Elevation of superoxide dismutase increases acoustic trauma from noise exposure
Elevation of superoxide dismutase increases acoustic trauma from noise exposure
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DOI:
10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2004.11.008
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发表时间:
2005-02-15
影响因子:
7.4
通讯作者:
Ito, J
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作者:
Endo, T;Nakagawa, T;Ito, J
The generation of superoxide has been implicated as a cause of cochlear damage from excessive noise. Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SODI) generally will protect against superoxide-mediated tissue injury but protection by this enzyme against noise trauma is controversial. This study assessed auditory function in C57BL/6 mice overexpressing SODI or treated with lecithinized SODI (PC-SODI). Noise exposure caused significantly higher threshold shifts in PC-SODI-treated animals than physiological saline-treated animals. Cochlear tissues of PC-SODI-treated animal, exhibited significant elevation of the levels in the SOD activity, not in the catalase activity, in comparison with those of saline-treated animals. Likewise, transgenic mice overexpressing SOD I tended to suffer higher threshold shifts than nontransgenic littermates from noise exposure. The findings indicate that increasing SODI enhances auditory dysfunction following noise exposure. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.