[Functional characteristics of rat hepatocytes isolated by a nonenzymatic method and incubated in vitro]

A study was made of the effect of normothermic incubation on the metabolic state of parenchymal liver cells, isolated by the nonenzymatic method. In the process of a 2 hour incubation in the nutritious sodium-containing medium, a high level of the energy supply system is maintained, determined by the contents of adenine nucleotides, the rate of endogenous respiration and by its stimulation by succinate.