Chronic ethanol feeding induces cellular antioxidants decrease and oxidative stress in rat peripheral nerves. Effect of S-adenosyl-L-methionine and N-acetyl-L-cysteine.
Chronic ethanol feeding promotes oxidative stress in rat peripheral nerve. Malondialdehyde, a lipid peroxidation product, content increases in sciatic nerves of rats fed an ethanol-containing diet, when compared with pair-fed animals. Moreover, glutathione content and glutathione peroxidase activity in this same tissue decrease in ethanol-fed vs. pair-fed rats. S-Adenosyl-L-methionine and N-acetyl-L-cysteine, both with possible therapeutic action on alcoholism, were tested in this animal model. Only N-acetyl-L-cysteine was able to normalize malondialdehyde content and to restore glutathione content and glutathione peroxidase activity, to values not significantly different from those of sciatic nerves from pair-fed animals. The reasons for the different effect of both substances tested is also discussed.
Bosch-Morell
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Department of Physiology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Valencia, Spain.
Martínez-Soriano
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Colell
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Fernández-Checa
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Romero
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D000111:Acetylcysteine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000378:metabolism*; D000431:Ethanol / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000494:pharmacology; D005978:Glutathione / Q000378:metabolism; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase / Q000378:metabolism; D015227:Lipid Peroxidation; D008297:Male; D008315:Malondialdehyde / Q000378:metabolism; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D018384:Oxidative Stress; D010525:Peripheral Nerves / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012436:S-Adenosylmethionine / Q000494:pharmacology*
D000975:Antioxidants; D000431:Ethanol; D008315:Malondialdehyde; D012436:S-Adenosylmethionine; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase; D005978:Glutathione; D000111:Acetylcysteine