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Total antioxidant status – a possible marker of environmental influences on animal organism
| Slovak Journal of Animal Science
Total antioxidant status – a possible marker of environmental influences on animal organism
Authors
E. LOVÁSOVÁ
E. SESZTÁKOVÁ
Keywords:
total antioxidant status, heavy metal intoxication, gamma-irradiation
Abstract
Environmental influences on human and animal health status are in the scope of modern biomedical research. In the present work the effects of two environmental factors – heavy metal intoxication and gamma-irradiation were assessed to evaluate the applicability and availability of total antioxidant status (TAS, one of the oxidative stress parameters) as a possible marker of the influence of environmental factors on animal organisms. We found out that TAS is a very sensitive parameter, which may be used as a marker of some environmental influences (heavy metal intoxication, gamma-irradiation), as well as their time- and dose-dependent effects in animals.
