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J Appl Physiol 83: 354-358, 1997;
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Journal of Applied Physiology
Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 354-358, August 1997
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Acutely administered melatonin reduces oxidative damage in lung and brain induced by hyperbaric oxygen

Marta I. Pablos, Russel J. Reiter, Jin-Ing Chuang, Genaro G. Ortiz, Juan M. Guerrero, Ewa Sewerynek, Maria T. Agapito, Daniela Melchiorri, Richard Lawrence, and Susan M. Deneke

Department of Cellular and Structural Biology and Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78284-7762

Received 25 November 1996; accepted in final form 25 March 1997.

Pablos, Marta I., Russel J. Reiter, Jin-Ing Chuang, Genaro G. Ortiz, Juan M. Guerrero, Ewa Sewerynek, Maria T. Agapito, Daniela Melchiorri, Richard Lawrence, and Susan M. Deneke. Acutely administered melatonin reduces oxidative damage in lung and brain induced by hyperbaric oxygen. J. Appl. Physiol. 83(2): 354-358, 1997.---Hyperbaric oxygen exposure rapidly induces lipid peroxidation and cellular damage in a variety of organs. In this study, we demonstrate that the exposure of rats to 4 atmospheres of 100% oxygen for 90 min is associated with increased levels of lipid peroxidation products [malonaldehyde (MDA) and 4-hydroxyalkenals (4-HDA)] and with changes in the activities of two antioxidative enzymes [glutathione peroxidase (GPX) and glutathione reductase (GR)], as well as in the glutathione status in the lungs and in the brain. Products of lipid peroxidation increased after hyperbaric hyperoxia, both GPX and GR activities were decreased, and levels of total glutathione (reduced+oxidized) and glutathione disulfide (oxidized glutathione) increased in both lung and brain areas (cerebral cortex, hippocampus, hypothalamus, striatum, and cerebellum) but not in liver. When animals were injected with melatonin (10 mg/kg) immediately before the 90-min hyperbaric oxygen exposure, all measurements of oxidative damage were prevented and were similar to those in untreated control animals. Melatonin's actions may be related to a variety of mechanisms, some of which remain to be identified, including its ability to directly scavenge free radicals and its induction of antioxidative enzymes via specific melatonin receptors.

free radicals; antioxidant enzymes; lipid peroxidation; pineal hormone

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