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Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, Vol. 48, 1331-1340, October 2000, Copyright © 2000, The Histochemical Society, Inc.

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Differentiation of Necrotic Cell Death With or Without Lysosomal Activation: Application of Acute Liver Injury Models Induced by Carbon Tetrachloride (CCL 4) and Dimethylnitrosamine (DMN)

Masanori Yasudaa, Tsuyoshi Okabea, Johbu Itohb, Susumu Takekoshia, Hideaki Hasegawab, Hidetaka Nagataa, R. Yoshiyuki Osamuraa, and Keiichi Watanabea
a Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Tokai University, Kanagawa, Japan
b Laboratories for Structure and Function Research, School of Medicine, Tokai University, Kanagawa, Japan

Correspondence to: Masanori Yasuda, Dept. of Pathology, School of Medicine, Tokai University Bohseidai, Isehara, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan. E-mail: m-yasuda@is.icc.u-tokai.ac.jp

We investigated the relationship between DNA degradation and lysosome activity (loss of lysosomal integrity) in necrotic cell death induced by carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) and dimethylnitrosamine (DMN): coagulation necrosis and hemorrhagic necrosis, respectively. TdT-mediated dUTP–biotin nick end-labeling (TUNEL) and enzyme histochemistry for acid phosphatase were performed in both models and results were analyzed by light microscopy, electron microscopy, and confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM). In the CCl4-injected liver, TUNEL staining was closely associated with release of lysosomal enzymes into the cytoplasm, and intranuclear deposition of lysosomal enzymes took place at an early stage of subcellular damage. In the DMN-injected liver, TUNEL-positive nuclei tended to have well-preserved lysosomes and centrally localized TUNEL signals. It was assumed that acute hepatocellular damage in the CCl4-injected liver would be characterized by necrotic cell death with lysosome activation and that damage in the DMN-injected liver would be necrotic cell death without lysosome activation. In the DMN-injected liver, DNA degradation may be selectively induced in the nuclear center, in which heterochromatin (including inactive chromatin) is believed to be a target. We concluded that necrotic cell death, i.e., DNA degradation, would be at least divided into two types, with/without association with lysosome activation, represented by necrotic cell death in the CCl4-injected liver and that in the DMN-injected liver. (J Histochem Cytochem 48:1331–1339, 2000)

Key Words: necrotic cell death, CCl4, DMN, acute liver injury, lysosome activation, DNA degradation


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