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Effects of D-amino acids on lipoperoxidation in rat liver and kidney mitochondria
C Cortés-Rojo1, M Clemente-Guerrero, A Saavedra-Molina
1Instituto de Investigaciones Químico-Biológicas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, México.
Abstract:
The effects of the amino acids D-ser, D-asp, and D-ala on lipoperoxidation under conditions of hypertension, alcoholism, and ammonemia in rat liver and kidney mitochondria were studied. Under normal conditions, D-alanine increased in 54% free radicals production in liver mitochondria (p < 0.05). The D-amino acids had no effect on kidney mitochondria. D-ser and D-ala increased lipoperoxidation in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) as compared with their normotensive genetic control Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats (p < 0.05). During hypertension and in oxidative stress in the presence of calcium, only D-ala produced 46% and 29% free radicals in liver and kidney mitochondria (p < 0.05), respectively. During chronic alcoholism, D-ser increased lipoperoxidation in 80% in kidney mitochondria (p < 0.05), as compared to control. During ammonemia, D-ser produced 41% free radicals.
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