Elucidation of the Role of L-Arginine and Nω-Nitro-L-Arginine in the Treatment of Rats with Different Levels of Hypoxic Tolerance and Exposure to Lead Nitrate.
Halina Tkaczenko, Oleksandr Lukash, Piotr Kamiński, Natalia Kurhaluk
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Abstract
Background/aims: Individual resistance to hypoxia is an important feature of the physiological profile of an organism, particularly in relation to lead-induced toxicity.
Methods: Our study focused on evaluating parameters of mitochondrial oxygen consumption, microsomal oxidation, intensity of lipoperoxidation processes and antioxidant defences in the liver of rats with low (LR) and high (HR) resistance to hypoxia to elucidate the mechanisms of action of L-arginine and the NO synthase inhibitor L-NNA before or after exposure to lead nitrate.
Results: Our study suggests that the redistribution of oxygen-dependent processes towards mitochondrial processes under the influence of the nitric oxide precursor amino acid L-arginine is an important mechanism for maintaining mitochondrial respiratory chain function during per os lead nitrate exposure (3.6 mg lead nitrate/kg bw per day for 30 days). Animals were given L-arginine at a dose of 600 mg/kg bw (i.p., 30 min) before and after exposure to lead nitrate or the NO synthase inhibitor Nω-nitro-L-arginine (L-NNA) at a dose of 35 mg/kg bw (i.p., 30 min) before and after exposure to lead nitrate. Our experiments demonstrated the efficacy of using lead nitrate to simulate lead-related toxic processes via Pb levels in liver tissue; we demonstrated significantly reduced levels of nitrites and nitrates, i.e. stable metabolites of the nitric oxide system, in both LR and HR animals. The effect of the amino acid L-arginine stabilised the negative effects of lead nitrate exposure in both groups of LR and HR rats. We observed the efficiency of mitochondrial energy supply processes and showed a greater vulnerability of NADH-dependent oxidation during lead nitrate exposure in the liver of HR rats.
Conclusion: L-arginine initiated the processes of oxidation of NADH-dependent substrates in the LR group, whereas in the HR group this directionality of processes was more effective when the role of the nitric oxide system was reduced (use of L-NNA). Our study of key antioxidant enzyme activities in rat liver tissue during lead nitrate exposure revealed changes in the catalase-peroxidase activity ratio. We found different activities of antioxidant enzymes in the liver tissue of rats treated with lead nitrate and L-arginine or L-NNA, with a significant increase in GPx activity in the LR group when L-arginine was administered both before and after exposure to lead nitrate.
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