[Respiratory and detoxication activity of two fractions of hepatocytes isolated by a non-enzymatic method]

Slow centrifugation of isotonic sucrose medium containing the suspension of hepatocytes, obtained after disaggregation of liver, which has been preliminarily perfused by EDTA solution, results in the formation of two fractions of cells of different colour. Fraction 1 contains intact and metabolically active hepatocytes. Cells of fraction 2 have a damaged membrane, but they are capable of realizing biotransformation of xenobiotics in the presence of exogenous NADPH as well as maintaining efficiency of oxidative phosphorylation of mitochondria under the transfer to the medium simulating cytoplasm.