In rats with oxygen poisoning, thymalin increased alveolocyte lamellar body relative volume by 1.5 times versus untreated animals.
In plain wordsIn rats with oxygen poisoning, thymalin increased alveolocyte lamellar body relative volume by 1.5 times compared with untreated animals.
- Peptide
- Thymalin
- Outcome
- IncreaseAlveolocyte lamellar body relative volume
- Study
ratn: not reported in source
Pulmonary oxygen poisoning- Comparator
- Untreated animals
- Outcome group
- Lung injury and fibrosis · Respiratory
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · 3 daysAs given in this study (rat).
Measurements
- Relative lamellar body volume
- 1.5 times
- Compared with untreated animals
Source sentences
While treating the pulmonary form of oxygen poisoning with cytochrome C or thymalin, in 3 days after beginning to administer the preparations, the relative volume of the lamellar bodies increase by 1.5 times in comparison with those in the group of untreated animals
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
The effect of cytochrome C, thymalin and their combination has been studied concerning morphofunctional state of alveolocytes of the II type (A II) in the lungs of 33 non-inbred white rats at the pulmonary form of oxygen poisoning.