dc.contributorUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.contributorUniversidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM)
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-20T15:32:44Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-05T17:11:48Z
dc.date.available2014-05-20T15:32:44Z
dc.date.available2022-10-05T17:11:48Z
dc.date.created2014-05-20T15:32:44Z
dc.date.issued2008-11-10
dc.identifierToxicology Letters. Clare: Elsevier B.V., v. 182, n. 1-3, p. 115-120, 2008.
dc.identifier0378-4274
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/41558
dc.identifier10.1016/j.toxlet.2008.09.004
dc.identifierWOS:000261285800019
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/3912464
dc.description.abstractMonocrotaline (MCT) is a pyrrolizidine alkaloid present in the plants of the Crotalaria species that causes cytotoxicity and genotoxicity in animals and humans, and it is hepatically metabolized to the alkylating agent dehydromonocrotaline by cytochrome P-450. The exact cellular and molecular mechanisms of MCT- induced tissue injury remain unclear. We previously demonstrated that dehydromonocrotaline, but not monocrotaline, inhibits the activity of NADH-dehydrogenase at micromolar concentrations in isolated liver mitochondria, an effect associated with significantly reduced ATP synthesis. Impairment of energy metabolism is expected to lead to several alterations in cell metabolism. In this work, the action of different concentrations of monocrotaline (250, 500, and 750 mu M) on energy metabolism-linked parameters was investigated in isolated perfused rat livers. In the fed state, monocrotaline increased glycogenolysis and glycolysis, whereas in the livers of fasted Fats, it decreased gluconeogenesis and urea synthesis from L-alanine. These metabolic alterations were only found in livers of phenobarbital-treated rats, indicating that active metabolites including dehydromonocrotaline were responsible for the obsorved activity. Our findings indicate that hepatic metabolic changes may be implicated, partly at least, in the hepatotoxicity of monocrotaline in animals and humans. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherElsevier B.V.
dc.relationToxicology Letters
dc.relation3.166
dc.relation1,103
dc.rightsAcesso restrito
dc.sourceWeb of Science
dc.subjectMonocrotaline
dc.subjectDehydromorrocrotaline
dc.subjectLiver metabolism
dc.subjectGlycogenolysis
dc.subjectGluconeogenesis
dc.subjectUrea cycle
dc.titleEffects of monocrotaline on energy metabolism in the rat liver
dc.typeArtigo


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