Acute Ethanol Gavage Attenuates Hemorrhage/Resuscitation-Induced Hepatic Oxidative Stress in Rats

B Relja,D Henrich,K Wilhelm,M Lehnert,M Wang,I Marzi

doi:10.1155/2012/983427

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Acute ethanol intoxication increases the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Hemorrhagic shock with subsequent resuscitation (H/R) also induces ROS resulting in cellular and hepatic damage in vivo. We examined the role of acute ethanol intoxication upon oxidative stress and subsequent hepatic cell death after H/R. 14 h before H/R, rats were gavaged with single dose of ethanol or saline (5 g/kg, EtOH and ctrl; H/R_EtOH or H/R_ctrl, resp.). Then, rats were hemorrhaged to a mean arterial blood pressure of 30 ± 2 mmHg for 60 min and resuscitated. Two control groups underwent surgical procedures without H/R (sham_ctrl and sham_EtOH, resp.). Liver tissues were harvested at 2, 24, and 72 h after resuscitation. EtOH-gavage induced histological picture of acute fatty liver. Hepatic oxidative (4-hydroxynonenal, 4-HNE) and nitrosative (3-nitrotyrosine, 3-NT) stress were significantly reduced in EtOH-gavaged rats compared to controls after H/R. Proapoptotic caspase-8 and Bax expressions were markedly diminished in EtOH-gavaged animals compared with controls 2 h after resuscitation. EtOH-gavage increased antiapoptotic Bcl-2 gene expression compared with controls 2 h after resuscitation. iNOS protein expression increased following H/R but was attenuated in EtOH-gavaged animals after H/R. Taken together, the data suggest that acute EtOH-gavage may attenuate H/R-induced oxidative stress thereby reducing cellular injury in rat liver.

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Excessive ethanol consumption is one of the leading causes of mortality in the United States [1]
EtOH gavage significantly reduced hepatic 4-HNE at 2 h (31 ± 1%) and 24 h (32 ± 3%) after resuscitation compared to the corresponding control groups after hemorrhagic shock with subsequent resuscitation (H/R) (Figures 1(e)–1(h) and 3(a))
After H/R, acute ethanol gavage reduces proinflammatory changes, hepatic injury as well as mortality rates, effects that may be associated and explained with downregulated NF-κB activation by ethanol in the H/R in vivo model [15]. To further extend these results, we hypothesized that generation of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS) may be influenced by acute ethanol exposure

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Excessive ethanol consumption is one of the leading causes of mortality in the United States [1]. It is associated with one-third of all traumatic injury deaths per year [2, 3]. Ethanol consumption is associated with increased risk of inflammatory and infectios complications in trauma patients such as pneumonia, sepsis, and multiple organ failure (MOF) and higher morbidity and mortality [7,8,9,10,11,12,13]. Other clinical results show that acute ethanol intoxication is associated with decreased 24 h mortality after trauma (own unpublished data)

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