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Pesqui. vet. bras ; 29(4): 353-357, Apr. 2009. ilus, tab
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-519586

ABSTRACT

The connexin 32 (Cx32) is a protein that forms the channels that promote the gap junction intercellular communication (GJIC) in the liver, allowing the diffusion of small molecules through cytosol from cell-to-cell. Hepatic fibrosis is characterized by a disruption of normal tissue architeture by cellular lesions, and may alter the GJIC. This work aimed to study the expression and distribution of Cx32 in liver fibrosis induced by the oral administration of dimethylnitrosamine in female Wistar rats. The necropsy of the rats was carried out after five weeks of drug administration. They presented a hepatic fibrosis state. Sections from livers with fibrosis and from control livers were submitted to immunohistochemical, Real Time-PCR and Western-Blot analysis to Cx32. In fibrotic livers the Cxs were diffusely scattered in the cytoplasm, contrasting with the control livers, where the Cx32 formed junction plaques at the cell membrane. Also it was found a decrease in the gene expression of Cx32 without reduction in the protein quantity when compared with controls. These results suggest that there the mechanism of intercellular communication between hepatocytes was reduced by the fibrotic process, which may predispose to the occurrence of a neoplastic process, taken in account that connexins are considered tumor suppressing genes.


A conexina 32 (Cx32) é uma proteína que constitui os canais que promovem as comunicações intercelulares via junções comunicantes (CIJC) no fígado, permitindo difusão de pequenas moléculas citoplasmáticas de uma célula à outra. A fibrose hepática caracteriza-se pela alteração da arquitetura normal do fígado e podem alterar as CIJCs. O objetivo deste trabalho foi estudar a expressão e distribuição de Cx32 na fibrose hepática. O objetivo do presente trabalho foi estudar a expressão e distribuição da Cx32 em fígados com fibrose induzida pela administração oral de dimetilnitrosamina em fêmeas de ratos Wistar. A necropsia foi realizada após cinco semanas da última administração da droga e observou-se um quadro de fibrose hepática. Amostras dos fígados com fibrose e de animais controle foram submetidas à análise imunoistoquímica, por Real Time-PCR e por Western-Blot verificando-se a presença de Cx32 difusa e dispersa no citoplasma dos fígados com fibrose. No grupo controle a Cx32 localizou-se na membrana citoplasmática com a formação de placas juncionais. O fígado com fibrose também revelou diminuição da expressão gênica de Cx32, embora sem a redução da quantidade do produto protéico, quando comparado ao grupo controle. Estes resultados sugerem que o mecanismo de comunicação intercelular entre os hepatócitos reduziu-se durante o processo fibrótico, o que pode predispor a ocorrência de processos neoplásicos, uma vez que as conexinas são consideradas genes supressores de tumores.


Subject(s)
Animals , Dimethylnitrosamine/administration & dosage , Dimethylnitrosamine/adverse effects , Liver/anatomy & histology , Liver/pathology , Immunohistochemistry , Rats
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Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association [The]. 1998; 73 (5-6): 691-705
in English | IMEMR | ID: emr-48356

ABSTRACT

The activities of renal phenolsulfotransferase and arylsulfatases A and B were estimated in 400 male Swiss albino mice classified into four groups: Normal controls, Schistosoma mansoni infected group, Dimethylnitrosamine [DMN] treated group and infected treated group. The activity levels of the studied enzymes were significantly increased in all groups when compared with the control group, also the statistical analyses showed a high significant increase of the three enzymes levels in the infected treated group; when compared separately with treated or infected groups. It was concluded, therefore, that schistosomal infection is implicated in the development of kidney cancer which may arise from the pattern of hepatic mixed-function oxidase induction characterized for schiatosomiasis and its temporal relationship with the procarcinogenic initiating events. Furthermore, the striking significant increase in the enzymatic activity levels of the acid hydrolases arylsulfatases due to the lesion of both cytotoxic effects of dimethylnitrosamine as well as pathological change of schistosomiasis which may play an active role in the initiation of the malignant process by detoxifying endogenous sulfated aromatic metabolites


Subject(s)
Animals, Laboratory , Mice/adverse effects , Dimethylnitrosamine/adverse effects , Arylsulfatases , Cytosol , Kidney/enzymology , Carcinogens, Environmental
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Acta bioquím. clín. latinoam ; 25(1): 19-24, mar. 1991. ilus, tab
Article in Spanish | LILACS | ID: lil-100835

ABSTRACT

Visones de un criadero que recibian alimentos, sobre la base de restos de pescado, evidenciaron un significativo aumento en su mortalidad, presencia de canceres hepaticos y alteraciones renales revelables histologicamente. Esos efectos fueron atribuibles a presencia, en el alimento, de dimetilnitrosamina (NDMA), en concentraciones 1,8 ug/g. En este trabajo se estudia en detalle el efecto de la NDMA sobre el rinon del vison. Visones que fueron tratados ip con NDMA(7 mg/kg en sol. fis.), mostraron dano evidenciable ultraestructuralmente en la corteza renal. El dano fue mayor en los tubulos proximales, que en los distales, pero era de naturaleza similar. Las celulas epiteliales tubulares de los animales intoxicados mostraron: a)Condensacion de la cromatina nuclear y dilatacion de la membrana perinuclear. b)Marcada hinchazon mitocondrial y ruptura de sus crestas con perdida de contenida de la matriz mitocondrial. c)Despegue de ribosomas y dilatacion del reticulo endoplasmico. d)Aumento del numero y tamano de las vacuolas autofagicas. e)Aparicion de gotas lipidicas en el citiplasma. En contraste con lo previamente establecido, para el caso de cancer hepatico del vison, el mecanismo del dano renal por NDMA no se pudo correlacionar directamente con la union de metabolitos reactivos de esta a proteinas o acidos nucleicos o la biotransformacion microsomal o mitocondrial de la NDMA o formaldehido. No obstante, el rinon biotransforma la NDMA a CO2, pero lo hace 3-4 veces menos intensamente que el rinon de rata. Los resultados sugeririan la presencia, en el caso del dano renal por NDMA, de mecanismos distintos de accion, a los habitualmente aceptados como responsables del dano hepatico o el renal en otras especies. Alternativamente, el dano renal puede deberse a dano hepatico concomitante


Subject(s)
Animals , Male , Female , Rats , Dimethylnitrosamine/adverse effects , Mink , Mitochondria/pathology , Kidney/metabolism , Kidney Tubules/pathology , Fishes , Liver , Liver/ultrastructure , Meat , Mitochondria/ultrastructure , Kidney , Kidney/ultrastructure , Sodium Nitrite/adverse effects , Kidney Tubules/ultrastructure
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