Wakizaka, Y and Miki, T and Rao, AS and Wang, X and Goller, AL and Demetris, AJ and Fung, JJ and Starzl, TE and Valdivia, LA
(1997)
Correction of congenital hyperbilirubinemia in homozygous Gunn rats by xenotransplantation of hamster livers.
Xenotransplantation, 4 (4).
262 - 266.
ISSN 0908-665X
Abstract
The homozygous Gunnj/jrat is an animal model for Crigler-Najjar syndrome in which the lack of the enzyme uridine diphosphoglucoronate-glucuronosyltransferase (UDP-GT) results in congenital unconjugated nonhemolytic hyperbilirubinemia. Because the binding of bilirubin to albumin in plasma varies from species to species, xenotransplantation (XTx) of liver afforded in this model the opportunity to study the interactions between xenoproteins of the donor and bilirubin of the recipient. For this purpose, orthotopic liver transplantation (OLTx) was performed from hamster to adult Gunnj/j rats. No immunosuppression (IS) was given to controls (Group I, n=5) and to OLTx recipients of syngeneic (Gunnj/j rat) grafts (Group II, n=5), whereas tacrolimus (1 mg/kg/day × 15 days, IM) and cyclophosphamide (8 mg/kg/day × 7 days, IP) were administered to animals receiving hamster xenografts (Group III, n=11). While untreated animals (Group I) died within 7 days (6.8±0.2 days) post-transplantation (Tx), the use however of IS resulted in prolonged (30.2±6.8 days) survival of xenogeneic recipients (Group III) who eventually succumbed to rejection. A precipitous decline in total serum bilirubin (TBili) from pre-operative levels of 5.3±1.0 mg/dL to 0.5±0.2 mg/dL was noted in both Group I and III animals, an observation that sustained itself only in the latter group during the course of their follow-up. The decrease in TBili was also associated with a contemporaneous increase in biliary concentration of conjugated bilirubin. No noticeable reversal of hyperbilirubinemia was however observed in OLTx recipients of syngeneic grafts (Group II). Taken together, these data suggest that hamster albumin and hepatocyte-associated xenoproteins and enzymes involved in the process of membrane transport and glucuronidation of bilirubin, functioned efficaciously after OLTx in Gunnj/jrats, resulting in the reversal of the inborn error of metabolism for the duration of follow-up. © Munksgaard, Copenhagen.
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| Wakizaka, Y | | | | | Miki, T | | | | | Rao, AS | | | | | Wang, X | | | | | Goller, AL | | | | | Demetris, AJ | | | | | Fung, JJ | | | | | Starzl, TE | tes11@pitt.edu | TES11 | | | Valdivia, LA | | | |
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Other Centers, Institutes, Offices, or Units > Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute |
| Date: |
1 January 1997 |
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Publication |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Xenotransplantation |
| Volume: |
4 |
| Number: |
4 |
| Page Range: |
262 - 266 |
| DOI or Unique Handle: |
10.1111/j.1399-3089.1997.tb00191.x |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| ISSN: |
0908-665X |
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uls-drl:31735062127810, Starzl CV No. 2060 |
| Date Deposited: |
08 Apr 2010 17:35 |
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22 Jun 2021 16:55 |
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http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/5446 |
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