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Defective biliary secretion of bile acid 3-O-glucuronides in rats with hereditary conjugated hyperbilirubinemia

F Kuipers, A Radominska, P Zimniak, JM Little, R Havinga, RJ Vonk and R Lester
Department of Pediatrics, University of Gronigen, The Netherlands.

Biliary secretion of bile acid glucuronides was studied in control rats and in rats with a congenital defect in hepatobiliary transport of organic anions (GY rats). In control animals, hepatobiliary transport of [3H]lithocholic acid 3-O-glucuronide and [3H]cholic acid 3-O- glucuronide was efficient (greater than 95% in 1 h) and comparable to that of [14C]taurocholic acid. Secretion of both glucuronides was impaired in GY rats (24% and 71% at 1 h), whereas that of taurocholate was similar to control values. However, recovery of the glucuronides in bile was nearly complete within 24 h; virtually no radioactivity was found in urine. In control rats, biliary secretion of lithocholic acid 3-O-glucuronide, but not that of cholic acid 3-O-glucuronide or taurocholate, could be delayed by simultaneous infusion of dibromosulphthalein. In mutant rats, dibromosulphthalein infusion was also able to inhibit secretion of cholic acid 3-O-glucuronide. [3H]Hydroxyetianic acid, a C20 short-chain bile acid, was secreted by control rats as a mixture of 20% carboxyl-linked and 80% hydroxyl- linked (3-O-)glucuronide; secretion was very efficient (99% in 1 h). In GY rats, secretion was drastically impaired (16% at 1 h and 74% over a 24-h period). Initially, the mutant secreted more carboxyl- than hydroxyl-linked glucuronide, but the ratio reached that of control animals after 24 h. The rates of formation of both types of hydroxyetianic acid glucuronide by hepatic microsomes from mutant rats were similar or even slightly higher than those of control microsomes. These findings indicate that bile acid 3-O-glucuronides, but probably not carboxyl-linked glucuronides, are secreted into bile by a transport system shared with organic anions such as conjugated bilirubin and dibromosulphthalein, but different from that for amino acid-conjugated bile acids.
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