SEVERE AND PROGRESSIVE STEATOSIS AND FOCAL NECROSIS IN RAT-LIVER INDUCED BY CONTINUOUS INTRAGASTRIC INFUSION OF ETHANOL AND LOW FAT DIET
SEVERE AND PROGRESSIVE STEATOSIS AND FOCAL NECROSIS IN RAT-LIVER INDUCED BY CONTINUOUS INTRAGASTRIC INFUSION OF ETHANOL AND LOW FAT DIET
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DOI:
10.1002/hep.1840050212
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
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影响因子:
13.5
通讯作者:
LARGMAN, C
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作者:
TSUKAMOTO, H;FRENCH, SW;LARGMAN, C
Blood alcohol levels (BAL) were maintained at high levels (in 14 alcoholic rats at 216.0 .+-. 120.1 mg%) in male Wistar rats for 15-85 days by continuous intragastric infusion of ethanol and nutritionally defined low fat liquid diet. The ethanol intake was progressively increased from 32% of total calories up to 41.4% in order to maintain high BAL. Pair-fed animals received isocaloric glucose solution and the liquid diet. Despite the low level of dietary fat (4.9% of total calories), histopathological evaluation of the liver revealed severe and progressive fatty infiltration in the alcoholic rats. In addition, following 30 days of intoxication, 1/3 of the animals showed focal necrosis with mononuclear cell infiltration in centrilobular areas of the livers. This was correlated with the markedly elevated levels of SGOT [serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase] and SGPT [serum glutamic syruvic transaminase] in these animals. Pair-fed controls showed no abnormality in the morphology of liver or blood chemistry. Chemical quantitation of liver triglycerides confirmed the histological observations, with triglyceride levels of 61.51 .+-. 16.45 and 89.61 .+-. 5.94 mg/g at 30 and 85 days, respectively. The degree of steatosis was tightly and significantly correlated with the mean BAL achieved (r = 0.80, P < 0.001). Continuously high BAL correlate with the severity of alcohol-induced liver pathology.