EFFECTS OF THYROIDECTOMY ON MITOCHONDRIAL PROPERTIES IN REGENERATING RAT-LIVER

  • 1 January 1978
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 172 (1), 38-42
Abstract
The properties of regenerating rat liver mitochondria are not changed by thyroidectomy. Hepatectomy induces, in thyroidectomized rats, as in normal onces, a decrease in the activity of the outer membrane enzymes, stimualtion of oxidative phosphorylation and an increase of the turnover rate of mitochondrial proteins. Thyroid hormones do not seem to have a major effect upon the liver regeneration mechanism.