rats which were treated with CAPE along with cigarettes had partially attenuated histological changes associated with cigarette exposure. In conclusion, the damage inflicted by cigarette in the rat liver can be partially prevented by CAPE administration.
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PMID:The protective effects of caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE) against liver damage induced by cigarette smoke inhalation in rats. 1637 25

Time-dependent effects of lead (Pb) toxicity were studied in Algerian mice (Mus spretus) treated with Pb acetate via drinking water (1 g Pb acetate/L) for different periods of exposure (15, 45, and 90 d). End points included the determination of hepatic Pb concentration and the assessment of some morphophysiological, biochemical and cytogenetical parameters. A control group receiving distilled water was also monitored for comparative purposes. Hepatic Pb accumulation increased with the time of exposure and was significantly higher in treated mice when compared to controls. In association with significant body mass loss in Pb-exposed mice, for 15 and 45 d, a significant increase in the relative spleen mass was observed after 45 d of intoxication. Pb-exposed mice also showed significant decreases in red blood cells, hematocrit, and mean corpuscular hemoglobin. On the contrary, changes in plasma transferases (aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase) and hepatic superoxide dismutase activities did not reach statistical significance. A significant increase in the frequency of micronucleated polychromatic bone marrow erythrocytes was also found in the 90-d-exposed mice, compared to nontreated mice and the other exposed groups. Exposure to Pb acetate resulted also in a slight time-dependent decrease of the polychromatic-normochromatic ratio. These results support the concept that a long-term chronic exposure to Pb induced alterations upon some morphophysiological and genetic parameters in Algerian mice.
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PMID:An assessment of time-dependent effects of lead exposure in algerian mice (Mus spretus) using different methodological approaches. 1638 5

The effect of post-treatment with diphenyl diselenide on liver damage induced by 2-nitropropane (2-NP) was examined in male rats. Rats were pre-treated with a single dose of 2-NP (100 mg/kg body weight dissolved in canola oil). Afterward, the animals were post-treated with a dose of diphenyl diselenide (10, 50 or 100 micromol/kg). The parameters that indicate tissue damage such as liver histopathology, plasma aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT), urea and creatinine were determined. Since the liver damage induced by 2-NP is related to oxidative damage, lipid peroxidation, superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and ascorbic acid level were also evaluated. Diphenyl diselenide (50 and 100 micromol/kg) effectively restored the increase of ALT and AST activities and urea level when compared to the 2-NP group. At the higher dose, diphenyl diselenide decreased GGT activity. Treatment with diphenyl diselenide, at all doses, effectively ameliorated the increase of hepatic and renal lipid peroxidation when compared to 2-NP group. 2-NP reduced CAT activity and neither alter SOD activity nor ascorbic acid level. This study points out the involvement of CAT activity in 2-NP-induced acute liver damage and suggests that the post-treatment with diphenyl diselenide was effective in restoring the hepatic damage induced by 2-NP.
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PMID:Acute liver damage induced by 2-nitropropane in rats: effect of diphenyl diselenide on antioxidant defenses. 1644 97


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