Down‐regulation of hepatic cytochrome P450 in chronic renal failure: role of uremic mediators
Bibliographic record
Abstract
1. Chronic renal failure (CRF) is associated with a decrease in liver cytochrome p450 (p450). The mechanism remains poorly understood. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of the serum of rats with CRF on liver p450. 2. Normal rat hepatocytes were incubated for 24 h with serum (concentration of 10%) from rats with CRF and from control animals in order to measure (1). total p450 level, (2). protein expression and mRNA levels of major p450 isoforms, and (3). some of their specific metabolic activities (N-demethylation of erythromycin). Time-course experiments (incubation time from 12 to 48 h) and dose-response curves (concentration of serum ranging from 1 to 30%) have been conducted. 3. In normal hepatocytes incubated for 24 h with serum (concentration of 10%) from rats with CRF, total p450 level, protein expression and mRNA levels of several p450 isoforms (CYP2C6, 2C11, 3A1 and 3A2) were decreased by more than 35% (P<0.001) compared to serum from control animals. The protein expression as well as the mRNA levels of CYP2D were similar in hepatocytes incubated with serum from either control or CRF rats. The N-demethylation of erythromycin was decreased by more than 35% (P<0.001) in hepatocytes incubated with serum from rats with CRF. The inhibitory effect of serum from rats with CRF tended to peak at 48 h of incubation and was maximum at a concentration of 20%. 4. In conclusion, uremic serum contains mediator(s) that down-regulate the cytochrome p450 of normal hepatocytes secondary to reduced gene expression.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".