The endoplasmic reticulum in regenerating liver cells

1985 ◽  
Vol 240 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lillemor Lewan ◽  
Hadar Emanuelsson
1988 ◽  
Vol 263 (5) ◽  
pp. 2299-2303 ◽  
Author(s):  
L Combettes ◽  
M Dumont ◽  
B Berthon ◽  
S Erlinger ◽  
M Claret

1991 ◽  
Vol 273 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
J F Coquil ◽  
B Berthon ◽  
N Chomiki ◽  
L Combettes ◽  
P Jourdon ◽  
...  

The monohydroxy bile acid taurolithocholate permeabilizes the endoplasmic reticulum to Ca2+ in rat liver cells. To assess whether this action on the endoplasmic reticulum was restricted to this tissue, the effects of bile acid were investigated in two cell types quite unrelated to rat hepatocyte, namely human platelets and neuronal NG108-15 cell line. The results showed that taurolithocholate (3-100 microM) had no effect on free cytosolic [Ca2+] in human platelets and NG108-15 cells. whereas it increased it from 180 to 520 nM in rat hepatocytes. In contrast, in cells permeabilized by saponin, taurolithocholate initiated a profound release of the stored Ca2+ from the internal Ca2+ pools in the three cell types. The bile acid released 90% of the Ca2+ pools, with rate constants of about 5 min-1 and half-maximal effects at 15-30 microM. The results also showed that, in contrast with liver cells, which displayed an influx of [14C]taurolithocholate of 2 nmol/min per mg, human platelets and the neuronal cell line appeared to be resistant to [14C]taurolithocholate uptake. The influx measured in these latter cells was about 100-fold lower than in rat liver cells. Taken together, these data suggest that human platelets and NG108-15 cells do not possess the transport system for concentrating monohydroxy bile acids into cells. However, they show that human platelets and neuronal NG108-15 possess, in common with liver cells, the intracellular system responsible for taurolithocholate-mediated Ca2+ release from internal stores.


1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 319-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Youdale ◽  
J. F. Whitfield ◽  
R. H. Rixon

Between 16 and 20 h after partial (70%) hepatectomy (HPX) in normal rats, the remaining liver cells accumulate ribonucleotide reductase subunits, assemble these into active holoenzyme, and initiate DNA replication. These late prereplicative activities did not occur in most of the liver cells remaining after HPX in rats which had been thyroparathyroidectomized (TPTX) 72 h previously. However, one intraperitoneal injection of 400 or 600 ng 1α, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3/100 g body weight at the time of HPX enabled the remaining liver cells in such TPTX rats to make functional ribonucleotide reductase subunits, assemble these subunits into active CDP-reducing holoenzymes, and replicate their DNA, though they started to do so 4 to 16 h later than in normal animals.


Nature ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 204 (4964) ◽  
pp. 1210-1211 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. GHOSE ◽  
S. C. TSO

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