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- Title
Monocrotaline Toxicity Alters the Function of Hepatocyte Membrane Transporters in Rats.
- Authors
Pastor, Catherine M.; Vilgrain, Valérie
- 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.
- Subjects
ORGANIC anion transporters; MEMBRANE transport proteins; MONOCROTALINE; HEPATIC veno-occlusive disease; PYRROLIZIDINES; RATS; POLYPEPTIDES
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022, Vol 23, Issue 14, p7928
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms23147928