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Environmental Science and Pollution Research
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Currently, hepatic injury due to environmental pollutants extremely threatens human health and elicits great concern.
Hence, there is a high global interest to find natural novel formulation products with potent hepatoprotective activity
to combat liver disease. Hence, we evaluated the protective or therapeutic effect of hesperidin (HSP) and taurine
(TAU), individually and in combination, on carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced acute hepatic injury in rats. The preor posttreatment by HSP and/or TAU significantly depressed CCl4-induced elevation of alanine aminotransferase,
alkaline phosphatase, aspartate aminotransferase, gamma-glutamyl transferase, total bilirubin, direct bilirubin, indirect
bilirubin, malondialdehyde, globulins (α1, α2, β, and γ), albumin/globulin ratio, triglycerides, total cholesterol, highdensity lipoprotein cholesterol, very low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, nitric
oxide, and myeloperoxidase levels. Also, the pre- or posttreatment by HSP and/or TAU significantly minimized
CCl4-induced reduction of superoxide dismutase, catalase, reduced glutathione, and albumin concentrations.
Furthermore, the protective or therapeutic administration of HSP and/or TAU markedly restored the CCl4-induced
altered hepatic architecture, depleted glycogen, and DNA contents. Notably, alleviating CCl4-induced hepatotoxicity
was more prominent in the protective groups than the therapeutic groups. More importantly, most of biochemical and
histopathological parameters of HSP+TAU did not significantly differ from those of separate TAU or HSP neither
before nor after CCl4 exposure. Conclusively, HSP or TAU could be candidate protective agents against CCl4 hepatotoxic impacts but the combination of both bioactive offers only a limited synergistic effect.
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