title: [The role of free radical inhibitors of lipid peroxidation in protecting the myocardium from ischemic damage].
abstract: The natural antioxidant beta-carotene which, unlike phenol antioxidants such as dibunol and SPN-6, is capable of exhibiting antioxidative properties under low partial oxygen pressure (ischemia), has been found to increase the activity of antioxidative enzymes in the intact and infarct myocardium and to greatly exert a more antinecrotic action when given orally in a dose of 20 mg/kg in models of rat coronary-occlusion myocardial infarction than the phenol antioxidants mentioned above. Intravenous administration of copper-containing enzymes utilizing O2 superoxide dismutase (SOD), 4 mg/kg, or ceruloplasmin, 50 mg/kg, as with a highly disperse copper powder promoting a substantial increase in antioxidative enzyme activity in the rat myocardium has been demonstrated to reduce the zone of myocardial ischemic lesion in rats and to largely enhance postoperative survival rates in the animals. Three hours following intravenous SOD, an electron microscopic examination of rat ischemic myocardium showed a considerable fall in the structural and functional damages to cardiomyocytes in the periischemic area. The findings suggest that free radical processes make a contribution to ischemic cardiomyocyte lesion and open the way for pharmacological therapy of postischemic abnormalities with enzymatic and non-enzymatic preparations of antioxidants.
authors.forename: G G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Konovalova
authors.forename: V Z
authors.initials: VZ
authors.lastname: Lankin
authors.forename: N N
authors.initials: NN
authors.lastname: Beskrovnova
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000494:pharmacology; D002338:Carotenoids / Q000378:metabolism; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005609:Free Radicals; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase / Q000378:metabolism; D005982:Glutathione Transferase / Q000378:metabolism; D006321:Heart / Q000187:drug effects*; D015227:Lipid Peroxidation / Q000187:drug effects*; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology; D008297:Male; D009206:Myocardium / Q000201:enzymology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000378:metabolism; D013481:Superoxides / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*; D019207:beta Carotene
chemical_list: D000975:Antioxidants; D005609:Free Radicals; D019207:beta Carotene; D013481:Superoxides; D002338:Carotenoids; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase; D005982:Glutathione Transferase
vernacular_title: Rol' ingibitorov svobodnoradikal'nogo perekisnogo okisleniia lipidov v zashchite miokarda ot ishemicheskogo povrezhdeniia.