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Acetylsalicylic acid (Aspirin®) and liver regeneration: experimental study in rats
Maria DE Lourdes Pessole Biondo-Simões1, Victor Cezar DE Azevedo Pessini2, Carolina Ayumi Ichi2
1- Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Departamento de Cirurgia - Curitiba - PR - Brasil.
Objective:
to evaluate the influence of acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) on cell proliferation after partial hepatectomy in rats.
Methods:
40 male Wistar rats were separated into four groups of ten rats each. Groups 1 and 2 (controls): undergoing 30% partial hepatectomy and, after one day (group 1) and seven days (group 2), to euthanasia; daily administration of 0.9% saline solution (1mL per 200g of body weight). Groups 3 and 4 (experimental): undergoing 30% partial hepatectomy and, after one day (group 3) and seven days (group 4), to euthanasia; daily administration of ASA (40mg/mL, 1mL per 200g of body weight). The absolute number of cells stained with PCNA was counted in photomicrographs, in five fields, and it was calculated the mean of positive cells per animal and per group.
Results:
the final mean of PCNA+ cells per group was: in group 1, 17.57 ± 6.77; in group 2, 19.31 ± 5.30; in group 3, 27.46 ± 11.55; and, in group 4, 12.40 ± 5.23. There was no significant difference at the two evaluation times in the control group (p=0.491), but there was in the experimental group (p=0.020), with a lower number of PCNA+ cells on the seventh day. The comparison between the two groups, on the first day, showed more PCNA+ cells in the livers of the animals that received ASA (p=0.047), and on the seventh day the number was lower in the experimental group (p=0.007).
Conclusion:
ASA induced greater hepatocyte proliferation.
