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Behaviour of transglutaminase activity in intestine of starved and refed rats

Enzyme, ISSN: 0013-9432, Vol: 42, Issue: 2, Page: 61-67
1989
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Starvation causes an intestinal mucosa atrophy which is greater in jejunum than in ileum. Hypoplasia is promptly reversed by refeeding. Transglutaminase (TG) has been controversially implicated in cell proliferation and its role in intestine is not defined. We investigate, by the above described model, the behaviour of TG in proximal and distal small bowel as well as in colon of rats after 4 days of starvation and at day 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 10 of refeeding. Our results emphasize a significative reduction of TG in small bowel induced by starvation (day 0) and a prompt recovery of the enzyme activity after refeeding; furthermore, in the first intestinal tract TG activity reaches from day 2 to day 5 values which are significantly higher than basal. Four days of starvation do not affect TG in colon. In conclusion, our study demonstrates that in rats high values of TG activity are coincident with the intense proliferative phase in small intestine subsequent to starvation atrophy.

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D'Argenio; G.; C. Ciacci; I. Sorrentini; D. Mattera; V. Cosenza; P. Iovino; A. Gatto; G. Mazzacca

S. Karger AG

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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