[Hydrophobic and hydrophilic complexes of Fe2+ with dithiocarbamate derivatives as a nitric oxide trap in mice]

It has been shown by using EPR method that hydrophobic complexes Fe(2+)-diethyldithiocarbamate (DETC) act more efficiently as a selective traps of nitric oxide (NO) in mice organisms than hydrophilic complexes Fe(2+)-N-methyl-D-glutamyldithiocarbamate (MGD). This difference seemed to be due to higher stability of paramagnetic mononitrosyl iron complexes with DETC (MNIC-DETC) formed in vivo in animal tissues in a result of NO binding with Fe(2+)-DETC complexes. Analogous complexes MNIC-MGD appeared a blood were oxidized to diamagnetic, EPR silent form. The latter was also detected in mouse urine especially for animals which were pretreated with bacterial lipopolysaccharide inducing increased NO generation in mice organisms. Nitrogen dioxide or peroxynitrite formed endogenous NO were suggested to be the agents which oxidized MNIC-MGD by reversible way in mice organisms.