Protein synthesis in the perfused liver: Comparative evaluation of the influence of amino acid supply on ribosomal activity of intact and isolated perfused rat liver

1976 ◽  
pp. 191-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. O. Enwonwu
Keyword(s):  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Rat Liver ◽  
Comparative Evaluation ◽  
Isolated Perfused Rat Liver ◽  
Perfused Liver ◽  
Perfused Rat Liver ◽  
Ribosomal Activity

Biliary excretion of dihydro-11-keto-progesterone-4-C14 by isolated perfused liver

1964 ◽  
Vol 207 (5) ◽  
pp. 1030-1034 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. F. Leong ◽  
D. M. Cazes ◽  
M. L. Berliner ◽  
D. L. Berliner
Keyword(s):  
Rat Liver ◽  
Biliary Excretion ◽  
Half Life ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Isolated Perfused Rat Liver ◽  
Perfused Liver ◽  
Rapid Rate ◽  
Perfused Rat Liver ◽  
Bile Formation ◽  
Entire Study

The rates of biliary excretion of dihydro-11-keto-progesterone-4-C14 and of its metabolites were studied in the isolated perfused rat liver. The half-life of this steroid in the perfusing blood was 2.5 min, and at 40 min about 75% of the injected steroid had been excreted in bile. Formation of water-soluble steroids (WS St) took place at a rapid rate and by 60 min 100% of the steroids in blood were found to be water soluble. During the entire study the steroids excreted in bile were water soluble and accounted for 97.2–100% (avg. 98.2%). No dihydro-11-keto-progesterone was found to be excreted in the bile. The rate of disappearance from the blood, excretion in the bile, and degree of formation of WS St of this compound when compared with corticosterone and cortisol shows the following pattern: dihydro-11-keto-progesterone > corticosterone > cortisol.

scholarly journals Rates of ketone-body formation in the perfused rat liver

1969 ◽  
Vol 112 (5) ◽  
pp. 595-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. A. Krebs ◽  
Patricia G. Wallace ◽  
R. Hems ◽  
R. A. Freedland
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Rat Liver ◽  
Ketone Bodies ◽  
Short Chain Fatty Acids ◽  
Diabetic Rats ◽  
Isolated Perfused Rat Liver ◽  
Perfused Liver ◽  
Perfused Rat Liver ◽  
Normal Range ◽  
Physiological Value

1. The rates of formation of acetoacetate and β-hydroxybutyrate by the isolated perfused rat liver were measured under various conditions. 2. The rates found after addition of butyrate, octanoate, oleate and linoleate were about 100μmoles/hr./g. wet wt. in the liver of starved rats. These rates are much higher than those found with rat liver slices. 3. The differences between the rates given by slices and by the perfused organ were much higher with the long-chain than with short-chain fatty acids. The increments caused by oleate and linoleate were 12 and 16 times as large in the perfused organ as in the slices, whereas the increments caused by butyrate and octanoate were about four times as large. 4. The rates of ketogenesis in the unsupplemented perfused liver of well-fed rats, and the increments caused by the addition of fatty acids, were about half of those in the liver from starved rats. 5. The value of the [β-hydroxybutyrate]/[acetoacetate] ratio of the medium was raised by octanoate, oleate and linoleate. 6. Carnitine did not significantly accelerate ketogenesis from fatty acids. 7. Oleate formed up to 82% of the expected yield of ketone bodies. 8. In the liver of alloxan-diabetic rats the endogenous rates of ketogenesis were raised, in some cases as high as in the liver from starved rats, after addition of oleate. 9. On addition of either β-hydroxybutyrate or acetoacetate to the perfusion medium the liver gradually adjusted the [β-hydroxybutyrate]/[acetoacetate] ratio towards the normal range. 10. The [β-hydroxybutyrate]/[acetoacetate] ratio of the medium was about 0·4 when slices were incubated, but near the physiological value of 2 when the liver was perfused. 11. The experiments demonstrate that for the study of ketogenesis slices are in many ways grossly inferior to the perfused liver.

scholarly journals Cell swelling increases bile flow and taurocholate excretion into bile in isolated perfused rat liver

1992 ◽  
Vol 281 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-595 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Hallbrucker ◽  
F Lang ◽  
W Gerok ◽  
D Häussinger
Keyword(s):  
Bile Acid ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Cell Volume ◽  
Rat Liver ◽  
Bile Flow ◽  
Cell Swelling ◽  
Isolated Perfused Rat Liver ◽  
Perfused Rat Liver ◽  
Volume Changes ◽  
Close Relationship

The effects of aniso-osmotically and amino-acid-induced cell-volume changes on bile flow and biliary taurocholate excretion were studied in isolated perfused rat liver. With taurocholate (100 microM) in the influent perfusate, hypo-osmotic exposure (225 mosmol/l) increased taurocholate excretion into bile and bile flow by 42 and 27% respectively, whereas inhibition by 32 and 47% respectively was observed after hyperosmotic (385 mosmol/l) exposure. The effects of aniso-moticity on taurocholate excretion into bile was observed throughout aniso-osmotic exposure, even after completion of volume-regulatory ion fluxes and were fully reversible upon re-exposure to normo-osmotic media. Hypo-osmotic cell swelling (225 mosmol/l) increased the Vmax. of taurocholate translocation from the sinusoidal compartment into bile about 2-fold. Also, cell swelling induced by glutamine and glycine stimulated both bile flow and biliary taurocholate excretion. There was a close relationship between the aniso-osmotically and amino-acid-induced change of cell volume and taurocholate excretion into bile. The data suggest that liver cell volume plays an important role in regulating bile-acid-dependent bile flow and biliary taurocholate excretion.

scholarly journals The effects of amino acids on albumin synthesis by the isolated perfused rat liver

1972 ◽  
Vol 129 (4) ◽  
pp. 805-809 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Kelman ◽  
S. J. Saunders ◽  
S. Wicht ◽  
L. Frith ◽  
A. Corrigall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Rat Liver ◽  
Normal Values ◽  
Isolated Perfused Rat Liver ◽  
Perfused Rat Liver ◽  
Albumin Synthesis ◽  
Isoleucine Leucine ◽  
Blood Concentrations ◽  
Normal Peripheral Blood

Albumin synthesis was measured in the isolated perfused rat liver by using the livers of both well-fed and starved rats. Starvation markedly decreased albumin synthesis. The livers from starved rats were unable to increase synthesis rates after the addition to the perfusates of single amino acids or the addition of both glucagon and tryptophan. Arginine, asparagine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, proline, threonine, tryptophan and valine, added together to ten times their normal peripheral blood concentrations, restored synthesis rates to normal. The plasma aminogram (i.e. the relative concentrations, of amino acids) was altered by depriving rats of protein for 48h. The use of blood from the deprived rats as perfusate, instead of normal blood, decreased albumin synthesis rates significantly by livers obtained from well-fed rats. The addition of single amino acids, including the non-metabolizable amino acid, α-aminoisobutyric acid, to the above mixture increased albumin synthesis rates to normal values. It is concluded that amino acids play an important role in the control of albumin synthesis and that more than one mechanism is probably involved.

Amino acid metabolism in isolated perfused rat liver

1990 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.P. De Bandt ◽  
L. Cynober ◽  
F. Ballet ◽  
C. Coudray-Lucas ◽  
C. Rey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acid ◽  
Rat Liver ◽  
Amino Acid Metabolism ◽  
Acid Metabolism ◽  
Isolated Perfused Rat Liver ◽  
Perfused Rat Liver
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