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Acute renal failure was induced in male rats by the subcutaneous injectioon of 4 mg HgC12 per kg body weight. Enzyme activities of the proximal tubule were studied histochemically at six time intervals from 15 min to 24 h. The enzyme studied were alkaline phosphatase, 5'-nucleotidase, acid phosphatase, alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase (NAD-independent), malic dehydrogenase, succinic dehydrogenase, latic dehydrogenase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and glucose-6-phosphatase. Decreases in activity were observed for alkaline phosphatase and 5'-nucleotidase after 15 min. Acid phosphatase was decreased after 30 min. These three enzymes returned to control levels after 3 h, but malic dehydrogenase and alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase were decreased at this time interval. Succinic dehydrogenase was first decreased after 6 h. The earliest morphological changes detectable by light microscopy were observed in pars recta tubules in the medullary rays after 6 h, a time when all enzymes studied showed widespread decreased activity throughout the proximal tubule. After 24 h, the pars convoluta appeared morphologically normal but the pars recta was necrotic and exhibited calcification, whereas enzyme activity was decreased (absent in some cases) in both pars convoluta and pars recta. These results support the hypothesis that Hg++, when given in a sublethal dose, is associated with early histochemical changes in the brush border of the proximal tubule, which may be related to early changes in sodium reabsorption and to the subsequent development of acute renal failure. The observation that changes in plasma membrane-associated enzymes occur early and prior to alterations in enzymes of mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum suggests that Hg++ interacts initially with the plasma membrane.
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PMID:Studies on the pathophysiology of acute renal failure. II. A histochemical study of the proximal tubule of the rat following administration of mercuric chloride. 18 27

Eight patients after operation for ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm developed severe jaundice. The jaundice became clinically apparent by the sixth postoperative day, and the average peak total bilirubin level reached 28.4 mg/100 ml, alkaline phosphatase level 8.6 BL units/l, and SGOT 95 Karmen units/ml. In addition to the hepatic dysfunction, all patients developed acute renal failure, seven of eight patients experienced hypovolemic shock, and six of eight patients had respiratory insufficiency requiring ventilatory support. The overall mortality was 83 per cent. The most probable causes for the severe jaundice were increased bile pigment load and hepatocellular dysfunction due to ischemic hypoxic injury of hepatocytes secondary to shock. Morphologically, a picture of cholestasis existed with severe bile-staining of hepatocytes and intracanalicular and intraductal bile thrombi. No evidence of recent or resolving hepatic necrosis was observed.
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PMID:Severe jaundice after rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm. 59 39

Na-coupled D-glucose transport in rabbits with cis-diamminedichloride platinum (CDDP; cisplatin) induced acute renal failure (ARF) has been studied. ARF occurred at 3 days after injection of CDDP (3 mg/kg i.v.). Na-coupled D-glucose transport into brush-border membrane vesicles (BBMV) from both outer cortex (OC) and outer medulla (OM) of ARF rabbits under zero-trans condition was decreased. Increased Km (i.e., decreased affinity of transport carrier for D-glucose) in OC and decreased Vmax (i.e., decreased number of glucose carrier) in OM were observed in CDDP-induced ARF rabbits. Decrease glucose transport was also observed under equilibrium exchange condition. Intravesicular volume of BBMV from OC and OM of ARF rabbits was decreased. In homogenate and BBMV from OC and OM of ARF rabbits, activities of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase and alkaline phosphatase (marker enzymes of brush-border membrane) were decreased. Activities of succinate dehydrogenase, glucose-6-phosphatase, and Na-K ATPase (marker enzymes of mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, and basal lateral membrane, respectively) were not affected by CDDP administration. These results suggested that one of the main target sites of CDDP in kidney is brush-border membrane (BBM) along the proximal tubule, that is, not only Na-coupled D-glucose transport carrier protein but also other proteins in BBM.
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PMID:Decreased sodium dependent D-glucose transport across renal brush-border membranes in cis-diamminedichloride platinum induced acute renal failure. 156 86

In a 40-year-old patient unexplained recurrent attacks of epigastric colic with transient cholestatic icterus occurred over a 9-year period. When the patient was again hospitalised because of progressive pain-free icterus associated with mild pruritus (alkaline phosphatase 900 U/l, direct bilirubin 305 mumol/l, GOT 187 U/l, GPT 103 U/l) sonography revealed liver enlargement to 17 cm, extended intrahepatic bile ducts and an echodense area of about 1 cm size in the region of the bifurcation of the common hepatic duct. Fine-needle puncture did not yield clear cytological findings. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pointed to sclerosing cholangitis. This diagnosis was confirmed by liver punch biopsy. Since the patient did not agree to a liver transplantation, he was treated with 450 mg ursodeoxycholic acid twice daily, resulting in marked reduction of the liver parameters until severe cholangiosepsis and acute renal failure occurred about 4 months later. The septic condition and its complications could not be managed despite thorough intensive-care measures so that a liver transplant had to be performed after all. Histology of the explantate revealed a cholangiocarcinoma in the region of the bifurcation of the common hepatic duct. At first the patient's condition improved markedly but one and half months later the transplant was rejected and the patient died.
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PMID:[Primary sclerosing cholangitis]. 173 82

This report described seventeen patients suffering from fulminant hepatitis and had a rapid fatal course. They were all residents of Southern Thailand. Fourteen cases were recognized between April and August which is the beginning of the rainy season in this part of the country. All age groups were found with males slightly predominant. Clinical manifestation presented with fever and later developed jaundice, convulsion and other central nervous system symptoms, liver failure and acute renal failure. Four cases had pneumonia and another three cases had pleural effusion. Laboratory investigations revealed hyperbilirubinemia, marked increase in serum transaminases, a variable alkaline phosphatase level and electrolytes derangement. HBsAg was positive in only two of fourteen cases. Blood cultures and serological examination for infections were unfruitful. Histopathological changes of the liver were classified into three types; type 1 massive hepatocellular coagulation necrosis; type 2 massive scattered hepatocellular necrosis and type 3 massive bridging hepatocellular necrosis. Electron microscopy of five cases revealed spherical viral-like particles ranging in size 70 to 90 nm in diameter, in the cytoplasm of liver cells. This is believed to be a unique type of fulminant hepatitis, possibly viral in origin, and were clinically and pathologically different from the previously described fulminant viral hepatitis.
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PMID:Fulminant hepatitis, possible virus origin: a report of seventeen cases in southern Thailand. 208 15

Enzyme histochemical techniques were utilized to examine the progression and extent of proximal tubular injury during the development of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II) (CDDP)-induced acute renal failure. Acute renal failure was induced in male rats by the intraperitoneal administration of 10 mg CDDP/kg body weight. At 6, 24, 48, 72, and 96 hr following treatment, renal function was assessed and tissue was collected for renal morphologic and enzyme histochemical studies. The enzymes examined were gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase, alkaline phosphatase, sodium-potassium ATPase (nitrophenyl phosphatase), acid phosphatase, glucose-6-phosphatase, succinic dehydrogenase, alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase, and lactic dehydrogenase. By 24 hr, the activity of acid phosphatase was reduced throughout the proximal tubule, with the greatest decrease occurring in the P3 segment of the proximal tubule located in the outer stripe of the outer medulla. Changes in the histochemical staining of the remaining enzymes were not consistently observed until 48 or, in some cases, 72 hr. These alterations involved all portions of the proximal tubule with the most severe changes involving P3. The results of the enzyme histochemical studies along with the morphologic findings indicating that the initiation of CDDP-induced acute renal failure, first apparent at 48 hr in this model, is associated with cell injury throughout the proximal tubule. The majority of the histochemical changes did not become apparent until late in the course of tubular injury. This suggests that most of the changes in enzyme activity represent nonspecific effects of CDDP-induced tubular injury, as opposed to direct enzyme inhibition by the drug.
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PMID:Cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II)-induced acute renal failure in the rat: enzyme histochemical studies. 287 24

Acute renal failure was diagnosed by clinical, necropsy and histological criteria in 39 flocks (20 low ground, 13 hill and six marginal upland) in areas served by six veterinary investigation centres. Forty-eight lambs of 12 different breeds or crosses were investigated. The mean age of affected lambs was 38 days (range seven to 84 days); 21 lambs (44 per cent) were aged seven to 28 days, while only eight (17 per cent) were older than two months. Mortality in clinically affected lambs was almost 100 per cent, with no response to various treatments. Histological examination showed that 40 lambs (83 per cent) had nephrosis, while the rest had toxic tubular necrosis, interstitial nephritis or tubular damage associated with oxalate crystal deposits. Only about half of the lambs had any evidence of enteric infections or enteropathy. Acutely ill lambs had azotaemia, haemoconcentration and proteinuria; some lambs had glycosuria or haematuria. Samples of plasma from 22 lambs with nephrosis were compared with similar samples from 82 incontact but asymptomatic lambs. The clinically affected group had significantly elevated plasma urea, creatinine, total protein, globulin, phosphorus and chloride concentrations and significantly reduced plasma calcium concentrations compared with healthy lambs. Affected lambs had a significant reduction also in the calcium:phosphorus ratio. No significant differences between groups was found in plasma concentrations of albumin, glucose, lactate, glycerol, creatine kinase, alkaline phosphatase, sodium, potassium or magnesium.
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PMID:Acute nephropathy in young lambs. 291 11

Five patients who developed acute renal failure due to acute tubular necrosis following multiple hornet (Vespa orientalis) stings are described. All of them had intravascular hemolysis. Evidence for rhabdomyolysis was present in 2 patients. Two patients had elevated transaminase and alkaline phosphatase levels and in 1 of these, liver biopsy showed centrilobular necrosis. Two patients had thrombocytopenia in the absence of disseminated intravascular coagulation. Two patients died of infections while the remaining 3 recovered completely. Acute renal failure following multiple hornet stings appears to result mainly from intravascular hemolysis or rhabdomyolysis although a direct nephrotoxic effect of venom cannot be excluded.
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PMID:Acute renal failure following multiple hornet stings. 341 46

The catalytic activities of alkaline phosphatase and N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase, constituents of luminal brush-border membranes and lysosomes of kidney tubular cells, were measured in human kidney allografts in the maintenance and recovery phases of acute renal failure and in acute rejection crisis. The enzyme activities were fluorometrically determined in single microdissected cortical nephron segments of biopsies from 4 kidney allografts taken intraoperatively and postoperatively at different periods, which exhibited either good function or dysfunction. For comparison, the unaffected part of a human kidney nephrectomized due to hypernephroma as well as a biopsy of a morphologically normal human kidney were examined. Both enzymes displayed highest activities in the proximal part of the human nephron. In some intraoperative and postoperative biopsies with acute renal failure, alkaline phosphatase activity was reduced in proximal tubules, predominantly in the straight portion. This reduction could not be correlated with function. In acute rejection, very low alkaline phosphatase activities were uniformly found in proximal convoluted and straight tubules. Furthermore, intraoperative biopsies and biopsies of the functioning allograft have only approximately 50% of normal N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase activity in proximal convoluted tubules, but generally normal values in the straight portion. However, in acute renal failure, this enzyme activity was several-fold enhanced along the whole nephron, when compared with intraoperative values. In acute rejection, N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase activity was slightly reduced in proximal convoluted tubules, when compared with biopsies showing good function. It is suggested that the decrease of proximal tubular enzyme activities is the consequence of increased enzymuria and inadequate enzyme regeneration. On the other hand, the overshoot of N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase activity in the maintenance phase of acute renal failure appears to indicate increased degradative capacity, associated with cellular regeneration along the whole nephron.
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PMID:Catalytic activities of alkaline phosphatase and N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase in human cortical nephron segments: heterogeneous changes in acute renal failure and acute rejection following kidney allotransplantation. 354 86

Increases in intracellular and mitochondrial calcium content that accompany ischemic and toxic acute renal failure have been suggested to mediate renal tubular cell injury and dysfunction, but the mechanism(s) are unknown. We studied the effects of in vivo vitamin D-induced chronic hypercalcemia on rat renal cortical brush-border and basolateral membranes and mitochondria. In the brush-border membrane, hypercalcemia caused significant decreases in alkaline phosphatase-specific activity, total phospholipid molar content, and phosphatidylserine percent molar composition and increases in the cholesterol-to-total phospholipid molar ratio and phosphatidylinositol percent molar composition. In the basolateral membrane, hypercalcemia caused significant decreases in Na+-K+-ATPase-specific activity and total phospholipid molar content and increases in the cholesterol-to-total phospholipid molar ratio and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate percent molar composition. In the mitochondria, hypercalcemia caused a mild increase in the mitochondrial calcium content, but no alterations in succinic dehydrogenase-specific activity, succinate-, ADP-, or uncoupler-induced respiration. Thus hypercalcemia caused alterations in brush-border and basolateral membrane enzyme activity and lipid composition, but no functional changes were detected in mitochondria. These hypercalcemia-induced plasma membrane biochemical alterations may be markers of early cell injury and suggest a role for calcium in causing or predisposing to renal tubular cell injury.
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PMID:Effects of vitamin D-induced chronic hypercalcemia on rat renal cortical plasma membranes and mitochondria. 381 41


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