Effects of In Vitro Ethanol and Fetal Ethanol Exposure on Glutathione Stimulation of N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Function

We have previously demonstrated that fetal ethanol exposure deranges the function and viability of the neonatal alveolar macrophage. Although altered differentiation of the alveolar macrophage contributes to pulmonary disease states within the adult lung, the effects of fetal ethanol exposure on the normal differentiation of interstitial to alveolar macrophage in the newborn lung are unknown. In the current study, using a mouse model of fetal ethanol exposure, we hypothesized that altered terminal differentiation of the neonatal interstitial to alveolar macrophage contributes to the observed cellular dysfunction in the ethanol-exposed newborn mouse. Control alveolar macrophage differentiation was characterized by increased expression of CD32/CD11b ( P ≤ 0.05) and increased in vitro phagocytosis of Staphylococcus aureus ( P ≤ 0.05) compared with interstitial macrophage. After in utero ethanol exposure, both alveolar and interstitial macrophage lacked the acquisition of CD32/CD11b ( P ≤ 0.05) and displayed impaired in vitro phagocytosis ( P ≤ 0.05). Ethanol significantly increased transforming growth factor-β1(TGF-β1) in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid ( P ≤ 0.05), as well as in both interstitial and alveolar macrophages ( P ≤ 0.05). Oxidant stress contributed to the ethanol-induced changes on the interstitial and alveolar cells, since maternal supplementation with the glutathione precursor S-adenosylmethionine during ethanol ingestion normalized CD32/CD11b ( P ≤ 0.05), phagocytosis ( P ≤ 0.05), and TGF-β1in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and macrophages ( P ≤ 0.05). Contrary to our hypothesis, fetal ethanol exposure did not solely impair interstitial to alveolar macrophage differentiation. Rather, fetal ethanol exposure impaired both neonatal interstitial and alveolar macrophage phagocytic function and differentiation. Increased oxidant stress and elevated TGF-β1contributed to the impaired differentiation of both interstitial and alveolar macrophage.

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Early Platelet-Collagen Interactions in Whole Blood and Their Modifications by Aspirin and Dipyridamole Evaluated by a New Method (Basic Wave)

Thrombosis and Haemostasis ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1660136 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 54 (04) ◽

pp. 799-803 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

José Luís Pérez-Requejo ◽

Justo Aznar ◽

M Teresa Santos ◽

Juana Vallés

Keyword(s):

Whole Blood ◽

Ex Vivo ◽

Platelet Rich Plasma ◽

White Blood Cells ◽

Reversible Aggregation ◽

Inhibitory Compounds ◽

Rapid Generation ◽

Stimulation Of ◽

Collagen Stimulation

SummaryIt is shown that the supernatant of unstirred whole blood at 37° C, stimulated by 1 μg/ml of collagen for 10 sec, produces a rapid generation of pro and antiaggregatory compounds with a final proaggregatory activity which can be detected for more than 60 min on a platelet rich plasma (PRP) by turbidometric aggregometry. A reversible aggregation wave that we have called BASIC wave (for Blood Aggregation Stimulatory and Inhibitory Compounds) is recorded. The collagen stimulation of unstirred PRP produces a similar but smaller BASIC wave. BASIC’s intensity increases if erythrocytes are added to PRP but decreases if white blood cells are added instead. Aspirin abolishes “ex vivo” the ability of whole blood and PRP to generate BASIC waves and dipyridamole “in vitro” significantly reduces BASIC’s intensity in whole blood in every tested sample, but shows little effect in PRP.

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DER EINFLUSS VON RESERPIN AUF DIE ANTITHYREOIDALE WIRKUNG VON KALIUMPERCHLORAT

Acta Endocrinologica ◽

10.1530/acta.0.0390423 ◽

1962 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 423-430

Author(s):

H. L. Krüskemper ◽

F. J. Kessler ◽

E. Steinkrüger

Keyword(s):

Thyroid Gland ◽

Male Rats ◽

Normal Male ◽

Tissue Respiration ◽

List Type ◽

Morphological Alterations ◽

Hormone Synthesis ◽

Stimulation Of

ABSTRACT 1. Reserpine does not inhibit the tissue respiration of liver in normal male rats (in vitro). 2. The decrease of tissue respiration of the liver with simultaneous morphological stimulation of the thyroid gland after long administration of reserpine is due to a minute inhibition of the hormone synthesis in the thyroid gland. 3. The morphological alterations of the thyroid in experimental hypothyroidism due to perchlorate can not be prevented with reserpine.

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EFFECT OF ACTINOMYCIN D ON TSH-INDUCED STIMULATION OF THYROIDAL PROTEIN SYNTHESIS IN THE RAT

Acta Endocrinologica ◽

10.1530/acta.0.0770064 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 77 (1) ◽

pp. 64-70 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Gustav Wägar

Keyword(s):

Protein Synthesis ◽

Actinomycin D ◽

The Other ◽

Leucine Incorporation ◽

Short Term ◽

Other Hand ◽

Thyroid Glands ◽

Translational Level ◽

Stimulation Of

ABSTRACT Whether the short-term regulation of thyroidal protein synthesis by TSH occurs at the transcriptional or the translational level was tested by measuring the effect of actinomycin D (act D) on the TSH-induced stimulation of L-14C-leucine incorporation into the thyroidal proteins of rats. TSH was injected 6 h before the rats were killed. The thyroid glands were then removed and incubated in vitro in the presence of L-14C-leucine for 2 h. The pronounced stimulation of leucine incorporation in the TSH-treated animals was depressed as compared with controls but still significant even when the animals had been pre-treated with 100 μg act D 24 and 7 h before sacrifice. On the other hand, act D strongly decreased incorporation of 3H-uridine into RNA. Short-term regulation of thyroidal protein synthesis by TSH appears to be partly but not wholly dependent on neosynthesis of RNA. Hence regulation may partly occur at the translation level of protein synthesis.

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