1. Chronic Cadmium Exposure Lead to Inhibition of Serum and Hepatic Alkaline Phosphatase Activity in Wistar Rats
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Samuel Treviño, Irma Herrera Camacho, Eduardo Brambila, Alejandra Andrade-García, Bertha Alicia León-Chávez, Gonzalo Flores, and Patricia Aguilar-Alonso
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chemistry.chemical_classification ,Cadmium ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,In vitro toxicology ,chemistry.chemical_element ,General Medicine ,Alp activity ,Toxicology ,Biochemistry ,CADMIUM EXPOSURE ,Endocrinology ,Non-competitive inhibition ,Enzyme ,chemistry ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Molecular Medicine ,Alkaline phosphatase ,Metallothionein ,Molecular Biology - Abstract
Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity in the serum and liver from rats administered with cadmium (Cd) in drinking water was studied. After metal administration, Cd showed a time-dependent accumulation in the liver, meanwhile metallothionein had a maximum increase at 1 month, remaining in this level until the end of the study. On the other hand, serum and liver ALP activity was decreased after 3 months exposure. To determine if Cd produced an inhibition on enzyme, apo-ALP prepared from both nonexposed and exposed rats was reactivated with Zn, showing 60% more activity as compared with the enzyme isolated from nonexposed rats. In vitro assays showed that Cd-ALP was partially reactivated with Zn; however, in the presence of cadmium, Zn-ALP was completely inhibited. Kinetic studies indicate a noncompetitive inhibition by Cd; these results suggest that Cd can substitute Zn, and/or Cd can interact with nucleophilic ligands essential for the enzymatic activity.
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- 2015
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