Histochemical and ultrastructural analysis of hepatic glycogen and collagen fibers in alloxan-induced diabetic rats submitted to long-term physical training

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 207-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.N. Remedio ◽  
R.A. Barbosa ◽  
A. Castellar ◽  
R.J. Gomes ◽  
F.H. Caetano
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Keine Kuga ◽  
Rafael Calais Gaspar ◽  
Vitor Rosetto Muñoz ◽  
Susana Castelo Branco Ramos Nakandakari ◽  
Leonardo Breda ◽  
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ABSTRACT Objective To investigate the effects of physical training on metabolic and morphological parameters of diabetic rats. Methods Wistar rats were randomized into four groups: sedentary control, trained control, sedentary diabetic and trained diabetic. Diabetes mellitus was induced by Alloxan (35mg/kg) administration for sedentary diabetic and Trained Diabetic Groups. The exercise protocol consisted of swimming with a load of 2.5% of body weight for 60 minutes per day (5 days per week) for the trained control and Trained Diabetic Groups, during 6 weeks. At the end of the experiment, the rats were sacrificed and blood was collected for determinations of serum glucose, insulin, albumin and total protein. Liver samples were extracted for measurements of glycogen, protein, DNA and mitochondrial diameter determination. Results The sedentary diabetic animals presented decreased body weight, blood insulin, and hepatic glycogen, as well as increased glycemia and mitochondrial diameter. The physical training protocol in diabetic animals was efficient to recovery body weight and liver glycogen, and to decrease the hepatic mitochondrial diameter. Conclusion Physical training ameliorated hepatic metabolism and promoted important morphologic adaptations as mitochondrial diameter in liver of the diabetic rats.


2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.A.C.A. Leme ◽  
R.F. Silveira ◽  
R.J. Gomes ◽  
R.F. Moura ◽  
C.A. Sibuya ◽  
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1975 ◽  
Vol 150 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
P D Whitton ◽  
D A Hems

1. Net glycogen accumulation was measured in sequentially removed samples during perfusion of the liver of starved streptozotocin-diabetic rats, and shown to be significantly impaired, compared with rates in normal (starved) rats. 2. In perfusions of normal livers with glucose plus C3 substrates, there was an increase in the proportion of glycogen synthetase ‘a’, compared with that in the absence of substrates. This response to substrates, followed in sequential synthesis and enzymic sensitivity in the perfused liver of diabetic rats were reversed by pretreatment in vivo with glucose plus fructose, or insulin. Glucose alone did not produce this effect. 4. Glucose, fructose, insulin or cortisol added to e perfusion medium (in the absence of pretreatment in vivo) did not stimulate glycogen synthesis in diabetic rats. 5. In intact diabetic rats, there was a decline in rates of net hepatic glycogen accumulation, and the response of glycogen synthetase to substrates. The most rapid rates of synthesis were obtained after fructose administration. 6. These results demonstrate that there is a marked inherent impairment in hepatic glycogen synthesis in starved diabetic rats, which can be rapidly reversed in vivo but no in perfusion. Thus hepatic glycogen synthesis does not appear to be sensitive to either the short-term direct action of insulin (added alone to perfusions) of to long-term insulin deprivation in vivo. The regulatory roles of substrates, insulin and glycogen synthetase in hepatic glycogen accumulation are discussed.


2012 ◽  
Vol 75 (10) ◽  
pp. 1305-1312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael N. Remedio ◽  
Rodrigo A. Barbosa ◽  
Alexandre Castellar ◽  
Ricardo J. Gomes ◽  
Flávio H. Caetano

Author(s):  
JYOTI AGRAWAL ◽  
ANAND KAR

Objective: The comparative effects of food restriction (FR), Diabecon treatment (DT) and their combined therapy (FR+DT) were studied in the regulation of alloxan-induced diabetes mellitus, alterations in thyroid hormones (TH) and oxidative stress. Methods: Young diabetic rats were either kept on 50% FR and/or DT (2 gm/Kg body weight) for two months and then alterations in serum glucose, insulin, TH concentrations, hepatic glycogen and pancreatic antioxidants along with oxidative stress markers were evaluated. Results: Significantly increased serum glucose, tissue stress markers with decreased TH, hepatic glycogen (P<0.0001 for all) and pancreatic antioxidants (P<0.05-0.001) were observed in diabetic rats. Rats kept on different therapies exhibited significant (P<0.05) improvements than diabetic rats in all studied parameters. FR+DT group showed a significantly more decrease in serum glucose (P<0.05) that FR or DT group, while in other parameters improvement was found to be more or less equally improved in all treated groups. Conclusion: FR appeared to mimic the effects of Diabecon in most of the indices. However, FR+DT appears to be more effective. Possibly both therapies ameliorate diabetes and oxidative stress following some common metabolic pathways.


2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-125
Author(s):  
V.V. Bezugla ◽  
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K.V. Rozova ◽  
Yu.D. Vinnychuk ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (06) ◽  
pp. 4641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adel Abdel Moneim* ◽  
Sanaa M. Abd El-Twab ◽  
Mohamed B. Ashour ◽  
Ahmed I. Yousef

The goal of diabetes treatment is primarily to save life and alleviate symptoms and secondary to prevent long-term diabetic complications resulting from hyperglycemia. Thus, our present investigation was designed to evaluate the hepato-renal protective effects of gallic acid and p-coumaric acid in nicotinamide/streptozotocin (NA/STZ)-induced diabetic rats. Experimental type 2 diabetes was induced by a single intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of STZ (65 mg/kg b.wt.), after 15 min of i.p. injection of NA (120 mg/kg b.wt.). Gallic acid and p-coumaric acid were orally administered to diabetic rats at a dose of 20, 40 mg/kg b.wt./day, respectively, for 6 weeks. Body weight, serum glucose, protein profile, liver function enzymes and kidney function indicators was assayed. Treatment with either gallic acid or p-coumaric acid significantly ameliorated the elevated levels of glucose, alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), urea and uric acid. Both compounds were also found to restore total protein, albumin, and globulin as well as body weight of diabetic rats to near normal values. It can conclude that both gallic acid and p-coumaric acid have potent hypoglycemic and hepato-renal protective effects in diabetic rats. Therefore, our results suggest promising hypoglycemic agents that can attenuate the progression of diabetic hepatopathy and nephropathy.


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