Salivary glands, their hormones, and thermoregulation.

Autor: Mathison RD; Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. rmathiso@acs.ucalgary.ca, Malkinson TJ, Davison JS, Cooper KE
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences [Ann N Y Acad Sci] 1997 Mar 15; Vol. 813, pp. 338-43.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb51716.x
Abstrakt: The effects of the removal of the submandibular glands (sialadenectomy) on the fever induced by bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were examined. Thermally sensitive radiotransmitters were implanted into the abdomens of adult male Sprague-Dawley rats that experienced at this time either a sham operation or a sialadenectomy, and one week later body temperatures were recorded by telemetry in these rats when conscious. The initial fever (up to 180 min following LPS) response, following the intraperitoneal injection of 150 micrograms/kg E. coli LPS, was similar in the two groups of rats, but the second phase of the fever (240 to 420 min post-LPS) was modestly, but significantly higher (mean = 0.26 degree C) in sialadenectomized rats. A submandibular gland peptide (compound T; 100 micrograms/kg), given one-half hour before the LPS, did not affect the early fever, but suppressed the late-phase fever by 0.37 degree C (mean). The submandibular glands, which form an integral part of the neuroendocrine mechanisms responsible for attenuating the responses of the immune system to inflammatory stimuli, also appear to modulate thermogenic responses to these stimuli.
Databáze: MEDLINE