Various hepatotoxins were added to the medium of primary cultures of adult rat hepatocytes and the release of the cytosolic enzymes lactic dehydrogenase, glutamic-oxaloacetic and glutamic-pyruvic aminotransferases were measured 24 h later. CCl4 at low concentrations caused dose-dependent release of soluble enzymes into medium without appreciable cytolysis of the hepatocytes. Mitochondrial enzymes were not released under these conditions. At 5 mM CCl4, both soluble and mitochondrial glutamic-oxaloacetic aminotransferase were found in the culture medium. Glycyrrhizin, a triterpenoid glycoside of licorice roots, prevented the enzyme release caused by CCl4.
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Abbreviations
- CCl4 :
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carbon tetrachloride
- GDH:
-
glutamic dehydrogenase
- GOT:
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glutamic-oxaloacetic aminotransferase
- GPT:
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glutamic-pyruvic aminotransferase
- LDH:
-
lactic dehydrogenase
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Nakamura, T., Fujii, T. & Ichihara, A. Enzyme leakage due to change of membrane permeability of primary cultured rat hepatocytes treated with various hepatotoxins and its prevention by glycyrrhizin. Cell Biol Toxicol 1, 285–295 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00118193
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