title: Studies on paraquat-induced oxidative stress in rat liver.
abstract: Oxidative injury of liver was studied 20 hr after a single oral administration of 150 mg/kg paraquat (PQ) to rats. PQ exerted no effect on cytosolic superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity but increased mitochondrial SOD activity by 14%. The level of GSH was decreased by 30%, and GSH/GSSG ratio was diminished almost twice. The correlation between the enhancement of mitochondrial SOD activity and the diminution of GSH level by PQ implicates O2- in the liver toxicity of the drug. Mitochondrial aconitase activity was slightly decreased (by 9%) while cytosolic aconitase activity was not affected. The results cast additional light on the responses of both aconitases to oxidative stress.
authors.affiliation: Department of Free Radical Processes, Institute of Physiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Konstantinova
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Russanov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005978:Glutathione / Q000378:metabolism; D008099:Liver / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D018384:Oxidative Stress / Q000187:drug effects*; D010269:Paraquat / Q000633:toxicity*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000378:metabolism; D013481:Superoxides / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D013481:Superoxides; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase; D005978:Glutathione; D010269:Paraquat