Effects of diosgenin, a plant-derived steroid, on bile secretion and hepatocellular cholestasis induced by estrogens in the rat

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Accatino, L
Pizarro, M
Solís, N
Koenig, CS
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[1] Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Fac Med, Dept Gastroenterol, Sch Med, Santiago, Chile
[2] Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Fac Biol Sci, Dept Cell & Mol Biol, Santiago, Chile
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10.1002/hep.510280118
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Increased biliary secretion of cholesterol and lipid vesicles (unilamellae and multilamellae) induced by diosgenin (D), a plant-derived steroid, has cytoprotective effects in the rat liver subjected to obstructive cholestasis. In this study, our aims were to investigate the following: 1) the effects of D on the bile secretory process and on the cholestasis induced by estradiol-17 beta-(beta-D-glucuronide) (E17G) or 17 alpha-ethynylestradiol(E) administration; 2) whether the potentially protective effects of D are related to D-induced increase of biliary cholesterol and lipid lamellae; and 3) whether D has other effects capable of modifying specific bile secretory processes or preventing the cholestatic effects of estrogens. Rats were fed a standard ground chow (control group) or chow containing D for 6 days. E17G was administered i,v, to control and D-fed rats and bile flow, bile salt output, and alkaline phosphatase excretion were examined. 17 alpha-E was administered from days 4 to 6 to rats fed standard chow or chow plus D for 6 days and different functional parameters of the bile secretory process as well as the ultrastructure of hepatocytes and histochemistry of alkaline phosphatase and Mg2+-adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase:) were examined. D-treatment markedly increased cholesterol and lamellar structures in bile and attenuated the acute cholestatic effects of E17G, D-feeding prevented the decrease of taurocholate maximum secretory rate and the increase of biliary alkaline phosphatase and Ca2+,Mg2+-EctoATPase (EctoATPase) excretion, as well as the increase of cholesterol/ phospholipids ratio, alkaline phosphatase activity, and EctoATPase content in canalicular plasma membranes induced by E, D-feeding did not prevent E-induced decrease of basal bile flow, bile salt, cholesterol, and phospholipid secretory rates nor the decrease of Na+,K+-ATPase activity and Nac-taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide (Ntcp) content in isolated sinusoidal membranes. Cholestatic alterations of canalicular domain were apparent in E-treated rats. D administration was also associated with changes of ultraestructure and histochemistry of hepatocytes, E-induced alterations in ultrastructure and acinar distribution and intensity of histochemical reaction of both enzymes were partially prevented by D-feeding, We conclude that D administration, in addition to inducing a marked increase of biliary cholesterol and lipid lamellar structures output, was associated to changes in hepatocyte morphology and plasma membrane composition, enzymes activity, and histochemistry, D-feeding attenuated the acute cholestatic effects of E17G. D-induced increase of bile cholesterol and lipid lamellae content was not apparent when D-fed rats received E. Despite this fact, D administration prevented some cholestatic effects of E, probably through different metabolic effects and/or direct membrane effects, not related to increased lipid lamellae excretion.
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