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:Neonatal exposure to hyperoxia alters lung development in mice. We tested if retinoic acid (RA) treatment is capable to affect lung development after hyperoxic injury and to maintain structural integrity of lung. The gene of vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A) is one of the RA-responsive genes. Newborn BALB/c mice were exposed to room air, 40% or 80% hyperoxia for 7 days. One half of animals in each group received 500 mg/kg retinoic acid from day 3 to day 7 of the experiment. At the end of experiment we assessed body weight (BW), lung wet weight (LW), the wet-to-dry lung weight ratio (W/D) and the expression of mRNA for VEGF-A and G3PDH genes. On day 7 the hyperoxia-exposed sham-treated mice (group 80) weighed 20% less than the room air-exposed group, whereas the 80% hyperoxic group treated with RA weighed only 13% less than the normoxic group. W/D values in 80 and 80A groups did not differ, although they both differed from the control group and from 40 groups. There was a significant difference between 40 and 40A groups, but the control group was different from 40 group but not from 40A groups. The 80 and 80A groups had mRNA VEGF-A expression lowered to 64% and 41% of the control group. RA treatment of normoxic and mild hyperoxic groups increased mRNA VEGF-A expression by about 50%. We conclude that the retinoic acid treatment of newborn BALB/c mice exposed for 7 days to 80% hyperoxia reduced the growth retardation in the 80 % hyperoxic group, reduced the W/D ratio in the 40% but not in the 80 % hyperoxic group. Higher VEGF-A mRNA expression in the 80% hyperoxic group treated with RA was not significant compared to the 80% hyperoxic group.
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Physiol Resjournal_title
Physiological researchauthors
Zimová-Herknerová M,Myslivecek J,Potmesil Psubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2008-01-01 00:00:00pages
33-40issue
1eissn
0862-8408issn
1802-9973pii
794journal_volume
57pub_type
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