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- Title
The Effects of Thyroid Status on the Proteolysis System in Stress.
- Authors
Gorodetskaya, I.; Gusakova, E.
- Abstract
Treatment of rats with mercazolyl (25 mg/kg for 20 days), which decreases blood levels of iodine-containing thyroid hormones (ITH), decreased trypsin-like activity (TLA) and α1-antitrypsin (α1-AT) and α2-macroglobulin (α2-MG) activities in the liver and blood; in the stage of anxiety associated with the stress reaction (1 h after swimming in a vessel for 1 h), experimental rats showed more marked stimulation of proteolysis than seen in euthyroid animals, due to decreases in α1-AT and α2-MG activities, while in the resistance stage (at 48 h), the normalization of TLA and α1-AT and α2-MG levels occurring in stressed euthyroid rats was blocked; in the exhaustion stage (stressing for 1 h for 10 days), there was greater activation of proteolysis in experimental rats due to profound suppression of α1-AT and α2-MG activities. Administration of L-thyroxine (1.5-3.0 μg/kg for 28 days, which did not alter the blood ITH concentration, had no effect on the proteolysis system; in the anxiety and exhaustion stages, the increase in TLA was limited, while in the resistance stage this was prevented, with elimination of the depression of α1-AT and α2-MG activities. These results demonstrated a novel aspect of the involvement of ITH in the body's antistress system, i.e., their influences on the proteinase/inhibitors system.
- Subjects
THYROID hormones; PROTEOLYSIS; TRYPSIN inhibitors; MACROGLOBULINS; PHYSIOLOGICAL stress; LABORATORY rats
- Publication
Neuroscience & Behavioral Physiology, 2015, Vol 45, Issue 6, p693
- ISSN
0097-0549
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11055-015-0130-8