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Use of Ca2+ Modulation to Evaluate Biliary Excretion in Sandwich-Cultured Rat Hepatocytes

Xingrong Liu, Edward L. LeCluyse, Kenneth R. Brouwer, Ruth M. Lightfoot, Jacqueline I. Lee and Kim L. R. Brouwer
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics June 1999, 289 (3) 1592-1599;
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Previous work in our laboratory has indicated that biliary excretion of a substrate in sandwich-cultured hepatocytes can be quantitated by measurement of substrate accumulation in the presence and absence of extracellular Ca2+. The present study was designed to examine the effects of Ca2+ on taurocholate accumulation and tight junction integrity in cultured hepatocytes. Kinetic modeling was used to characterize taurocholate disposition in the hepatocyte monolayers in the presence and absence of extracellular Ca2+. The accumulation of taurocholate in freshly isolated hepatocytes, which lack an intact canalicular network, was the same in the presence and absence of extracellular Ca2+. Electron microscopy studies showed that Ca2+ depletion increased the permeability of the tight junctions to ruthenium red, demonstrating that tight junctions were the major diffusional barrier between the canalicular lumen and the extracellular space. Cell morphology and substrate accumulation studies in the monolayers indicated that Ca2+ depletion disrupted the tight junctions in 1 to 2 min. The integrity of the disrupted tight junctions was not re-established completely after reincubation in the presence of Ca2+ for 1 h. The accumulation of taurocholate was described best by a two-compartment model (cytosol and bile) with Michaelis-Menten kinetics for both uptake and biliary excretion. In summary, Ca2+depletion does not alter hepatocyte transport properties of taurocholate. Ca2+ modulation may be a useful approach to study biliary excretion of substrates in sandwich-cultured hepatocytes.

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  • Send reprint requests to: Dr. Kim L. R. Brouwer, Pharm. D., Ph.D., Division of Drug Delivery and Disposition, School of Pharmacy, CB# 7360, Beard Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7360. E-mail:kbrouwer{at}unc.edu

  • ↵1 This work was supported in part by National Institutes of Health Grant GM41935. X.L. was supported in part by a fellowship sponsored by Glaxo Wellcome, Inc.

  • ↵2 Current affiliation: Division of Bioanalysis and Drug Metabolism, Glaxo Wellcome, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.

  • ↵3 Current affiliation: Department of Pathology, Glaxo Wellcome, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.

  • Abbreviations:
    DMEM
    Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium
    AIC
    Akaike’s Information Criterion
    • Received July 9, 1998.
    • Accepted February 16, 1999.
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Use of Ca2+ Modulation to Evaluate Biliary Excretion in Sandwich-Cultured Rat Hepatocytes

Xingrong Liu, Edward L. LeCluyse, Kenneth R. Brouwer, Ruth M. Lightfoot, Jacqueline I. Lee and Kim L. R. Brouwer
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics June 1, 1999, 289 (3) 1592-1599;

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