Experimental evaluation of radioprotective efficacy of heparin in experiments on mice
Branch of the S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy, Moscow, Russia
First St. Petersburg State Medical University named after academician I.P. Pavlova of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Brief summary
The study was aimed at the experimental evaluation of the radioprotective efficacy of heparin and estimation of the possible mechanisms of its radioprotective effect. Experimental studies were performed on male outbred mice, BALB/c mice, and hybrids of the first generation of line mice (CBA x C57Bl), which were subjected to acute total gamma irradiation. Heparin was administered intraperitoneally at a dose of 250 U / kg 3 days before irradiation. The radioprotector cystamine was used as a reference preparation; it was administered intraperitoneally at a dose of 150 mg / kg 20 minutes before irradiation. The estimation of efficacy of heparin and cystamine was based on the 30-day survival rate and average life expectancy of dead animals, as well as calculating the dose modifying factor. To reveal possible mechanisms of radioprotective effects of heparin the thymus mass, number of leukocytes and colony formation units (CFU) in peripheral blood and bone marrow were studied. It was found that cystamine exhibits high and almost identical radioprotective efficacy in all types of mice, while heparin has a lower radioprotective effect, which was manifested by an increase in survival rate only in BALB/c radiosensitive mice and outbred white mice. Heparin has revealed a stimulatory effect on migration of haemopoietic cells: injection of heparin doubles the number of CFU in peripheral blood of BALB/c mice and reliably decreases it in bone marrow. Possible mechanisms of radioprotective action of heparin based on stimulation of hematopoiesis and increase of nonspecific resistance of the organism are discussed.
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