Cells Kupffer

Dobrenis K, Makman MH, Stefano GB (1995) Occurrence of the opiate alkaloid-selective p. receptor in mammahan microglia, astrocytes and Kupffer cells. Brain Res 686 239-248 Donahoe RM (2004) Multiple ways that drug abuse might influence AIDS progression clues from a monkey model. J Neuroimmunol 147 28-32... 

Inhibition of superoxide and nitric oxide release and protection from reoxygenation injury by ebselen in rat Kupffer cells. Hepatology 15, 1112-1116. 

Hepatic reperfusion injury is not a phenomenon connected solely to liver transplantation but also to situations of prolonged hypoperfusion of the host s own liver. Examples of this occurrence are hypovolemic shock and acute cardiovascular injur) (heart attack). As a result of such cessation and then reintroduction of blood flow, the liver is damaged such that centrilobular necrosis occurs and elevated levels of liver enzymes in the serum can be detected. Particularly because of the involvement of other organs, the interpretation of the role of free radicals in ischaemic hepatitis from this clinical data is very difficult. The involvement of free radicals in the overall phenomenon of hypovolemic shock has been discussed recently by Redl et al. (1993). More specifically. Poll (1993) has reported preliminary data on markers of free-radical production during ischaemic hepatitis. These markers mostly concerned indices of lipid peroxidation in the serum and also in the erythrocytes of affected subjects, and a correlation was seen with the extent of liver injury. The mechanisms of free-radical damage in this model will be difficult to determine in the clinical setting, but the similarity to the situation with transplanted liver surest that the above discussion of the role of XO activation, Kupffer cell activation and induction of an acute inflammatory response would be also relevant here. It will be important to establish whether oxidative stress is important in the pathogenesis of ischaemic hepatitis and in the problems of liver transplantation discussed above, since it would surest that antioxidant therapy could be of real benefit. 

Edwards, M.J., Keller, B.J., Kauffman, F.C. and Thurman, KG. (1993). The involvement of Kupffer cells in carbon tetrachloride toxicity. Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 119, 275-279. 

Blood flowing from the intestines to the liver through the hepatic portal vein often contains bacteria. Filtration of this blood is a protective function provided by the liver. Large phagocytic macrophages, referred to as Kupffer cells, line the hepatic venous sinuses. As the blood flows through these sinuses, bacteria are rapidly taken up and digested by the Kupffer cells. This system is very efficient and removes more than 99% of the bacteria from the hepatic portal blood. 

Figure 8.1 Body iron stores and daily iron exchange. The figure shows a schematic representation of the routes of iron movement in normal adult male subjects. The plasma iron pool is about 4 mg (transferrin-bound iron and non-transferrin-bound iron), although the daily turnover is over 30 mg. The iron in parenchymal tissues is largely haem (in muscle) and ferritin/haemosiderin (in hepatic parenchymal cells). Dotted arrows represent iron loss through loss of epithelial cells in the gut or through blood loss. Numbers are in mg/day. Transferrin-Tf haemosiderin - hs MPS - mononuclear phagocytic system, including macrophages in spleen and Kupffer cells in liver.

HA-coated micelles with LSECs and Kupffer cells were investigated. The HA-coated micelles were taken up only into LSECs. These results suggest the potential utility of the HA-coated micelles as highly stable drug delivery vehicles exhibiting specific accumulation into LSECs [202]. 

Harper, G.R., Davis, S.S., Davies, M.C., Norman, M.E., Tadros, T.F., Taylor, D.C., Irvin, M.P., Waters, J.A., and Watts, J.F. (1995) Influence of surface coverage with poly(ethylene oxide) on attachment of sterically stabilized microspheres to rat Kupffer cells in vitro. Biomaterials 16, 427-439. 

Inhalation studies at the U.S. Air Force Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory showed an increased tumor response (hemangiosarcomas and Kupffer cell sarcomas) in mice exposed at 5 ppm, 6 h/d, 5 d/w for 6 mon (MacEwen and Vernot 1977, and Flaun 1977, reviewed in Trochimowicz 1994). Rats similarly exposed at 5 ppm exhibited increased incidences of squamous cell carcinomas of the lung and hepatocellular carcinomas. Hamsters subjected to a similar experimental protocol failed to show an increased incidence of tumors (MacEwen and Vernot 1975). It must be noted that the 1,1-dimethylhydrazine used in these studies contained 0.12% dimethylnitrosamine, which could be a significant confounder. 

Callery, M., Mangino, M., and Flye, M., Kupffer cell prostaglandin-E2 production is amplified during hepatic regeneration, Hepatology, 14, 368, 1991. 

Hepatocytes produce nitrogen oxides from L-arginine in response to inflammatory products of Kupffer cells,/. Exp. Med. 170 (1989), 1769-1774... 

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