Potential Effects of Caffeine on Hepatotoxic Rats Induced by Carbon Tetrachloride | ||||
| مجلة الاقتصاد المنزلي | ||||
| Volume 40, Issue 1, March 2024, Page 83-102 PDF (474.02 K) | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jhe.2024.422429 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Asmaa Gamal Nour El-Din1; Rania Adel Eid1; Heba Y. Nasef2; Amira Hamdy Darweesh1 | ||||
| 1Nutrition and Food Science Dep., Faculty of Home Economic, Menoufia University, Egypt | ||||
| 2Nutrition and Food Science Dep., Faculty of Home Economic, Helwan University, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Carbon tetrachloride (CCl₄) is a hepatotoxin; it is frequently employed to cause liver injury in animal models. Supplementing with antioxidants may therefore be beneficial in treating its hepatotoxic effects. Thus, this study's objective was to assess the impact of caffeine (CAF) as an antioxidant on hepatotoxic rats induced by CCl₄.Thirty male albino rats were divided into two main groups. The first group (n=6),the negative control (-) was fed a basal diet (BD), and the second group (n=24) received CCl₄ twice per week (2 mg/kg bw) to cause hepatotoxicity and was then separated into four subgroups. Subgroup 1 was served as a positive control group (+) that received a BD only. Subgroups 2, 3, and 4 received BD and were treated with an oral intake of 10, 30 and 50 mg CAF/kg/bw daily. Liver and renal function tests, lipid profile, lipid peroxidation markers, antioxidant enzymes, and histological tests were carried out at the end of treatment. Oral daily treatments of CAF at 30 and 50 mg/kg bw for 28 days exhibited a decrease in liver enzyme activities compared with the control and restored serum albumin levels. On the other side, the previous two interventions caused a significant (P≤0.05) decrease in the serum lipid profile of the hepatotoxic rats (positive control group) after they were fed daily for four weeks at different rates: 16%, 23.5%, 33.8%, 41.6%, 47%, 63.9%, 33.8%, and 41.9% for total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), lowdensity lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c), and very low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (VLDL-c), respectively. Our findings suggest that CAF might protect against oxidative stress and CCl₄-induced liver damage. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Serum albumin; Lipid peroxidation markers; Antioxidant enzymes; Triglycerides | ||||
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