Effects of long-term ethanol administration in a rat total enteral nutrition model of alcoholic liver disease
Effects of long-term ethanol administration in a rat total enteral nutrition model of alcoholic liver disease
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DOI:
10.1152/ajpgi.00145.2010
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发表时间:
2011-01-01
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4.5
通讯作者:
Petersen, Dennis R.
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Ronis, Martin J. J.;Hennings, Leah;Petersen, Dennis R.
Male Sprague-Dawley rats were chronically fed a high-unsaturated-fat diet for 130 days by using total enteral nutrition (TEN), or the same diet in which ethanol (EtOH) isocalorically replaced carbohydrate calories. Additional groups were supplemented with the antioxidant N-acetylcysteine (NAC) at 1.7 g.kg(-1).day(-1). Relative to an ad libitum chow-fed group, the high-fat-fed controls had three-to fourfold greater expression of fatty acid transporter CD36 mRNA and developed mild steatosis but little other hepatic pathology. NAC treatment resulted in increased somatic growth relative to controls (4.0 +/- 0.1 vs. 3.1 +/- 0.1 g/day) and increased hepatic steatosis score (3.5 +/- 0.6 vs. 2.7 +/- 1.2), associated with suppression of the triglyceride hydrolyzing protein adiponutrin, but produced no elevation in serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT). Chronic EtOH treatment increased expression of fatty acid transport protein FATP-2 mRNA twofold, resulting in marked hepatic steatosis, oxidative stress, and a twofold elevation in serum ALT. However, no changes in tumor necrosis factor-alpha or transforming growth factor-beta expression were observed. Fibrosis, as measured by Masson's trichrome and picrosirius red staining, and a twofold increase in expression of type I and type III collagen mRNA, was only observed after EtOH treatment. Long-term EtOH treatment increased hepatocyte proliferation but did not modify the hepatic mRNAs for hedgehog pathway ligands or target genes or genes regulating epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition. Although the effects of NAC on EtOH-induced fibrosis could not be fully evaluated, NAC had additive effects on hepatocyte proliferation and prevented EtOH-induced oxidative stress and necrosis, despite a failure to reverse hepatic steatosis.