Pravastatin for thioacetamide-induced hepatic failure and encephalopathy.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:Nitric oxide (NO) inhibition aggravates hepatic damage and encephalopathy and increases mortality in rats with thioacetamide (TAA)-induced acute liver failure. Statins enhance NO production but whether they influence the above parameters are unknown. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Male Sprague-Dawley rats were used. In the first series, TAA (350 mg/kg per day, i.p. for 3 days) was administered to induce acute liver failure. Control rats received saline. Rats received distilled water or pravastatin (20 mg/kg per day, p.o.) from 2 days before to 3 days after TAA or saline injection. In the second series, liver cirrhosis was induced by common bile duct ligation (BDL). Sham-operated rats served as controls. Rats received distilled water or pravastatin for 5 or 14 days until the 42nd day after operation. On the last day of treatment, survival, motor activities, serum levels of alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), bilirubin, ammonia and brain histology were evaluated. RESULTS:Thioacetamide and BDL rats showed higher ALT, AST, bilirubin and ammonia levels and lower motor activity counts compared with their corresponding control groups. In TAA rats, pravastatin elicited higher total and ambulatory motor activity counts and lower AST and total bilirubin levels. Survival was improved, whereas brain H&E staining was not significantly different in TAA rats with or without pravastatin treatment. In BDL groups, rats with or without pravastatin treatment were not different in motor activity counts and liver biochemistry. CONCLUSIONS:Pravastatin ameliorates hepatic encephalopathy and liver biochemistry and improves survival in rats with acute liver failure, but not in those with cirrhosis.

journal_name

Eur J Clin Invest

authors

Huang HC,Chang CC,Wang SS,Chan CY,Lee FY,Chuang CL,Hsin IF,Teng TH,Lin HC,Lee SD

doi

10.1111/j.1365-2362.2011.02566.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-02-01 00:00:00

pages

139-45

issue

2

eissn

0014-2972

issn

1365-2362

journal_volume

42

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