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We report two brothers with a previously undescribed type of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy and associated aminoacidopathy. Both have growth failure, progressive intellectual decline, deafness, neurologic dysfunction, exercise intolerance, lactic acidosis, and abnormal plasma and cerebrospinal fluid amino acid levels (elevated levels of alanine and low levels of threonine, methionine, citrulline, tryptophan, ornithine, arginine, and lysine). A muscle biopsy specimen taken from the younger, more severely affected brother showed abnormal mitochondrial morphology. Activities of the following enzymes in cultured fibroblasts from both boys were normal: pyruvate dehydrogenase, pyruvate carboxylase, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, cytochrome oxidase, reduced nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide-cytochrome c reductase, and succinate cytochrome c reductase. Fibroblast mitochondria from the younger boy showed undetectable (less than 1% of control values) adenosine triphosphate synthesis with pyruvate and malate, whereas adenosine triphosphate synthesis with succinate was 70% of control values. These data indicate probably deficient activity of complex I of the electron transport chain. The boys' mother has progressive neurosensory hearing loss; their sister is clinically normal. Both mother and sister have many of the biochemical abnormalities found in the boys. It is possible, but not proved, that this disorder is inherited through maternal mitochondria.
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PMID:Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with associated aminoacidopathy in a male sibship. 273 99

The hepatotoxicity of chloroform (CHCl3) is thought to require biotransformation, by the polysubstrate monooxygenase system (P-450), to a reactive intermediate(s). Therefore, the potentiation of CHCl3-induced hepatotoxicity, which occurs following exposure to certain ketones, may hypothetically be explained by a reduced capacity of the cell to form glutathione conjugates (detoxicate the intermediate) and (or) by an increased rate of reactive intermediate(s) generation secondary to a modification of the P-450 system. To test these hypotheses, liver damage, as indicated by elevation in plasma alanine aminotransferase and ornithine carbamyl transferase activities, was modulated in male Sprague-Dawley rats by varying the time interval (10, 18, 24, 48, 72, 96 h) between acetone, 2-butanone, or 2-hexanone (15 mmol/kg, p.o.) pretreatment and CHCl3 (0.5 mL/kg, p.o.) administration. These data were compared with hepatic glutathione and with various parameters of the polysubstrate monooxygenase system: cytochrome P-450, cytochrome c reductase, cytochrome b5, and microsomal binding of 14CHCl3-derived radiolabel. Reduced detoxication capacity does not appear to be involved as hepatic glutathione levels were not reduced. Globally, a relationship between modifications to the polysubstrate monooxygenase system and potentiation of CHCl3-induced hepatotoxicity appears to exist. The rank order of each ketone's ability to modify P-450 parameters was the same in most instances as that based on peak ability to potentiate CHCl3-induced hepatotoxicity: 2-hexanone greater than 2-butanone greater than or equal to acetone. Therefore, these results suggest that a general relationship exists between the ketone-induced potentiation of CHCl3-induced hepatotoxicity and increased CHCl3 reactive metabolite generation. However, other factors may also contribute to the phenomenon.
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PMID:The role of biotransformation-detoxication in acetone-, 2-butanone-, and 2-hexanone-potentiated chloroform-induced hepatotoxicity. 344 91

1. With reference to the post-operative dysfunction of the liver observed after halothane anaesthesia, the effects of the anaesthetic on some metabolic functions were studied in the isolated perfused rat liver. Oxygen uptake, glycolysis, gluconeogenesis and urea synthesis were affected by halothane at a concentration (2.5% of the gas phase) within the range used in clinical anaesthesia. 2. At this concentration of halothane uptake of oxygen was inhibited in livers from both fed and starved rats. 3. In livers from fed rats there was a 16-fold increase in lactate production. This was accompanied by a fivefold decrease in the tissue content of 2-oxoglutarate and a more than twofold decrease in citrate. The calculated [free NAD(+)]/[free NADH] ratio in both cytoplasm and mitochondria was lower in the halothane-exposed livers than in controls. 4. In livers of starved rats the rate of gluconeogenesis from lactate was decreased by halothane to 30% of the control rate. 5. Halothane inhibited gluconeogenesis from alanine and propionate to the same extent as from lactate, whereas glucose formation from dihydroxyacetone, glycerol, fructose and sorbitol was relatively unaffected. 6. During gluconeogenesis from 10mm-lactate the tissue content of ATP was decreased by 50%, glutamate by 50% and 2-oxoglutarate was decreased eightfold in the halothane-exposed livers. 7. Halothane decreased urea synthesis in the presence of 10mm-NH(4)Cl and 2mm-ornithine to 15% of the control rate. 8. The inhibitions of gluconeogenesis and urea synthesis were completely abolished within 15min of withdrawal of the anaesthetic. 9. The stimulation of uptake of oxygen brought about by the addition of lactate or precursors of urea was abolished by halothane. 10. Effects on gluconeogenesis similar to those of halothane occurred in livers exposed to the anaesthetic methoxyflurane, although normal rates were not restored on withdrawal of the drug. Other anaesthetic agents tested (ketamine-HCl and trichloroethylene) decreased gluconeogenesis to 66% of the control rate. 11. The inhibitory effects of halothane are consistent with an interference at the stage of the NADH dehydrogenase of the electron-transport chain.
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PMID:The effects of halothane (2-bromo-2-chloro-1,1,1-trifluoroethane) on glycolysis and biosynthetic processes of the isolated perfused rat liver. 434 8

Treatment of rat liver mitochondria with digitonin followed by differential centrifugation was used to resolve the intramitochondrial localization of both soluble and particulate enzymes. Rat liver mitochondria were separated into three fractions: inner membrane plus matrix, outer membrane, and a soluble fraction containing enzymes localized between the membranes plus some solublized outer membrane. Monoamine oxidase, kynurenine hydroxylase, and rotenone-insensitive NADH-cytochrome c reductase were found primarily in the outer membrane fraction. Succinate-cytochrome c reductase, succinate dehydrogenase, cytochrome oxidase, beta-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase, alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase, lipoamide dehydrogenase, NAD- and NADH-isocitrate dehydrogenase, glutamate dehydrogenase, aspartate aminotransferase, and ornithine transcarbamoylase were found in the inner membrane-matrix fraction. Nucleoside diphosphokinase was found in both the outer membrane and soluble fractions; this suggests a dual localization. Adenylate kinase was found entirely in the soluble fraction and was released at a lower digitonin concentration than was the outer membrane; this suggests that this enzyme is localized between the two membranes. The inner membrane-matrix fraction was separated into inner membrane and matrix by treatment with the nonionic detergent Lubrol, and this separation was used as a basis for calculating the relative protein content of the mitochondrial components. The inner membrane-matrix fraction retained a high degree of morphological and biochemical integrity and exhibited a high respiratory rate and respiratory control when assayed in a sucrose-mannitol medium containing EDTA.
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PMID:Enzymatic properties of the inner and outer membranes of rat liver mitochondria. 569 70

Less nitric oxide (NO)-dependent vasodilation and excess formation of reactive oxygen species could explain poor placenta perfusion in preeclampsia, but the pathways involved are unknown. We tested the hypothesis that reduced NO activity and increased oxidative stress in preeclamptic placenta is related to a low bioavailability of l-arginine. Placental endothelial NO synthase (ecNOS) expression (by immunoperoxidase) and activity (by diaphorase and [(3)H]L-citrulline formation) were comparable in normotensive pregnancy and in preeclampsia, whereas nitrotyrosine staining, a marker of peroxynitrite, was stronger in preeclamptic villi, confirming previously reported data. Oxidative tissue damage was documented in preeclamptic villi by strong 4-hydroxynonenal-lysine staining (by immunoperoxidase), which closely colocalized with nitrotyrosine. Concentration of the NO precursor l-arginine (by HPLC) in umbilical blood and in villous tissue was lower in preeclampsia than in normotensive pregnancy. This was not caused by a defective l-arginine transport, because gene expression of the CAT-1, 4F2hc, and LAT-1 cationic amino acid transporters (by real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction [RT-PCR]) was normal. Instead, gene expression (by real-time RT-PCR) and protein tissue content (by immunoperoxidase and Western blot) of arginase II-the enzyme that degrades arginine to ornithine-were higher in preeclamptic villi than in normotensive pregnancy. These results provide a biochemical explanation for defective NO activity and increased oxidative stress in preeclamptic placenta. In normal placenta, adequate concentration of l-arginine orients ecNOS toward NO. In preeclampsia, a lower than normal l-arginine concentration caused by arginase II overexpression redirects ecNOS toward peroxynitrite.
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PMID:L-arginine depletion in preeclampsia orients nitric oxide synthase toward oxidant species. 1521 85

Delta1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate dehydrogenase (P5CDh) catalyzes the conversion of Delta1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate to glutamate in a reaction requiring NADP+ as a cofactor. Delta1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate is formed in liver from proline by proline oxidase (EC number not assigned) or from ornithine via ornithine aminotransferase. A spectrophotometric assay for P5CDh was shown to be valid if rotenone was included in the assay to prevent reoxidation of NADH. Using this new assay, liver was fractionated using differential centrifugation and the distribution of P5CDh was compared to that of appropriate marker enzymes. P5CDh is enriched only in the mitochondrial fractions, as are the mitochondrial enzymes, succinate cytochrome c reductase, proline oxidase, glutaminase, and ornithine aminotransferase. Thus, it can be concluded that P5CDh occurs only in mitochondria, not in both mitochondria and cytoplasm, as had previously been reported.
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PMID:Assay and subcellular localization of pyrroline-5-carboxylate dehydrogenase in rat liver. 1553 70

Voluntary exercise such as running induces a dramatic increase in adult stem cell proliferation within the dentate gyrus, and endothelial nitric oxide synthase helps regulate cell proliferation. The role of endothelial nitric oxide synthase in exercise-induced cell proliferation in the brain, however, has not been examined. In the present study, exercise for 1 week increased endothelial nitric oxide synthase and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-diaphorase immunoreactivity in the microvessels of the dentate gyrus. In addition, blocking endothelial nitric oxide synthase activity (via a daily injection of 20 mg/kg L-nitroimidazole ornithine) during exercise reduced the number of cells within the dentate gyrus that were immunoreactive for Ki-67 protein and doublecortin. This study provides the first evidence that endothelial nitric oxide synthase upregulation may modulate exercise-induced granule cell proliferation within the dentate gyrus.
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PMID:L-nitroimidazole ornithine limits exercise-induced increases in cell proliferation in the hippocampus of adult mice. 1683 39