Effect of Sterigmatocystin or Aflatoxin Contaminated Feed on Lipid Peroxidation and Glutathione Redox System and Expression of Glutathione Redox System Regulatory Genes in Broiler Chicken

• Published in: Antioxidants Vol. 8; no. 7; p. 201
• Main Authors: Balogh, Krisztián, Kövesi, Benjámin, Zándoki, Erika, Kulcsár, Szabina, Ancsin, Zsolt, Erdélyi, Márta, Dobolyi, Csaba, Bata-Vidács, Ildikó, Inotai, Katalin, Szekeres, András, Mézes, Miklós, Kukolya, József
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 28.06.2019; MDPI
• Subjects: Acids; Aflatoxin B1; antioxidant defense system; Birds; Blood; Blood levels; broiler chicken; Diet; Erythrocytes; Feeds; Gene expression; Glutathione peroxidase; Glutathione reductase; Hepatocytes; Lipid peroxidation; Lipids; Liver; Malondialdehyde; Mycotoxins; Oxidative stress; Polymerase chain reaction; Poultry; Sensors; Sterigmatocystin; Toxicity; Trienes; Germany; sterigmatocystin; antioxidant defense system; broiler chicken; gene expression; glutathione peroxidase
• ISSN: 2076-3921; 2076-3921
• DOI: 10.3390/antiox8070201

Authors studied the effect of sterigmatocystin from infected corn (STC), purified sterigmatocystin (PSTC), and aflatoxin B1 from infected corn (AFB ) on lipid peroxidation and glutathione redox parameters, including the expression of their encoding genes in a sub-chronic (14 days) trial. A total of 144 three-week-old cockerels was divided into four experimental groups ( = 36 in each). Control feed was contaminated with STC or PSTC (1590 µg STC/kg or 1570.5 µg STC/kg feed), or with AFB (149.1 µg AFB /kg feed). Six birds from each group were sampled at day 1, 2, 3, 7 and 14 of mycotoxin exposure. As parameters of lipid peroxidation, conjugated dienes (CD) and trienes (CT) were measured in the liver, while malondialdehyde (MDA) concentration was determined in blood plasma, red blood cell hemolysate and liver. Reduced glutathione (GSH) concentration and glutathione peroxidase (GPx) activity were determined in the same samples, and expression of glutathione peroxidase 4 ( ), glutathione synthetase ( ) and glutathione reductase ( ) genes was measured by RT-PCR in the liver. STC, PSTC or AFB caused a slight, but not significant, increase in CD and CT levels; however, in the case of MDA, no increase was found in the liver. Glutathione redox system was activated in the liver by AFB , but less markedly by STC/PSTC. PSTC and AFB resulted in a higher expression of , while expression was down-regulated by AFB on day 1, but up-regulated by STC on day 2 and by both mycotoxins on day 7. However, on day 14, expression was down-regulated by PSTC. Expression of was low on day 1 in AFB and PSTC groups, but later it was up-regulated by AFB . The observed changes regarding gene expression strengthen the hypothesis that the mild oxidative stress, caused by the applied STC doses, activates the glutathione redox system of broiler chickens.