Experimental Simulation of the Liver Drug Injury for Investigation of New Hepatoprotectors

Efficient chemotherapy of tuberculosis patients could be complicated by hepatoprotective responses to antituberculosis drugs. The frequency and nature of the response depend on the drug and the genotypical and phenotypical characteristics of its metabolism in the patients, that should be considered while choosing the hepatoprotector. The liver injury was induced by the reserve antituberculosis drugs in experiments on rats with various acetylation phenotypes. Analysis of the clinicobiochemical and morphological indices revealed differences in the liver injury simulation: prevalence of the cytolytic mechanism in slow acetylators vs. the rapid ones.