Keun Bon Ku, Jihwan Chae, Won Hyung Park, Jeongwoo La, Seung S Lee, Heung Kyu Lee
{"title":"Assessment of immunopathological responses of a novel non-chemical biocide in C57BL/6 for safe disinfection usage.","authors":"Keun Bon Ku, Jihwan Chae, Won Hyung Park, Jeongwoo La, Seung S Lee, Heung Kyu Lee","doi":"10.1186/s42826-024-00214-6","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s42826-024-00214-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Water electrospray technology has been developed and extensively studied for its physical properties and potential application as a non-chemical biocide against airborne pathogens. However, there are still concerns regarding the safety and potential toxicity of inhaling water electrospray (WE) particles. To address these potential hazards and offer insights into the impact of WE on humans, we analyzed the immunopathological response to WE by employing an intranasal challenge C57BL/6 mouse model. This analysis aimed to compare the effects of WE with those of sodium hypochlorite (SH), a well-known biocidal agent.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The study findings suggest that the WE did not trigger any pathological immune reactions in the intranasal-challenged C57BL/6 mouse model. Mice challenged with WE did not experience body weight loss, and there was no increase in inflammatory cytokine production compared to SH-treated mice. Histopathological analysis revealed that WE did not cause any damage to the lung tissue. In contrast, mice treated with SH exhibited significant lung tissue damage, characterized by the infiltration of neutrophils and eosinophils. Transcriptomic analysis of lung tissue further confirmed the absence of a pathological immune response in mice treated with WE compared to those treated with SH. Upon intranasal challenge with WE, the C57BL/6 mouse model did not show any evidence of immunopathological damage.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results of this study suggest that WE is a safe technology for disinfecting airborne pathogens. It demonstrated little to no effect on immune system activation and pathological outcomes in the intranasal challenge C57BL/6 mouse model. These findings not only support the potential use of WE as an effective and safe method for air disinfection but also highlight the value of the intranasal challenge of the C57BL/6 mouse model in providing significant immunopathological insights for assessing the inhalation of novel materials for potential use.</p>","PeriodicalId":17993,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animal Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11320990/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141971404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tuvshintugs Baljinnyam, Satoshi Fukuda, Yosuke Niimi, Donald Prough, Perenlei Enkhbaatar
{"title":"Combined treatment with vitamin C, hydrocortisone and thiamine does not attenuate morbidity and mortality of septic sheep.","authors":"Tuvshintugs Baljinnyam, Satoshi Fukuda, Yosuke Niimi, Donald Prough, Perenlei Enkhbaatar","doi":"10.1186/s42826-024-00213-7","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s42826-024-00213-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Sepsis is associated with a highest mortality rate in the ICU. Present study tests the efficacy of combined therapy with vitamin C, hydrocortisone and thiamine (combined therapy) in the ovine model of sepsis induced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In this study, sepsis was induced in sheep by instillation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (1 × 10<sup>11</sup> CFU) into the lungs via bronchoscope, under anesthesia. Nine hours after injury, intravenous infusion of vitamin C (0.75 g every 6 h), hydrocortisone (25 mg every 6 h), and thiamine (100 mg every 12 h) or saline was given to the treatment and control groups. Cardiopulmonary variables were recorded.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The survival rate was 16.7% in control and 33.3% in treatment groups. In the control group, mean arterial pressure dropped from 93.6 ± 8.6 to 75.5 ± 9.7 mmHg by 9 h, which was not affected by the combined therapy. Pulmonary dysfunction was not attenuated by the combined therapy either. The combined therapy had no effect on increased extravascular lung water content and fluid effusion into thoracic cavity. The bacterial number in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid was significantly increased in the treatment group than the control group. The blood bacterial number remained comparable between groups.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Combined vitamin C, hydrocortisone, and thiamine did not attenuate severity of ovine sepsis.</p>","PeriodicalId":17993,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animal Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11318330/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141971405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nerea Huertos Soto, Juan Manuel Gómez Cervantes, María Jesús Fernández Aceñero, María Del Carmen Soto Beauregard
{"title":"Cannabidiol decreases histological intestinal injury in a neonatal experimental model of necrotizing enterocolitis.","authors":"Nerea Huertos Soto, Juan Manuel Gómez Cervantes, María Jesús Fernández Aceñero, María Del Carmen Soto Beauregard","doi":"10.1186/s42826-024-00211-9","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s42826-024-00211-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a severe inflammatory bowel disease in neonates. Our group has developed an experimental model of NEC, with an effectiveness of 73%. Cannabidiol (CBD) is an innovative treatment for neonatal cerebral hypoxic-ischemic pathologies due to its neuroprotective effect, as a potent anti-inflammatory and reducing oxidative stress substance. Our aim was to evaluate the effect of CBD on intestinal lesions in an experimental model of NEC.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Mortality and intestinal histological damage was significantly lower in the CBD group compared to the rest (p<0.05), establishing CBD as a protective factor against the development of NEC (OR=0.0255; 95% CI=0.0015-0.4460). At IHQ level (TUNEL technique), a lower cell death rate was also observed in the CBD group compared to the VEH group (p<0.05).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In our experimental model, intraperitoneal CBD acts as a protective factor against NEC, resulting in less histological damage and a lower rate of intestinal cell death.</p>","PeriodicalId":17993,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animal Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11209976/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141457788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alina Bilyalova, Airat Bilyalov, Nikita Filatov, Elena Shagimardanova, Andrey Kiyasov, Maria Vorontsova, Oleg Gusev
{"title":"Non-classical animal models for studying adrenal diseases: advantages, limitations, and implications for research.","authors":"Alina Bilyalova, Airat Bilyalov, Nikita Filatov, Elena Shagimardanova, Andrey Kiyasov, Maria Vorontsova, Oleg Gusev","doi":"10.1186/s42826-024-00212-8","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s42826-024-00212-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study of adrenal disorders is a key component of scientific research, driven by the complex innervation, unique structure, and essential functions of the adrenal glands. This review explores the use of non-traditional animal models for studying congenital adrenal hyperplasia. It highlights the advantages, limitations, and relevance of these models, including domestic ferrets, dogs, guinea pigs, golden hamsters, pigs, and spiny mice. We provide a detailed analysis of the histological structure, steroidogenesis pathways, and genetic characteristics of these animal models. The morphological and functional similarities between the adrenal glands of spiny mice and humans highlight their potential as an important avenue for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":17993,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animal Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11186145/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141427113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jie Zhai, Auriole Tamegnon, Mei Jiang, Renganayaki Krishna Pandurengan, Edwin Roger Parra
{"title":"Immune profiling of mouse lung adenocarcinoma paraffin tissues using multiplex immunofluorescence panel: a pilot study.","authors":"Jie Zhai, Auriole Tamegnon, Mei Jiang, Renganayaki Krishna Pandurengan, Edwin Roger Parra","doi":"10.1186/s42826-024-00210-w","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s42826-024-00210-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Immune profiling has become an important tool for identifying predictive, prognostic and response biomarkers for immune checkpoint inhibitors from tumor microenvironment (TME). We aimed to build a multiplex immunofluorescence (mIF) panel to apply to formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissues in mice tumors and to explore the programmed cell death protein 1/ programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 (PD-1/PD-L1) axis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>An automated eight-color mIF panel was evaluated to study the TME using seven antibodies, including cytokeratin 19, CD3e, CD8a, CD4, PD-1, PD-L1, F4-80 and DAPI, then was applied in six mice lung adenocarcinoma samples. Cell phenotypes were quantified by software to explore the co-localization and spatial distribution between immune cells within the TME. This mice panel was successfully optimized and applied to a small cohort of mice lung adenocarcinoma cases. Image analysis showed a sparse degree of immune cell expression pattern in this cohort. From the spatial analysis we found that T cells and macrophages expressing PD-L1 were close to the malignant cells and other immune cells.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Comprehensive immune profiling using mIF in translational studies improves our ability to correlate the PD-1/PD-L1 axis and spatial distribution of lymphocytes and macrophages in mouse lung cancer cells to provide new cues for immunotherapy, that can be translated to human tumors for cancer intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":17993,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animal Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11177412/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141321140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael A Leninsky, Vladislav E Sobolev, Margarita O Sokolova, Natalya G Voitenko, Nikita V Skvortsov
{"title":"Quantification of 11 metabolites in rat urine after exposure to organophosphates.","authors":"Michael A Leninsky, Vladislav E Sobolev, Margarita O Sokolova, Natalya G Voitenko, Nikita V Skvortsov","doi":"10.1186/s42826-024-00209-3","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s42826-024-00209-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The aim of the study was to develop a technique for quantitative determination of rat urine metabolites by HPLC-MS/MS, which can be used to search for biomarkers of acute intoxication with organophosphates (OPs).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The content of metabolites in the urine of rats exposed to a single dose of paraoxon (POX1x); interval, twice daily administration of paraoxon (POX2x); exposure to 2-(o-cresyl)-4H-1, 3, 2-benzodioxaphosphorin-2-oxide and paraoxon (CBPOX) was investigated. New data were obtained on the content in the urine of intact rats as well as rats in 3 models of OP poisoning: 3-methylhistidine, threonine, creatine, creatinine, lactic acid, acetylcarnitine, inosine, hypoxanthine, adenine, 3-hydroxymethyl-butyrate and 2-hydroxymethyl-butyrate.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The proposed assay procedure is a simple and reliable tool for urine metabolomic studies. Within 1-3 days after OP exposure in all three models of acute intoxication, the concentration of metabolites in rat urine, with the exception of adenine, changes similarly and symmetrically, regardless of the method of poisoning modeling, in all three models of acute intoxication. Further studies are needed to determine the specificity and reliability of using urinary metabolite concentration changes as potential biomarkers of acute organophosphate intoxication.</p>","PeriodicalId":17993,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animal Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11155157/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141284097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Endosulfan induces reproductive & genotoxic effect in male and female Swiss albino mice.","authors":"Priya, Arun Kumar, Mohammad Ali, Abhinav Srivastava, Ranjit Kumar, Ashok Kumar Ghosh","doi":"10.1186/s42826-024-00208-4","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s42826-024-00208-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Toxicity by pesticide has become a global health issue and leaves a harmful impact on human health via various ways. The people exposed to pesticides in the rural population get affected by the harmful effects of it as they enter the human body system through skin, inhalation, oral administration, food chain and many more ways. The present work is designed to study the toxic effect of endosulfan in male (n=30) and female (n=30) Swiss albino mice. Endosulfan was administered by oral gavage (oral administration) method, at the dose of 3.5 mg/Kg body weight daily for period of 3 weeks, 5 weeks and 7 weeks. After the completion of the treatment, the mice were sacrificed and their ovary and testis tissues were dissected out to check the degeneration. The blood was collected for karyotyping, biochemical and hormonal analysis of pesticide induced genotoxicity. After 7 weeks of administration with Endosulfan, various abnormalities were observed in male and female mice.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Treatment with endosulfan at the dose of 3.5 mg/Kg body weight caused a higher degree of degeneration in the reproductive organ of Swiss albino mice . Treatment by this pesticide generated degeneration in long duration of dosage for 3,5 and 7 weeks. Ovaries of endosulfan administered groups showed degenerated germinal epithelium, Graffian follicles and corpus luteum. In testis of endosulfan treated mice, microscopic examination showed that there is significant damage and reduction in the tissue of seminiferous tubules and primordial germ cells. High degree of degeneration caused the disarrangement and deformation of spermatogonia with the decrease in the number of Sertoli cells. Biochemical and hormonal properties was also affected by endosulfan treatment. There was significant 5 folds decrease in the testosterone value of endosulfan in 7 weeks treated mice in comparison to control (p < 0.0001) and similarly there was significant elevation in the estrogen levels found in 7th week endosulfan treated mice. It also influenced the level of free radicals as there was significant decrease (p < 0.0001) in the value in catalase levels in 7 weeks endosulfan treated male and female mice, while significant (p < 0.0001) increase in the values of lipid peroxidation levels as 8 folds and 10 folds in 7 weeks endosulfan treated male and female Swiss albino mice respectively. This study hence speculates that the endosulfan exposed population are at the risk of reproductive health hazards.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The present study thus concludes that, endosulfan after 7 weeks of exposure caused significant reproductive damage to both male and female Swiss albino mice groups. Moreover, the karyotyping study also correlated the genotoxic damage in the mice.</p>","PeriodicalId":17993,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animal Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11110251/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141076287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artificial intelligence generated clinical score sheets: looking at the two faces of Janus.","authors":"Cristian Berce","doi":"10.1186/s42826-024-00206-6","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s42826-024-00206-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In vivo experiments are increasingly using clinical score sheets to ensure minimal distress to the animals. A score sheet is a document that includes a list of specific symptoms, behaviours and intervention guidelines, all balanced to for an objective clinical assessment of experimental animals. Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly being applied in the field of preclinical research, not only in analysis but also in documentation processes, reflecting a significant shift towards more technologically advanced research methodologies. The present study explores the application of Large Language Models (LLM) in generating score sheets for an animal welfare assessment in a preclinical research setting. Focusing on a mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease, the study evaluates the performance of three LLM - ChatGPT-4, ChatGPT-3.5, and Google Bard - in creating clinical score sheets based on specified criteria such as weight loss, stool consistency, and visible fecal blood. Key parameters evaluated include the consistency of structure, accuracy in representing severity levels, and appropriateness of intervention thresholds. The findings reveal a duality in LLM-generated score sheets: while some LLM consistently structure their outputs effectively, all models exhibit notable variations in assigning numerical values to symptoms and defining intervention thresholds accurately. This emphasizes the dual nature of AI performance in this field-its potential to create useful foundational drafts and the critical need for professional review to ensure precision and reliability. The results highlight the significance of balancing AI-generated tools with expert oversight in preclinical research.</p>","PeriodicalId":17993,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animal Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11097593/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140945172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predicting altered bone biomechanics in juvenile mice: insights from microgravity simulation, loading interventions, and Raman Spectroscopy.","authors":"J P Berteau","doi":"10.1186/s42826-024-00207-5","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s42826-024-00207-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Microgravity, a condition experienced in a spatial environment, poses unique challenges to the skeletal system, particularly in juvenile organisms. This study aimed to investigate alterations in bone biomechanics of juvenile mice due to unloading - that simulates microgravity in the laboratory-and the effects of a bone-loading intervention. We compared bone compositional and mechanical properties between 21-six-week-old C57Bl/6 from a control group (wild type) and a group that underwent a tail-suspension unloading protocol to mimic microgravity (MG). The second group (MG) experienced additional in vivo loading protocol (MG + LDG) on the right hind leg, where dynamic compressive loading was applied to the right knee using a custom-built loading device.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our results show that after two weeks, we successfully induced bone alterations by (i) decreasing the energy dissipated before fracture and (ii) decreasing the yield and maximum stress. In addition, we showed that Mineral to matrix component [ν1PO4/Amide I], Carbonate to Amide [CO3/Amide I], and Crystallinity [1/FWHM(ν1PO4)] are strongly linked in physiological bone but not in microgravity even after loading intervention. While Crystallinity is very sensitive to bone deformation (strain) alterations coming from simulated microgravity, we show that Carbonate to Amide [CO3/Amide I] - a common marker of turnover rate/remodeling activity-is a specific predictor of bone deformation for bone after simulated microgravity. Our results also invalidate the current parameters of the loading intervention to prevent bone alterations entirely in juvenile mice.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our study successfully induced bone alterations in juvenile mice by using an unloading protocol to simulate microgravity, and we provided a new Raman Spectroscopy (RS) dataset of juvenile mice that contributes to the prediction of cortical bone mechanical properties, where the degree of interrelationship for RS data for physiological bone is improved compared to the most recent evidence.</p>","PeriodicalId":17993,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animal Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11092207/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140922602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hadeel M Osama, Sally M Khadrawy, El-Shaymaa El-Nahass, Sarah I Othman, Hanaa M Mohamed
{"title":"Eltroxin and Hesperidin mitigate testicular and renal damage in hypothyroid rats: amelioration of oxidative stress through PPARγ and Nrf2/HO-1 signaling pathway.","authors":"Hadeel M Osama, Sally M Khadrawy, El-Shaymaa El-Nahass, Sarah I Othman, Hanaa M Mohamed","doi":"10.1186/s42826-024-00204-8","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s42826-024-00204-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Thyroid hormones (THs) regulate growth, development and function of different tissues. Hypothyroidism is a common clinical disorder characterized by deficiency in THs and adversely affects the development and functions of several organs. This work aimed to investigate the ameliorative effect of eltroxin (ELT), a hypothyroidism medication, and hesperidin (HSP), a flavonoid, against testicular and renal toxicity in hypothyroid rats. Twenty-four rats were divided into four groups and treated orally for 12 weeks. Group I (control), group II (hypothyroidism) received 20 mg/kg carbimazole (CBZ), group III received CBZ and 0.045 mg/kg ELT, and group IV received CBZ and 200 mg/kg HSP.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>CBZ administration induced biochemical and histopathological changes in testis and kidney. Co-administration of ELT or HSP significantly (P < 0.05) ameliorated THs, reduced urea and creatinine while raised follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), Luteinizing hormone (LH), and testosterone in serum. Testicular and renal malondialdehyde level as a lipid peroxidation indicator, tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), and interleukin-6 (IL-6) were significantly (P < 0.05) decreased while glutathione content, glutathione peroxidase, and glutathione-s-transferase activities were significantly (P < 0.05) increased. The histopathological changes were also diminished. Decreased mRNA and protein expressions of nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2), heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma(PPARγ) in hypothyroid rats were up-regulated after ELT or HSP treatment.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>ELT and HSP showed antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects against CBZ-induced testicular and renal toxicity, and these effects may be promoted via activating Nrf2/HO-1 and PPARγ signaling pathways.</p>","PeriodicalId":17993,"journal":{"name":"Laboratory Animal Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11092223/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140922600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}