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8048508

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1 Pt 1
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-8-30
pubmed:abstractText
The antimalaric drug chloroquine is a well known inhibitor of lysosomal proteolysis in vitro. The present study tests the hypothesis that therapeutic doses of the drug decrease proteolysis also in vivo in humans. Leucine kinetics were determined in 20 healthy volunteers given 12 and 1.5 h before the studies 250 and 500 mg, respectively, of chloroquine phosphate (n = 10) or similar tablets of placebo (n = 10). Chloroquine reduced the rates of leucine appearance, a measure of whole body proteolysis, from 2.45 +/- 0.08 to 2.19 +/- 0.08 mumol.kg-1.min-1 (P = 0.038) and those of nonoxidative leucine disposal, an estimate of whole body protein synthesis, from 2.16 +/- 0.08 to 1.95 +/- 0.06 mumol.kg-1.min-1 (P = 0.050). The drug resulted also in a marginally significant (P = 0.051) decrement in the plasma concentrations of glucose. The effects of chloroquine on protein turnover might be potentially useful in counteracting protein wasting complicating several catabolic diseases, whereas those on glucose metabolism can explain the sporadic occurrence of severe hypoglycemic episodes in malaria patients chronically treated with this drug.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0002-9513
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
267
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
E183-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Chloroquine reduces whole body proteolysis in humans.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Internal Medicine and Endocrine and Metabolic Sciences, University of Perugia, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Controlled Clinical Trial, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't