title: ["Medium weight molecules" as endogenous modulators of stress].
abstract: Blood fractions of medium-weight molecules (MWM) were isolated from healthy dogs and dogs exposed to burn injury stress (24 postburn hours). MWM caused a profound modulation of restriction-induced beta-adrenergic stress manifestations (lipolytic and glycogenolytic responses) in rats. Some MM fractions suppressed thymic hypoplasia, gastric ulceration and mediated bone marrow neutrophilic elimination in immobilized rats. Latency of insulin- induced coma was also mediated by MM. The MM fractions attenuating beta-adrenergic stress manifestations were capable of potentiating bone marrow neutrophilic depletion in immobilized rats. There was a relationship between the ability of MM to reduce thymic hypoplasia and potentiate insulin sensitivity. The findings are discussed from the biological point of view as to the stress-mediating MM properties.
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Volchegorskiĭ
authors.forename: Iu K
authors.initials: IuK
authors.lastname: Kostin
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Skobeleva
authors.forename: V E
authors.initials: VE
authors.lastname: Tseĭlikman
authors.forename: R I
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Lifshits
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000818:Animals; D004285:Dogs; D008970:Molecular Weight; D051381:Rats; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000097:blood*