title: Effect of insulin and thyroxine on catalase, glutathione-s-transferase, GSH and GSSG in alloxan diabetic rat red cells.
abstract: The levels of catalase (CAT), glutathione-s-transferase (GST), reduced glutathione (GSH) and oxidised glutathione (GSSG) were measured in red blood cells from control (C) and diabetic rats (D). Diabetes was induced by alloxan administration and diabetic rats were treated with insulin (D+I) and thyroxine (D+T4). On the third day of insulin withdrawal the CAT activity increased significantly. The GST activity showed an increase in D and D+I for one week, thyroxine treatment to D rats resulted in maintaining the GST activity at control levels. The levels of GSH and GSSG increased in D red cells after one week of insulin withdrawal but later, the GSH level was below the control level while the GSSG was at its control level. Insulin treatment to D rats did not reverse GSH level to control initially but controlled it at a later stage. Thyroxine, though, reversed GSH levels but enhanced GSSG in D rat red cells.
authors.affiliation: Hormone and Drug Research Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: B L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Ansari
authors.forename: J N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: N Z
authors.initials: NZ
authors.lastname: Baquer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D002374:Catalase / Q000097:blood / Q000187:drug effects*; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000201:enzymology; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism; D005978:Glutathione / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000097:blood; D019803:Glutathione Disulfide; D005982:Glutathione Transferase / Q000097:blood / Q000187:drug effects*; D006454:Hemoglobins / Q000378:metabolism; D007328:Insulin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013974:Thyroxine / Q000097:blood / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013997:Time Factors; D014284:Triiodothyronine / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D006454:Hemoglobins; D007328:Insulin; D014284:Triiodothyronine; D002374:Catalase; D005982:Glutathione Transferase; D005978:Glutathione; D013974:Thyroxine; D019803:Glutathione Disulfide