[Changes in liver metabolism following a standardized skin burn and intraperitoneal injection of a burn toxin isolated from burned mice skin. Studies on rat liver using isolation perfusion].

Parameters of liver metabolism were studied in the isolated perfused rat liver 5 days after a standard skin burn or an i.p. injection of a specific cutaneous burn toxin. Decreased values of the energy quotient ATP/ADP compared with normal controls were found. The absolute content of adenonucleotides was unchanged. The excretion of glucose and urea was also decreased in both groups and glucose synthesis after a lactate load was only slightly stimulated. The results show a direct influence of a burn toxin on hepatic metabolism suggesting a possible disturbance of oxydative phosphorylation.