Chronic exposure to arsenic and high fat diet additively induced cardiotoxicity in male mice

Akram Ahangarpour, Leila Zeidooni, Azin Samimi, Soheila Alboghobeish, Laya Sadat Khorsandi, Mitra Moradi

Abstract


Diet is one of the important risk factors that could potentially affect arsenic-induced cardiotoxicity. The present study was undertaken to investigate the effect of high fat diet on arsenic-induced cardiotoxicity in mice. Mice were divided into six different groups (n = 12), two control groups received either low fat diet (LFD) or high fat diet (HFD) along with deionized drinking water and four test groups given LFD + 25 ppm arsenic, LFD + 50 ppm arsenic, HFD + 25 ppm arsenic, and HFD + 50 ppm arsenic in drinking water for              5 months. The body weight, heart weight to body weight ratio, cardiac biochemical markers, lipid profile, and histological examination of heart were evaluated. The results demonstrated that arsenic exposure led to a significant decrease in heart glutathione level, catalase enzyme activity, and a significant increase in reactive oxygen species (ROS), malondialdehyde levels, and biochemical enzymes. The administration of HFD resulted in above-mentioned changes as well as an alteration in lipid profile; however, arsenic exposure alone or along with HFD caused a reduction in lipid profile factors, except HDL level. Our results revealed that HFD increased arsenic-induced heart injury in the mice. This effect may be because of reduction in antioxidant activities and/or increase in oxidative stress and ROS in mice heart tissues. These findings could be important for clinical intervention to protect against or prevent arsenic-induced cardiotoxicity in humans.


Keywords


Heart; Arsenic; High fat diet; Chronic exposure; Cardiotoxicity

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