title: [Peculiarities of L-arginine metabolism in the blood leukocytes in experimental diabetes mellitus].
abstract: In experimental streptozotocin-induced diabetes, the activity of enzymes which have common substrate (L-arginine) changes in leucocytes of peripheral blood. It leads to misbalance between different pathways of arginine metabolism: NO-synthase (oxidative) pathway is activated, whereas arginase (nonoxidative) one is depressed. The injection of L-arginine under diabetes activated nonoxidative pathway, which can be seen in possible decrease in NO-synthase activity with unchanged arginase activity. After injection ofaminoguanidine in animals under diabetes the efficiency of both pathways in leucocytes decreases, which may be the basis of reconstitution of physiological pool to the relatively essential amino acid L-arginine.
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Brodiak
authors.forename: N O
authors.initials: NO
authors.lastname: Sybirna
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001119:Arginase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism; D001120:Arginine / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000097:blood / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism*; D006146:Guanidines / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology; D007962:Leukocytes / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000096:biosynthesis; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D006146:Guanidines; D009569:Nitric Oxide; D001120:Arginine; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II; C496318:Nos2 protein, rat; D001119:Arginase; C004479:pimagedine