Aggravation by vanadium of magnesium deficiency in STZ-induced diabetic rats

作者:Bermudez Pena M C; Lopez Chaves C; Llopis J; Guerrero Romero F; Montes Bayon M; Sanz Medel A; Sanchez Gonzalez C*
来源:Magnesium Research, 2013, 26(2): 74-82.
DOI:10.1684/mrh.2013.0342

摘要

This study examined changes in the metabolism of magnesium (Mg), and related serum parameters, following treatment with vanadium (V) in streptozotocin-diabetic rats. Over a period of five weeks, four groups were examined: control, diabetic, diabetic-treated with 1mg V/day or 3mg V/day. The V was supplied in drinking water as bis(maltolato)oxovanadium(IV). The Mg levels were measured in food, faeces, urine, serum, muscle, kidney, liver, spleen, heart and femur. Albumin, uric acid, urea, total-cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, triglycerides, aspartate-aminotransferase and alkaline-phosphatase were determined in serum. In the diabetic group, Mg retained and Mg content in serum and femur decreased, while levels of uric acid, urea, total-cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, triglycerides and alkaline-phosphatase and aspartate-aminotransferase activity increased compared with control rats. In the diabetic group treated with 1 mg V/day, Mg retained, serum levels of Mg, urea and triglycerides, and alkaline-phosphatase activity remained unchanged, while levels of uric acid, total-cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol increased and the Mg content in femur and aspartate-aminotransferase activity decreased compared with the diabetic untreated group. In the diabetic rats treated with 3 mg V/day, food intake and glycaemia were normal. In this group, Mg content in serum, kidney and femur, levels of urea and aspartate-aminotransferase and alkaline-phosphatase activity decreased, whereas LDL-cholesterol increased, uric acid and total-cholesterol levels remained unchanged in comparison with untreated diabetic rats. In conclusion, although treatment with 3 mg V/day normalised the glycaemia, the hypomagnesaemia and tissue depletion of Mg seen in the diabetic rats, caused by thetreatment with V, could have partially contributed to the fact that V did not normalise other serum parameters altered by the diabetes.

  • 出版日期2013-6