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Yaroslav Pavlovskiy1, Maksym Lutsyk2, Antonina Yashchenko2, Natalia Zaichko3, John Wallace4, Oksana Zayachkivska1
Physiology Department of Lviv National Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine
Histology, Cytology and Embryology Department of Lviv National Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine
Biological and General Chemistry Department of National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsia, Ukraine
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V. Kozar, 2008) with and without acute stress induction (Takagi, 1964). During 19-28 day, HFD groups consumed per os: a) placebo (1.0 ml of saline per os); b) NaHS, 100 μmol/kg/day; c) pla- cebo and stress induction; d) NaHS, 100 μmol/kg/day and stress induction; e) ASA, 10 mg/kg/ day and stress induction; f) conventional aspirin (ASA), 10 mg/kg/day and NaHS, 100 μmol/kg/ day and stress induction; g) ATB-340, 17.5 mg/kg/day and stress induction. The integrity of the GM was analyzed based on the histological severity index, which was calculated with account for morphological studies of GM samples. The indicator of oxidative stress, malondialdehyde (MDA) and the activity of SO in the GM were assessed using the standard biochemical methods.
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duces symptoms of GM damage associated with a decrease in the SO activity and the content of
MDA, which confirms alleviation of oxidative stress and has anti-radical and anti-oxidant effects.
flammatory Drugs, Sulfite Oxidase, MDA, Fructose
Ярослав Павловський1, Максим Луцик2, Антоніна Ященко2, Наталія Заічко3, Джон Л. Уоллес4, Оксана Заячківська1
1Кафедра нормальної фізіології, Львівський національний медичний уні- верситет ім. Данила Галицького, Львів, Україна
2Кафедра гістології, цитології та ембріології, Львівський національний медичний університет ім. Данила Галицького, Львів, Україна
3Кафедра біологічної та загальної хімії, Вінницький національний медич- ний університет ім. М.І.Пирогова, Вінниця, Україна
4Кафедра фізіології та фармакології, Університет Калгарі, Калгарі, Канада
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порівняно із дорослими.
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ASA, 10 мг/кг/добу, NaHS, 100 мкмоль/кг/добу та індукція стресу; є) АТB-340, 17,5 мг/кг/ добу та індукція стресу). Цілісність СОШ аналізували за гістологічним індексом ураження, що обраховували враховуючи морфологічні дослідження зразків СОШ. Індикатор окисного стресу, малоновий диальдегід (MDA) та активність SO в GM оцінювали стандартними біохі- мічними методами.
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зменшує прояви пошкоджень GM, пов’язаних зі зменшенням активності SO і вмісту MDA, що
свідчить про облегшення проявів окисного стресу, виявляючи анти-радикальну та анти-о- ксидантну дію.
Introduction
The gastrointestinal (GI) tract shows a re- markable resilience to damage induced by the beverages and foods that we ingest, which can have a wide range of osmolarity, pH and tem- perature [20]. This resistance to tissue dam- age is collectively referred to as “mucosal de- fense” and many different chemical mediators participate in GM defense, inflammation and repair [9, 18]. A new classification of human diseases will become available soon, based on consensus in expert committees that decided to include new category „stress-related dis- eases” (SRD) [7]. It is widely accepted that SRD result from complex reciprocal interaction between epigenetic and genetic factors. One of the epigenetic factors is fructose-rich nutri- tion, which results in oxidative stress, howev- er its prevention remains incompletely under- stood [3, 14]. There are age-related features in gastric mucosa (GM) defense, inflammation and repair against cytolytic agents, includ- ing prostaglandin/cyclooxygenase activities [11]. The issue of preventing and correcting the cyto-aggressive action of nonsteroidal an- ti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), which widely used by elderly patients and most often caus- es GM damage to the elderly patients [1, 2,
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6] and whatever age-related features in H S mucosal defence against oxidative stress is related to that, is open.
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Important bioregulators of prostaglandin-in- dependent mechanisms of cytoprotection of the GM is sulfur compounds. Recent extensive research into their effects confirmed as potent cyto- and vasoprotective effects, including against low-grade inflammation [17]. It has been shown that Sulfhydryl (SH) groups play prominent role in gastroprotection by deplet- ing glutathione (GSH) and induction oxidative stress [11, 18]. Another important regulator is the gas transmitter H S (hydrogen sulfide), which is known for its vasodilator, antioxidant, antiapoptotic and pro-angiogenic properties, which provide cytoprotective and anti-inflam- matory effects [16, 22]. A number of stud- ies point out the unity of various ways of H S synthesis: enzymatic and non-enzymatic (the transformation of thiols and thiol-containing compounds) [5, 15, 23]. The four most im- portant enzymes involved in formation of hy- drogen sulfide are: cystathionine β-synthase
CBS, cystathionine γ-lyase – CSE, 3-mer- captopyruvate sulfurtransferase – 3-MST, which cooperates with cysteine aminotrans-
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ferase – CAT [17]. It is known that these en- zymes have specific tissue and cellular local- ization. We have shown that for the purpose of cytoprotection of the mucosal barrier of the digestive system (esophagus, stomach and intestines) and anti-inflammatory action, the synthesis of H S is carried out using CSE, as well as the maintenance of normal microflora in the cardiovascular system under physiolog- ical conditions [16, 23]. It has been found that in activated neutrophils, H S can be oxidized to thiosulfate (under the influence of sulfite ox- idase (SO, EC 1.8.3.1) oxidizes sulfite to sul- fate), and then converted to SO2 (by enzymes thiosulfate sulfutransferase or thiosulfate re- ductase). SO is one of the enzymes involved in the utilization of H S in mitochondria too [5]. Both H S pathways enzymatic and non-enzy- matic act as crucial rheostat regulators of the redox state, affected by active forms of oxy- gen levels in cells, and have both been shown to combine together and perform key roles in cellular and subcellular survival and progres- sion under extreme factors actions. However, the full concept explaining the role of SO in GM cytoprotection in the aspect of age-relat- ed changes is still unknown. Metabolic dys- function induced by long-term fructose influ- ence is not finally clarified. Taking in account that of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), potent cytolysis’ agents for GM, are among the most commonly used medications, and their use is increasing with aging popula- tions worldwide despite of the significant risk for pro-oxidative gastrointestinal (GI) effects, bleeding and ulceration, sometimes leading to death [6, 10, 12].
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Aim. To characterize the role of sulfite oxi- dase (SO) and activity of oxidative stress in GM in older rats with fructose exposed hyper- glycemia and to assess the therapeutic effect of the recently synthesized H S donor – hybrid NSAID H S-acetylsalicylic (H S-ASA, ATB 340)
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adult vs old rat GM.
Materials and Methods
All experiments were carried out on adult and old rats (N=67, body weight 350±40g; n=5-
6) in accordance with the norms of the Eu- ropean Convention for the Protection of Ver- tebrate Animals Used for Experimental and Other Scientific Purposes (1986) and in ac- cordance with the Committee on Bioethics of
Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical Univer- sity (protocol № 6 from 29.03.2017). Animals were maintained under a constant 12 h light and dark cycle and an ambient temperature of 21-230C with 50±10% relative humidity. All animals were kept in raised mesh-bottom cages to prevent coprophagy. Animal from the control group were allowed free access to tap water and kept on standard diet (SD), exper- imental groups were on 28-days hypercaloric high-fructose diet (HFD by V. Kozar, 2008), with unrestricted access to 40% solution of fructose ad libitum within drinking-water [8].
Acute stress was induced by model of Taka- gi et al. that involves short-term exposure to water-immersion stress [20]. The rats were placed in restraint cages and immersed ver- tically to the level of the xiphoid process in a water bath of 23˚ for 3.5 h. The initial and final body weights were recorded. Blood glu- cose concentrations were measured daily by glucometer (Achtung TD-4207, Germany) us- ing a blood sample from the tail vein.
The animals were subdivided into control groups of adult rats (AR) and old rats (OR) with standard diet (SD) and vehicle (1.0 ml of physiological solution), and experimen- tal groups receiving 28-days hypercaloric high-fructose diet, HFD V. Kozar, 2008) with- out and with acute stress (Takagi, 1964). Ex- perimental groups were pre-treated 9-days per os by: 1) vehicle (adult); 2) vehicle (old);
3) NaHS, 100 μmol/kg/day (adult); 4) NaHS, 100 μmol/kg/day (old); 5) vehicle with stress induction (adult); 6) vehicle with stress in- duction (old); 7) NaHS, 100 μmol/kg/day and induction of stress; 8) conventional aspirin (ASA), 10 mg/kg/day and induction of stress;
9) ASA, 10 mg/kg/day and NaHS, 100 μmol/ kg/day and stress induction; 10) ATB-340
-releasing, 17.5 mg/kg/day and induction of stress. The administration of NaHS and ATB-
340 was performed in doses tested by J.L. Wallace, 2012-2017 [21, 22, 24].
The rat stomach was removed immediately after euthanasia and cut with scissors in the longitudinal direction from the gastroesopha- geal junction to the pylorus. The gastric mu- cosal surface was gently washed with phos- phate-buffered (pH 7.4) saline. Samples of the GM were fixed in 10% formalin and embedded
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in parrafin. Serial sections of 5-mm thickness were stained with hematoxylin/eosin. The sec- tions were blindly evaluated by two individu- als and their scores were averaged. The GM damage was estimated by histological scor- ing (HS), including three components: a). the state of the epithelial plate on the degree of alteration (0 – no changes; 1 – stratification of the stratum corneum; 2 – focal basophilia of keratin masses; 3 – cell mass desquamation, vacuolation of basal cells, vesicular nuclei; 4 – erosion); b). Condition of subepithelial struc- tures according to stromal damage (0 – no changes; 1 – diffuse swelling of the submuco- sal basis; 2 – pronounced uneven swelling of the submucosal base and insignificant infiltra- tion; 3 – severe swelling and disorganization of the submucosal basis; 4 – perivascular or subepithelial infiltrates, perivascular hemor- rhages), c). Leukocyte infiltration of the ep- ithelial layer (0 – no leukocyte infiltration; 1
moderate leukocyte infiltration; 2 – average leukocyte infiltration; 3 – severe leukocyte in- filtration; 4 – multiple leukocyte infiltrates).
Visualization was performed using a microscope (Swift Instruments International, Japan) and a digital video camera (Echoo-Imager 5020200 Microscope Digital Eyepiece, China).
The activity of SO was determined in GM homogenates biochemically by the rate of oxidation of sulfate anion in the presence of potassium hexacyanoferrate by standart biochemical methods. GM was homogenized at 3000 rpm (Teflon-glass) in a medium of 1.15% potassium chloride (ratio 1:3). The homogenates were centrifuged for 30 min. at 600g, the aliquots of the post-native supernatant were taken in the Eppendorf microtubules and stored at -20°C until the research was carried out [23].
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The intensity of the oxidative component of oxidative stress was evaluated by changes in the rate of generation of an unstable free radical of oxygen – superoxide anion (O –), hydroxyl radical (OH–) and by changes in the content of terminal products of lipid peroxidation (malonic dialdehyde – MDA).
The level of MDA was determined by reaction with thiobarbituric acid (TBA) by the diagnostic set TBK-Agate (Biokont, RF). With a thiobarbituric acid the lipid peroxidation
products form a red stained complex, which is extracted with butanol, with a maximum light absorption at λ = 535 nm.
Statistical analysis of the results was carried out using programs «Excel» і «Statistica 7.0». The certainty of the changes was estimated by ANOVA Dunnett’s test.
The relative difference between the physiological and biochemical parameters against control was calculated by formula:
∆( %) = 100 • (Х - Х ) / Х ,
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Results and discussion
Healthy adult rats on SD treated with vehicle exhibited normal gastric mucosa appearance, with histological scores of zero. The GM histological scores in old rats ranged between 1 and 2 (on a 0 to 12 scale) in HS. There was no detectable mucosal damage by HS of GM in adult rats under HFD vs old rats, however combination of WIS and HFD exposure caused sharply rise of HS (Fig. 1). The effects
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on the GM in old rats were with irregular subepithelial exudates, submucosal vascular dilation and mild leukocyte infiltration in the gastric epithelium and submucosal clots (Fig. 2A). Influence of treatment with NaHS and ATB 340 (donors of H S synthesis) resulted in attenuated gastric injury induced by HFD, acute stress and ASA (Fig. 2B-2D).
We have observed a different expression of SO activity in GM in adult vs old rats with SD and
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Fig.2. Administration of donor of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) synthesis, NaHS (A, B, C) and ATB 340 (D) attenuates gastric injury/inflammation in HSD rats under stress induction and aspirin treatment.
HFD without and with WIS. In control groups that consumed SD, which we considered relative physiological norm, the SO activity in adult rats was 2,9 nmol/min·mg protein, in the old – 4,1 nmol/min·mg protein, the effect of HFD caused an increase in SO activity in old animals by 15%, and in adult by 14%, as compared to control (Fig. 3).
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Changes in MDA content had the same tendency. The use of exogenous NaHS, which increases the H S content in the tissues of the body, reduced the activity of SO by 24% of adult rats, whereas in old rats it decreased by 23% compared to the groups without correction of the synthesis of H S. The obtained data allows us to interpret the effect of H S, on the background of HFD, as anti-oxidant and anti- radical. Investigation of changes of MDA levels in all experimental groups are represented on Fig. 4.
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Regarding the importance to test age- related activity of H S enzyme SO against GM injury caused by long-term high fructose diet (HFD), we combined exposure to HFD with WIS. Stress induction showed age- related changes in the activity of SO. Older animals showed an increase in SO activity compared to adults by 18%, indicating better
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27%. H S-ASA shows a potent antioxidant effect, which attenuates oxidative stress. Similar results were shown in Liu L, et al study [10]. The relative difference between experimental groups and control data are represented on Tab. 1.
Conclusions. Long-term postprandial hyper- glycemia induced by HFD is ones agent that decline mucosal defense in stomach. Sulfite oxidase is the essential contributor to age-re- lated oxidative stress in GM during exposure of HFD. Supplementation of NaHS and ATB-
340 (H S-aspirin), which increases the H S
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rats, while NaHS application increased SO activity by 7% and reduced MDA content by 16%. Distortion of the natural stereotype of the cytoprotective response of GM by the administration of ASA decreased the activity of SO by 20% and increased the content of MDA by 8%, while the combination of ASA and NaHS increased the activity of SO by 18% and reduced the MDA content by 7% compared to the groups without correction of H S synthesis. Our obtained results correlates with other scientific groups [2, 4].
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To test effects of novel hybrid NSAIDs on changes of pro- and antioxidant balance and its impact on GI injury during aging which are still unknown, we used 7-days supplementation of conventional and H S- releasing NSAIDs during 21-28 days of HSD. Administration of the newest ATB 340, the H S-ASA hybrid drug, showed similar SO activity to the administration of ASA and NaHS, while the MDA content decreased by
content in the tissues, reduces the symptoms
of GM damage associated with a decrease in the activity of SO and the content of MDA, indicating the alleviation of oxidative stress, showing an anti-radical and anti-oxidant ef- fects.
Groups | Sulfite oxidase (SO) nmol/min*mg protein | Malonic dialdehyde (MDA) μmol/l | Histological score (HS) | |
SD | Adult | 2,92±0,24 | 2,58±0,26 | 0,0 |
Old | 4,14±0,78 | 3,7±0,51 | 2,0±0,71 | |
HFD | Adult | 3,33±0,28 | 2,97±0,21 | 0,5±0,55 |
Old | 4,79±0,22 | 4,22±0,15 | 3,33±1,03 | |
Adult + NaHS | 2,54±0,17 | 2,9±0,42 | 1,83±0,98 | |
Old + NaHS | 3,65±0,51 | 4,15±0,49 | 3,0±0,71 | |
Adult + stress | 2,61±0,18 | 3,51±0,11 | 5,17±0,98 | |
Old + stress | 3,1±0,69 | 5,95±0,43 | 6,4±0,89 | |
Old + NaHS | 3,3±1,0 | 5,02±1,07 | 5,18±0,75 | |
Old + ASA | 2,48±0,21 | 6,41±0,45 | 6,0±1,0 | |
Old + ASA + NaHS | 3,64±0,6 | 5,5±0,83 | 4,6±0,89 | |
Old + АТВ 340 | 3,45±0,99 | 4,33±0,77 | 4,17±1,47 |
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