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M T Pieraggi

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PubMed1978

Aortic lathyrism and atheroma in the rat by prolonged hyperlipidic diet.

Constant, deep, extensive aortic atheroma can be induced in rats that are athero-resistant. Two main factors are involved in this experimentation: (1) Parietal alteration following chronic experimentation with beta-aminopropionitrile (BAPN, 8 weeks) and a metabolic factor with hyperlipid diet. Electronmicroscopic examination has shown progressive lesions in the elastic framework and modifications of cells in the media with dedifferentiation into fibromyocytes and also multiply. The changes are responsible for hyperplasia of the intima as well as its thickening and collagenization. They support observations made in man during aortic aging. (2) A metabolic factor with hyperlipidic diet. This diet given at various times during intoxication causes lip deposition in the intima and substantial penetration into the media when the lesions are developing.

Aminopropionitrile↗
PubMed1977

[Chronic lathyrism. Protective effect of pyridinol carbamate on connective tissue lesions in the rat (author's transl)].

The use of lathyric toxins (BAPN) in low dosage (1 g/kg/day) for a period of 8 weeks caused in the rat simultaneous changes in the skin and aortic connective tissues. In the skin. collagen tissue was dislocated and broken in fragments, the elastic tissue disappeared, the fibroblasts were vacuolized and presented evidence of injury. These lesions were comparable to those observed in human skin during ageing. The addition of pyridinol carbamate (PDC) to BAPN prevents the formation of lesions of the elastic tissue and of fibroblasts. When given after the cessation of the lathyrogen treatment PDC arrested the formation of the lesions and accelerated their regression.

Aminopropionitrile↗
PubMed1976

[Cutaneous cholesterol and phospholipids in atherosclerosis].

Previously, a lesion parallelism between skin and vascular wall was established when aging. Besides, we have pointed out a significant increase of cutaneous sterols rate along with aortic atheromatous stage. This study brings forward a new fact: increase (not significant because wanting much more examples) of cutaneous squalene rate varying with atheroma intensity, but reversely stability of total phospholipids with their various fractions.

Arteriosclerosis↗
PubMed1976

[Incorporation of 32P-orthophosphate in aortic phospholipids in chronic lathyrims in the rat].

Study of 32P orthophosphate incorporation into rat aortic phospholipids after B.A.P.N. treatment, which was followed or not by a lipid-supplemented diet (4.5 p. 100 cholesterol and 37 p. 100 butter). The 32P orthophosphate turnover in the total phospholipid was twice as slow among B.A.P.N.-treated rat than among control-rat. Such a decrease of the 32P orthophosphate turnover could be found as well in phosphatidylethanolamines, phosphatidylcholines and lysophosphatidylcholines. Sphingomyelins showed a very weak metabolic activity among two groups of rats. 32P orthophosphate incorporation into inositolphosphatides was slowed down by B.A.P.N. treatment. Maximal specific activity of inositolphosphatides after injection of 32P orthophosphate was reached within 4 hours in control rats, and 8 hours in B.A.P.N.-treated rats. Three months after the end of B.A.P.N. treatment, no difference in specific activity could be found between control-rats and B.A.P.N.-treated rats. Lipid supplemented diet modified the metabolic activity of phospholipids equally in control rats and B.A.P.N.-treated rats. Specific activity decrease in total phospholipids, phosphatidylcholines, phosphatidylethanolamines, and increase in lysophosphatidylcholines were noted in both groups of animals under a high rat diet. These modifications of the metabolic activity of different phospholipids were most marked fourteen hours after 32P orthophosphate injection. B.A.P.N. treatment only slowed the incorporation of 32P phosphate into phospholipids. Administration of a single lipid supplemented diet or a diet associated with B.A.P.N. treatment induced a slower turnover of phosphatidylcholines and phosphatidylethanolamines, and a faster turnover of lysophosphatidylcholines.

Aminopropionitrile↗
PubMed1976

[Structural and biochemical alterations of human diabetic dermis studied by H-lysine incorporation and microscopy].

The alteration of the structural organization of dermal connective tissue was studied by light and electron microscopy and by biochemical techniques in normal human and in diabetic patients using skin biopsies. Part of the tissue was used for light and electron microscopy, the rest was incubated in the presence of 3H-lysine for four hours. The 3H-lysine labelled biopsies were submitted to a sequential extraction procedure in order to obtain representative macromolecular fractions containing the matrix macromolecules. The extracts were analyzed for their chemical composition and radioactivity. Electron microscopy revealed ultrastructural modifications of the fibroblasts, of the collagen and elastic fibers in the diabetic dermis. Fibroblasts contained an increased amount of electron dense deposits in the cytoplasm and dilated endoplasmic reticulum. The collagen bundles were dissociated. Elastic fibers under the epithelial basal laminae were fragmented or absent. The incorporation pattern of 3H-lysine into these macromolecular fractions was different in the normal and diabetic skin biopsies. The percentage of total radioactivity incorporated increased significantly in the 1M CaCl2 extractable fraction an in the 6M urea extractable fraction and decreased significantly in the collagenase and elastase extracts in diabetic skin biopsy. These results demonstrate the existence of morphological and biochemical alterations in diabetic connective tissue (dermis) reflecting alterations in the relative rates of synthesis and/or degradation of the intercellular matrix macromolecules as well as of their microarchitectural arrangement.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1976

[Chronic lathyrism, prolonged hyperlipidic diet, and atheroma in the rat].

Deep, constant, extensive atherosclerosis can be experimentally induced on rats that are atheroresistant. Two main factors are involved in this experimentation; parietal alteration following chronic intoxication with BAPN (9 weeks) and a metabolic factor with hyperlipidic diet, but this metabolic damage should be sustained for a long time (40 weeks).

Aminopropionitrile↗