title: [Glutathione and enzymes associated with glutathione metabolism in adriamycin nephropathy].
abstract: Recent data have shown the protective effect of thiol groups on the progression of adriamycin-induced experimental nephropathy, in which reactive oxygen metabolites have been postulated to play an important role. To gain greater insight in the role of glutathione (GSH) in adriamycin-induced nephrosis, we studied changes in reduced GSH level and its associated enzymes in kidney tissue of rats undergoing chronic renal failure produced by i.v. infections of adriamycin (2 x 2 mg/kg b.w.). Kidney damage was characterized by increases in relative kidney weight and BUN levels. The results obtained revealed a 15% drop in renal GSH level in adriamycin-treated animals associated by a similar decrease in the gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase activity. The activities of kidney glutathione reductase (GR) and glutathione peroxiase (GSH-Px) which are critical constituents of GSH-redox cycle, were significantly decreased (23 an 26%, respectively) in response to adriamycin treatment. Rat kidney glutathione-S transferase and gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase activities were not affected in adriamycin induced nephrosis. We propose that the impairment of renal antioxidant defense, characterized by combined drop in GSH, GR and GSH-Px levels, could permit enhanced free radical induced kidney damage in adriamycin-induced nephropathy.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry, Belgrade.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Simić
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mimić-Oka
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sindjić
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic / Q000633:toxicity*; D004317:Doxorubicin / Q000633:toxicity*; D005978:Glutathione / Q000378:metabolism*; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase / Q000378:metabolism; D005980:Glutathione Reductase / Q000378:metabolism; D007668:Kidney / Q000378:metabolism; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar
chemical_list: D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic; D004317:Doxorubicin; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase; D005980:Glutathione Reductase; D005978:Glutathione
vernacular_title: Glutation i kljucni enzimi metabolizma glutationa u adriamicinskoj nefropatiji.