Vulnerability of experimentally induced fatty liver to heat stress in rats

Journal of Gastroenterology
Hiromasa InoueNoriaki Ikeda

Abstract

The aim of this study was to confirm the vulnerability of fatty liver to heat stress using fatty liver rats from the viewpoint of the induction of apoptosis. We exposed rats with and without a fatty liver to heat stress and then looked for apoptotic cells within the liver tissue using two apoptosis detection kits. We also determined the mRNA expression of heat shock protein (HSP) 70, caspase-3, bcl-2, and bax using a quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction method. Following heat stress, apoptosis was strongly visible in the fatty liver comparing with that noted in the normal liver. The expression of HSP70 was increased following heat stress in both livers, but the volume of its expression was significantly less in the fatty liver than in the normal liver. The ratio of bcl-2/bax expression tended to increase in the normal liver but decrease in the fatty liver following heat stress. Caspase-3 demonstrated no significant change following heat stress in both livers. The detection of apoptosis, together with changes in the mRNA expression of HSP70 and the expression ratio bcl-2/bax mRNA may indicate vulnerability of a fatty liver to heat stress and may support the hypothesis that morphologic change is induced in...Continue Reading

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