Circulatory Glutathion S Transferases Estimation in Chronic Alcoholics Vising Urban and Rural Health Center

Introduction: Excessive alcohol consumption is a global healthcare problem with enormous social, economic, and clinical consequences, accounting for 3.3 million deaths in 2012. Glutathione (GSH) is tri-peptide thiol with chemical name γ glutamyl-cysteinyl-glycine the properties of glutathione are conferred to it by highly reactive thiol present in one of its constituent amino acids- cysteine, hence they referred as GSH. Xenobiotics form thioether (-S) linkage with GSH. The reaction is catalysed by enzyme known as glutathione S Transferases (GSTs). The cytoplasmic GSTs are important in the xenobiotic metabolism and are present in higher concentration in liver.

Materials and Methods: The present study was conducted in the Dept. of Biochemistry in collaboration with Dept. of General Medicine at Datta Meghe Medical College, Nagpur. In present study includes 40 diagnosed alcoholic liver disease patients and 40 non-alcoholic healthy subjects as control group who are permanent nt of study area.

Results: The level of GST was raised in chronic alcoholic patients i.e. study group (43.25±15.94) as compare to control group (1.57±0.55). At the other hand the level of total thiol were decreased in study group (3.12±0.55) as compare to control group.

Conclusions: The strong negative association between glutathione-s-transferase (GST) and total thiol (T-SH) levels suggested that as the concentration of total thiol (T-SH) decreased, glutathione-s-transferase activity increased (GST). This may be attributed to an increase in alcohol-induced oxidative stress and increased T-SH utilization from thiols.