[Irreversible changes in energy processes in the mitochondria after chronic exposure to detergents]

Chronic inhalational exposure of white rats to a synthetic detergent 'LOTOS' in concentrations 25 and 100 mg/m3 caused liver mitochondria bioenergetics changes from a reversible low energetic shift up to an irreversible mitochondria damage of an organ-structural character. The degree of the damaging effect depended on the duration of exposure and the concentration of the detergent.