SUMMARY
Objective:The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects on antioxidant defense system in human erythrocytes exposed to egonol that isolated from seeds of Styrax officinalis L.Method: A solution of Egonol was added so that final concentrations of Egonol were 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, and 1 mg/ml and erythrocyte pellets were incubated for 15 minutes. Malondialdehyde (MDA) level, activities of glutathione peroxidase (GPx), catalase (CAT), superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione-S-transferase (GST) glutathione were determined in hemolysis of human erythrocytes.Results: Activities of SOD and GST were markedly increased in erythrocyte of human blood compared to the control group (p<0.05) in all concentrations of egonol. This increase also dosedependent manner. The activities of SOD and GST enzymes were increased 30% and 70%, respectively, in 1 mg/ml egonol concentration. There were no statistically significant alterations in GPx and CAT enzyme activities. In addition, MDA level that is an indicator of lipid peroxidation was not found to be increased significantly.
Conclusion:Those results revealed that egonol has no effect of enhancing free radical formation in erythrocyte thus also causes no increase lipid peroxidation was observed. It was observed that, egonol was increased SOD and GST enzymes activities and free radicals were disappeared by the antioxidant defense system so erythrocytes were preserved from the lipid peroxidation.Keywords: Antioxidant defense system, egonol, human erythrocytes, Styrax officinalis L. Bulgular: Egonol uygulanan insan kan eritrosit grupları, kontrol grubuyla karşılaştırıldığında, SOD ve GST enzim aktivitelerinde doz bağımlı olarak belirgin artışlar gözlendi (p<0.05). 1 mg/ml egonol derişiminde, SOD ve GST enzim aktivitelerinde sırasıyla, % 30 ve % 70 artış saptandı. GPx ve CAT enzim aktiviteleri arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı değişiklikler gözlenmedi. Buna ek olarak, lipid peroksidasyonunun bir göstergesi olan MDA düzeyinde de anlamlı artış saptanmadı.
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Cumhuriyet Medical JournalSonuç: Bu sonuçlar, egonolün eritrositlerde serbest oksijen radikali oluşumunu arttırıcı bir etkisinin olmamasının yanısıra lipid peroksidasyonunda da artışa neden olmadığını ortaya koymuştur. Egonolün, SOD ve GST enzim aktivitelerini arttırarak, serbest radikallerin antioksidan savunma sistemi tarafından temizlenmeleri ve eritrositlerin lipid peroksidasyonundan korunmalarına yardımcı olduğu düşünülmektedir.