title: Nitrotyrosine formation and heme oxygenase-1 expression in endotoxemic cirrhotic rats.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Endotoxemia increases hepatic toxicity and mortality in cirrhosis. Because the mechanism of augmented hepatotoxicity in endotoxemic cirrhotic rats is still unclear, we wanted to investigate whether oxidative and nitrosative stress play a causative role in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-treated cirrhotic rats.
  
  
  METHODS
  Liver cirrhosis was produced by the administration of thioacetamide (0.3 g/L of tap water) for a period of 3 months in rats. At the end of this period, cirrhotic rats were sacrificed 6 h after LPS injection (5 mg/kg, intraperitoneally). Serum transaminase activities, plasma total nitrite and nitrotyrosine (NT) levels as well as hepatic lipid peroxides, NT formation and heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1) expression were determined.
  
  
  RESULTS
  LPS administration to cirrhotic rats caused further increases in serum transaminase activities, and plasma total nitrite and NT levels as well as hepatic lipid peroxide levels as compared to cirrhotic rats. Hepatic NT formation and HO-1 expression were also found to be increased in LPS-injected cirrhotic rats.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our results indicate that increased oxidative and nitrosative stress may have a synergistic effect in LPS-augmented hepatotoxicity in cirrhotic rats.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Capa, Istanbul, Turkey. sdabbasoglu@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Semra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Doğru-Abbasoğlu
authors.forename: Hande
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Parildar-Karpuzoğlu
authors.forename: Jale
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Balkan
authors.forename: Gülçin
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Aykaç-Toker
authors.forename: Müjdat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Uysal
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019446:Endotoxemia / Q000150:complications / Q000378:metabolism*; D051547:Heme Oxygenase-1 / Q000032:analysis / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D015227:Lipid Peroxidation; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000633:toxicity; D008099:Liver / Q000737:chemistry / Q000201:enzymology; D008106:Liver Cirrhosis, Experimental / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000150:complications / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000378:metabolism; D009573:Nitrites / Q000097:blood; D018384:Oxidative Stress; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013853:Thioacetamide / Q000633:toxicity; D014443:Tyrosine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000032:analysis / Q000096:biosynthesis
chemical_list: D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D009573:Nitrites; D013853:Thioacetamide; D009569:Nitric Oxide; C002744:3-nitrotyrosine; D014443:Tyrosine; D051547:Heme Oxygenase-1