title: Long-term exposure of Wistar rats to high dietary sodium chloride level. II. Changes in hepatic drug-metabolizing and glutathione-related enzyme systems.
abstract: The effect of excess sodium chloride (NaCl) intake on hepatic drug-metabolizing and glutathione-related enzyme systems in rats was investigated for a period of 360 days. There was no change in any parameters studied until day 180 of the experiment. However, feeding of a 8% NaCl diet for 360 days produced a decrease in cytochrome P-450 content and an increase in glutathione peroxidase activity, and resulted in a lowered capacity of hepatic tissue to activate benzo[a]pyrene to mutagens detectable in the Ames bacterial mutagenesis assay. These observations suggest that although there may be little possibility of the involvement of high NaCl diet in the carcinogenic effects of benzo[a]pyrene, long-term excess NaCl intake could reduce the potential for detoxification of many xenobiotic compounds leading to various pathological process.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Nutrition, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Horiguchi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Iwama
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Iitoi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kanke
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D005978:Glutathione / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase / Q000378:metabolism; D005980:Glutathione Reductase / Q000378:metabolism; D008658:Inactivation, Metabolic; D008099:Liver / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology*; D008297:Male; D009152:Mutagenicity Tests; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012982:Sodium, Dietary / Q000009:adverse effects*
chemical_list: D012982:Sodium, Dietary; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase; D005980:Glutathione Reductase; D005978:Glutathione