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Published on: July 14, 2016
Age-related changes in manganese superoxide dismutase activity in the cerebral cortex of senescence-accelerated prone
T Kurokawa1, S Asada, S Nishitani
1Department of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Hiroshima University, Kasumi 1-2-3, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan. tomok@pharm.hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
In this paper, we showed that the oxidative stress in brain of senescence-accelerated prone mouse 8 (SAMP8) at earlier stages was increased compared with that of senescence-accelerated resistant mouse 1 (SAMR1) irrespective of the breeding conditions. Furthermore, we found that manganese superoxide dismutase (Mn-SOD) activity in the cerebral cortex of 10-week-old SAMP8 was decreased by about 50% compared with that in age-matched SAMR1. These results indicate that the decrease of Mn-SOD activity may be involved in the increased oxidative stress in the brain of SAMP8 at younger stages. However, there was no difference in the expression of this protein between the two strains at 10 weeks of age, suggesting that Mn-SOD protein in SAMP8 was post-translationally modified to reduce its enzymatic activity.
