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Hyperbaric oxygen stimulates cell proliferation and normalizes multidrug resistance protein‐2 protein localization in primary rat hepatocytes
Author(s) -
MIZUGUCHI TORU,
OSHIMA HIDEKI,
IMAIZUMI HITOSHI,
KOHARA HIROSHI,
KAWAMOTO MASAKI,
NOBUOKA TAKAYUKI,
KAWASAKI HIROYUKI,
HARADA KEISUKE,
MASUDA YOSHIKI,
KIKKAWA YAMATO,
MITAKA TOSHIHIRO,
ASAI YASUFUMI,
HIRATA KOICHI
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
wound repair and regeneration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.847
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1524-475X
pISSN - 1067-1927
DOI - 10.1111/j.1524-475x.2005.00077.x
Subject(s) - bone canaliculus , hepatocyte , in vitro , multiple drug resistance , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , chemistry , pathology , biochemistry , medicine , anatomy , antibiotics
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) has been used for many clinical treatments, including primary liver nonfunction. However, the cellular mechanism by which HBO treatment ameliorates liver function is not understood. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to elucidate this cellular mechanism using primary cultured rat hepatocytes in in vitro studies. Hepatocytes were treated with HBO at 1 day after plating, and the morphological and functional characteristics of bile canaliculi formed in cultured hepatocytes were observed by time‐lapse microscopy. Multidrug resistance protein‐2 localization was observed by confocal laser microscopy. In cultured hepatocytes, the labeling index in the HBO group at 2 days after treatment was significantly higher than that in the control group. In addition, the proliferating cellular nuclear antigen level in the HBO group was significantly higher than that in the control group. The contraction of the bile canaliculi in the HBO group was slower than in the control group and the dilatation of bile canaliculi in the HBO group was much larger than in the control group. Multidrug resistance protein‐2 in the HBO group was localized at the apical membrane. These results show that HBO stimulates hepatocytes to proliferate and HBO normalizes Multidrug resistance protein‐2 localization to the apical membrane, which could dilate bile canaliculi.