title: Fasciola hepatica: liver microsomal membrane functions in host rat.
abstract: Changes in different microsomal membrane functions were measured in the liver of rats 3, 6, or 9 weeks following an oral infection with 20 metacercariae of Fasciola hepatica. The parasitic pathology noted at autopsy was accompanied by increased levels in both plasma aspartate aminotransferase (EC 2.6.1.1) and microsomal gamma-glutamyltransferase (EC 2.3.2.2). Heme oxygenase activity of microsomes was significantly decreased by Weeks 3 and 6 postinfection and this decrease correlates with those of total microsomal cytochrome P450 and certain P450-dependent monooxygenase activities, namely, benzphetamine demethylation, ethoxycoumarin deethylation, and benzopyrene hydroxylation. Microsomal epoxide hydrolase (EC 3.3.2.3) was only altered 6 weeks after the infection. During the early stages of the parasitism, there were decreases in both microsomal calcium uptake and calcium ATPphosphohydrolase activity (EC 2.6.1.1), whereas membrane fluidity, estimated by the order parameter S, was lower in the infected rats than that in the controls. These alterations could be related to the already described increase in liver cytosolic calcium or lipid peroxidation which occurs in experimental fascioliasis.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Pharmacologie-Toxicologie, INRA, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Galtier
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cambon-Gros
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fernandez
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Deltour
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Eeckhoutte
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hoellinger
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases / Q000097:blood; D001579:Benzopyrene Hydroxylase / Q000378:metabolism; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D000252:Calcium-Transporting ATPases / Q000378:metabolism; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000378:metabolism; D004851:Epoxide Hydrolases / Q000378:metabolism; D005210:Fasciola hepatica / Q000502:physiology*; D005211:Fascioliasis / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D006419:Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing) / Q000378:metabolism; D015227:Lipid Peroxidation; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008862:Microsomes, Liver / Q000201:enzymology*; D010089:Oxidoreductases, N-Demethylating / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D005723:gamma-Glutamyltransferase / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; D001579:Benzopyrene Hydroxylase; D006419:Heme Oxygenase (Decyclizing); D010089:Oxidoreductases, N-Demethylating; D005723:gamma-Glutamyltransferase; D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases; D004851:Epoxide Hydrolases; D000252:Calcium-Transporting ATPases; D002118:Calcium