NEW REST PERIOD PROTOCOL FOR INDUCING TOLERANCE TO HIGH O-2 EXPOSURE IN ADULT-RATS
NEW REST PERIOD PROTOCOL FOR INDUCING TOLERANCE TO HIGH O-2 EXPOSURE IN ADULT-RATS
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DOI:
10.1152/ajplung.1989.257.4.l226
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发表时间:
1989-10-01
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MASSARO, D
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FRANK, L;IQBAL, J;MASSARO, D
We report a new protocol for inducing marked tolerance to prolonged exposure to hyperoxia in adult rats that entails the use of a single "rest period" between exposures to a usually lethal concentration of O2. Exposure of adult rats to > 95% O2 for 48 h followed by a rest in air, or a rest even in 50-75% O2, consistently resulted in 100% survival with evidence of only slight pulmonary edema during continuation of exposure to > 95% O2 for 3-7 more days (7-day survival for rats rested in room air for 24 h = 23/23; for rats rested in 50-75% O2 for 24 h = 27/27; for continuously O2- exposed control rats = 0/11). Induction of tolerance to hyperoxia was associated with significant increases in the lungs'' antioxidant enzyme activities during the reexposure to > 95% O2 following the rest period. The molecular means by which the events in this protocol lead to increased lung antioxidant enzyme activity is only partially known, but because of the marked tolerance produced, the elucidation of the mechanisms must be important to our understanding of tolerance to hyperoxia.