Underestimation of metabolic rates owing to reincorporation of 14CO2 in the perfused rat liver.
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SUBMITTER: Tomera JF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1153950 | biostudies-other | 1982 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
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Project description:High concentrations of urea were shown to induce a paradoxical regulatory volume decrease response with K(+) channel opening and subsequent hepatocyte shrinkage (Hallbrucker, C., vom Dahl, S., Ritter, M., Lang, F., and Häussinger, D. (1994) Pflügers Arch. 428, 552-560), although the hepatocyte plasma membrane is thought to be freely permeable to urea. The underlying mechanisms remained unclear. As shown in the present study, urea (100 mmol/liter) induced within 1 min an activation of β(1) integrins followed by an activation of focal adhesion kinase, c-Src, p38(MAPK), extracellular signal-regulated kinases, and c-Jun N-terminal kinase. Because α(5)β(1) integrin is known to act as a volume/osmosensor in hepatocytes, which becomes activated in response to hepatocyte swelling, the findings suggest that urea at high concentrations induces a nonosmotic activating perturbation of this osmosensor, thereby triggering a volume regulatory K(+) efflux. In line with this, similar to hypo-osmotic hepatocyte swelling, urea induced an inhibition of hepatic proteolysis, which was sensitive to p38(MAPK) inhibition. Molecular dynamics simulations of a three-dimensional model of the ectodomain of α(5)β(1) integrin in water, urea, or thiourea solutions revealed significant conformational changes of α(5)β(1) integrin in urea and thiourea solutions, in contrast to the simulation of α(5)β(1) in water. These changes lead to an unbending of the integrin structure around the genu, which may suggest activation, whereas the structures of single domains remained essentially unchanged. It is concluded that urea at high concentrations affects hepatic metabolism through direct activation of the α(5)β(1) integrin system.
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Project description:1. The rates of formation of acetoacetate and beta-hydroxybutyrate by the isolated perfused rat liver were measured under various conditions. 2. The rates found after addition of butyrate, octanoate, oleate and linoleate were about 100mumoles/hr./g. wet wt. in the liver of starved rats. These rates are much higher than those found with rat liver slices. 3. The differences between the rates given by slices and by the perfused organ were much higher with the long-chain than with short-chain fatty acids. The increments caused by oleate and linoleate were 12 and 16 times as large in the perfused organ as in the slices, whereas the increments caused by butyrate and octanoate were about four times as large. 4. The rates of ketogenesis in the unsupplemented perfused liver of well-fed rats, and the increments caused by the addition of fatty acids, were about half of those in the liver from starved rats. 5. The value of the [beta-hydroxybutyrate]/[acetoacetate] ratio of the medium was raised by octanoate, oleate and linoleate. 6. Carnitine did not significantly accelerate ketogenesis from fatty acids. 7. Oleate formed up to 82% of the expected yield of ketone bodies. 8. In the liver of alloxan-diabetic rats the endogenous rates of ketogenesis were raised, in some cases as high as in the liver from starved rats, after addition of oleate. 9. On addition of either beta-hydroxybutyrate or acetoacetate to the perfusion medium the liver gradually adjusted the [beta-hydroxybutyrate]/[acetoacetate] ratio towards the normal range. 10. The [beta-hydroxybutyrate]/[acetoacetate] ratio of the medium was about 0.4 when slices were incubated, but near the physiological value of 2 when the liver was perfused. 11. The experiments demonstrate that for the study of ketogenesis slices are in many ways grossly inferior to the perfused liver.
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Project description:1. By perfusion of rat livers with 3mm-AMP in the perfusion medium we obtain increased intracellular concentrations of AMP. 2. These high intracellular concentrations of AMP lead to an increased output of glucose and urea into the perfusion medium. 3. The increased output of glucose in livers from fed rats is brought about primarily by an AMP-stimulated breakdown of liver glycogen. In livers from starved rats the increase in glucose output is not as great, reflecting the low contents of glycogen in livers from starved rats. 4. AMP inhibits gluconeogenesis from lactate in perfused livers. In the presence of high concentrations of lactate, however, the counteracting effects of AMP to increase glycogenolysis and to inhibit gluconeogenesis result in little change in the net glucose output. 5. The increased urea output is brought about by increased breakdown of amino acids that are present in the perfusion medium. In livers from starved rats the overall urea production is much higher, indicating increased catabolism of amino acids and other nitrogenous substrates in the absence of carbohydrate substrates. 6. AMP causes an inhibition of incorporation of labelled precursors into protein and nucleic acid. This may result from increased catabolism of precursors of proteins and nucleic acids as reflected by the more rapid breakdown of nitrogenous compounds. In support of this hypothesis, cell-free systems for amino acid incorporation isolated from livers perfused with and without AMP are equally capable of supporting protein synthesis. 7. The labelling pattern of RNA in perfused livers corresponds very closely to those found by pulse-labelling in vivo. AMP in no way alters the qualitative nature of the labelling patterns. 8. We consider these results as supporting evidence for the role of the concentration ratio of AMP to ATP in controlling the metabolic pathways that lead to the formation of ATP.
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Project description:1. Removal of acetaldehyde and ethanol has been studied in perfused rat livers. 2. The maximum rate of ethanol oxidation was 2mumol/min per g of liver, which was less than the calculated capacity of the ethanol-oxidizing system. The lactate/pyruvate ratio of the medium increased with the rate of ethanol removal. At low ethanol concentrations most of the acetaldehyde formed was oxidized further, but at ethanol concentrations above 16mm about 60% of the acetaldehyde left the liver unmetabolized. 3. At lower concentrations the greater part of added acetaldehyde was oxidized, but above 5mm, 50-60% of that removed was recovered as ethanol. 4. When the reduction of acetaldehyde was blocked by pyrazole, removal was strongly diminished. There was no effect on the lactate/pyruvate ratio during oxidation of low concentrations of acetaldehyde, even in the presence of pyrazole, but at higher concentrations a gradual increase occurred. 5. The results indicate that during ethanol oxidation the ethanol/acetaldehyde pair is not in redox equilibrium with the lactate/pyruvate pair. Ethanol oxidation was abolished by addition of acetaldehyde. Under these conditions the lactate/pyruvate ratio was 1.5-1.8 times the ethanol/acetaldehyde ratio, indicating equilibration of the alcohol dehydrogenase and lactate dehydrogenase systems. 6. The results support the view that ultimately the rate of mitochondrial oxidation of NADH limits the removal of ethanol in the liver.
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Project description:Measures of perfusion adequacy in perfused rat hemicorpus preparations were investigated as potential indices of tissue function during studies of muscle protein metabolism. Perfusion under normal conditions for up to 80 min resulted in rates of protein synthesis and concentrations of ATP in muscle that were similar to those in vivo, but phosphocreatine in muscle gradually decreased and muscle lactate increased. Hypoxic conditions led to lower rates of protein synthesis, lower phospho-creatine and raised lactate contents in muscle compared with normal perfusions, and ATP was slightly decreased. Hypoxic preparations also released more lactate and K+ into the medium and had higher perfusion pressures, but glucose uptake and muscle water content were not altered. In totally ischaemic muscle, concentrations of ATP and phosphocreatine were even lower than in hypoxic muscle, and that of lactate was higher. From 11 preparations perfused for 60 min under normal conditions, three were selected on the basis of lower muscle ATP content than the others. Preparations with low ATP also showed lower muscle phosphocreatine concentrations, O2 uptake and CO2 output, as well as higher perfusion pressure and muscle lactate concentrations than in the remaining preparations, but muscle water, ADP and AMP concentrations and lactate and K+ flux were no different. In perfusions extended to 3 h, deterioration of function was more apparent. There were significant correlations between rates of protein synthesis and the concentrations of ATP, phosphocreatine and lactate in two different muscles (r = 0.756-0.929), but not with any of the other indices investigated. Taken overall, these experiments showed that concentrations of ADP, AMP and water in muscle, rates of lactate and glucose metabolism, K+ output, perfusion pressure and blood gas parameters were unsuitable for distinguishing unsound from sound preparations, because they did not consistently demonstrate differences, or could not be ascribed to only muscle metabolism. It was found that ATP, phosphocreatine and lactate concentrations in muscle were the best indicators of impaired metabolic state in studies of protein synthesis. Measurements of these could be used on a routine basis for rejecting unsatisfactory preparations.
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