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Anticarcinogenic effect of Nymphaea alba against oxidative damage, hyperproliferative response and renal carcinogenesis in Wistar rats

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The present study investigates the prophylactic effect of Nymphaea alba against ferric nitrilotriacetate (Fe-NTA)-induced renal oxidative stress, hyperproliferative response and renal carcinogenesis in Wistar rats. Treatment with Fe-NTA (9 mg Fe/kg body weight, intraperitoneally) enhanced iron-ascorbate-induced renal lipid peroxidation, xanthine oxidase, γ-glutamyl transpeptidase and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) generation with reduction in renal glutathione content, antioxidant enzymes, viz., glutathione peroxidase, glutathione reductase, catalase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and phase-II metabolising enzymes such as glutathione-S-transferase and quinone reductase. It also elevated the levels of blood urea nitrogen, serum creatinine, ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity and thymidine [3H] incorporation into renal DNA. It also enhanced DEN-initiated renal carcinogenesis by increasing the percentage incidence of renal tumors. Treatment of rats orally with N. alba (100 and 200 mg/kg body weight) resulted in significant decrease in γ-glutamyl transpeptidase, lipid peroxidation, xanthine oxidase, H2O2 generation, blood urea nitrogen, serum creatinine, renal ODC activity, DNA synthesis (p ≤ 0.001) and incidence of tumors. Renal glutathione content (p ≤ 0.001), glutathione metabolizing enzymes (p ≤ 0.001) and antioxidant enzymes were also recovered to significant level (p ≤ 0.001). Thus, our results show that N. alba is a potent chemopreventive agent and suppresses Fe-NTA-induced oxidative stress, hyperproliferative response and renal carcinogenesis in Wistar rats. (Mol Cell Biochem 271: 1–11, 2005)

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Abbreviations

AC:

adenocarcinoma

CC:

cancerous cells

DC:

dense chromatin

DCT:

distal convoluted tubule

G:

glomerulus

HC:

hyperchromatism

LIC:

leucocytic infiltatory cells

NC:

necrosis

NT:

necrotic tissue

PM:

pools of mucin

PT:

proximal convoluted tubule

TC:

tumor cells

TE:

tubular epithelium

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Khan, N., Sultana, S. Anticarcinogenic effect of Nymphaea alba against oxidative damage, hyperproliferative response and renal carcinogenesis in Wistar rats. Mol Cell Biochem 271, 1–11 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11010-005-2258-2

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