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The Involvement of Altered Vesicle Transport in Redistribution of Ca2+, Mg2+-ATPase in Cholestatic Rat Liver

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Vectorial sorting of plasma membrane protein-containing vesicles is essential for the establishment and maintenance of cell polarity. In the present study, the involvement of altered vesicle transport in the redistribution of membrane-bound Ca2+, Mg2+-ATPase resulting from cholestasis was investigated in hepatocytes. Cholestasis was induced in rat liver by common bile duct ligation. Ca2+, Mg2+-ATPase activity was demonstrated histochemically at the light and electron microscopical levels. Microtubules, an important factor for transcellular transport of vesicles, were studied in situ by immunofluorescence microscopy and electron microscopy in detergent-extracted preparations. The results showed that microtubules underwent significant changes after common bile duct ligation. The most pronounced alteration was focal accumulation of β-tubulin in the cytoplasm of hepato cytes after 7 days of common bile duct ligation. At the electron microscopical level, the number of microtubules was increased considerably. In control livers, the activity of Ca2+, Mg2+-ATPase was localized only at the apical plasma membrane of hepatocytes, but it was also present at the basolateral plasma membrane after common bile duct ligation. The number of intracellular vesicles containing Ca2+, Mg2+-ATPase activity was increased strikingly, and some of them were associated with lateral membrane domains in which Ca2+, Mg2+-ATPase activity was found. It is concluded that common bile duct ligation induces the rearrangement of microtubules, which may disturb vectorial transport of Ca2+, Mg2+-ATPase-containing vesicles in hepatocytes, leading to the redistribution of Ca2+, Mg2+-ATPase. © 1998 Chapman & Hall

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    Ji-Ying Song, Cornelis J. F. Van Noorden & Wilma M. Frederiks

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Song, JY., Van Noorden, C.J.F. & Frederiks, W.M. The Involvement of Altered Vesicle Transport in Redistribution of Ca2+, Mg2+-ATPase in Cholestatic Rat Liver. Histochem J 30, 909–916 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003455608511

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