Protein Information

Name alanine aminotransferase
Synonyms AAT1; AAT1; GPT; ALT 1; ALT1; Alanine aminotransferase; Alanine aminotransferase 1; GPT 1…

Compound Information

Name acrolein
CAS 2-propenal

Reference List

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2886987 Penttila KE, Makinen J, Lindros KO: Allyl alcohol liver injury: suppression by ethanol and relation to transient glutathione depletion. Pharmacol Toxicol. 1987 May;60(5):340-4.

On the other hand, attempts to potentiate the toxicity of acrolein by the aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibitor cyanamide enhanced only the release of alanine aminotransferase.
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17140783 Subash Babu P, Prabuseenivasan S, Ignacimuthu S: Cinnamaldehyde--a potential antidiabetic agent. Phytomedicine. 2007 Jan;14(1):15-22. Epub 2006 Nov 30.


Also cinnamaldehyde restored the altered plasma enzyme (aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, lactate dehydrogenase, alkaline phosphatase and acid phosphatase) levels to near normal.
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11394713 Karas M, Chakrabarti SK: Influence of caffeine on allyl alcohol-induced hepatotoxicity in rats. J Environ Pathol Toxicol Oncol. 2001;20(2):141-54.

Pretreatment of rats with phenobarbital further significantly enhanced the formation of 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine (DNP)-reactive metabolite (s) (measured as DNP-acrolein adduct equivalents) in rat liver induced by AA (30.7 mg/kg) plus CF (150 mg/kg) within 1 hour following such treatment.
This was verified by significantly higher levels of plasma alanine aminotransferase (ALT) activity and histopathologically greater severity of lesions in the periportal hepatocytes than those due to AA alone.
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2565200 Kershaw WC, Barsotti DA, Leonard TB, Dent JG, Lage GL: Methoxyflurane enhances allyl alcohol hepatotoxicity in rats. Drug Metab Dispos. 1989 Mar-Apr;17(2):117-22.

Possible involvement of increased acrolein formation..
Hepatotoxicity was assessed by the measurement of serum alanine aminotransferase activity and histopathological examination.
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2886311 Rikans LE: The oxidation of acrolein by rat liver aldehyde dehydrogenases. Drug Metab Dispos. 1987 May-Jun;15(3):356-62.

Hepatotoxicity was assessed on the basis of elevated serum alanine aminotransferase and sorbitol dehydrogenase activities and the loss of microsomal cytochrome P-450.
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8905240 Atzori L, Congiu L: Effect of verapamil on allyl alcohol hepatotoxicity. Drug Metabol Drug Interact. 1996;13(2):87-98.

AA administration induced an increase of serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) concentration and liver necrosis by means of glutathione (GSH) depletion.
In vitro, but not in vivo, verapamil inhibited the activity of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), the key enzyme in the conversion of AA into the toxic metabolite acrolein.
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9169072 Sneed RA, Grimes SD, Schultze AE, Brown AP, Ganey PE: Bacterial endotoxin enhances the hepatotoxicity of allyl alcohol. . Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 1997 May;144(1):77-87.

Rats were pretreated with LPS (100 micrograms/kg) 2 hr before treatment with a minimally toxic dose of allyl alcohol mg/kg), and liver toxicity was assessed 18 hr later from activity of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) in plasma and from histologic changes in liver sections.
LPS treatment did not affect the activity of alcohol dehydrogenase and did not affect the rate of production of NADH in isolated livers perfused with allyl alcohol; thus, LPS does not appear to increase the metabolic bioactivation of allyl alcohol into acrolein.
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