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Atractyloside (ATR) causes acute fatal renal and hepatic necrosis in animals and humans. Precision-cut renal cortical and hepatic slices (200 +/- 15 microns) from adult male Wistar rat and domestic pigs, incubated with ATR (0.2-2.0 mM) for 3 h at 37 degrees C, inhibited pyruvate-stimulated gluconeogenesis in a concentration- and time-dependent manner. p-Aminohippurate accumulation was significantly inhibited in both rat and pig renal cortical slices from 0.2 mM ATR (p < 0.05). There was a small decrease in mitochondrial reduction of 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium to formazan in both rat and pig kidney slices, which was significant at > or = 2 mM, but no changes in liver slices from either species. However, cellular ATP was significantly depleted at > or = 0.2 mM ATR in kidney and in liver slices from both species. ATR also caused a marked leakage of lactate dehydrogenase and alkaline phosphatase from both pig and rat kidney slices at all concentrations, but only lactate dehydrogenase was significantly elevated in liver slices from both species. ATR > or = 0.5 mM caused a significant increase in lipid peroxidation, but only in liver slices of both species, and > or = 0.2 mM ATR caused a marked depletion of reduced glutathione and significant increase in oxidized glutathione in both kidney and liver slices of both species. However, GSH to GSSG ratio was only significantly altered in the liver slices, indicating that oxidative stress may be the cause of toxicity in this organ. Both rat and pig tissue slices from the same organ responded similarly to ATR, although their basal biochemistry was different. ATR toxicity to both kidney and liver showed similar patterns but it appears that the mechanisms of toxicity are different. While cytotoxicity of ATR in kidney is only accompanied with GSH depletion, that of the liver is linked to both lipid peroxidation and GSH depletion. Striated muscle slices from both species were not affected by the highest ATR concentration. This further strengthens the argument that the molecular basis of ATR, target selective toxicity, is not a measure of the interaction between ATR and mitochondria and that other factors such as selective uptake are involved. Precision-cut tissue slices show organ-specific toxicity in kidney and liver from both rat and pig and suggest different mechanisms of injury for each organ.
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