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Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 269: G103-G109, 1995;
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AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 269, Issue 1 103-G109, Copyright © 1995 by American Physiological Society

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Chronic renal failure increases cytosolic Ca2+ of hepatocytes

M. Klin, M. Smogorzewski and S. G. Massry
Division of Nephrology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90033, USA.

Chronic renal failure (CRF) is associated with increased Ca2+ content of liver and reduced hepatic lipase activity. This has been attributed to a rise in cytosolic Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) of the hepatocytes, but data on this issue are lacking. We examined the [Ca2+]i and ATP content of hepatocytes as well as the activity of Na(+)-K(+)-adenosinetriphosphatase (Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase), Ca(2+)-ATPase, and Na+/Ca2+ exchanger of hepatic membrane vesicles from normal rats, animals with 6 wk of CRF, CRF normocalcemic parathyroidectomized (CRF-PTX) rats, and CRF and normal animals treated with verapamil (CRF-V, normal-V). [Ca2+]i in hepatocytes of CRF rats was higher (281 +/- 7.4 nM) and ATP lower (6.4 +/- 1.8 nmol/mg protein) than in normal (209 +/- 5.3 nM; 12.5 +/- 0.89 nmol/mg protein), CRF-PTX (212 +/- 1.0 nM; 13.7 +/- 0.79 nmol/mg protein), normal-V (215 +/- 2.3 nM; 14.2 +/- 0.77 nmol/mg protein), and CRF-V rats (209 +/- 7.4 nM; 14.8 +/- 0.72 nmol/10(6) cells). The Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase, the maximal velocity of Ca(2+)-ATPase, and the activity of the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger were reduced, whereas the Michaelis constant of Ca(2+)-ATPase was increase in CRF rats compared with the other four groups of rats. The values in the latter groups were not different.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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