Effect of boric acid on oxidative stress in rats with fetal alcohol syndrome

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1023-1027

  Sogut, Ibrahim ^a   Oglakci, Aysegul ^b   Kartkaya, Kazim ^b   Ol, Kevser Kusat ^b   Sogut, Melis Savasan ^c   Kanbak, Gungor ^b   Inal, Mine Erden ^b  

^a ISTANBUL BILIM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Boric acid; Catalase; Fetal alcohol syndrome; Glutathione peroxidase; Malondialdehyde; Superoxide dismutase

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BORIC ACID; CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MALONALDEHYDE; SUCROSE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID;

ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; LIPID PEROXIDATION ASSAY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUP (RODENT); RAT; REDUCTION; SUPPLEMENTATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 84922023877     PISSN: 17920981     EISSN: 17921015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/etm.2014.2164     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Abel EL and Hannigan JH: Maternal risk factors in fetal alcohol syndrome: provocative and permissive influences. Neurotoxicol Teratol 17: 445-462, 1995.
2. Lemoine P, Harousseau H, Borteyru JP and Menuet JC: Children of alcoholic parents -observed anomalies: discussion of 127 cases. Ther Drug Monit 25: 132-136, 2003.
3. Jones KL and Smith DW: Recognition of the fetal alcohol syndrome in early infancy. Lancet 302: 999-1001, 1973.
4. May PA, Gossage JP, Kalberg WO, et al: Prevalence and epidemiologic characteristics of FASD from various research methods with an emphasis on recent in-school studies. Dev Disabil Res Rev 15: 176-192, 2009.
5. Burd L and Martsolf JT: Fetal alcohol syndrome: diagnosis and syndromal variability. Physiol Behav 46: 39-43, 1989.
6. Ahveninen J, Escera C, Polo MD, Grau C and Jääskeläinen IP: Acute and chronic effects of alcohol on preattentive auditory processing as reflected by mismatch negativity. Audiol Neurootol 5: 303-311, 2000.
7. Sampson PD, Streissguth AP, Bookstein FL and Barr HM: On categorizations in analyses of alcohol teratogenesis. Environ Health Perspect 108 (Suppl 3): 421-428, 2000.
8. Abel EL and Sokol RJ: A revised conservative estimate of the incidence of FAS and its economic impact. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 15: 514-524, 1991.
9. Fast DK, Conry J and Loock CA: Identifying fetal alcohol syndrome among youth in the criminal justice system. J Dev Behav Pediatr 20: 370-372, 1999.
10. Cornelli U: Antioxidant use in nutraceuticals. Clin Dermatol 27: 175-194, 2009.
11. Brocardo PS, Gil-Mohapel J and Christie BR: The role of oxidative stress in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Brain Res Rev 67: 209-225, 2011.
12. Sies H: Oxidative stress: from basic research to clinical application. Am J Med 91 (Suppl 3): 31S-38S, 1991.
13. Cohen-Kerem R and Koren G: Antioxidants and fetal protection against ethanol teratogenicity. I. Review of the experimental data and implications to humans. Neurotoxicol Teratol 25: 1-9, 2003.
14. Bandyopadhyay U, Das D and Banerjee RK: Reactive oxygen species: Oxidative damage and pathogenesis. Current Sci 77: 658-666, 1999.
15. Nielsen FH: Is boron nutritionally relevant? Nutr Rev 66: 183-191, 2008.
16. Hunt CD: Boron. In Encyclopedia of Dietary Supplements. 1st edition. Coates PM, Blackman MR, Cragg GM, Levine M, Moss J and White JD (eds). Marcel Dekker, New York, NY, pp55-65, 2005.
17. Altieri S, Bortolussi S, Bruschi P, et al: Neutron autoradiography imaging of selective boron uptake in human metastatic tumours. Appl Radiat Isot 66: 1850-1855, 2008.
18. Hunt CD and Idso JP: Dietary boron as a physiological regulator of the normal inflammatory response: A review and current research progress. J Trace Elem Exp Med 12: 221-233, 1999.
19. Ince S, Keles H, Erdogan M, Hazman O and Kucukkurt I: Protective effect of boric acid against carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatotoxicity in mice. Drug Chem Toxicol 35: 285-292, 2012.
20. Turkez H, Geyikoğlu F, Tatar A, Keleş S and Ozkan A: Effects of some boron compounds on peripheral human blood. Z Naturforsch C 62: 889-896, 2007.
21. Ince S, Kucukkurt I, Cigerci IH, Fatih Fidan A and Eryavuz A: The effects of dietary boric acid and borax supplementation on lipid peroxidation, antioxidant activity, and DNA damage in rats. J Trace Elem Med Biol 24: 161-164, 2010.
22. Uzbay IT and Kayaalp SO: A modified liquid diet of chronic ethanol administration: validation by ethanol withdrawal syndrome in rats. Pharmacol Res 31: 37-42, 1995.
23. Jiang Q, Hu Y, Wu P, et al: Prenatal alcohol exposure and the neuroapoptosis with long-term effect in visual cortex of mice. Alcohol Alcohol 42: 285-290, 2007.
24. Ohkawa H, Ohishi N and Yagi K: Assay for lipid peroxides in animal tissues by thiobarbituric acid reaction. Anal Biochem 95: 351-358, 1979.
25. Winterbourn CC, Hawkins RE, Brian M and Carrell RW: The estimation of red cell superoxide dismutase activity. J Lab Clin Med 85: 337-341, 1975.
26. Beutler E (ed): Catalase. In Red Cell Metabolism. A Manual of Biochemical Methods. 3rd edition. Grune and Stratton, New York, NY, pp105-106, 1982.
27. Paglia DE and Valentine WN: Studies on the quantitative and qualitative characterization of erythrocyte glutathione peroxidase. J Lab Clin Med 70: 158-169, 1967.
28. Bradford MM: A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding. Anal Biochem 72: 248-254, 1976.
29. Sogut I and Kanbak G: In vitro effects of ethanol with aspirin on rat brain synaptosomes: the potential protective role of betaine. Int J Neurosci 120: 774-783, 2010.
30. Zimatkin SM and Deitrich RA: Ethanol metabolism in the brain. Addict Biol 2: 387-400, 1997.
31. Bora PS and Lange LG: Molecular mechanism of ethanol metabolism by human brain to fatty acid ethyl esthers. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 17: 28-30, 1993.
32. Wu D and Cederbaum AI: Alcohol, oxidative stress, and free radical damage. Alcohol Res Health 27: 277-284, 2003.
33. Hagihara M, Nishigaki I, Maseki M and Yagi K: Age-dependent changes in lipid peroxide levels in the lipoprotein fractions of human serum. J Gerontol 39: 269-272, 1984.
34. Amini SA, Dunstan RH, Dunkley PR and Murdoch RN: Oxidative stress and the fetotoxicity of alcohol consumption during pregnancy. Free Radic Biol Med 21: 357-365, 1996.
35. Smith AM, Zeve DR, Grisel JJ and Chen WJ: Neonatal alcohol exposure increases malondialdehyde (MDA) and glutathione (GSH) levels in the developing cerebellum. Brain Res Dev Brain Res 160: 231-238, 2005.
36. Brocardo PS, Boehme F, Patten A, Cox A, Gil-Mohapel J and Christie BR: Anxiety- and depression-like behaviors are accompanied by an increase in oxidative stress in a rat model of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: Protective effects of voluntary physical exercise. Neuropharmacology 62: 1607-1618, 2012.
37. Shivakumar BR, Anandatheerthavarada HK and Ravindranath V: Free radical scavenging systems in developing rat brain. Int J Dev Neurosci 9: 181-185, 1991.
38. Bailey SM, Patel VB, Young TA, Asayama K and Cunningham CC: Chronic ethanol consumption alters the glutathione/glutathione peroxidase-1 system and protein oxidation status in rat liver. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 25: 726-733, 2001.
39. Pawa S and Ali S: Boron ameliorates fulminant hepatic failure by counteracting the changes associated with the oxidative stress. Chem Biol Interact 160: 89-98, 2006.
40. Nielsen FH: Nutritional requirements for boron, silicon, vanadium, nickel, and arsenic: current knowledge and speculation. FASEB J 5: 2661-2667, 1991.
41. Hunt CD: The biochemical effects of physiologic amounts of dietary boron in animal nutrition models. Environ Health Perspect 102 (Suppl 7): 35-43, 1994.
42. Weir RJ Jr and Fisher RS: Toxicologic studies on borax and boric acid. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 23: 351-364, 1972.
43. Nielsen FH: Boron deprivation decreases liver S-adenosylmethionine and spermidine and increases plasma homocysteine and cysteine in rats. J Trace Elem Med Biol 23: 204-213, 2009.
44. Stickel F, Choi SW, Kim YI, et al: Effect of chronic alcohol consumption on total plasma homocysteine level in rats. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 24: 259-264, 2000.
45. Driscoll CD, Streissguth AP and Riley EP: Prenatal alcohol exposure: comparability of effects in humans and animal models. Neurotoxicol Teratol 12: 231-237, 1990.
46. Mohora M BL, Boghianu L, Muscurel C, et al: Effects of boric acid on redox status in the rat liver. Romanian J Biophys 12: 77-82, 2002.
47. Hamby-Mason R, Chen JJ, Schenker S, Perez A and Henderson GI: Catalase mediates acetaldehyde formation from ethanol in fetal and neonatal rat brain. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 21: 1063-1072, 1997.