Author:
Tanswell A. K.,Freeman B. A.
Abstract
Newborn rat pups delivered and maintained in greater than 95% O2 had a lethal time for 50% of population (LT50) of 13 days. Daily intraperitoneal injection per se did not alter the mortality due to inhalation of O2. Survival after 13.5 days of exposure increased from 40 +/- 7% of pups that received buffered saline only to 95 +/- 4% of pups that received liposomes containing superoxide dismutase and catalase. Daily injection of control liposomes containing no enzymes also caused a less dramatic, though significant, increase in survival from 40 +/- 7 to 71 +/- 7% of O2-exposed pups, indicating that the lipid vehicle, as well as the liposome-entrapped antioxidant enzymes, contributed to the protective effect. The component of the protective effect that could be attributed to the antioxidant enzymes was lost if inactive catalase was used in liposome preparation.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Physiology (medical),Physiology
Cited by
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