Activity of superoxide dismutase obtained from senile cataract lens - effect of diabetes mellitus.

Tomasz Panz; Rafał Wójcik; Krystyna Krukar-Baster

doi:10.18388/abp.2008_3046

Activity of superoxide dismutase obtained from senile cataract lens - effect of diabetes mellitus.

Tomasz Panz Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Kraków, Poland. tomek.panz@gmail.com;
Rafał Wójcik
Krystyna Krukar-Baster

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18388/abp.2008_3046

Abstract

The activity of Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase in the fluid obtained from eye lens capsules after cataract surgery was investigated in samples obtained from patients with senile cataract and with senile cataract combined with diabetes mellitus. Two parameters were measured and compared: the frequency of occurrence of detected superoxide dismutase activity and the relative activity of the enzyme in samples derived from senile cataract patients versus those from the patients affected additionally by diabetes mellitus. It was confirmed that the decrease of superoxide dismutase activity during cataract was additionally promoted by diabetes mellitus.

Published

2008-12-18

Issue

Vol. 55 No. 4 (2008)

Section

Articles

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