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Effects of conjugated linoleic acid on activities of nitric oxide
synthase and heme oxygenase of hypoxia rat
WEI Lian, WEI Dengbang
(Department of Biology, Qinghai University, Xining 810003,China) |
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Abstract:To explore effects of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) on activities of nitric oxide synthase and heme oxygenase of hypoxia rat, forty SD rats were divided randomly into four treatment groups(10 each):
10g/L CLA group, 10g/L CLA + hypoxia group, control group, and control + hypoxia group. The former two groups were fed with
10g/L CLA, and correspondingly the latter two groups were fed with distilled water for four weeks consecutively. Then the hypoxia groups were exposed to the artificial hypoxia
climate for 8h daily for fifteen consecutive days. The activity of nitric oxide synthase (NOS), the contentof nitric oxide (NO) in serum, and the activities of heme oxgenase (HO) in heart and lung were determined. The results showed that the activities of NOS and the content of NO increased significantly in sera of the
10g/L hypoxia CLA group and the activities of HO decreased significantly in heart and lung of the
10g/L CLA hypoxia group in comparison with that of the hypoxia control group exposed to the same artificial hypoxia climate.
Key words: hypoxia; nitric oxide synthase; nitric oxide; heme oxygenase; rat |