title: Lipid peroxidation in thioacetamide-induced macronodular rat liver cirrhosis.
abstract: Microsomes and isolated hepatocytes from thioacetamide (TAA)-induced macronodularly cirrhotic rat livers were analysed for their susceptibility to unstimulated and stimulated lipid peroxidation measured as malondialdehyde (MDA) formation. In microsomes from TAA-induced macronodularly cirrhotic livers the MDA production stimulated either by ascorbate-iron or by ADP-iron in a NADPH-regenerating system was decreased. Hepatic microsomes from TAA-treated rats exhibited a reduced cytochrome P450 content and lowered activities of ethylmorphine N-demethylase, ethoxycoumarin O-deethylase and epoxide hydrolase. Besides this, the microsomal fatty acid pattern of phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine was significantly changed after 6 months of TAA administration. The 18:2/20:4 ratio of phospholipid fatty acids was markedly increased. In contrast to the microsomes, in isolated hepatocytes from macronodularly cirrhotic livers the iron- and ascorbate-iron-stimulated MDA formation was increased. The hepatocellular GSH content was unaffected by TAA pretreatment, whereas the GSSG content exhibited a significant increase, thus leading to a pronounced reduction of the GSH/GSSG ratio. The calcium channel blocker verapamil (200 microM), known to be able to scavenge OH' radicals produced by the Fenton reaction, revealed an inhibitory effect on ascorbate-iron- and ADP-iron-stimulated lipid peroxidation in hepatocytes from normal as well as TAA-treated livers which is attributed to its antioxidative properties. In summary, lipid peroxidation is altered in TAA-induced macronodularly cirrhotic rat livers. Furthermore, the data clearly show that isolated microsomes and parenchymal cells prepared from cirrhotic livers react differently to prooxidant stimuli.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Pathological Biochemistry, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Soviet Union.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sommer
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kretzschmar
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zimmermann
authors.forename: V U
authors.initials: VU
authors.lastname: Buko
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Lukivskaya
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dargel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000032:analysis; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D005260:Female; D015227:Lipid Peroxidation; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D008106:Liver Cirrhosis, Experimental / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000378:metabolism*; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013853:Thioacetamide / Q000633:toxicity*
chemical_list: D005227:Fatty Acids; D010743:Phospholipids; D013853:Thioacetamide; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System