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The objective of this investigation was to find out whether vitamin E deficiency, apart from influencing the lipid component of cellular membranes, also influences the protein component. For that purpose a number of membrane-bound enzymes in the liver of the Pekin duckling were histochemically, cytochemically, and biochemically examined. Furthermore, cells, cellular membranes, and protein particles in membranes were morphometrically investigated. Histochemically five membrane-bound enzymes appeared to be stimulated in vitamin E deficiency: 5'-nucleotidase, glucose-6-phosphatase, isocitrate dehydrogenase (NADP), tetrazolium reductase (NADH), and tetrazolium reductase (NADPH). 5'-Nucleotidase and glucose-6-phosphatase were also investigated cytochemically and biochemically. The cytochemical localization of these enzymes was identical in control and vitamin E-deficient ducklings. Biochemically, a stimulation of these two enzymes also could be demonstrated. The increase per milligram of DNA appeared to be largest whereas the increase per milligram of protein, per milligram of phospholipid, and per milligram of RNA was only half of the increase per milligram of DNA. This can be explained by the 30 per cent increase of the cell volume in vitamin E deficiency leading to an increase of protein, phospholipid, and RNA per cell. The thickness of membranes and the diameter of protein particles in membranes were measured in liver parenchymal cells. In vitamin E deficiency the thickness of the outer mitochondrial membrane and the diameter of protein particles in this membrane were smaller whereas the thickness of the endoplasmic reticular membrane was larger. The increase of the activities of mitochondrial and microsomal enzymes and the decrease of the thickness of the outer mitochondrial membrane and of its protein particles are interpreted to be the result of the influence of free radicals on membranes with electron transport functions. The increase of 5'-nucleotidase activity in the plasma membrane is likely to have a different cause; it may be related to the transport of nucleotides across this membrane.
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PMID:Cellular membranes and membrane-bound enzymes in vitamin E deficiency. A histochemical, cytochemical, biochemical, and morphologic study of the liver of the Pekin duckling. 16 37

Pretreatment of male rats with Aroclor 1254 at a dose of 25 mg/kg i.p. for 6 days resulted in potentiation of the hepatotoxicity of inhaled carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) as evidenced by a decrease in liver glucose-6-phosphatase and elevations of serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase (SGOT), serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase (SGPT), isocitrate dehydrogenase, and sorbitol dehydrogenase. Aroclor 1254 alone did not demonstrate hepatotoxicity. Aroclor 1254 administration resulted in large increases in cytochrome c reductase, cytochrome P-450 (448) AND P-Nitroanisole demethylation. Subsequent exposure to CCl4 vapor resulted in over 70% decreases in the latter two parameters. The potentiation was dose-dependent with a dose of 5 mg/kg or higher being effective. Aroclor 1260 administration gave results similar to those of Aroclor 1254, but Aroclor 1221 enhanced CCl4 toxicity to a lesser extent.
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PMID:Potentiation of carbon tetrachloride hepatotoxicity in rats by pretreatment with polychlorinated biphenyls. 17 1

The effects of two environmental temperatures (T; 16 degrees and 31 degrees), five diet dilutions (D; 0%, 12.5%, 25%, 37.5% and 50%), and five daily treadmill running periods (E; 10 minutes, 40 minutes, 70 minutes, 100 minutes, and 130 minutes) upon enzyme activities of liver and adipose tissue of male rats were observed. Liver enzymes studied were glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase), 6-P-gluconate dehydrogenase (6PGD), glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), fructose diphosphatase (FDPase), NADP-isocitrate dehydrogenase (ICDH), and malic enzyme (ME). Adipose tissue (epididymal fat) enzymes (6PGD, G6PD, and ME) were studied as well as the in vitro incorporation of the 14C of [U-14C] glucose into liberated 14CO2 and into the triglycerides, free fatty acids, and total lipids by adipose tissue slices. Equations describing regression surfaces for these responses (expressed as units/100 g body weight) could contain significant linear coefficients of the independent variables (T, D, and E), their first order interactions, and quadratic coefficients for D and E. Significnat regression coefficients for activities of liver enzymes associated with increased lipogenesis (6PGD, G6PD, and ME) produced response surfaces with conformations generally concave downward. All enzymes possessed positive and negative linear and quadratic coefficients for D which caused response surfaces to be concave downward with respect to that variable. Also, 6PGD and G6PD (positive linear and negative quadratic coefficients for E) exhibited response surfaces concave downward with respect to E. Additionally, 6PGD showed greater activity at 31 degrees than at 16 degrees while G6PD showed no effect of temperature on activity. Liver ICDH, probably important in supplying reducing equivalents for fatty acid synthesis, evidenced response surfaces almost identical to those for 6PGD. Significant regression coefficients for activity of liver enzymes associated with increased gluconeogenesis (FDPase and G6Pase) produced for FDPase a response surface concave downward with respect to both D and E with greater values at 31 degrees than at 16 degrees; but for G6Pase non-concave surfaces with lesser values at 31 degrees than at 16 degrees. Significant regression coefficients for activities of adipose enzymes associated with increased lipogenesis produced for 6PGD a response surface concave upward due to negative linear and positive quadratic coefficients for both D and E. For G6PD and ME regression surfaces were concave upward with respect to E, but these were modified by positive and negative linear coefficients, respectively, for D. Significant regression coefficients for incorporation of the 14C of glucose into triglycerides and free fatty acids of adipose tissue slices and their production of 14CO2 yielded response surfaces concave upward with respect to E (negative linear and positive quadratic coefficients). In addition, the surface for free fatty acids was concave upward with respect to D. The 14CO2 production was greater at 16 degrees than at 31 degrees...
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PMID:Effects in the rat of environmental temperature, diet dilution, and treadmill running on liver and adipose enzymes and metabolism of 14C-glucose: a multiple regression analysis. 18 37

The administration of sodium nitrite (60 mg/kg, s.c.) 30 min prior to carbon tetrachloride intoxication (2 ml/kg, p.o.) significantly enhanced the rise in serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, glutamic pyruvic transaminase, and isocitrate dehydrogenase. Sodium nitrite pretreatment also enhanced the carbon tetrachloride-induced decrease in hepatic microsomal glucose-6-phosphatase activity. Microsomal diene conjugation absorption indicative of microsomal lipid peroxidation was observed following carbon tetrachloride intoxication, but was not altered by sodium nitrite pretreatment. The data indicate a potentially toxic interaction between sodium nitrite-induced methemoglobinemia and carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatic injury.
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PMID:Enhanced hepatotoxicity of carbon tetrachloride following sodium nitrite pretreatment. 70 57

In the presented study the influence of freezing and freeze-drying on enzyme activity is described. Attention is paid to 16 enzymes which can be used for quantitative enzyme histochemical techniques. With the exception of succinate dehydrogenase only, no significant inactivation during freezing and freeze-drying procedures could be demonstrated with lactate dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase (NAD+), malate dehydrogenase (decarboxylating) (NADP+), isocitrate dehydrogenase (NADP+), glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, NADH-oxydoreductase, mitochondrial glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, cytochrome c oxidase, phosphoglucomutase, glucosephosphate isomerase, glucose-6-phosphatase, acid phosphatase, beta-glucuronidase and non specific aryl esterase. Therefore, the results supply a sound foundation for those quantitative enzyme histochemical techniques in which tissue specimens are frozen or frozen-dried before enzyme estimations are performed.
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PMID:The influence of freezing and freeze-drying of tissue specimens on enzyme activity. 87 Apr 61

1. The metabolic response of livers to perfusion with ethanol with and without avenaciolide, has been followed by measuring the perfusate levels of glucose, lactate, pyruvate, beta-hydroxybutyrate, ethanol, amino acids, urea and lipid. 2. Analysis of the perfused livers showed changes in the activities of some of the key enzymes of glycolysis, gluconeogenesis and lipogenesis. Ethanol perfusion decreased the levels of phosphofructokinase, glucokinase and cytosolic isocitrate dehydrogenase, while avenaciolide lowered pyruvate carboxylase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase as well as glucokinase. Isocitrate dehydrogenase and phosphofructokinase were unchanged, but the ionophore increased the level of fructose-1,6-diphosphatase. Ethanol plus avenaciolide showed the same pattern as ethanol alone, together with the decrease in phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase found with avenaciolide. 3. Neither ethanol nor avenaciolide had any effect on kexokinase, pyruvate kinase or acetyl-CoA carboxylase. There were small changes in glucose-6-phosphatase and malic enzyme, and a tendency for citrate lyase levels to decline in avenaciolide perfusions.
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PMID:The actions of avenaciolide and ethanol on glucose metabolism and on related enzyme activities in the isolated perfused rat liver. 94 10

Pretreatment of rats with methylmercury hydroxide (MMH) (15 mg/kg s.c. for 2 days) protected against hepatotoxicity due to the inhalation of CCl4 vapor (4800-6100 ppm for 2 h). This was evidenced by lessening of the changes due to CCl4 in liver glucose-6-phosphatase, serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase (SGOT), serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase (SGPT), serum isocitrate dehydrogenase and serum sorbitol dehydrogenase. Decreases in p-nitroanisole demethylation and cytochrome P-450 were also altered. Lipid peroxidation due to CCl4 was decreased by MMH. These biochemical indices of protection were supported by histopathological observations. These results lend further support to the concept that metabolism of CCl4 is necessary for its hepatoxicity.
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PMID:Protection against carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatotoxicity by pretreatment with methylmercury hydroxide. 112 9

In order to find the markers of the toxicity of the autoxidized lipids in the liver, rats were given a lethal amount of secondary autoxidation products of linoleic acid (400 mg/rat/day for 3 days) and then changes in the hepatic metabolic functions were analyzed. A decrease in acetyl-CoA level to half caused by the depletion of CoASH was reported in an associated paper (J. Nutr. Sci. Vitaminol., 35, 11-23, 1989). Citrate, isocitrate, and 2-oxoglutarate also decreased to half the level of those of the control group. Reduction in isocitrate dehydrogenase activity was only 25%, while NADH2 and ATP levels remained unchanged. Thus, the reduction in the citrate cycle activity was due to the decrease in acetyl-CoA. The activity of mitochondrial succinate dehydrogenase was decreased to 1/5. Other appreciable changes were depletion of glucose 6-phosphate and fructose 6-phosphate, accumulation of glucose 1-phosphate, reductions in hexokinase, phosphofructokinase, glucose-6-phosphatase, phosphoglucomutase, and phosphogluconate dehydrogenase activities, and decrease in the NADPH2 level. It was considered that these changes were caused by the depletion of glucose 6-phosphate whose synthetic pathways were abnormal. Therefore, the markers of the hepatotoxicity of secondary products were the changes in the CoASH level and the activities of succinate dehydrogenase and synthetic pathways for glucose 6-phosphate.
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PMID:Succinate dehydrogenase and synthetic pathways of glucose 6-phosphate are also the markers of the toxicity of orally administered secondary autoxidation products of linoleic acid in rat liver. 254 8

The administration of medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) and phenobarbital (PB) improves liver function in rats with liver damage. This was seen here as increased aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) activity after therapy with MPA or PB in rats with a chemical liver injury, produced by dimethylnitrosamine (DMN). Hepatic glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase) activity, an index of glucose metabolism was also normalized in the MPA treated rats. The present study further shows that MPA induced hepatic malic enzyme (ME) and isocitrate dehydrogenase (ICDH) activities and PB enhanced glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH), 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGDH) and ME activities in the DMN pretreated rats. This suggests that MPA and PB enhanced the capacity of altered liver tissue to generate NADPH, a cofactor in the monooxygenase system, which may, in part, enhance the restoration of drug hydroxylation in the rats. Since G6PDH, 6PGDH and ME participate in glucose metabolism, the finding that the compounds influenced these enzymes in distinct ways, may explain the different effects of MPA and PB on the restoration of glucose metabolism.
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PMID:Medroxyprogesterone acetate and phenobarbital induce NADPH producing enzyme activities in rats with a chemical liver injury. 300 83

With an aim to investigate the relative sensitivity of various renal structures to allograft rejection, we analyzed the histochemical reaction intensity of seven enzymes prominently displayed in various rat kidney components, and correlated the expression of these enzymes both to the degree of intra-graft inflammation and to the expression of class II MHC antigens in graft capillary endothelial cells. Syngeneic transplants and normal renal tissue were used as controls. At the peak of inflammation, on the fifth day after transplantation, adenosine triphosphatase activity of vascular endothelial cells was strongly reduced in the peritubular capillary endothelium of the allograft, moderately in the glomerular endothelium but very little in the endothelium of arteries and veins. Lactate dehydrogenase, succinate dehydrogenase, isocitrate dehydrogenase, alkaline phosphatase, acid phosphatase and glucose-6-phosphatase activities were moderately reduced in the proximal tubular cells of the allograft and even less in the distal tubular cells. The results suggest that the prime target of the host immune attack is the intertubular capillary endothelium, whereas the distal tubular cells are relatively insensitive to immune injury.
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PMID:Renal target structures in acute allograft rejection: a histochemical study. 303 33


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