[Pathomorphological picture of the liver in mice administered antitumor antibiotics intraperitoneally and its...

A single administration of carminomycin, ribomycin or olivomycin in LD50 or treatment of the experimental animals with these antibiotics for 10 days in the therapeutic doses equal to 10 per cent of the LD50 induced distrophic and necrobiotic changes in the liver. The use of bruneomycin in the equivalent doses induced sclerotic process in addition to the above doses resulted in a decrease in the colour intensity of DNA, RNA and protein as compared to the control, the content of glycogen and a marked increase in the amount of lipids in the hepatocyte cytoplasm. The most pronounced shifts were observed with the use of carminomycin, rubomycin and especially bruneomycin in single doses. With the use of olivomycin in a single dose the shifts were less pronounced. It should be noted that with the use of carminomycin and rubomycin the damages were of the same character by their intensity. The changes in the liver on the use of carminomycin, rubomycin and olivomycin in single doses or during the treatment course were reversible, while on the use of bruneomycin they preserved to the end of the experiment.