EXCLI Journal 2014;13:161-171 – ISSN 1611-2156 Received: December 30, 2013, accepted: February 11, 2014, published: February 24, 2014
Original article: RESPONSE OF LIVER ANTIOXIDANT DEFENSE SYSTEM TO ACUTE AND CHRONIC PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESSES IN MALE RATS Mahvash Jafari1, Maryam Salehi2, Homeira Zardooz3,4*, Fatemeh Rostamkhani5 1 2 3 4 5
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Neuroscience Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Neuroscience Research Center and Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Neurophysiology Research Center and Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Department of Biology, Shahre Rey Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
* Corresponding author: Homeira Zardooz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physiology, Neurophysiology Research Center and Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran – Iran, P.O.Box: 19615-1178, Tel/Fax: 9821-22439971, Mobile: 09123118293, E -mail:
[email protected] ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of acute and chronic physical and psychological stressors on the induction of oxidative stress in male rat liver. Male Wistar rats were randomly divided into 3 groups as following: control, physical and psychological stress groups. Stress was induced by communication box for one (acute), fifteen and thirty (chronic) days. Once stressor periods ended, rats were anesthetized and their liver dissected out for later assessments. Exposure to physical stress enhanced liver superoxide dismutase (SOD) (19.44 %) and glutathione S-transferase (GST) (21.84 %) activities and decreased glutathione (GSH) (30.03 %) level on the 1st day (p
