title: Activities of antioxidant enzymes and lipid peroxidation in endometrial cancer.
abstract: Antioxidant enzyme activities and lipid peroxidation were analysed in normal endometrium and endometrial cancer tissues from Finnish and Japanese patients. The catalase and glutathione peroxidase activities of normal endometrium were significantly lower in Finns than in Japanese. Lipid peroxidation was slightly higher in endometrial cancer as compared with normal endometrium both in the Finns and in the Japanese. When cancer tissues were compared with normal endometrium both in Finns and Japanese the activity of superoxide dismutase was significantly lower in cancer tissue than in normal endometrium. In Finns glutathione S-transferase activity was also lower in endometrial cancer tissue than in normal endometrium, and a similar tendency was also found in Japanese. This study suggests that endometrial cancer tissue is associated with an impaired enzymic antioxidant defence system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Punnonen
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kudo
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Punnonen
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hietanen
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kuoppala
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kainulainen
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ahotupa
mesh_terms: D002374:Catalase / Q000378:metabolism; D016889:Endometrial Neoplasms / Q000201:enzymology*; D005260:Female; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase / Q000378:metabolism; D005982:Glutathione Transferase / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D015227:Lipid Peroxidation; D008875:Middle Aged; D010088:Oxidoreductases / Q000378:metabolism*; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D010088:Oxidoreductases; D002374:Catalase; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase; D005982:Glutathione Transferase