Protein deficiency and muscle damage in carbon tetrachloride induced liver cirrhosis |
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Authors: | A. L pez-Lirola, E. Gonz lez-Reimers, R. Martí n Olivera, F. Santolaria-Fern ndez, L. Galindo-Martí n, P. Abreu-Gonz lez, T. Gonz lez-Hern ndez,F. Valladares-Parrilla |
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Affiliation: | a Departamento de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain b Departamento de Química Analítica, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain c Departamento de Fisiología, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain d Departamento de Anatomía y Anatomía Patológica, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain |
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Abstract: | Protein undernutrition, alterations of hormones such as IGF-1, testosterone and cortisol, and increased lipid peroxidation—which may be related with deranged metabolism of some elements such as iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), manganese (Mn), selenium (Se) or copper (Cu)—may contribute to muscle damage in non alcoholic cirrhosis. Here, we analyse the effect of protein deficiency on muscle Cu, Fe, Zn, Mn and Se in carbon-tetrachloride (CCl4) induced liver cirrhosis. We also study the association between protein undernutrition and these trace elements with the activity of glutathione peroxidase (GPX), superoxide dismutase (SOD) and lipid peroxidation products, and how all these are related with muscle morphological changes in 40 male adult Sprague-Dawley rats. Liver cirrhosis was induced by intraperitoneal injection of CCl4 to 10 rats fed a 2% protein diet, and to another 10 fed a 18% protein control diet. Two further groups included rats without cirrhosis fed the 2% protein and the 18% protein diets. After sacrifice (6 weeks later), we found type IIa fibre atrophy in the cirrhotic animals, especially in the low-protein fed ones and this was due to protein deficiency. Muscle Fe increased in low protein fed cirrhotic rats. No relationship was found between muscle changes and any of the hormones, enzymes and trace elements analysed, or with liver fibrosis. These results suggest that muscle atrophy observed in CCl4-induced cirrhosis is related with protein deficiency, but not with cirrhosis itself. |
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Keywords: | Cirrhosis Muscle atrophy Muscle selenium Copper Zinc Manganese Iron protein deficiency Malnutrition Glutathione peroxidase Lipid peroxidation |
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