Abstract：
:To confirm and extend our previous microspectrophotometric observations of 30-week-old male Long-Evans Cinnamon (LEC) rats, an animal model of human Wilson's disease, we analyzed the porphyrin patterns of the organs, urine, and plasma of LEC rats. Abnormal accumulation of porphyrins, especially highly carboxylated porphyrins (uro- and heptaporphyrin), in the kidneys and liver was seen in male and female LEC rats aged 30 weeks and also in 10-week-old rats, before the onset of spontaneous hepatic dysfunction. Accumulation of copper and iron in the kidneys was not observed in the 10-week-old rats. Massive accumulation of porphyrins was observed only in the kidneys of the 30-week-old male LEC rat, indicating that this symptom is related to sex and age. Renal accumulation of porphyrins was reflected in the rate of urinary porphyrin excretion. Hepatic accumulation of porphyrins appeared to be independent of sex and age. These results indicate that neither renal nor hepatic porphyrin accumulation is the result of renal deposition of metals or of spontaneous hepatic dysfunction and that porphyrinuria in the LEC rat is closely related to the renal accumulation of porphyrins. In contrast to these organs, a reduction in the porphyrin levels was observed in the brain of the LEC rat. This was independent of sex and age. The present work stresses the existence of an abnormal heme metabolism in the LEC rat, and thus, the necessity to study the heme metabolism in human Wilson's disease is strongly suggested.
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Arch Biochem Biophysjournal_title
Archives of biochemistry and biophysicsauthors
Nakayama K,Takasawa A,Terai I,Okui T,Ohyama T,Tamura Mdoi
10.1006/abbi.1999.1641subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2000-03-15 00:00:00pages
240-50issue
2eissn
0003-9861issn
1096-0384pii
S0003-9861(99)91641-7journal_volume
375pub_type
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