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. 2015 Mar 4;233(2):114-24.
doi: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2015.01.010. Epub 2015 Jan 21.

Zinc treatment prevents type 1 diabetes-induced hepatic oxidative damage, endoplasmic reticulum stress, and cell death, and even prevents possible steatohepatitis in the OVE26 mouse model: Important role of metallothionein

Tingting Liang  1 , Quan Zhang  2 , Weixia Sun  3 , Ying Xin  4 , Zhiguo Zhang  5 , Yi Tan  6 , Shanshan Zhou  5 , Chi Zhang  7 , Lu Cai  8 , Xuemian Lu  7 , Mingliang Cheng  9
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Zinc treatment prevents type 1 diabetes-induced hepatic oxidative damage, endoplasmic reticulum stress, and cell death, and even prevents possible steatohepatitis in the OVE26 mouse model: Important role of metallothionein

Tingting Liang (V体育官网入口) et al. Toxicol Lett. .

Abstract

Whether zinc is able to improve diabetes-induced liver injury remains unknown VSports手机版. Transgenic type 1 diabetic (OVE26) mice develop hyperglycemia at 3 weeks old; therefore therapeutic effect of zinc on diabetes-induced liver injury was investigated in OVE26 mice. Three-month old OVE26 and age-matched wild-type mice were treated by gavage with saline or zinc at 5mg/kg body-weight every other day for 3 months. Hepatic injury was examined by serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) level with liver histopathological and biochemical changes. OVE26 mice at 6 months old showed significant increases in serum ALT level and hepatic oxidative damage, endoplasmic reticulum stress and associated cell death, mild inflammation, and fibrosis. However, all these hepatic morphological and functional changes were significantly prevented in 3-month zinc-treated OVE26 mice. Mechanistically, zinc treatment significantly increased hepatic metallothionein, a protein with known antioxidant activity, in both wild-type and OVE26 mice. These results suggest that there were significantly functional, structural and biochemical abnormalities in the liver of OVE26 diabetic mice at 6 months old; however, all these changes could be prevented with zinc treatment, which was associated with the upregulation of hepatic metallothionein expression. .

Keywords: Diabetic complications; ER stress; Hepatic dysfunction; Liver injury; Metallothionein; Zinc V体育安卓版. .

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