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Tissue lipoperoxidation and glutathione peroxidase activity in puromycin aminonucleoside injected rats
J Pedraza-Chaverri1, A E Arévalo
1Department of Nephrology and Mineral Metabolism, Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México D.F., Mexico.
The International Journal of Biochemistry
|September 1, 1994
Abstract:
1. Lipoperoxidation (LPx) and glutathione peroxidase (GPx) activity were measured in kidney, liver, heart, lung, brain and testis from control and puromycin aminonucleoside (PAN) injected rats on days 1-6, 8, 10, 16 and 22 after vehicle or PAN injection. 2. PAN-injected rats developed proteinuria on day 3. 3. In PAN-injected rats: (a) LPx increased in kidney, liver, lung, brain and testis before day 3 and in heart on day 3; (b) GPx activity increased in kidney, liver, heart, lung and testis and diminished in brain on day 3 or after.