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R Dargel

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The immunoelectron-microscopical demonstration of antibodies against endoplasmic reticulum (microsomes) in chronic aggressive hepatitis and liver cirrhosis.

Electron microscopic findings made on microsomal fractions of rat liver after treatment with microsomal antibodies obtained from the blood of patients diagnosed as having chronic aggressive hepatitis and liver cirrhosis and after incubation with peroxidase-labelled antihuman IgG are described and presented in this paper. Interpretation of these findings as the substrate of an antibody reaction directed against membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum of hepatocytes is discussed.

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Inhibition of Ca++-stimulated respiration by uncouplers.

In a phosphate medium at pH 6.6 low concentrations of uncouplers such as p-trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone carbonylcyanide and 2,4-dinitrophenol inhibit the oxidation of beta-hydroxybutyrate and succinate, when added during Ca++-accumulation. The inhibition depends on the amount of accumulated Ca++, and is released by N,N,N',N'-tetramethyl-p-phenylendiamine plus ascorbate as substrate. Under identical conditions the uncouplers have no inhibitory effect when added to mitochondria during state 3 respiration or during accumulation of Sr++. Inhibition of respiration by the decrease of transmembranal succinate transport or by accumulation of oxaloacetate can be excluded. It is suggested that accumulation of Ca++ in the presence of phosphate induces structural alteration of the mitochondrial membrane, which on the one hand changes the accessibility or sensitivity of dehydrogenases to uncouplers and causes leakage of accumulated Ca++ on the other.

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