UNILATERAL BRAIN INJURY IN THE RABBIT; REVERSIBLE AND IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE OF THE MEMBRANAL ATPases |
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Authors: | M. Rigoulet B. Guerin F. Cohadon M. Vandendreissche |
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Affiliation: | Laboratoire de Biochimie, UER de Biochimie &Biologie Cellulaire, Universitéde Bordeaux II, 351 cours de la Libération, 33405 Talcnce cedex, France;Département de Neurobiologie et de Neurochirurgie Expérimentale, Universitéde Bordeaux II, 146 rue Léo Saignat, B.P. 48, 33076 Bordeaux cedex, France |
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Abstract: | Modifications of some membranal enzymatic activities in rabbit brain edema induced by cold injury were studied. The edema was characterized by the tissue H2O content and the K+/Na+ ratio. Comparison of the respiratory rate of isolated mitochondria in the state 3 and 4 and the ADP/O ratio suggested an alteration in the ATP synthesis mechanism. The oligomycin sensitive ATPase activity was severely reduced in mitochondria isolated from edematous cells. The alteration of the ouabain sensitive Na+-K+-ATPase was first qualitative in the sense where the response of the ATPase to the K+/Na+ ratio was modified. A loss of the total activity was then observed. Intravenous injection of CDP choline induced a regression of the edema, a restoration of the sensitivity of the mitochondrial ATPase towards oligomycin and a restoration of the sensitivity of the Na+-K+-ATPase to the K+/Na+ ratio. These results suggest that the reversible damages of the cells induced by cold injury were due to a disorder at the protein-lipid interaction level. |
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