ROLE OF MICROBIAL FLORA IN UREMIA .I. SURVIVAL TIMES OF GERMFREE LIMITED-FLORA AND CONVENTIONALIZED RATS AFTER BILATERAL NEPHRECTOMY AND FASTING
ROLE OF MICROBIAL FLORA IN UREMIA .I. SURVIVAL TIMES OF GERMFREE LIMITED-FLORA AND CONVENTIONALIZED RATS AFTER BILATERAL NEPHRECTOMY AND FASTING
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DOI:
10.1084/jem.123.2.239
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发表时间:
1966-01-01
影响因子:
15.3
通讯作者:
CARTER, D
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作者:
EINHEBER, A;CARTER, D
Germfree (GF), limited-flora, and conventionalized (CONV) rats were used to study the effects of the microbial flora on survival time after acute uremia produced by a one-stage bilateral nephrectomy. GF rats, in advance of nephrectomy, were either monocontaminated (S. albus), dicontaminated (S. albus and P. mirabilis), tetracontaminated (S. albus, P. mirabilis, S. faecalis, and E. coli), or "conventionalized" "(exposed to the mixed microbial flora contained in the cecal contents of ordianry rats). After nephrectomy and food and water deprivation (death from anuria): "a) All GF rats but one outlived their CONV counterparts in each of the 3 experiments; the 21 GF rats (127 hr) lived, on the average, 2 days longer than did the 24 CONV rats (75 hr); no sex difference was demonstrated; b) The rats with a limited flora died correspondingly sooner as the complexity of their flora increased; survival time of the tetra-contaminated rats was significantly shorter than that of the GF rats, and statistically no different from that of the CONV rats. After sham nephrectomy and food and water deprivation (delayed death from starvation): a) All rats, irrespective of microbial status or sex, outlived their fasting nephrectomized partners. The CONV rats endured starvation approximately 2.5 wk longer than they did anuria, and the GF rats 1 wk longer; b) All CONV rats, both male and female, outlived their respective GF counterparts by about 1 wk; c) All males, irrespective of microbial status, survived longer than did the females; the average difference was 4 days. The differences in tolerance to anuria or starvation did not correlate with initial body weight or rate of weight loss. Thus, the microbial status of the rat significantly influences its ability to endure the lethal sequelae of acute anuria and of food and water deprivation.