title: Effects of the Kupffer cell inactivator gadolinium chloride on rat liver oxygen uptake and content of mitochondrial cytochromes.
abstract: The effect of gadolinium chloride (GdCl3) on the content of rat liver mitochondrial cytochromes was investigated in relation to the basal rate of O2 uptake and Kupffer cell functioning, assessed in liver perfusion studies. (1) A single dose of GdCl3 (10 mg/kg) produced a significant diminution in Kupffer cell functioning, evidenced by the decreases in colloidal carbon uptake and in carbon-induced O2 uptake observed at 6-24 h after treatment, without changes in the sinusoidal lactate dehydrogenase efflux as index of tissue viability; at 48 h after GdCl3 administration, carbon phagocytosis was recovered to control values, whereas carbon-induced O2 uptake remained lower than control values. (2) GdCl3 also caused a 34% decrease in the basal rate of O2 consumption of the liver at 24 h after treatment, which returned towards control values at 48 h. (3) The content of mitochondrial cytochromes c1 and c at 24 h after GdCl3 treatment was significantly reduced by 40 and 32%, respectively, which returned to control values at 48 h, without changes in that of cytochromes b and a+a3. It is concluded that GdCl3-induced decrease in liver O2 consumption is a reversible phenomenon that seems to be due to a diminution in the content of mitochondrial cytochromes c1 and c.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Farmacología Molecular y Clínica, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Casilla, Santiago.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ferreira
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tapia
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Videla
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002244:Carbon / Q000378:metabolism; D003580:Cytochromes / Q000378:metabolism*; D004705:Endocytosis; D005682:Gadolinium / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007728:Kupffer Cells / Q000187:drug effects*; D008297:Male; D008930:Mitochondria, Liver / Q000378:metabolism*; D010101:Oxygen Consumption / Q000187:drug effects*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D003580:Cytochromes; D002244:Carbon; D005682:Gadolinium; C038958:gadolinium chloride