Acid lipase activity in neonatal rat liver cell types. Effect of starvation |
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| Authors: | F Burgaya M Llobera I Ramírez |
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| Affiliation: | Department de Bioquimica i Fisiologia, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. |
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| Abstract: | The acid lipase activity in the liver of neonatal (1-day-old) rats was studied. It was found that (i) in whole liver, the activity was 50% lower than in adult rats; (ii) in neonatal livers, the activity was 7.7-fold higher in hepatocytes than in hemopoietic cells; (iii) neonatal hepatocytes contained about 25% of the activity detected in adult hepatocytes; (iv) all the differences disappeared when expressed per mg of protein; and (v) starvation did not affect the activity either in adult or in neonatal rat liver. |
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