Effects of chronic ethanol feeding and acetaldehyde metabolism on calcium transport by rat liver mitochondria |
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| Authors: | M A Korsten E R Gordon J Klingenstein C S Lieber |
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| Affiliation: | Center de Biophysique Moléculaire, C.N.R.S. 1A, avenue de la Recherche Scientifique 45045 Orléans cedex, France |
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| Abstract: | The prolonged feeding of ethanol to rats alters in vitro mitochondrial transport of calcium. Hepatic mitochondria isolated from rats fed ethanol for 7 weeks exhibited decreased retention of calcium in the presence of 4mM-Pi. This defect was associated with enhanced efflux of calcium when mitochondria were incubated with EGTA. Acetaldehyde at low, "physiological" concentrations (100 microM) enhanced calcium retention by mitochondria but this response was blunted after chronic ethanol administration. The in vitro actions of acetaldehyde appear to be mediated, in part, by its metabolism in mitochondria since pretreatment of rats with cyanamide (an aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibitor) prevents this effect. |
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