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Amelioration of hepatic reperfusion injury by superoxide dismutase and catalase

Conference · · Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States)
OSTI ID:6774384
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Oxygen-derived free radicals have been implicated in reperfusion injury in various tissues. The present study determined if enzymatic scavenging of free radicals could improve recovery of hepatic function following ischemia. Livers from fasted rats were perfused with Krebs-HCO/sub 3/ buffer with substrates for gluconeogenesis for 30 min (control) followed by 60 min warm ischemia and 90 min reperfusion. At the beginning and end of ischemia the liver was flushed with buffered Ringer's with superoxide dismutase + catalase (150,000 U/L each)(SOD) or without additions (Untreated). Bile flow and glucose release were monitored during control and reperfusion periods and tissue sampled at the end of the experiment to determine tissue water and electrolytes. Bile flow and gluconeogenesis were markedly depressed after ischemia in both groups. At the end of 90 min reperfusion bile flow in Untreated and SOD were 23 +/- 6 and 46 +/- 8 ..mu..l/15 min (20% and 41% of control respectively, p < .01). Gluconeogenesis recovered to 83 +/- 4% of control in Untreated vs 103 +/- 6% with SOD (p < .05). Tissue water and electrolytes were not different. These results suggest that generation of oxygen-derived free radicals contributes to functional deficits in the liver following ischemia and that these defects can be attenuated by enzymatic scavenging.

Research Organization:
Yale Univ. School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
OSTI ID:
6774384
Report Number(s):
CONF-8604222-
Journal Information:
Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States), Journal Name: Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States) Vol. 45:4; ISSN FEPRA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
ANIMALS
BILE
BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS
BODY
BODY FLUIDS
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES
CATALASE
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
DISEASES
ELECTROLYTES
ENZYMES
GLANDS
ISCHEMIA
LIVER
MAMMALS
MATERIALS
ORGANS
OXIDOREDUCTASES
PATHOGENESIS
PERFUSED ORGANS
PEROXIDASES
RADICALS
RATS
RODENTS
SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE
SUPEROXIDE RADICALS
TOXICITY
VASCULAR DISEASES
VERTEBRATES