Efficiency of low-esterified pectin in toxic damage to the liver inflicted by lead treatment

 Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine

July 2007, Volume 144, Issue 1, 60-62 ,DOI10.1007/s10517-007-0254-0

M. Yu. Khotimchenko, E. A. Kolenchenko

Department of Pharmaceutics, Vladivostok State Medical University, Russia

Laboratory of Pharmacology, Institute of Marine Biology, Far-Eastern Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok

Abstract

Study of the effects of low-esterified pectin in toxic damage to the liver caused by enteral treatment with lead acetate showed that pectin treatment promoted the decrease in lead content in the liver, reduction of LPO activity, and recovery of parameters of lipid metabolism.