Abstract: This study was to explore the effect of dietary selenium on selenium deposition and antioxidant enzymes gene expression in mouse kidney. Four groups （Ⅰ，Ⅱ，Ⅲ and Ⅳ）of mice were fed eight weeks with 0.045,0.1,0.4 and 0.8 mg/kg Se， respectively. The results showed that the levels of kidney selenium deposition increased with the increasing of dietary selenium, groupⅠ was significantly lower than other groups （P＜0.05）. Kidney selenium deposition among Ⅱ、Ⅲ、Ⅳ groups showed no significant differences when fed to the 56th day （P＞0.05）. The TrxR2 mRNA expression of groupⅠwas significantly lower than that of groups Ⅱ and Ⅲ （P<0.05）, and the two groups also showed significant differences（P＜0.05）. The SOD1 and SOD2 mRNA expression levels of groupⅠwere significantly lower than that of groups Ⅱ and Ⅲ （P＜0.05）. SOD2 expression showed significantly different between groups Ⅱ and Ⅲ（P＜0.05）, while SOD1 expression showed no significant differences between the two groups. The CAT mRNA expression levels of groupsⅠ and Ⅱ were significantly higher than that of group Ⅲ （P＜0.05）, there were no significant differences between groups Ⅰ and Ⅱ （P>0.05）. These results indicated that selenium could increase the level of kidney selenium deposition. With the feeding time increased, kidney selenium deposition in high-selenium group showed saturated. Se deficient and excessive could reduce the mRNA expression levels of kidney antioxidant genes (TrxR2, SOD1, SOD2 and CAT).

Key words: selenium; kidney selenium deposition; antioxidant enzymes; gene expression