ASSESSMENT OF THE KIDNEY-FUNCTION IN MAINTENANCE OF PLASMA GLUTATHIONE CONCENTRATION AND REDOX STATE IN ANESTHETIZED RATS
ASSESSMENT OF THE KIDNEY-FUNCTION IN MAINTENANCE OF PLASMA GLUTATHIONE CONCENTRATION AND REDOX STATE IN ANESTHETIZED RATS
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DOI:
10.1016/0014-5793(79)80558-x
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
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影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
LACHENMAIER, C
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作者:
HABERLE, D;WAHLLANDER, A;LACHENMAIER, C
Substantial evidence has been provided for a role of the kidney in the metabolic turnover of extracellular glutathione [l-12]. Glutathione has been found in the extracellular space at 3-5 PM in the arterial plasma of the rat [7, 13] and in human venous plasma [141. In studies of the fate of extracellular glutathione the degradation has been proposed to occur mainly on the luminal surface of the renal brush-border membrane and that the y-glutamyl transpeptidase is a gluta~ ionase acting on extracellular glutathione. However, a quantitative assessment of this function of the kidney enzyme in the intact animal was not performed. In order to provide more information on this hypothesis, we measured glutathione uptake by the kidney in the anaesthetized rat 171. Interestingly, renal glutatl~ ione extraction was-90%. In view of the renal Rltration fraction of-30% this indicated that, in addition to the intratubular degradation, there must be a further uptake mechanism for glutathione by the kidney, in accor-Abbreviations: CSH, reduced glutathione; GSSG, glutathione disulfide