Inhibition of Placental Amino Acid Uptake in Rats Following Acute and Chronic Ethanol Exposure
- 1 September 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research
- Vol. 6 (4), 495-505
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-0277.1982.tb05013.x
Abstract
The effects of acute and chronic maternal ethanol consumption on in vitro placental uptake of .alpha.-amino-isobutyric acid (AIB), cycloleucine, L-alanine (Ala), L-leucine (Leu) and L-lysine (Lys) were determined. Ethanol (4 g/kg, po [by mouth]) administered 2 h prior to sacrifice, reduced (P < 0.05) placental villous net uptake of cycloleucine and Ala by 29%. Prior chronic ethanol consumption depressed (P < 0.05) placental uptake of AIB (38%), cycloleucine (45%), Ala (35%), Leu (25%) and Lys (34%). In vitro exposure of previously untreated villous fragments for 2 h to 2 mg/ml of ethanol reduced (P < 0.05) the net uptake of AIB and cycloleucine by 24 and 31%, respectively; whereas the minimum concentration of acetaldehyde required to cause a significant inhibition was 310 .mu.M for AIB and 465 .mu.M for cycloleucine. Ethanol (3 mg/ml) had no effect on AIB or cycloleucine net uptake if Na was omitted from the incubation media. The efflux of AIB (10-6 M) and cycloleucine (10-6 M) from villous tissue was unaffected (P > 0.05) by either ethanol (3 mg/ml) or acetaldehyde (600 .mu.M) and obeyed 1st-order kinetics. Acute, and especially chronic, maternal ethanol consumption can depress the placental uptake of a variety of amino acids in the rat and, in the acute setting, the effect was on a Na-dependent system involved in amino acid influx into placental cells.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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