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Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 253: E343-E348, 1987;
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AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 253, Issue 4 E343-E348, Copyright © 1987 by American Physiological Society

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Control of compensatory lung growth by adrenal hormones

D. E. Rannels, H. W. Karl and R. A. Bennett
Department of Physiology, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey 17033.

The effects of adrenalectomy and/or in vivo treatment with hydrocortisone acetate (HCA;5 mg X kg-1 X day-1) on lung growth were investigated in control and pneumonectomized rats of 250 g body wt. Left pneumonectomy (day 0) initiated rapid hyperplastic growth of the right lung, which was unaffected by HCA. Similarly, HCA had no effect on lung growth in unoperated control animals. Two weeks after pneumonectomy, right lung dry mass, protein, RNA, and DNA were equal to that in both lungs of unoperated rats. Adrenalectomy 5 days before (day -5) left pneumonectomy increased the rate and extent of right lung growth, but did not change its hyperplastic character. Continuous HCA treatment (days -5 to 14) prevented the adrenalectomy-mediated increase in postpneumonectomy lung growth. "Early" HCA dosing (days -5 to 6) of adrenalectomized-pneumonectomized animals suppressed lung growth to the pneumonectomy level, but from days 7 to 14 growth accelerated to the adrenalectomized-pneumonectomized rate. Conversely, "late" HCA, initiated when adrenalectomized-pneumonectomized animals had restored normal total lung mass (days 6 to 14), quickly reduced right lung growth to rates typical of unoperated controls. The latter effects were not observed unless continuous steroid treatment was provided throughout this interval. The data support a role for glucocorticosteroids in modulation of the accelerated compensatory lung growth initiated by partial resection of the tissue.


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