Selenoprotein expression and brain development in preweanling selenium- and iodine-deficient rats
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Selenium deficiency causes further impairment of thyroid hormone metabolism in iodine-deficient rats and therefore could have a role in the aetiology of both myxoedematous and neurological cretinism in humans. Thyroidal type I iodothyronine deiodinase (ID-I), cytosolic glutathione peroxidase and phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase activities were increased in iodine-deficient adult rats and their offspring at 11 days of age. Thyroidal ID-I activity was unchanged and thyroidal cytosolic glutathione peroxidase activity was decreased by more than 75% by combined selenium and iodine deficiency in 11-day-old rats, indicating that, while the thyroid retained an ability to produce 3,3',5-triiodothyronine (T3), the gland was probably more susceptible to peroxidative damage caused by increased hydrogen peroxide concentrations driven by increased thyrotrophin. Thyroidal atrophy, common in myxoedematous cretinism, did not occur in iodine- or selenium and iodine-deficient rat pups. Iodine deficiency increased brain type II iodothyronine deiodinase activity 1.5-fold in 4-day-old rats and 3-fold in 11-day-old rats, regardless of selenium status. Thus rats were able to activate compensatory mechanisms in brain that would maintain T3 concentrations in selenium and iodine deficiencies. Surprisingly, however, selenium deficiency had a greater effect than iodine deficiency on markers of brain development in rat pups. Expression of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) mRNA was decreased in selenium deficiency in 4- and 11-day-old pups and in combined selenium and iodine deficiency in 4-day-old pups. Iodine deficiency caused an increase in BDNF expression in 11-day-old pups but had no effect on 4-day-old pups. Myelin basic protein mRNA expression in brain was decreased by combined selenium and iodine deficiency in 11-day-old rats.
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