Journal
FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Volume 45, Issue 11, Pages 1551-1558Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2008.08.032
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Funding
- NIH/NIAAA [RO1AA09300, 074407, F31 AA016710]
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Alcoholic liver disease is multifactorial and oxidative stress is believed to play an intimate role in the initiation and progression of this pathology. The goals of this study were to investigate the effect of chronic ethanol treatment on inducing hepatic oxidative stress and peroxiredoxin 6 expression. After 9 weeks of treatment with an ethanol-containing diet, significant increases in serum ALT activity, liver to body weight ratio, liver triglycerides, CYP2E1 protein expression, and CYP2E1 activity were observed. Chronic ethanol feeding resulted in oxidative stress as evidenced by decreases in hepatic glutathione content and increased deposition of 4-hydroxynonenal and 4-oxononenal protein adducts. In addition, novel findings of decreased PRX6 protein and mRNA and increased levels of carbonylated PRX6 protein were observed in the ethanol-treated animals Compared to the pair-fed controls. Lastly, NF-kappa B activity was found to be significantly increased in the ethanol-treated animals. Concurrent with the increase in NF-kappa B activity, decreases in both MEK1/2 and ERK1/2 phosphorylation were also observed in the ethanol-treated animals compared to the pair-fed controls. Together, these data demonstrate that chronic ethanol treatment results in oxidative stress, implicating NF-kappa B activation as an integral mechanism in the negative regulation of PRX6 gene expression in the mouse liver. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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