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E A Likholat1, T V Anan'eva, S V Antoniuk
1Ukrainian State Research Institute of Medical and Social Problems of Physical Disability, Dnipropetrovsk.
Abstract:
Changes in proteinase--antiproteinase activities in lungs as a result of short-term (for 1 week) inhalation of rats with 0.01% (CH3COO)2 Pb have wholly compensative patterns, but it have been found increased cathepsine B activity as a negative prognostic factor. Chronic (for 2 month) toxicant inhalation caused considerable activation of both trypsine and cathepsine B under decreasing alpha 1-antitrypsine and alpha 2-macroglobuline activities. Cathepsine L activity was not affected. Disorders in the proteolysis system were evaluated as desadaptation situation in lung tissue under chronic toxic influence.
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