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Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 1997 Jul-Aug;25(1):141-6. doi: 10.1016/s0167-4943(96)00779-0.

The elimination of aged glycoproteins by the isolated perfused rat liver.

Archives of gerontology and geriatrics

T Vömel

Affiliations

  1. Hüttenhospital Dortmund Hörde, Department Internal Medicine - Geriatrie, Am Marksbach 28, D-44269 Dortmund, Germany.

PMID: 15374109 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4943(96)00779-0

Abstract

The isolated livers of Sprague-Dawley rats aged ten months were perfused with nine different glycoproteins (coeruloplasmine, haptoglobin, transferrin, alpha2-mocroglobulin, apolipoprotein A, plasminogen, acid alpha1-glycoprotein, alpha1-antitrypsin, beta2-glycoprotein), which were suspended in a basic medium free of hemoglobin and other proteins. Besides a control group two other groups were formed to give a model for aging: one group of glycoproteins was desialysed, another was desilysed and incubated with immunoglobulins before the perfusion. In spite of the application of two procedures which are supposed to produce a model of old glycoproteins, neither treatment resulted in the recognition, binding and elimination of the glycoproteins from the perfusion medium.

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