Abstract
Pyrrolizidine alkaloid monocrotaline (MCT) induces sinusoidal obstruction syndrome (SOS) in rats characterised by a sinusoidal congestive obstruction. Additionally, MCT administration decreases the biliary excretion of gadobenate dimeglumine (BOPTA), a hepatobiliary substrate used in clinical imaging. BOPTA crosses hepatocyte membranes through organic anion transporting polypeptides, multidrug-resistance-associated protein 2, and Mrp3/4 transporters, and a modified function of these transporters is likely to explain the decreased biliary excretion. This study compared BOPTA transport across hepatocytes in livers isolated from normal (Nl) rats and rats with intragastric administration of MCT. BOPTA hepatocyte influx clearance was similar in both groups, while biliary clearance and bile concentrations were much lower in MCT than in Nl livers. BOPTA efflux clearance back to the sinusoids compensated for the low biliary excretion, and hepatocyte concentrations remained similar in both groups. This SOS-associated changes of transporter functions might impact the pharmacokinetics of numerous drugs that use similar transporters to cross hepatocytes.
Funder
Swiss National Science Foundation
Subject
Inorganic Chemistry,Organic Chemistry,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Computer Science Applications,Spectroscopy,Molecular Biology,General Medicine,Catalysis
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2 articles.
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