title: Antioxidative enzymes in the liver and kidney of alloxan induced diabetic rats and their implications in cadmium toxicity.
abstract: The influence of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus on the oxidative stress caused by cadmium in the liver and kidney of laboratory rats has been studied. The results suggest that cadmium and alloxan diabetes independently promote lipid peroxidation in both liver and kidney. However, lipid peroxidation diminished in the diabetic rats fed cadmium. Administration of cadmium to normal and diabetic rats depleted glutathione in liver only. No significant change was observed in the activity of glutathione peroxidase in kidney, whereas administration of cadmium to diabetic rats stimulated catalase activity when compared to cadmium-fed rats. The actual mechanism of these effects still remains to be confirmed, but an antagonistic relationship between cytotoxic mechanisms of diabetes mellitus and cadmium is speculated upon. The insulin-dependent activity of a unique form of cytochrome 450j may be involved.
authors.affiliation: Toxicological Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut-250004, India.
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Rana
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rastogi
mesh_terms: D000496:Alloxan; D000818:Animals; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000378:metabolism; D002104:Cadmium / Q000633:toxicity*; D002374:Catalase / Q000378:metabolism*; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000378:metabolism*; D004338:Drug Combinations; D005978:Glutathione / Q000378:metabolism; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase / Q000378:metabolism*; D007328:Insulin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007668:Kidney / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology*; D015227:Lipid Peroxidation / Q000187:drug effects; D008099:Liver / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011920:Rats, Inbred WF; D017392:Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D000975:Antioxidants; D004338:Drug Combinations; D007328:Insulin; D017392:Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances; D002104:Cadmium; D000496:Alloxan; D002374:Catalase; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase; D005978:Glutathione