title: Reoxygenation injury in isolated hepatocytes: cell death precedes conversion of xanthine dehydrogenase to xanthine oxidase.
abstract: Reoxygenation of isolated hepatocytes from fed rats after 3 h of anaerobic incubation led to a significantly enhanced loss of cell viability. No evidence for the participation of reactive oxygen species generated by xanthine oxidase in this reoxygenation injury was found. Conversion of xanthine dehydrogenase to xanthine oxidase occurred at a time when almost all of the hepatocytes had lost their viability. Furthermore, xanthine dehydrogenase was first released from the severely injured cells and then converted to the oxidase form. The results suggest that in the intact organ participation of reactive oxygen species, generated by xanthine oxidase, in reoxygenation injury may only occur when, upon reoxygenation, hypoxic cell injury in part of the tissue has progressed to such an extent that there is a significant conversion of xanthine dehydrogenase to xanthine oxidase.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Physiologische Chemie I, Universität Düsseldorf, F.R.G.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: de Groot
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Littauer
mesh_terms: D000693:Anaerobiosis; D000818:Animals; D002469:Cell Separation; D002470:Cell Survival; D007658:Ketone Oxidoreductases / Q000378:metabolism*; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013997:Time Factors; D014968:Xanthine Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism*; D014969:Xanthine Oxidase / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D014968:Xanthine Dehydrogenase; D014969:Xanthine Oxidase; D007658:Ketone Oxidoreductases