title: Curative effect of methionine on certain enzymes of chick kidney cortex under lanthanum toxicity situation.
abstract: Acute single dose administration of lanthanum chloride (250 mg/kg body wt, ip) to chicks have been found to alter the levels of enzymes of the antioxidant defence system of chick renal cortex fractions. Such changes involved significant decrease in activities of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, glutathione reductase, glutathione peroxidase and catalase of kidney epithelial cells. However glutathione-S-transferase activity was not altered. Glutathione and total thiol contents were decreased while lipoperoxidative reactions in kidney-cortex was significantly enhanced. The data indicate that amelioration of lanthanum toxicity condition by methionine supplementation may be due to the methionine serving as a precursor of glutathione.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University College of Science, Calcutta, India.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Maulik
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ghosh
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sengupta
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chattopadhyay
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Chakraborty
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Chatterjee
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000931:Antidotes / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002374:Catalase / Q000378:metabolism; D002645:Chickens; D005954:Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism; D005978:Glutathione / Q000378:metabolism; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase / Q000378:metabolism; D005980:Glutathione Reductase / Q000378:metabolism; D005982:Glutathione Transferase / Q000378:metabolism; D007672:Kidney Cortex / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000473:pathology; D007811:Lanthanum / Q000633:toxicity*; D008297:Male; D008715:Methionine / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D000931:Antidotes; C028521:lanthanum chloride; D007811:Lanthanum; D008715:Methionine; D005954:Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase; D002374:Catalase; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase; D005980:Glutathione Reductase; D005982:Glutathione Transferase; D005978:Glutathione