Disruption of non-enzymatic antioxidant defense systems in the brain of rats with water-immersion restraint stress

Yoshiji Ohta, Koji Yashiro, Koji Ohashi, Yoichiro Imai

研究成果: ジャーナルへの寄稿学術論文査読

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We examined whether non-enzymatic antioxidant defense systems are disrupted in the brain of rats with water-immersion restraint stress. When rats were exposed to water-immersion restraint stress for 1.5, 3 or 6 h, the brain had decreased ascorbic acid and reduced glutathione contents and increased lipid peroxide and nitric oxide metabolites contents at 3 h and showed further changes in these components with a reduction of vitamin E content at 6 h. Increased serum levels of stress markers were found at 1.5, 3 or 6 h of WIRS. Oral pre-administration of L-ascorbic acid (1.5 mmol/kg) or vitamin E (0.5 mmol/kg) to rats with 6 h of water-immersion restraint stress attenuated the increases in lipid peroxide and nitric oxide metabolites contents and the decrease in vitamin E content in the brain. Pre-administered L-ascorbic acid attenuated the decreases in brain ascorbic acid and reduced glutathione contents at 6 h of water-immersion restraint stress, while pre-administered vitamin E enhanced the decreases in those contents. Pre-administered L-ascorbic acid or vitamin E did not affect the increased serum levels of stress markers in rats with 6 h of water-immersion restraint stress. These results indicate that water-immersion restraint stress causes disruption of non-enzymatic antioxidant defense systems through enhanced lipid peroxidation and nitric oxide generation in the brain of rats with water-immersion restraint stress.

本文言語英語
ページ(範囲)136-142
ページ数7
ジャーナルJournal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition
51
2
DOI
出版ステータス出版済み - 09-2012

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • 医学(その他)
  • 栄養および糖尿病
  • 臨床生化学

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