[Morphofunctional changes in the pineal gland during adaptation to hypothermia].
The influence of hypothermal stress (+4 degrees during 3 h) on the ways of serotonin metabolism in pineal gland and its structure has been studied in dynamics on adult male Wistar rats. It has been revealed that melatonin-producing epiphyseal function suffers from phase changes in dynamics of adaptation--significant rising during 15 min. after beginning of the experiment, rehabilitation up to normal--in 30 min, and fast suppressing--in 3 hrs. Suppressing of the functional pineal activity is not due to switched serotonin metabolism with melatonin and new indoles release, but to a partial pinealocytes breaking from their active function.
Bondarenko
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LA
Gubina-Vakulik
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GI
D008735:5-Methoxytryptamine / Q000378:metabolism; D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000818:Animals; D003080:Cold Temperature; D005470:Fluorometry; D006897:Hydroxyindoleacetic Acid / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D008550:Melatonin / Q000378:metabolism; D010870:Pineal Gland / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D012701:Serotonin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000378:metabolism
D012701:Serotonin; C001736:5-methoxyindoleacetic acid; D008735:5-Methoxytryptamine; D006897:Hydroxyindoleacetic Acid; D008550:Melatonin; C006389:N-acetylserotonin