Biochemical changes in rats with different behavioral characteristics under conditions of metabolic stress.

Food deprivation is an extreme state of the functional feeding system, which is reflected in the character of changes in the activity of central and peripheral components selectively included in the system. We studied the dynamics of coenzyme Q10 levels and spectrum of omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids in the blood serum, liver, and brain as well as LPO intensity in the serum and liver in behaviorally passive and active rats under conditions of food deprivation. Our results indicate that adaptive and compensatory processes during acute metabolic stress depend on the initial behavioral characteristics of the animals.

Biochemical features in rats with different behavioral activity under conditions of emotional stress.

Adaptive capacities of the organism under conditions of emotional stress are determined by individual complex of anti-stress protective mechanisms. We studied the content of coenzyme Q10 and the spectrum of polyunsaturated fatty acids omega-3 and omega-6 in the serum, liver, and brain, and LPO intensity in the serum and liver of behaviorally active and passive rats under conditions of acute emotional stress. The differences in the formation of adaptive responses in animals with various behavioral activities were demonstrated.

Biochemistry of blood plasma and some parameters of antioxidant status in rats with polyhypovitaminosis of varying severity.

In rats with profound vitamin deficiency, blood plasma level of triglycerides significantly decreased by 1.6 times, potassium ions by 5%, uric acid by 23%, ALT and AST by 1.4 times, while the levels of glucose increased by 32%, iron by 31%, urea by 58%, and alkaline phosphatase by 19%.

[Effect of fatty component in ration and coenzyme Q10 on indices of rat lipid metabolism in ontogenesis].

The studies made on rats of 1, 3, 6 and 12 months with fish, palm and linseed oil included in the ration in combination of KoQ10, showed that beginning from young age till 12 months fatty acid composition of liver depended of fat component in the ration. Long-term consumption of fish fat with age results in significant increase in omega 3 fatty acids. In this case the omega 6 fatty acids level remained rather high being indicative of organism adaptation and inclusion of compensatory mechanisms supporting the required level of omega 6.

[The effect of fatty component of diet and coenzyme Q10 on rat sufficiency with vitamins-antioxidans in chronic experiments].

The full replacement of fatty component of a diet (10% of feed mass, sunflower-seed oil and lard 1:1) on enriched with alpha-tocopherol acetate fish oil or on linen oil under additional coenzyme Q10 intake (100 mg per 1 kg body weight) within 12 months led to a significant vitamin A blood serum decrease on 23-31%, 2-2,8 fold fall of vitamin E blood serum level and vitamin C rat liver diminution due to significant dehydroascorbic acid reduction on 28-45%. In both cases, the intensification of POL was not observed. The use of palm-oil as a fatty component led to a significant vitamin A blood serum decrease on 31%, but didn't effect on all other investigated parameters.

[Effect of coenzyme Q10 supplementation on apoptosis, free radical oxidative processes and proteome pool of microsomal and cytosol fractions of hepatocytes using food ration with different lipid component].

Our aim was to analyze biochemical mechanism in regulation and adaptation to feeding with omega-3 and omega-6 PUFA plus coenzyme Q10-based diet in rats. The rats were supplemented with Co Q10 (100 mg/kg b.wt.

[Effects of taurine supplementation on apoptosis, lipid peroxidation and proteomic pools of subcellular fractions of rat hepatocytes in experiment].

During research specific proteomic pools of subcellular fractions of rats hepatic cells typical for different states of ontogenesis were identified. Taurine supplementation during early ontogenesis leads to a production of a catalase in rats' microsomes, that may be an evidence of activation of antioxidant defense system. Majority of proteomic markers (C-type lectin, SH2B1, protein phosphatase-1), which was investigated during taurine supplement, are rather identify features of energy homeostasis, than common assessment of apoptosis or expression certain set of proteins.

[Effect of coenzyme Q10 and taurine on the availability of vitamins in the rat experiment].

It has been observed that coenzyme Q10 (100 mg per 1 kg body mass) and taurine (1% in drinking water) treatment of rats has differently directed effect on vitamin A and E level in liver and blood serum. Coenzyme Q10 consumption has been accompanied with a tendency to increasing or an increase of vitamin content, while taurine consumption lead to the reverse effect. Both coenzyme Q10 and taurine addition caused diene conjugates decrease in blood serum.

[Relationship between changes in peroxide oxidation lipoide index, coenzyme Q10 and free fatty acids by of rats depending of fatty acid component in the ration].

Ontogenetic peculiarities of relationship concentration of coenzyme (K0) Q10, peroxide oxidation lipoide (POL) content, peroxidation index (PI), concentration of omega 3 and omega 6 PUFA and saturated fatty acid in blood serum and liver of rats of 1, 3, 9 and 12 months old are studied. In blood serum pronounced riverse dependence was discovered between K0Q10 concentration and POL process intensivety in rats of 3 to 6 month old, fed palm and linseed oil. Direct relationship was established between TBA-active products in liver of all animal groups and peroxidation index.

[Effect of dietary fats and supplementary coenzyme Q10 on vitamin provision in animals].

The full replacement of fatty component of a diet (sunflower-seed oil and lard 1:1) on enriched with alpha-tocopherol acetate fish oil under additional coenzyme Q10 intake led to the strengthening of lipid peroxidation (LP) and to some decrease of vitamins A and E level in liver and blood serum whereas replacement by linen oil was accompanied by the expressed deterioration of these vitamins sufficiency, but didn't influence on the LP intensity. The use of palm-oil as a fatty component didn't effect on the investigated parameters. The influences of a fatty component on vitamins B1 and B2 level in rat liver and blood serum has not revealed.

[Amaranths oil: peculiarities of chemical composition and influence on lipid metabolism by rats].

In experiment on rats it was shown a hypocholesterolemic effect of amaranth oil. The decrease of cholesterol lever in rat blood was not accompanied by its increasing in a liver. The turn from a model of hypercholesterolemia to the diet with amaranth oil also prodused decreasing of cholesterol lever in rat plasma and liver as compared with control animals.

[Study of metabolic and clinical effects of polyunsaturated fatty acids omega-3 from "Eicovit" in patients with ischemic heart disease and familial hyperlipoproteinemia].

The influence of antiatherosclerotic diet with including 15 g preparation "Eikovit" containing fat of freshwater fish on fat acid composition of erythrocytes membrane was studied in 399 patients with ishemic heart disease and hyperlipidemia. Against a background of positive influence on clinical symptoms of diseases, lipids of blood serum, homeostasis expressed influence of PUFA omega-3 in "Eikovit" on biomembrane fat acid composition was noted. It was shown sharp increasing a quota an eicosapentaenic acid by simultaneous reducing PUFA omega-6 level.

[Effect of antiatherosclerotic diet, containing polyunsaturated fatty acids of the omega-3 family from flax oil, on fatty acid composition of cell membranes of patients with ischemic heart disease. Hypertensive disease and hyperlipoproteinemia].

Use flax oil as a vegetative source of PUFA omega-3 in diet of patients with ischemic heart disease, hyperlipidemia and high blood pressure resulted in positive dynamic of clinical manifestation, blood lipids and coagulograms of the patient. Pronounced influence on membrane lipids of erythrocytes was revealed: significantly increased a quota an linolenic, eicosapentaenic and docosahexaenic PUFA against a background of reducing a level of linoleic acid.

[Lipid peroxidation in patients with ischemic heart disease, hyperlipidemia and/or hypertension while polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids of plant and animal origin were in their diet].

Usage of antisclerotic diet with PUFA n-3 from vegetable or animal source in 326 patients with IHD, HL and HBP resulted in positive dynamic of clinical manifestation, blood lipids and coagulogramms of the patients. The favorable changes of membrane lipids and the decrease of intensity of lipid peroxidation was also revealed. The decrease of primary and secondary metabolites of lipid peroxidation could be a result of hypolipidemic effect of the diets and sufficient level of vitamin E.

[Optimization of dietary fat composition in erosive and ulcerative diseases of the gastroduodenal area].

Fish oil preparation "Polyen" was used for treatment 21 patients with ulcerative diseases of the stomach or duodenum. The cicatrization of ulcer was diagnosed in 85% of patients treated by "Polyen" and in 60% of those who did not take fish oil. "Polyen" influenced fatty acid composition of erythrocyte membranes and lipid peroxidation.

[Use of the fish oil "Polyen" in pediatric practice].

The effects of supplementation of basic diets with 'Polyen' in daily doses of 2.5-4.0 g during 30-40 days together with antioxidants were studied in patients with kidney diseases (diet No7, n = 14), different allergies (hypoallergenic diet, n = 37) and in control children (n = 12).

[Dietary plant phospholipids as stabilizers of oil solutions of beta-carotene].

A study of stability of oil solutions beta-carotene to oxidizing damage is carried out. As stabilizers were used dietary plant phospholipids produced by Krasnodar's company ECOTECH in concentrations 5, 10, 20% in a combination with alpha-tocopherol. Oxidizing changes in samples were evaluated by determination of peroxide level ('peroxidation number') and contents diene conjugates.

[The effect of the omega 6/omega 3 PUFA ratios in the rations of rats on the eicosanoid content in the blood plasma and liver].

Purified diets for rats contained 24% fat, with presented with the mixture of sunflower and fish oils whose combination yielded ratios of omega 6 to omega 3 fatty acids equal to 99 0, 49 0, 5 2, 1.9 and 0.12.

[The effect of administration of beta-carotene in an oil solution on its blood serum level and antioxidant status of patients with duodenal ulcer and erosive gastritis].

Adequately good consumption of beta-carotene was observed in patients with duodenal ulcer and erosive gastritis after daily treatment with 18 mg of the carotinoid used as 0.1% oil solution: concentration of beta-carotene was increased approximately 3-fold in blood serum of these patients. Concentration of retinol was not increased in blood serum after treatment with beta-carotene, thus indicating that the drug treatment was not dangerous.

[Lipid peroxidation upon the use of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in the treatment of hypertension and ischemic heart disease].

Anti-atherosclerotic diet containing 10 or 20 g of ichthyenic oil, used for treatment of 29 patients with cardiovascular diseases, caused an increase in content of polyunsaturated omega 3 fatty acids species in the patients erythrocyte membranes; this pattern may be used as a sensitive criterion of evaluation of the diet fatty component effect. Despite an increase of oxidation potential substrates in tissues, elevation of malonyl dialdehyde in blood plasma and hemolysis of erythrocytes in presence of H2O2 were not observed. This suggests absence of lipid peroxidation induction in adequate consumption of antioxidants.

[The vitamin E allowance of rats on different combinations of sunflower and soybean oils in their diets].

Soybean oil and its combinations with sunflower oil, as 1:1 and 1:3, were used in the rations intended for rats. As it is evidenced by the data on the content of tocopherol in the tissues, malonic dialdehide in the liver, diene conjugates in the liver and red blood cells, and red blood cell resistance, the fatty products used in the rations sufficiently provided the animals with antioxidants. The role of tocopherol isomers and phosphatides, as synergists of antioxidants in varying combinations of soybean and sunflower oils, formed for simultaneous intake of linoleic and linolenic acids with the ration, has been analyzed.

[Aggregation, membrane potential and Na+ and Ca2+ in the thrombocytes of rats with spontaneous hypertension].

Platelet aggregation, plasmatic membrane potential and sodium and calcium uptake were investigated in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). The sensitivity of SHR's platelets to effects of all aggregational agents examined (ADP, collagen, ADP + noradrenaline) was enhanced. Ca-ionophore A 23187 caused complete SHR platelet aggregation when Ca2+ concentration in the incubation medium was 20-30% below the level of normotensive control specimens.