Glycogen-forming function of hepatocytes in the rat regenerating cirrhotic liver after a partial hepatectomy

Tissue Cell. 1998 Apr;30(2):261-7. doi: 10.1016/s0040-8166(98)80074-8.

Abstract

Rat liver punctate biopsies were used for cytofluorimetric determinations of the content of glycogen and its fractions in hepatocytes, and also for microchemical measurements of the activity of glucose-6-phosphatase, glycogen phosphorylase, and glycogen synthase, in liver tissue with cirrhosis produced by carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) poisoning, during regeneration of the liver after the cessation of poisoning and after a partial resection of the cirrhosed liver. The liver cirrhosis was shown to be characterized by an accumulation of glycogen (predominantly of its metabolically less active fraction) in hepatocytes and by a decrease in the activities of the glycogenolytic enzymes in the liver parenchyma. On the cessation of poisoning, there was a partial or complete return to normal levels of the glycogen metabolism parameters. Some of them returned to normal more quickly if a partial hepatectomy was performed after the cessation of poisoning.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Biopsy
  • Carbon Tetrachloride
  • Glucose-6-Phosphatase / metabolism
  • Glycogen / analysis
  • Glycogen / biosynthesis*
  • Glycogen Synthase / metabolism
  • Hepatectomy*
  • Liver / enzymology*
  • Liver / pathology
  • Liver / surgery
  • Liver Cirrhosis, Experimental / chemically induced
  • Liver Cirrhosis, Experimental / metabolism*
  • Liver Cirrhosis, Experimental / surgery
  • Liver Regeneration / physiology*
  • Male
  • Microsomes / enzymology
  • Phosphorylases / metabolism
  • Rats

Substances

  • Glycogen
  • Carbon Tetrachloride
  • Phosphorylases
  • Glycogen Synthase
  • Glucose-6-Phosphatase