MONITORING LIPID-PEROXIDATION BY BREATH ANALYSIS - ENDOGENOUS HYDROCARBONS AND THEIR METABOLIC ELIMINATION
MONITORING LIPID-PEROXIDATION BY BREATH ANALYSIS - ENDOGENOUS HYDROCARBONS AND THEIR METABOLIC ELIMINATION
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DOI:
10.1016/0041-008x(80)90066-6
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
REMMER, H
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作者:
FRANK, H;HINTZE, T;REMMER, H
Monitoring of ethane and pentane in breath as a noninvasive method to measure lipid peroxidation is performed by an increasing number of laboratories. The alkanes are generated through peroxidative breakdown of polyunsaturated fatty acids. Fasted Sprague-Dawley rats exhaled these hydrocarbons at a rate of approximately 1.7 nmol/kg per h. Through an improved analytical procedure other volatile hydrocarbons could be detected in the breath of animals: ethene (1.1 nmol/kg per h), propane (0.7 nmol/kg per h), n-butane (0.7 nmol/kg per h), iso-pentane and iso-butene. Exhaled hydrocarbons accumulated in atmosphere if an animal was confined in a closed system. The increase was not linear but a steady-state concentration was approached, due to reuptake and subsequent hepatic metabolism. Hydrocarbons were oxidized by hepatic monooxygenases, at rates increasing with their molecular masses. The same was found for elimination of ethane, propane, butane, pentane and iso-butene by a rat from closed system. Metabolism was inhibited by a variety of substances: dithiocarb, ethanol and tetrahydrofurane. Increased release of hydrocarbons into the gas phase, after treatment with compounds suspected to induce lipid peroxidation, may result from decreased metabolism. If hydrocarbon exhalation was only moderately elevated as after ethanol administration, this aspect must be taken into account. Peroxidizing microsomes showed elevated hydrocarbon output when treated with CO in order to block metabolism. This study provided a procedure for discrimination of inhibitory and peroxidative action which was of importance if the increase over control levels was only moderate. It may serve as monitor for metabolic capacity of a laboratory animal.