title: Interactions of dietary methionine, lead and lindane in rats.
abstract: The effects of dietary methionine on lead and lindane toxicities in rats were studied in two experiments. Rats were fed methionine-deficient (60% of requirement) or methionine-sufficient soy protein-based diets with lead acetate added (10,000 mg/kg Pb) and treated with a single dose of lindane (25% of LD50 or 88 mg/kg, p.o.) in both experiments. In experiment I, all rats were fed ad libitum. In experiment II, rats fed the methionine-sufficient diet were pair-fed to rats fed the methionine-deficient diet. In experiments I and II, the methionine-sufficient and the methionine-deficient rats had decreased final body weights, increased liver weights, decreased hematocrits, and no changes in glutathione S-transferase activity when compared to a control group. Lead + lindane treatments increased liver glutathione levels in the methionine-sufficient and methionine-deficient rats in both experiments. However, in experiment II (pair-feeding), the methionine-sufficient rats had a much greater level of liver glutathione than the methionine-deficient rats. The methionine status of the animals seems to be an important factor in determining the liver glutathione level of pair-fed rats treated with lead + lindane.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001835:Body Weight / Q000187:drug effects; D004032:Diet; D005978:Glutathione / Q000378:metabolism; D005982:Glutathione Transferase / Q000378:metabolism; D001556:Hexachlorocyclohexane / Q000633:toxicity*; D007854:Lead / Q000633:toxicity*; D008297:Male; D008715:Methionine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D009929:Organ Size / Q000187:drug effects; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains
chemical_list: D007854:Lead; D001556:Hexachlorocyclohexane; D008715:Methionine; D005982:Glutathione Transferase; D005978:Glutathione