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Studies on relationship between oxidative damage of multi-organ tissues and formation of trichinosis

CUI Yu, CHENG Xiaoxin, WANG Ying and ZHEN Lili
Department of Parasitology, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116023. e-mail : jsc@mail.dlmedu.edu.cn

AIM:
The paper observed the different levels and content of XOD, MDA and GSH in the different organ tissues and sera from mice infected by T. spiralis in order to probe the oxidative damage of multi-organ tissues and formation of trichinosis. We finally understood the pathogenesis of trichinosis.

METHOD: The experiment was randomly divided into four examined groups and a controled group. There were six mice in each group. The examined mice fed to capsules with living larva of T. spiralis, and that controled mice fed to normal mice meat before experiment. We collected the intestinal tissues, hepatic tissues, cardiac tissues, brain tissues, lung tissues and kidney tissues as well as blood to centrifugate on 3, 7, 14, 21, 30 day post infection, and then keeping examined materials into the refrigerator. The different levels and content of XOD, MDA and GSH in the above examined materials and sera were determined by those methods introduced in the reference.


RESULT and DISCUSSION: These results showed that the level and content of MDA in intestinal tissues and the levels and content of MDA and XOD in hepatic tissues in infected mice were higher significantly than that in controled groups from 3_7 days after infection (p<0.01), the levels of GSH were significantly lower than that in control groups at the same time (p<0.01). these results indicated the oxidative damage of intestinal tissues and hepatic tissues had produced in early stage of trichinosis. After 14 days, the level of GSH in intestinal tissues gradually got back normal level, the level of MDA firstly fell off and then went up again. The level of XOD in hepatic tissues also returned gradually, but the levels of MDA and GSH went up constantly and kept higher level. The level of XOD in cardiac tissues obviously rose after 14 days, and reached to peak after 30 days. MDA firstly rose and then fell down. GSH rose significantly (p<0.05) after 30 days, at the same time MDA in brain tissues and sera kept higher level. These results in this stage suggested the oxidative damage was transfered to visceral organic tissues from intestinal and hepatic tissues with change of live cycle of T. spiralis, and showed the oxidative damage started to focus to important visceral organs. The levels of GSH and MDA of brain tissues showed reverse change from 14 to 30 days. The level of MDA in sera was steadily maintained at a higher level.

CONCLUSION: These results indicated that T. spiralis could induce free radicals to damage some organs (and tissues of mice with trichinosis), and oxidative metabolites were so accumulated that toxemia was formed. The two pathogenic factors might be closely related to the happening and development of trichinosis.

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