title: The effects of antioxidants and nitric oxide modulators on hepatic ischemic-reperfusion injury in rats.
abstract: Ischemic-reperfusion injury (IRI) is thought to be caused by oxygen radicals. Nitric oxide (NO) also has been thought to play a key role in IRI. This experiment was designed to evaluate the effects of antioxidants and NO supplement on hepatic IRI. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into five groups: a sham operation group, a group with IRI, and three groups with vitamin C combined with vitamin E (VC&VE), L-arginine and N(G)-nitro-L-arginine (NNLA) injected after IRI. IRI was induced by clamping of the porta hepatis for 30 minutes and then by declamping. To prevent mesenteric blood congestion, a porto-systemic shunt had been made four weeks before the portal clamping. Biochemical assays of TNF-alpha level and NO2- level in the blood, malondialdehyde level, catalase activity and NO synthase activity in the liver tissue were performed. The results were as follows: IRI increased the malondialdehyde level and exhausted the catalase activity remarkably. VC&VE lowered the malondialdehyde levels and protected against catalase exhaustion, but had no significant effect on the NO production. L-arginine had a definite antioxidant effect, which was much weaker than that of VC&VE. In conclusion, antioxidants and a supplement of NO protected the liver tissue against IRI.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Clinical Research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Joong-Eui
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Rhee
authors.forename: Sung-Eun
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: Sang-Do
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.forename: Gil-Joon
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Suh
authors.forename: Dong-Young
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Noh
authors.forename: Yeo-Kyu
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Youn
authors.forename: Seung-Keun
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Oh
authors.forename: Kuk-Jin
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Choe
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000378:metabolism*; D001120:Arginine / Q000378:metabolism; D001205:Ascorbic Acid / Q000378:metabolism; D002374:Catalase / Q000378:metabolism; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008315:Malondialdehyde / Q000378:metabolism; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000378:metabolism*; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase / Q000378:metabolism; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II; D009573:Nitrites / Q000097:blood; D019335:Nitroarginine / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D015427:Reperfusion Injury / Q000378:metabolism*; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000378:metabolism; D014810:Vitamin E / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D000975:Antioxidants; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D009573:Nitrites; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha; D014810:Vitamin E; D019335:Nitroarginine; D009569:Nitric Oxide; D008315:Malondialdehyde; D001120:Arginine; D002374:Catalase; D019001:Nitric Oxide Synthase; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II; C496318:Nos2 protein, rat; D001205:Ascorbic Acid