title: The changes in the antioxidant status of heart during experimental hypomagnesemia in balb/c mice.
abstract: The present experiment was performed to assess if hypomagnesemia can influence antioxidant status in mice heart. The results could explain possibly a free radical theory of heart damage in magnesium deficiency. We used a rodent model of hypomagnesemia. The magnesium sufficient group received a standard diet whereas a magnesium deficient group received the diet containing a trace amount of magnesium. The activities of the most important antioxidant enzymes--catalase, glutathione peroxidase and superoxide dismutase were assessed in mice heart and liver in a time dependent manner, on the 10th and the 20th day of experiment. The level of magnesium in plasma of animals receiving the magnesium deficient diet dropped twice after the 8th day and four times after the 13th day and then reached a plateau value. The activity of catalase in heart in the magnesium deficient group increased gradually and was significantly (P < 0.05) elevated by 27% on the 20th day of experiment whereas the superoxide dismutase activity was significantly decreased by 17% on the 20th day. Glutathione peroxidase activity was insignificantly elevated. The alterations of antioxidant enzyme activities in the heart indicate cardiomyocytes's exposure to oxidative stress, which can be responsible for the cardiac lesions observed during hypomagnesemia.
authors.affiliation: The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Medical University of Lublin, Poland.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kuzniar
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kurys
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Florianczyk
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Szymonik-Lesiuk
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pasternak
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stryjecka-Zimmer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000378:metabolism*; D002374:Catalase / Q000378:metabolism*; D004032:Diet; D016166:Free Radical Scavengers / Q000378:metabolism; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase / Q000378:metabolism; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology; D008275:Magnesium Deficiency / Q000097:blood / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism*; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000975:Antioxidants; D016166:Free Radical Scavengers; D002374:Catalase; D005979:Glutathione Peroxidase; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase