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Hoffmann, R. A wiki for the life sciences where authorship matters. Nature Genetics (2008)
 
 
 
 
 

Diminished rates of glucuronidation and sulfation in perfused rat liver after chronic ethanol administration.

Rates of glucuronidation and sulfation of 7-hydroxycoumarin were studied in perfused livers from normal chow-fed rats, or in livers from rats that had been fed liquid control or ethanol-containing diets. During infusion of 100 microM 7-hydroxycoumarin, rates of glucuronidation were similar in livers from chow-fed or control diet rats, but were 34% less in livers from ethanol-fed rats. These rates of glucuronidation in perfused livers could not be explained by changes of UDP-glucuronyltransferase activity, which was highest in hepatic microsomes from ethanol-treated rats and lowest in microsomes from chow-fed rats. The low rates of glucuronidation in livers from ethanol-treated rats were correlated with low hepatic concentrations of UDP-glucuronic acid, which were less than 70% of the levels measured in the other treatment groups. However, the diminished UDP-glucuronic acid levels could not be explained by alterations in adenine nucleotides, NAD+/NADH ratios, glycogen, UDP-glucose, or activity of UDP-glucose dehydrogenase. Rates of sulfation declined during prolonged 7-hydroxycoumarin infusion in livers from ethanol-treated rats, but not in livers from rats that had received the control diet. Similarly, hepatic concentrations of adenosine-3'-phosphate 5'-sulfatophosphate (PAPS) also decreased with time only in livers from ethanol-treated rats. Thus, chronic ethanol feeding impairs glucuronidation and sulfation in perfused livers as a result of diminished availability of the required cofactors for these conjugation pathways.[1]

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