The Development of the Newborn Rat Lung in HyperoxiaA Dose‐Response Study of Lung Growth, Maturation, and Changes in Antioxidant Enzyme Activities
作者:
JOHN BUCHER,
ROBERT ROBERTS,
期刊:
Pediatric Research
(OVID Available online 1981)
卷期:
Volume 15,
issue 7
页码: 999-1008
ISSN:0031-3998
年代: 1981
出版商: OVID
关键词: development;lung;emzymes, lung;oxygen;hyperoxia
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
SummaryTo examine the dose-response relationships of oxygen-induced lung changes, newborn rats were exposed to various patterns of concentrations of hyperoxia (0.4, 0.8, and >0.95 FiO2) for up to 12 days. Prominent findings included microscopic evidence of lung injury and retarded alveolar development (secondary septal development delayed by as much as 88%), lower whole lung DNA (50% of control), lung-to-body-weight ratios (by as much as 18%), and significantly less compliance in the lungs after exposures of 6− or 12-day durations to all concentrations of hyperoxia. Significant increases in the activities of the lung protective enzymes superoxide dismutase (129 to 160% of control), catalase (112 to 274% of control), and glutathione peroxidase (118 to 256% of control) were noted when activity was expressed on a DNA basis after 12-day exposures to the various patterns of hyperoxia.Lung changes noted after a 7-day recovery period in air included interstitial thickening (117% of control), persistance of the microscopic injury, and retarded alveolar development seen immediately after initial 6-day hyperoxic exposures. At the conclusion of a second wk of recovery in air, the lungs of hyperoxic exposed animals resembled controls in most respects, but a significantly altered compliance was exhibited by the lungs of animals initially exposed to 6 days of 0.4 or >0.95 FiO2.The dose dependency of oxygen-induced lung injury is complex. Straightforward, stepwise dose-response adequately describes the evolution of microscopic injury and slowing of alveolar development in hyperoxia, but the dose dependency is not as clearly identified in the oxygen-induced retardation of lung growth including DNA content and in changes in antioxidant enzyme activities. Changes in lung compliance clearly do not follow expected dose-response relationships.
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