1. Effects of co-exposure to atrazine and ethanol on the oxidative damage of kidney and liver in Wistar rats
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Queen C. Duru, Aseme Tamunoibuomie, Enebimoere Keboh, Sunny O. Abarikwu, Benjamin A. Amadi, and Rex-Clovis C Njoku
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Male ,0301 basic medicine ,Antioxidant ,medicine.medical_treatment ,010501 environmental sciences ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,01 natural sciences ,Antioxidants ,Lipid peroxidation ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Laboratory Study ,reproductive and urinary physiology ,Kidney ,biology ,Alcoholic Beverages ,General Medicine ,Catalase ,Malondialdehyde ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Biochemistry ,Nephrology ,Toxicity ,Atrazine ,Oxidation-Reduction ,malondialdehyde ,histopathological damage ,kidney ,endocrine system ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Curcumin ,liver ,Superoxide dismutase ,03 medical and health sciences ,Internal medicine ,mental disorders ,medicine ,Animals ,Rats, Wistar ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Ethanol ,Herbicides ,Superoxide Dismutase ,business.industry ,Rats ,Uric Acid ,Oxidative Stress ,030104 developmental biology ,Endocrinology ,chemistry ,biology.protein ,Lipid Peroxidation ,business - Abstract
Both ethanol (EtoH) and atrazine (ATZ) have hepatic and nephro-toxic effects in rats. In the present study, the toxicity of EtoH (5 g kg−1) on the kidney and liver in the absence or in the presence of different doses of ATZ (50, 100, 300 mg kg−1) was evaluated after 21 days in rats. Results showed that the mixture effects on catalase and superoxide dismutase activities were more severe in both tissues compared to EtoH alone, especially as the dose of ATZ was increased. Hepatic malondialdehyde level (an index of lipid peroxidation) was increased from 20.32% in the EtoH +50 mg kg−1 ATZ-treated rats to 34% in the EtoH +300 mg kg−1 ATZ-treated rats compared to the EtoH values. Renal malondialdehyde values remain as high as 81% in the EtoH-treated rats and the different combine exposure groups. Furthermore, as the dose of ATZ in the mixture was increased, serum uric acid level increased compared to the EtoH values. When the EtoH +300 mg kg−1 ATZ-animals were pretreated with curcumin (an antioxidant), the histopathological changes and peroxidative damages in both tissues were blocked. The exposure of EtoH-treated rats to ATZ enhanced renal and hepatic peroxidative damages in rats.
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- 2017