Abstract
The effects of aging and caloric restriction on uninduced levels of hepatic microsomal cytochrome P-450s and specific P-450-related catalytic activities were evaluated in female Fischer 344 rats. Microsomes were isolated from livers of ad libitum (AL) fed rats 1, 3, 6, 16 and 26 months of age, and from calorie-restricted (CR) rats 6, 16 and 26 months of age. The recovery of microsomal protein was higher in CR than AL rats at 6, 16 and 26 months of age. Between ages 3 and 26 months there was a gradual decline in recovered microsomal P-450, but the differences between successive age categories were not significant. A different trend was observed for total cytochrome P-450 per liver. AL rats showed a 2-fold decline in P-450/liver between 6 and 26 months of age, while P-450/liver of corresponding CR rats increased 1.7-fold. Neither cytochrome b5 nor NADPH cytochrome C reductase varied consistently as a function of increased age, with all age groups showing greater reductase activity for CR rats than for AL rats. Phenobarbital (PB) and methylcholenthrene (MC) inducible cytochrome P-450 catalytic activities (pentoxy [PROD] and ethoxy [EROD] resorufin O-deethylases) exhibited similar age-related alterations that were distinctly different from the two other enzymes examined. Both PROD and EROD showed dramatic declines in activity between 1 and 3 months of age, with a slight increase in activity at 6 months and maintenance of the activity levels through 26 months. Benzphetamine N-demethylase (BND) and aniline p-hydroxylase (APH) activities were also altered as a function of increased age, with CR rats exhibiting increased isozyme activity above that seen for aging AL rats. Calorie restriction appears to have a modulating effect, compensating for an age-related decline of hepatic microsomal monooxygenase activity in female Fischer 344 rats.
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