Avaliação do emprego da pentoxifilina na regeneração hepática em ratos submetidos à hepatectomia parcial / Effect of pentoxifylline in liver regeneration in rats submitted to partial hepatectomy

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

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Liver surgery has grown extraordinarily from the first planned ressection performed by Langenbuch in 1888, and the first successful orthotopic liver transplantation by Starzl in 1963 to the extended liver resections and living donors liver transplantations currently performed in many centers. It occurred, among others factors, because of the recognition of the great liver regenerative capacity. Liver regeneration has been object of study for almost 100 years. However the mechanism by which hepatocytes replication is stimulated is not completely elucidated. Cytokines, mainly TNF- and IL-6, play a pivotal role in liver regeneration mechanism. However they also contribute to hepatocytes damage mechanisms, like in ischemia-reperfusion injury. Indeed some studies are conflicting, and show different effects of TNF- inhibition in liver regeneration. Pentoxifylline is a methylxanthine compound known to inhibits TNF- production by monocytic cells. The present study aims to evaluate the effect of pentoxifylline in liver regeneration in rats submitted to 70% hepatectomy. The animals were randomized into 4 groups: Control, group I (sham), Group II (hepatectomy + saline) and group III (hepatectomy + pentoxifylline). AST and ALT serum levels were determined at 2, 6 and 48 hours after the procedure, TNF- and IL-6 serum levels and liver tissue levels were determined at 2 and 6 hours after the operation. Mitotic index and PCNA were performed to quantify liver regeneration 48 hours after the procedure. We found that pentoxifylline reduces TNF- and IL-6 serum levels, without changes in the liver tissue levels. These results were associated with an improvement liver regeneration evaluated by the mitotic index and the PCNA. We concluded that pentoxifylline improved liver regeneration after 70% hepatectomy by a mechanism that comprises blood but not hepatic cytokines reduction

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hepatectomy citocinas rats ratos cytokines hepatectomia regeneração hepática liver regeneration

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