Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
2499887 Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology 2007 6 Pages PDF
Abstract

Liver regeneration was impaired after partial hepatectomy (PH) in leptin receptor-deficient db/db mice with severe liver steatosis. In the present study, we analyzed the mode of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) protein expression in the liver of 5- and 10-week-old db/db and age-matched control mice. In 5-week-old db/db mice, neither the expression of EGFR protein in the intact liver nor the rate of liver regeneration after PH was significantly different from that in age-matched control mice. However, in 10-week-old db/db mice, the level of EGFR protein expression was very low and liver regeneration was prominently suppressed. Histopathologically, much severer fatty change was observed in the liver of 10-week-old db/db mice than 5-week-old db/db mice. These results suggest that the down-regulation of EGFR protein expression is associated with an impairment of liver regeneration in db/db mice and that the severity of hepatic steatosis plays an indirect role in the impairment of liver regeneration by modifying EGFR expression.

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