Red clover (Trifolium pratense) isoflavones reduce oxidative stress in the spleen and liver of rats with type 2 diabetes
- Authors: Sokolova K.V.1,2, Tukanov D.A.1,2
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Affiliations:
- B Yeltsin Ural Federal University
- Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: Vol 28, No 3 (2025)
- Pages: 461-468
- Section: SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/1028-7221/article/view/319883
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.46235/1028-7221-17188-RCT
- ID: 319883
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Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a chronic disease with a large number of severe complications. The number of T2D patients continues to grow worldwide. Hence, development of new prevention and treatment tools are extremely relevant. Oxidative stress caused by hyperglycemia is one of the main factors of organ damage and dysfunction in T2D. Due to close involvement of the immune system in pathogenesis of diabetes and its complications, the opportunity of influencing antioxidant defense system in immunopoietic system, especially, spleen, presents sufficient interest. The liver, which integrates all types of metabolism, along with immune organs, contributes to the T2D pathogenesis, being among its target organs. Red clover (Trifolium pratense) is of interest as an economic and accessible source of antioxidants. The aim of our work was to evaluate the effect of red clover isoflavones on the antioxidant defense system in blood, spleen and liver of rats with experimental diabetes. Sexually mature male rats with a streptozotocin-nicotinamide model of T2D were orally administered aqueous extracts of isoflavones, obtained by “green technology” methods using deep natural eutectic solvents, at the doses of 300 and 600 mg/kg. The animals were treated over one month, three times a week, Glucose levels, relative content of glycated hemoglobin, leukocyte numbers and differential blood counts were measured in blood. The activity of antioxidant enzymes (catalase and superoxide dismutase), malondialdehyde production (a lipid peroxidation product), and contents of reduced glutathione, an endogenous antioxidant, were determined in blood, liver and spleen by biochemical techniques. Administration of red clover isoflavone extracts (Trifolium pratense) caused reduction of hyperglycemia and restored the reduced number of monocytes and granulocytes in blood in diabetic rats. It also caused normalization of catalase activity in liver and superoxide dismutase activity in spleen, the malondialdehyde levels in spleen and liver, and reduced glutathione contents in spleen, which was changed in diabetic rats, to healthy control values, regardless of the dose. Isoflavone extracts from red clover flower (Trifolium pratense) attenuate hyperglycemia and reduce oxidative stress in the organs of rats with experimental T2D. Isoflavone extracts have an immunopharmacological effect, by influencing the parameters of lipid peroxidation-antioxidant defense system in the spleen.
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Ksenia V. Sokolova
B Yeltsin Ural Federal University; Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
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Email: xenia.socolova@gmail.com
PhD (Biology), Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Morphology and Biochemistry, Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Laboratory Assistant, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Russian Federation, Ekaterinburg; EkaterinburgD. A. Tukanov
B Yeltsin Ural Federal University; Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: xenia.socolova@gmail.com
Postgraduate Student, Laboratory Research Assistant, Laboratory of Functional Design of Nanocluster Polyoxymetallates, Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Russian Federation, Ekaterinburg; EkaterinburgReferences
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