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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR BASIS OF DISEASE
Volume 1639, Issue 2, Pages 113-120Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2003.08.001
Keywords
diabetes mellitus; type 1 diabetes; type 2 diabetes; Goto-Kakizaki (GK) rat; streptozotocin-induced diabetic (STZ) rat; mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT)
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Several studies have been carried out to evaluate the alterations in mitochondrial functions of diabetic rats. However, results are sometimes controversial, since experimental conditions diverge, including age and strain of used animals. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the metabolic modifications in liver mitochondria, both in the presence of severe (STZ-treated rats) and mild hyperglycaemia [Goto-Kakizaki (GK) rats], when compared with control animals of similar age. Moreover, metabolic alterations were evaluated also at initial and advanced stages of the disease. We observed that both models of diabetes (type 1 and type 2) presented a decreased susceptibility of liver mitochondria to the induction of permeability transition (MPT). Apparently, there is a positive correlation between the severity of diabetes mellitus (and duration of the disease) and the decline in the susceptibility to MPT induction. We also found that liver mitochondria isolated from diabetic rats presented some metabolic adaptations, such as an increase in coenzyme Q and cardiolipin contents, that can be responsible for the observed decrease in the susceptibility to multiprotein pore (MPTP) opening. (C) 2003 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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