title: Hepatocellular injury induced by chronic low-dose CCl4 in spontaneous and renal hypertensive rats: a correlation to the reversal of experimental rat hypertensive models.
abstract: Renal hypertension has been reduced to normal levels in the rat with subcutaneous injections of carbon tetrachloride (CCl4). Previous light microscopic evaluation of liver sections demonstrated varying degrees of hepatocellular and hepatic parenchymal injury secondary to CCl4 administration. In normotensive rat populations, saline injections have been shown not to cause hypertension, and the treatment of normal rats with subcutaneous CCl4 did not change their blood pressure over that of noninjected controls. In this study we compare the extent of blood pressure reduction with the degree of CCl4-induced liver injury in the renal-induced, spontaneous hypertensive rat (SHR), and normotensive rat. Statistically significant blood pressure reduction followed CCl4 injection of renal (p less than .01) and SHR (p less than .001) hypertensive animals. The morphological liver injury appeared most sensitively reflected in hepatocellular nuclear atypia. The SHR animals were the most resistant to CCl4 liver damage by chronic CCl4 treatment. There was no measurable effect of CCl4 treatment on the animals as assessed by their activity, rate of development and weight gain. The degree of blood pressure reduction due to CCl4 treatment in the SHR animals was similar to that previously reported in DOCA and renal-induced hypertensive animals.
authors.affiliation: St. Vincent Charity Hospital and Health Center, Cleveland, OH 44115.
authors.forename: H F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Loyke
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Maksem
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D001835:Body Weight / Q000187:drug effects; D002251:Carbon Tetrachloride / Q000633:toxicity*; D056486:Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D006977:Hypertension, Renal / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008099:Liver / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects / Q000473:pathology; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011918:Rats, Inbred SHR; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains
chemical_list: D002251:Carbon Tetrachloride