[NADH:ubiquinone reductase and succinate dehydrogenase activity in the liver of rats with acetaminophen-induced toxic hepatitis on the background of alimentary protein deficiency].

Abstract

The ratio between the redox forms of the nicotinamide coenzymes and key enzymatic activity of the I and II respiratory chain complexes in the liver cells mitochondria of rats with acetaminophen-induced hepatitis under the conditions of alimentary deprivation of protein was studied. It was estimated, that under the conditions of acute acetaminophen-induced hepatitis of rats kept on a low-protein diet during 4 weeks a significant decrease of the NADH:ubiquinone reductase and succinate dehydrogenase activity with simultaneous increase of the ratio between redox forms of the nicotinamide coenzymes (NAD+/NADH) is observed compared to the same indices in the liver cells of animals with experimental hepatitis kept on the ration balanced by all nutrients. Results of research may become basic ones for the biochemical rationale for the approaches directed to the correction and elimination of the consequences of energy exchange in the toxic hepatitis, induced on the background of protein deficiency.

• Authors: G P Kopylchuk, O M Voloshchuk
• Journal: Ukrainian biochemical journal (Ukr Biochem J) 2015 Jan-Feb Vol. 87 Issue 1 Pg. 121-6 ISSN: 2409-4943 [Print] Ukraine
• PMID: 26036138 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Chemical References

• NAD
• Acetaminophen
• Succinate Dehydrogenase
• Electron Transport Complex I

Topics

• Acetaminophen (toxicity)
• Animals
• Animals, Outbred Strains
• Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury (enzymology, pathology)
• Diet, Protein-Restricted (adverse effects)
• Electron Transport Complex I (metabolism)
• Male
• Mitochondria, Liver (enzymology, pathology)
• NAD (metabolism)
• Oxidation-Reduction
• Protein Deficiency (enzymology, etiology, pathology)
• Rats
• Succinate Dehydrogenase (metabolism)