Nucleotide profile in rat liver and intestine at portal vein obstruction and reflow

Liver and intestinal nucleotides and energy charge levels were examined in rats at portal vein clamping for 1, 5 or 30 min and after reflow for 1 or 6 h following 30 min clamping. In both tissues, clamping resulted in a loss of ATP, energy charge, UTP, GTP, UDP-glucuronic acid and UDP-N-acetylhexosamine levels, which all, except ATP and total adenosine phosphates, essentially recovered at 1 h reflow. At 6 h reflow, liver UDP-glucuronic acid and liver glutathione decreased in both clamped and sham operated rats.