PMID: 9433915Jan 20, 1998Paper

Spaceflight downregulates antioxidant defense systems in rat liver

Free Radical Biology & Medicine
J HollanderL L Ji

Abstract

Liver antioxidant enzyme activities, mRNA abundance, and glutathione (GSH) status were investigated in male Sprague-Dawley rats placed in an enclosure module aboard Space Shuttle STS-63 for 8 d (F, n = 6). F animals were compared to rats housed in an enclosure module on the ground (G, n = 9), which simulated the vibration and temperature conditions associated with launch and flight, and rats kept under conventional ground vivarium conditions in individual cages (V, n = 6). Spaceflight significantly decreased catalase, GSH reductase, and GSH sulfur-transferase activities in the liver (p < .05). Neither enzyme activity nor enzyme protein content of Cu-Zn and Mn superoxide dismutase (SOD) was affected by flight. The relative abundance of mRNA for Cu-Zn SOD and catalase was significantly decreased comparing F with G rats (p < .05). Spaceflight resulted in a dramatic decrease of liver GSH, glutathione disulfide, and total GSH contents (p < .01), which were accompanied by a lower gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase activity (p < .05). F rats showed a 47% (p < .05) increase in liver malondialdehyde concentration compared to G and V rats. Liver protein content was not affected by flight. These results indicate that spaceflight can downregula...Continue Reading

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