Muscle wasting and branched-chain amino acid, alpha-ketoglutarate, and ATP depletion in a rat model of liver cirrhosis

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/iep.12299" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/iep.12299</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/iep.12299" target="_blank" >10.1111/iep.12299</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Muscle wasting and branched-chain amino acid, alpha-ketoglutarate, and ATP depletion in a rat model of liver cirrhosis

Original language description

The aim of the study was to examine if a rat model of liver cirrhosis induced by carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) is a suitable model of muscle wasting and alterations in amino acid and ammonia metabolism observed in cirrhotic humans. Rats were treated by intragastric gavage of CCl4 or vehicle, thrice a week, for 45 days. Blood plasma and different muscle types - tibialis anterior (mostly white fibres), soleus (red muscle), and extensor digitorum longus (white muscle) - were analysed at the end of the study. Characteristic biomarkers of impaired hepatic function were found in plasma of cirrhotic animals. The weights and protein contents of all muscles of CCl4-treated animals were lower when compared to controls. Increased concentrations of glutamine (GLN) and aromatic amino acids (phenylalanine and tyrosine) and decreased concentrations of branched-chain amino acids (BCAA), glutamate, alanine, and aspartate were found in plasma and muscles. In soleus muscle, GLN increased more and glutamate and BCAA decreased less than in extensor digitorum and tibialis muscles. In muscles of cirrhotic animals increased chymotrypsin-like activity (indicates enhanced proteolysis) and decreased α-ketoglutarate and ATP levels. ATP concentration decreased also in blood plasma. It is concluded that rat model of CCl4-induced cirrhosis is a valid model for investigation of hepatic cachexia that exhibits alterations in line with a theory of role of ammonia in pathogenesis of BCAA depletion, citric cycle and mitochondria dysfunction, and muscle wasting in cirrhotic subjects. The findings indicate more effective ammonia detoxification to GLN in red than white muscles.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30109 - Pathology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Experimental Pathology

ISSN

0959-9673

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

99

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

274-281

UT code for WoS article

000459467900139

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85059957465