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[Content of hexuronic acids, hexoses and tyrosine in the lung tissue in experimental pneumoconiosis].

Abstract
Content of hydroxyproline, thyrosine, hexuronic acids, hexoses and dry weight of lungs were studied in animals with pneumoconiosis, caused by various agents: two types of silicosis, induced by crystalline and condensed modifications of silica, and anthracosis, caused by anthracite. The data obtained showed that in all the types of pneumoconiosis dry weight of defatted lungs was increased with simultaneous increase of hydroxyproline content in the tissue. The more pronounced alterations were observed in silicosis. In all the types of pneumoconiosis within the experimental period content of hexuronic acids was higher in impaired animals as compared with control ones; the increase in content of hexuronic acids preceded the accumulation of hydroxyproline. Content of hexoses and thyrosine was distinctly increased within 2 days, which apparently correlated with the processes of exudation. Then it was decreased and at the later steps of the impairment amount of hexoses and thyrosine was shown to increase with simultaneous accumulation of hydroxyproline. Dynamics of accumulation of non-collagen components of connective tissue in lungs depended upon the type of a dust to which the animals were exposed.
AuthorsL A Medvedev, G V Belobragina
JournalVoprosy meditsinskoi khimii (Vopr Med Khim) 1976 May-Jun Vol. 22 Issue 3 Pg. 296-301 ISSN: 0042-8809 [Print] Russia (Federation)
Vernacular TitleSoderzhanie geksuronovykh kislot, geksoz i tirozina v legochnoĭ tkani pri eksperimental'nykh pnevmokoniozakh
PMID1025891 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Hexoses
  • Hexuronic Acids
  • Uronic Acids
  • Tyrosine
Topics
  • Animals
  • Anthracosilicosis (metabolism)
  • Female
  • Freeze Drying
  • Hexoses (analysis, metabolism)
  • Hexuronic Acids (analysis, metabolism)
  • Hydrolysis
  • Lung (analysis, metabolism)
  • Organ Size
  • Rats
  • Tyrosine (analysis, metabolism)
  • Uronic Acids (metabolism)

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