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Title: Effect of cholestasis on hepatic transport of /sup 99m/technetium p-isopropyl-iminodiacetic acid

Journal Article · · J. Lab. Clin. Med.; (United States)
OSTI ID:6000381

Hepatobiliary imaging with /sup 99m/Tc-p-isopropyl-iminodiacetic acid (PIPIDA) and other acetanilidoiminodiacetic acid derivatives is a frequently used clinical tool in evaluating patients with jaundice. However, there has been little objective assessment of the effects of cholestasis on hepatic transport of acetanilioiminodiacetic acid derivatives. In our studies, transport of /sup 99m/Tc-PIPIDA by isolated rat hepatocytes obtained from animals with extrahepatic obstruction secondary to bile duct ligation or intrahepatic cholestasis induced by ethinyl estradiol therapy was determined. Uptake constants for /sup 99m/Tc-PIPIDA by hepatocytes isolated from livers of animals with ligated bile ducts were significantly decreased compared with uptake by liver cells from sham-operated controls (0.0030 +/- 0.0003 vs. 0.0089 +/- 0.0010 femtomole X 10(6) cells-1 X min-1 X pmol/L-1; p less than 0.001). Hepatocytes isolated from livers of animals given ethinyl estradiol also demonstrated significantly reduced /sup 99m/Tc-PIPIDA uptake compared with controls given propylene glycol (0.0034 +/- 0.0002 vs. 0.0060 +/- 0.0004 fmol X 10(6) cells-1 X min-1 X pmol/L-1; p less than 0.001). Fractional rates of efflux of the study compound from hepatocytes preincubated with /sup 99m/Tc-PIPIDA were significantly decreased in experiments using ethinyl estradiol (p less than 0.005) but did not differ significantly from controls in studies of bile duct ligation. /sup 99m/Tc-PIPIDA uptake was significantly decreased in the presence of high bile salt concentrations (100 to 200 mumol/L), but unconjugated bilirubin concentrations as high as 200 mumol/L (approximately 12 mg/dl) had no effect on hepatocyte uptake of the ligand.

Research Organization:
Veterans Administration Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN
OSTI ID:
6000381
Journal Information:
J. Lab. Clin. Med.; (United States), Vol. 104:4
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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