Effects of Ticrynafen on Hepatic Excretory Function in the Isolated Perfused Rat Liver
Hyman J. Zimmerman, Charles O. Abernathy, Lorinc Lukacs, Mildred Ezekiel – 1 March 1982 – Ticrynafen, a uricosuric diuretic agent which causes hepatocellular injury in man as an apparent idiosyncratic reaction, was found to impair the function of the isolated perfused rat liver. At concentrations in the perfusate equivalent to those produced in the blood of man by therapeutic doses, the drug led to a striking reduction in bile flow and sulfobromophthalein excretion and release of aspartate aminotransferase into the perfusate.