Radioprotektivna zaštita akutno faznog proteina α2-makroglobulina na ćelije kosne srži pacova
The radioprotective efficacy of the rat acute-phase protein alpha2-macroglobulin on bone marrow cells
2009
Authors:
Mihailović, MirjanaVidaković, Melita
Grdović, Nevena
Dinić, Svetlana
Uskoković, Aleksandra
Martinović, Vesna
Blagojević, Jelena
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Article (Published version)
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© 2009 by the Serbian Genetics Society
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The rat acute phase protein α2-macroglobulin (α2M) plays an important role in the restoration of disrupted homeostasis by inhibiting different types of non-specific proteases and facilitating the transport of cytokines, growth factors and hormones. Previously, we observed that administration of α2M to experimental animals prior to the infliction of life- threatening trauma in the form of scalding or total-body irradiation, significantly improved their survival rates. The aim of the present work was to evaluate the radioprotective effect on blood cells of α2M that, when administered 30 min before irradiation with 6.7 Gy (LD50/30), provides 100% survival of experimental animals where in unprotected irradiated rats the said dose results in 50% lethality. We observed that rats pretreated with α2M, after an initial decline, exhibited complete recovery of the leukocyte count due to the preservation of bone marrow cells, observed as a stable mitotic index. In untreated irradiated rats the decrease of the mitotic index reflected the significant destruction of bone marrow cells that resulted in a protracted decline in the leukocyte count. We conclude that the radioprotection provided by α2M was in part mediated through cytoprotection of new blood cells produced in the bone marrow.