METABOLISM OF TISSUES EXCISED FROM THYROXINE-INJECTED RATS
METABOLISM OF TISSUES EXCISED FROM THYROXINE-INJECTED RATS
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DOI:
10.1152/ajplegacy.1952.170.1.81
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发表时间:
1952-01-01
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KLITGAARD, HM
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BARKER, SB;KLITGAARD, HM
Ever SINCE the first experiments in 1905 measuring the effect of hyper-thyroidism on metabolic processes in tissues, evidence has been accumulating that the hypo-or hypermetabolism exhibited by such animals is due to corresponding alterations in the metabolism of their tissues. Since the extensive literature has recently been surveyed in detail (I), it will merely be summarized here. With few exceptions, agreement is excellent on liver, kidney, skeletal muscle and heart as being altered. In the case of brain, reports from six laboratories (2-7) concur that any metabolic effect of thyroid alterations is less than IO per cent, while three other groups (8-10) claim increases, in one instance as great as fourfold after desiccated thyroid feeding. Three reports (2, 5, II) claimed noeffectsof thyroxineinjection on spleen qo2, although Anselmino et aZ.(II) also found no effect on kidney. The two laboratories reporting on testis were diametrically opposed, one (12) finding an increase and the other no alteration (5). Although the present paper cannot, of course, entirely resolve such discrepancies, it will be noted that our findings lend strong support to there being no response on the part of brain, spleen or testis to injection of thyroxine.With the exception of Gordon and Heming (s), workers have been concerned primarily with a hyperthyroidism well maintained by continued administration of hormone. With the gross changes in such tissues as muscle, liver and kidney e. stablished, it now becomes important to sxamine quantitative relationships between whole animal and tissue responses more carefully. In addition, the early changes leading to a well-established hyperthyroidism should reveal more about the intimate effects of thyroxine as it is producing its marked metabolic responses.