Total antioxidant status – a possible marker of environmental influences on animal organism

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.