Abstract

The effects of exercise, ethanol, and exercise plus ethanol-treatments on activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), glutathione-S-transferase (GST) and UDP-glucuronosyl transferase (UDP-GT) in lung and liver were investigated. All treatments induced SOD and CAT activity in the lung while CAT activity was enhanced only by the combined treatments in the liver. Ethanol reduced hepatic SOD activity, while with the combined treatment SOD was normal. Exercise enhanced UDP-GT activity in liver and lung while ethanol had no effect and GST activity was induced in the liver by the combined treatment. Thus exercise may reduce risk for lung and hepatic cancer and prevent an ethanol-induced increase in risk for hepatic cancer by enhancing activity of antioxidant and phase II enzymes.

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