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KMID : 0377220000250010045
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Medical Journal of Chosun Univercity
2000 Volume.25 No. 1 p.45 ~ p.51
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Plasma Paraoxonase Activity in Acute Myocardial Infarction
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Kim Geon-Young
Youn Sang-Jun
Park Keun-Ho
Cho Young-Shin
Chang Sung-Jong
Chang Kyoung-Sig
Hong Soon-Pyo
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Abstract
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Background : Human plasma paraoxonase is a HDL-associated ester hydrolase that catalyzes the hydrolysis of organophosphates, aromatic carboxylic acid esters and carbamates. HDL has been implicated in the prevention of LDL lipid peroxidation. Low paraoxonase activity in the Plasma may have responsibility to the development of coronary artery disease partially because oxidized LDL has intimate relationship with atherosclerosis. We studied plasma paraoxonase activities in the plasma of acute myocardial infarction patients in order to evaluate the relationship between these enzyme activities and the acute myocardial infarction.
Materials and Methods : plasma samples were obtained from 39 individuals with acute myocardial infarction(M: 19 cases, F: 20cases, mean age: 61(4.3 years) and 36 individuals of healthy control(M: 17 cases, F: 19cases, mean age: 55(10 years). We determined paraoxonase activities, total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol &DL-cholesterol levels in the plasma samples. Paraoxonase activities were measured spectrophoto metrically in 0.1M Tris-HCl buffer (pH=7.4) at 25℃ with paraoxon as substrate(5.5mM) at 405 nm. We used student T-test to compare the results of both groups.
Results : Comparison of the results between myocardial infarction patients and normal control groups revealed that plasma total cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol levels showed statistically significant differences between groups but plasma paraoxonase activity does not.
Conclusion : Our study showed that there was no significant difference of plasma paraoxonase activity between acute myocardial infarction and normal population. So low plasma paraoxonase activity may not be a risk factor of acute myocardial infarction. but further prospective large scale study will be needed to conclude.
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KEYWORD
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Paraoxonase activity, Antioxidant effect, Acute myocardial infarction
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