[The effect of lipid peroxidation on the lipid and phospholipid composition of mitochondrial membranes during thermal incubation].

Alterations in the content of lipids and phospholipids were studied in rat liver mitochondrial membranes after long-term heating at 37 degrees, pH 7.4, using FeSO4-ascorbate as inductors of lipid peroxidation. Under these conditions, activation of lipid peroxidation in mitochondrial membranes led to a marked increase in the rate of hydrolysis of phosphatidylethanolamine and lysophosphatidylethanolamine, to elevated synthesis of phosphatidylserine, sphingomyelin, phosphatidic and lysophosphatidic acids, diglycerides and cholesterol esters as well as to inhibit hydrolysis of phosphatidylcholine, cardiolipin and their lyso-derivatives.

[Effect of phytoecdysteroids and nerobol on parameters of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism and phospholipid spectrum of liver mitochondrial membrane in experimental diabetes mellitus of rats].

Phytoecdysteroids: ecdysterone and turkesterone, introduced orally to male rats with the body mass 180-120 g in a dose of 5 mg/l kg of mass and nerobol in a dose of 10 mg per 1 kg of the mass for 15 days against a background of the developed alloxan diabetes cause a considerable decrease in the content of free fatty acids of the blood serum, sharply increased after the subcutaneous injection of alloxan to the animals (150 mg per 1 kg of the mass). The content of glycogen, malonic dialdehyde, pyruvic acid and calcium transporting function of the liver mitochondria are also normalized. These changes are closely interrelated (and may be mutually conditioned) with the preparation-induced reduction of phospholipid spectrum of the liver mitochondrial membranes pathologically changed owing to insulin insufficiency.

[Effect of salvipholin on the carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in the rat liver in alloxan diabetes].

Peroral administration of salvipholin in a dose of 50 mg/kg to intact male rats (the body weight 180-220 g) had a positive effect on the carbohydrate-lipid metabolism in the liver and blood serum of animals. Administration of the same dose to rats with alloxan diabetes induced a significant decrease in the content of glucose, free fat acids, triglycerides and lysophospholipids of the liver and blood serum. The level of these components has sharply increased after subcutaneous alloxan administration in a dose of 150 mg/kg, the content of glycogen and pyruvic acid being normalized and insulin deficiency removed.

[Changes in the phospholipid composition of mitochondria during heat incubation].

Incubation of liver mitochondria at 37 degrees C causes changes in the phospholipid composition, such as the decrease in the levels of major phospholipids (e.g. phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, cardiolipin) and their lysoderivatives as well as an increase in the levels of phosphatidic and lysophosphatidic acids.

[Erythrocyte lipids in diabetes mellitus with vascular involvement].

Alterations in content of neutral lipids, phospholipids and of their lysoforms were studied in erythrocyte membranes of patients with various severity of vascular impairments considering clinical manifestation of diabetes mellitus. Impairments of lipid composition in erythrocyte membranes observed correlated with the steps of diabetic angiopathies, thus considering an importance of these alterations in pathogenesis of vascular diseases of patients with diabetes mellitus.