Effect of endotoxin on lipid peroxidation in vivo in selenium and vitamin E deficient rats
The authors have used respiratory ethane production by selenium (Se) and vitamin E (E) deficient rats, an index of lipid peroxidation, to identify oxidant stressors which might precipitate sudden tissue degeneration in deficient animals. Other studies have suggested that endotoxin (gram-negative bacterial lipopolysaccharide-LPS) might be such an oxidant stressor, especially in the lungs. Male weanling rats were fed a Se and E deficient diet for about 80 days. Rats were injected ip with Salmonella typhimurium LPS (.25, .5, or 1.0 mg/kg) or saline, and respiratory ethane was collected for 16 hr. In a representative experiment, mean rate of ethane production (nm/100g/hr) was increased (p < .01) by LPS: saline, .48 +/- .04 (SEM); .25 mg LPS/kg, 1.30 +/- .17; .5, 1.47 +/- .18 and 1.0, 1.68 +/- .18. E. coli and S. minnesota LPS gave similar results. Rats fed a supplemented diet (.2 ppm Se and 200 IU E/kg diet) produced less (p < .01) ethane: saline, .068 +/- .009 and .5 mg LPS/kg, .114 +/- .01. Over all experiments LPS produced a small yet significant increase in ethane in rats receiving Se or E supplementation but produced a marked increase in unsupplemented rats. In further studies with LPS treated rats, Se supplementation alone was 73%, and E supplementation alone 99% as effective as Se + E. These results showed that LPS stimulates lipid peroxidation in Se and E deficient rats and that infections may initiate oxidative cell damage in deficient animals. E was more protective than Se against LPS-induced peroxidation.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
- OSTI ID:
- 5456235
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8604222-
- Journal Information:
- Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States), Vol. 45:3; Conference: 70. annual meeting of the Federation of American Society for Experimental Biology, St. Louis, MO, USA, 13 Apr 1986
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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ENDOTOXINS
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS
SELENIUM
NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY
VITAMIN E
DIET
ESCHERICHIA COLI
ETHANE
LIPIDS
RATS
RESPIRATION
SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM
ALKANES
ANIMALS
ANTIGENS
BACTERIA
ELEMENTS
HYDROCARBONS
MAMMALS
MATERIALS
MICROORGANISMS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
RODENTS
SALMONELLA
SEMIMETALS
TOXIC MATERIALS
TOXINS
VERTEBRATES
VITAMINS
560305* - Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology- Vertebrates- (-1987)