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HEPATOLOGY
Volume 40, Issue 6, Pages 1342-1351Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/hep.20492
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK061315] Funding Source: Medline
- NIEHS NIH HHS [5 T32 ES07255] Funding Source: Medline
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Coadministration of nonhepatotoxic doses of the histamine 2-receptor antagonist ranitidine (RAN) and bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) results in hepatocellular injury in rats, the onset of which occurs in 3 to 6 hours. This reaction resembles RAN idiosyncratic hepatotoxicity in humans. Early fibrin deposition occurs in livers of rats cotreated with LPS/RAN. Accordingly, we tested the hypothesis that the hemostatic system contributes to liver injury in LPS/RAN-treated rats. Rats were given either LPS (44.4 x 10(6) EU/kg) or its vehicle, then RAN (30 mg/kg) or its vehicle 2 hours later. They were killed 2, 3, 6, 12, or 24 hours after RAN treatment, and liver injury was estimated from serum alanine aminotransferase activity. A modest elevation in serum hyaluronic acid, which was most pronounced in LPS/RAN-cotreated rats, suggested altered sinusoidal endothelial cell function. A decrease in plasma fibrinogen and increases in thrombin-antithrombin dimers and in serum concentration of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 occurred before the onset of liver injury. Hepatic fibrin deposition was observed in livers from LPS/RAN-cotreated rats 3 and 6 hours after RAN. Liver injury was abolished by the anticoagulant heparin and was significantly attenuated by the fibrinolytic agent streptokinase. Hypoxia, one potential consequence of sinusoidal fibrin deposition, was observed in livers of LPS/RAN-treated rats. In conclusion, the results suggest that the hemostatic system is activated after LPS/RAN cotreatment and that fibrin deposition in liver is important for the genesis of hepatic parenchymal cell injury in this model.
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