[Peculiarities of leukotrienes metabolism in vitamin E deficiency in rats].

Some changes take place in the spectrum of fatty acid, cholesterol and individual phospholipids' composition in the rat liver, under E-hypovitaminosis, that can play a considerable role in the cell damage. The level of cysteinyl leucotriene decreases in the blood and liver under E-hypovitaminosis and it rises to the control level under vitamin E correction. This demonstrates the influence of tocopherol on 5-LO pathway arachidonic acid.

[Lipid peroxidation and antioxidant defence enzyme activity in multiple sclerosis].

Changes of state of lipid peroxidation and activity of antioxidant defence enzymes katalase, superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase - in the brain and liver tissue of guinea-pig in conditions of different stages of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE; 11th, 21st, 27th day after inoculation) and in blood of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients with different types, degrees of severity and length of disease and blood level of reduced glutathione have been investigated. We have found, that the development of oxidative stress in animal organism during the disease development is progressive and intensive lipid peroxide oxidation without compensation by antioxidant mechanisms have been shown in the late period (27th day) of the experiment. In MS conditions this state was accompanied with high activity of demyelination process, severe degree of neuronal injury and length of disease above 5 years.

[Lipids and caplain in guinea pig tissues in the process of development of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis].

The character of some lipids level change--cholesterol and phospholipids--as basic lipid components of cell membranes in the guinea-pig brain and liver tissue, and in serum in conditions of development of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) have been investigated on the 11th, 21st, 27th day after inoculation. It has been detected, that the level of the investigated lipids changes wavely and indifferent-direction in the brain tissue on the 21st day of EAE. Similar variability observed in the activity of proteolytic ferment calpain, which is authentically reduced in the brain tissue by the 11th hour and increases up to the test objective level in the subsequent periods of EAE development.

[Redox-state of NAD pairs and activity of lactatedehydrogenase and NADase in guinea pig tissues at different stages of development of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis].

Changes of NAD content, redox-state, enzyme activity in the brain and liver tissues of Guinea pigs at different stages of development of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) were investigated using the model of multiple sclerosis. It was shown, that the most legible changes of the investigated parameters occur on the preclinical stage and the stage of initial neurological symptoms. The increase of the brain NAD level and reduction properties of NAD+/NADH pairs reduction properties against a background of inhibition of lactatedehydrogenase activity was observed in the early terms of EAE development (7-15 day).

[Vitamin D3 and 20-hydroxyecdysone -- inhibitors of free radical lipid oxidation during D-hypervitaminosis].

Under D-hypovitaminosis (control) conditions the statistically reliable increase of blood serum lipids free radical oxidation was revealed in comparison with the intact animals. Administration of vitamin D3 to the animals suffering from D-hypovitaminosis leads for statistically reliable decrease of blood serum lipids free radical oxidation, while 20-hydroxyecdysone in quantity of 0.02 mg per 1 kg of the animal body weight displays the antioxidative properties.