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Postnatal development and sublobular distribution of cytochrome P-450 in rat liver: a microphotometric study

J Watanabe, Y Asaka and S Kanamura

Department of Anatomy, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan.

To study the process of expression of cytochrome P-450 (P-450) in hepatocytes during development, we measured microphotometrically the P- 450 content in periportal and perivenular hepatocytes of male rats during peri- and postnatal growth. From Day 19 of gestation to Day 5 after birth, P-450 content in both periportal and perivenular hepatocytes increased markedly (periportal 1046%; perivenular 819%). The content in periportal hepatocytes remained unchanged from 5 to 20 days of age, and increased slightly (24%) from 20 to 45 days of age. However, the content in perivenular hepatocytes increased progressively (105%) between 5 and 45 days of age. The difference in P-450 content became apparent between periportal and perivenular hepatocytes after 7 days of age. The content in periportal or perivenular hepatocytes reached the adult level at 45 days of age. Therefore, the perinatal period is the time at which a marked increase in P-450 occurs in hepatocytes throughout the liver lobule. The subsequent period before weaning is the time at which the sublobular heterogeneous distribution of P-450 appears. The period after weaning is the time at which a slight increase in P-450 content in periportal hepatocytes and a marked increase in the enzyme in perivenular hepatocytes takes place.

Volume 41, Issue 3, pp. 397-400, 03/01/1993
Copyright © 1993 by The Histochemical Society


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