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The effect of melatonin on lipid peroxide oxidation, oxidative modification of proteins and mitochondria swelling in the skeletal muscle tissue of rats under alloxan diabetes
I. V. Gerush, V. V. Bevzo, Ye. O. Ferenchuk
HSEI of Ukraine “Bukovinian State Medical University”, Chernivtsi, Ukraine;
e-mail: yelena_f@ukr.net
The aim of the investigation was to study the effect of melatonin on of peroxide lipid oxidation, the oxidative modification of proteins and the mitochondria swelling in skeletal muscle tissue of rats under alloxan diabetes. The intensification of free radical processes in the mitochondria skeletal of muscle tissue of the diabetic rats was accompanied by an increase in the content of thiobarbiturate-active products and in the oxidation process of proteins mitochondria. It was manifested by the decrease in the content of free SH-groups and the accumulation of carbonyl derivatives. The light scattering of the suspension of mitochondria decreases that evidences for their swelling. So, the mitochondria swelling was found to be associated with the increase of thiobarbiturate-active products and the decreased content of free SH-groups in the mitochondrial fraction of the muscle tissue of diabetic rats. Melatonin has a corrective effect on the processes of free radical oxidation of lipids and proteins of mitochondrial fractions and on the intensity of swelling of mitochondria.
Antioxidant activity of melatonin and glutathione interacting with hydroxyl- and superoxide anion radicals
T. Y. Kuznetsova1, N. V. Solovyova2, V. V. Solovyov1, V. O. Kostenko2
1Yu.Kondratyuk Poltava National Technical University, Ukraine;
2Ukrainian Medical Stomatological Academy, Poltava;
e-mail: kzt7@ukr.net
Based on the analysis of the results obtained by quantum chemical modeling of interaction between reduced glutathione (GSH) and melatonin (MLT) molecules with oxygen radicals (•OH and • OOˉ) it was found that this interaction occured following the acid-base mechanism, where MLT and GSH acted as a base in respect of •OH, and as acid in respect of •OOˉ. We have carried out the correlation of the results of quantum chemical calculations (density redistribution, energetic characteristics) under the interaction of MLT and GSH molecules with •OH and •OOˉ in changing macroscopic properties of the process of electroreduction of free oxygen radicals in the presence of antioxidants (potential and maximal current wave reduction waves). This was a direct experimental macroscale evidence of the results of theoretical modeling at the nanoscale level that pointed to a marked antioxidant activity of glutathione compared with melatonin.
Quantum chemical modeling of antioxidant activity of glutathione interacting with hydroxyl- and superoxide anion radicals
N. V. Solovyova1, T. Y. Kuznetsova2
1Higher State Medical Educational Institution of Ukraine,
Ukrainian Medical Stomatological Academy, Poltava, Ukraine;
2Yu. Kondratyuk Poltava National Technical University, Ukraine;
e-mail: KZT7@yandex.ru
Following the analysis of the results of quantum chemical simulation of interaction between a GSH molecule and oxygen radicals •ОН and •ООˉ, it was found that it takes place through the acid-base mechanism, where GSH acts as a base towards •ОН, and as an acid towards •ООˉ. The results of quantum chemical calculations (electron density redistribution, energy characteristics) were correlated at the time of interaction of a GSH molecule with •ОН and •ООˉ with a change of macroscopic parameters of the process of free oxygen radical electroreduction in the presence of GSH (potential and maximum current of reduction waves), which is a direct experimental macroscale evidence of results of the conducted nanoscale theoretical simulation.