Haya: The Saudi Journal of Life Sciences (SJLS)
Volume-3 | Issue-03 | 322-328
Original Research Article
Protective Effects of Tribulus terrestris and Vitamin C on Permethrin Induced Oxidative Stress in Goat Testis
Rajnesh K Sharma, Shivani Bhardwaj
Published : March 30, 2018
Abstract
Present study was designed to evaluate the ameliorative effect of Tribulus
terrestris (TT) and vitamin C against permethrin induced oxidative stress in goat
testicular tissue in vitro. Testicular tissue was divided into control and three
experimental groups EI, EII and EIII. All the groups were cultured in TCM-199
nutritive media at 95% humidity, 5% and 39℃ in CO2 incubator for 4hr. and 8hr.
duration. In group EI, the testicular tissue was exposed to 100µg/ml and 200µg/ml of
permethrin. EII group was exposed to 100µg/ml and 200µg/ml of permethrin along
with 0.1mmol of vitamin C. While EIII group was tested for 100µg/ml and 200µg/ml
of permethrin along with 100µg/ml hydro-alcoholic extract of TT. Present study
revealed that the activity of antioxidant markers such as catalase (CAT), glutathione
peroxidase (GPx) and reduced glutathione (GSH) were significantly (p<0.05)
decreased in permethrin treated groups as compared to control in both dose and time
dependent manner. Maximum decline (62.69%, 39.4%, 51.5% decrease in level of
CAT, GPx, GSH respectively) in the antioxidant status of the tissue was reported at
200µg/ml for the duration of 8hr. However, 100µg/ml of permethrin resulted in
29.3%, 14.3%, 29.5% decrease in CAT, GPx, and GSH level respectively for the
same exposure duration i.e. 8hr. The activity of antioxidants was found to be
improved in vitamin C (EII) and TT (EIII) supplemented groups (p<0.05). From the
present study, it is concluded that permethrin induce a decline in the status of
antioxidant enzymes. Vitamin C and TT are potent antioxidants that mitigate the
toxic effects of permethrin by elevating the level of antioxidants.