title: Improving effects obtained by the ovariectomy or treatment with tamoxifen of female diabetic rats over the function and enzyme activities of liver mitochondria.
abstract: In the present work we studied, in female chronic diabetic rats the effect of either the parenteral administration of tamoxifen (TAM) (500 micrograms.kg-1.day-1) for 15 days or the ovariectomy upon the respiration and oscillatory behaviour of intact mitochondria and the activities of 3-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase (HBD) and cytochrome c oxidase (Cox) of disrupted liver mitochondria. The treatment with TAM as well as the ovariectomy of diabetic animals significantly increased the respiratory control (RC) and the state 3 (S3) of respiration of intact liver mitochondria with the three substrates assayed (3-hydroxybutyrate, malate-glutamate and succinate). Both treatments also lowered significantly the damped factors of the oscillatory variation of liver intact mitochondria of diabetic rats. Moreover, the two above-mentioned treatments restored the activities of HBD and Cox of liver disrupted mitochondria to normal values. The effect of estrogens at level of its receptors in the modulation of liver mitochondrial function and liver HBD and Cox activities in chronic diabetes is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Brignone
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: de Brignone
authors.forename: I R
authors.initials: IR
authors.lastname: de Mignone
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Ricci
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Susemihl
authors.forename: R R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Rodríguez
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000201:enzymology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV / Q000378:metabolism; D004958:Estradiol / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006884:Hydroxybutyrate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism; D008930:Mitochondria, Liver / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000502:physiology*; D010052:Ovariectomy; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D051381:Rats; D013629:Tamoxifen / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D013629:Tamoxifen; D004958:Estradiol; D006884:Hydroxybutyrate Dehydrogenase; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV