Activity of liver microsomal enzymes during the chronic phase of murine schistosomiasis



Document title: Activity of liver microsomal enzymes during the chronic phase of murine schistosomiasis
Journal: Brazilian journal of medical and biological research
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000350329
ISSN: 0100-879X
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Institutions: 1Escola Nacional de Saude Publica, Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas, Rio de Janeiro. Brasil
Year:
Season: May
Volumen: 40
Number: 5
Pages: 657-662
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Experimental, aplicado
English abstract The effects of schistosomiasis on microsomal enzymes were studied on post-infection day 90 when accumulated damage and fibrosis are most intense but granulomatous reaction around the eggs harbored in the liver is smaller than during the earlier phases. Swiss Webster (SW) and DBA/2 mice of either sex (N = 12 per sex per group) were infected with 100 Schistosoma mansoni cercariae on postnatal day 10 and killed on post-infection day 90. Cytochrome P-450 (CYP) concentration and alkoxyresorufin-O-dealkylases (EROD, MROD, BROD, and PROD), p-nitrophenol-hydroxylase (PNPH), coumarin-7-hydroxylase (COH), and UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) activities were measured in hepatic microsomes. Age-matched mice of the same sex and strain were used as controls. In S. mansoni-infected mice, CYP1A- and 2B-mediated activities (control = 100%) were reduced in SW (EROD: male (M) 36%, female (F) 38%; MROD: M 38%, F 39%; BROD: M 46%, F 19%; PROD: M 50%, F 28%) and DBA/2 mice (EROD: M 64%, F 58%; MROD: M 60%; BROD: F 49%; PROD: M 73%) while PNPH (CYP2E1) was decreased in SW (M 31%, F 38%) but not in DBA/2 mice. COH did not differ between infected and control DBA/2 and UGT, a phase-2 enzyme, was not altered by infection. In conclusion, chronic S. mansoni infection reduced total CYP content and all CYP-mediated activities evaluated in SW mice, including those catalyzed by CYP2E1 (PNPH), CYP1A (EROD, MROD) and 2B (BROD, PROD). In DBA/2 mice, however, CYP2A5- and 2E1-mediated activities remained unchanged while total CYP content and activities mediated by other CYP isoforms were depressed during chronic schistosomiasis
Disciplines: Medicina
Keyword: Farmacología,
Microbiología,
Farmacocinética,
Monooxigenasas,
Citocromo P450,
Microsomas,
Hígado,
Esquistosomiasis
Keyword: Medicine,
Microbiology,
Pharmacology,
Pharmacokinetics,
Monooxygenases,
Microsomes,
Liver,
Schistosomiasis
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