State antioxidant system of experimental animals at damage duodenum in conditions of postresection portal hypertension

Abstract

Introduction. The resections of large volumes of the liver leads to postresection portal hypertension that results in structural-functional changes in the organs of portal vena system. The features of remodeling structures of duodenum and state of the antioxidant system of organism in the conditions of postresection portal hypertension are not studied yet.

The aim of the study – to learn the state of the antioxidant system for experimental animals at the structural-functional changes of duodenum in the conditions of postresection portal hypertension.

Research Methods. The studies were performed on 39 white male rats, which were divided into 3 groups. The first group consisted of 15 intact experimental animals (control), 2nd – 12 animals, which eliminated 42 % of liver parenchyma, 3rd – 12 rats after resection of 58.1 % of liver parenchyma. One month after the beginning of the experiment, euthanasia of rats was performed by bloodletting under conditions of thiopental anesthesia. In the blood of experimental animals, indicators characterizing the state of oxidative protection were determined – the activity of superoxidedismutase, catalase and ceruloplasmin. Sections of the duodenum were fixed in a 10 % neutral formalin solution and, after passing through the ethyl alcohol of increasing concentration, were placed in paraffin. Histologic sections 5–7 мm thick after deparaffinization were stained with hematoxylin-eosin, for van Gizon, Mallory, Weigert, and toluidine blue. Gistostereometrically determined the relative volumes of damaged endothelial cells, epithelial cells, smooth myocytes. A correlation analysis was carried out between biochemical and histogeometric indices with the definition of the coefficient (r) of correlation. Quantitative values were processed statistically.

Results and Discussion. It is set that in the conditions of the modelled experiment activity of superoxidedismutase at the resection of 42 % parenchyma of liver statistically for certain (р<0.001) diminished on 15.5 % and at removal of 58.1 % parenchima of liver – on 25 %; activity of catalase – accordingly on 22.2 and 38.8 % and activity of ceruloplasmin – on 15.3 and 21.3 %. Received and the analyzed indexes testify that at resection of considerable volumes (42; 58.1 %) parenchyma of liver antioxidant defence of organism gets worse substantially and depends on removal at volumes of liver. A relative volume of the damaged endotheliocytes is in 2 to the group of supervisions with high authenticity (р<0.001) grew in 8.4 times, epithelial cells – in 18.9 times, and smooth myocytes – in 12 times. After the resection of 58.1 % parenchyma of liver the investigated morphometric parameters increased accordingly in 15.8; 31.4 and 18.1 times. Correlation connections between the indexes of antioxidant defence and relative at volumes of the damaged endotheliocytes, epithelial cells and smooth myocytes in duodenum at resection 42 % parenchima of liver were opposite moderate and significance (r=–0.48ч–0.56) at resection 58.1 % of liver – significance (r=–0.72÷-0.83).

 Conclusions. The obtained results indicate that antioxidant protection of the organism plays an important role in the adaptive-compensatory processes of the duodenum after resection of different volumes of liver parenchyma. The degree of antioxidant defense of the organism depends on the removed volume of liver parenchyma and the number of damaged structures of the duodenum.