title: Nutrition effect on liver and lysosomes. VIII. The undernourishment role in a following short-term starvation.
abstract: 91 male, albino rats, Wistar strain, with body weight 150 +/- 10 g, subdivided into 2 series were investigated. The 1rst series animals (E) were fed on single daily meals in the course of 20 days, only 2 h in 24 h and after that period were subjected to complete starvation and investigated on the 24th, 48th, 72th and 96th h resp. after the ceasing of food supply. A 2nd animal series (C) serves as a control, which in the course of 20 days, were on a all-round diet and later put in identical conditions of complete starvation and also investigated on the 24th, 48th, 72th and 96th h. The liver histological, histo-enzymatical (AP, BG, AlkP and ATP) and electron microscopic changes followed up, as well as certain physiological, biochemical and morphometric indices. The dynamics of the alterations in complete starvation and the confrontation of the data between the 2 animal series with different preceding nutritional regimes show that: 1) single daily meals leads to real undernourishment; 2) the undernourishment predetermines a more severe course of the following period of complete starvation; 3) 3 phases are established during the complete starvation: adaptive, alterative-restorative and alterative. Each phase bears a definite subcellular characteristics where the lysosomes apparatus plays an essential role.
mesh_terms: D000135:Acid Phosphatase / Q000378:metabolism; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases / Q000378:metabolism; D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis; D001798:Blood Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000648:ultrastructure; D004721:Endoplasmic Reticulum / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005966:Glucuronidase / Q000378:metabolism; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008247:Lysosomes / Q000201:enzymology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008297:Male; D008930:Mitochondria, Liver / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009929:Organ Size; D051381:Rats; D013217:Starvation / Q000201:enzymology / Q000473:pathology*
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D001798:Blood Proteins; D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase; D000135:Acid Phosphatase; D005966:Glucuronidase; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases