ABSTRACT
The present study attempted to examine the effects of bile acid pool size on liver regeneration after hepatectomy.The rats were fed on 0.2% cholic acid(CA)or 2% cholestyramine for 7 days to induce a change in the bile acid size,and then a partial hepatectomy(PH)was performed.Rats fed on the normal diet served as the controls.Measurements were made on the rate of liver regeneration,the labeling indices of PCNA,the plasma total bile acids(TBA),and the mRNA expression of cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase(CYP7A1),farnesoid Ⅹ receptor(FXR),and transcription factor c-Jun or c-fos.As compared with the normal and CA groups,the rate of liver regeneration was decreased on the day 3,and 7 after PH; the peak of the labeling indices of PCNA was delayed and the labeling indices were significantly reduced on the day 1; the TBA were also decreased on the day 1; the expression of FXR decreased but that of CYP7A1 increased at any given time; at the 1st,and 3rd h,the expression of c-Jun was declined in the cholestyramine group.The reduction in the bile acid pool size was found to delay the liver regeneration,which may be caused by the down-regulation of FXR and c-Jun expression.
ABSTRACT
In order to study the effect of self-made liver preservation solution on liver preservation by comparing with UW solution and HC-A solution, the self-made liver preservation solution (SM) and perfusion solution were prepared under the aseptic conditions. The isolated non-circulated perfu-sion rat liver model was established. According to the different preservation solutions, the rats were randomly divided into UW group, SM group and HC-A group. The three groups were divided into 6subgroups according to the preservation duration (n=6 in each group). The transferase in liver perfu-sion solution and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and nitric oxide (NO) in liver tissues were determined at 2, 8 and 24 h respectively. The results showed that the levels of alanine aml- notransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) had no significant difference between SM group and UW group, but significantly lower than in HC-A group. The levels of ICAM-1 and NO were increased simultaneously in SM group and UW group (P＞0.05), but there was significant dif-ference as compared with HC-A group (P＜0.05). At the same time point, the level of ICAM-1 was higher in SM group than in UW group, but NO was lower. The preservation effect of SM solution is the same as UW solution, but better than HC-A solution.