LIU Yang, ZHANG Hong, ZHANG Luwei, et al. The protective effects of N-acetylcysteine on acute injury induced by 12C6+ ions in mice[J]. Journal of Radiation Research and Radiation Processing, 2008,26(6):367-370.
LIU Yang, ZHANG Hong, ZHANG Luwei, et al. The protective effects of N-acetylcysteine on acute injury induced by 12C6+ ions in mice[J]. Journal of Radiation Research and Radiation Processing, 2008,26(6):367-370.DOI:
The present study was designed to evaluate the effect and mechanism of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) against from acute injury of mice exposed to ,12,C,6+, ion beams. Pretreated with NAC (200mg/kg) Kun-Ming mice were exposed to whole-body irradiation of 4Gy and were killed at 2h after irradiation, and then their liver and lung tissues were quickly treated for further experiment. The Superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity, glutathione (GSH) content and malondialdehyde (MDA) level were measured by chemical method and DNA-single strand breaks were determined by single cell gel electrophoresis meanwhile the percentage of cell apoptosis were assayed by flow cytometry method. In comparison with the respective control, NAC pretreatment can significantly alleviate DNA-single strand breaks (,p,<,0.001), cell apoptosis (,p,<,0.001) and obviously enhance GSH content in the liver and lung tissues. Moreover, NAC can prominently inhibit the increment of MDA level (,p,<,0.01) induced by ,12,C,6+, ion beams and can augment SOD activity (,p,<,0.01) in the lung.