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DNA synthesis in isolated mitochondria: effect of thyroidectomy and of triiodothyronine administration in vivo. 1976

G Liverini, and G Martino, and A Barletta, and S Di Meo, and T De Leo

The incorporation was studied of labelled deoxy-ribonucleosides triphosphates into acid-insoluble material by isolated liver mitochondria, obtained from either normal young male rats, or thyroidectomized at weaning, or thyroidectomized and then treated with triiodothyronine (T3). The incorporation extents in normal animals decreased with the age starting from the weaning until the 210th day. Thyroidectomy reduced the incorporation extent to about 70% of the values observed in normal animals. During the T3 treatment of thyroidectomized rats a sharp increase of incorporation was observed one day after the first administration, followed by a decrease from the 1st to the 3rd day; successively the incorporation extent remained unchanged until the 12th day. Finally, evidence was provided that T3 doses used were thyreomimetic and definitely lower than the thyreotoxic ones.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007016	Hypophysectomy	Surgical removal or destruction of the hypophysis, or pituitary gland. (Dorland, 28th ed)	Hypophysectomies
D007700	Kinetics	The rate dynamics in chemical or physical systems.
D008099	Liver	A large lobed glandular organ in the abdomen of vertebrates that is responsible for detoxification, metabolism, synthesis and storage of various substances.	Livers
D008297	Male		Males
D008930	Mitochondria, Liver	Mitochondria in hepatocytes. As in all mitochondria, there are an outer membrane and an inner membrane, together creating two separate mitochondrial compartments: the internal matrix space and a much narrower intermembrane space. In the liver mitochondrion, an estimated 67% of the total mitochondrial proteins is located in the matrix. (From Alberts et al., Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2d ed, p343-4)	Liver Mitochondria,Liver Mitochondrion,Mitochondrion, Liver
D004247	DNA	A deoxyribonucleotide polymer that is the primary genetic material of all cells. Eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms normally contain DNA in a double-stranded state, yet several important biological processes transiently involve single-stranded regions. DNA, which consists of a polysugar-phosphate backbone possessing projections of purines (adenine and guanine) and pyrimidines (thymine and cytosine), forms a double helix that is held together by hydrogen bonds between these purines and pyrimidines (adenine to thymine and guanine to cytosine).	DNA, Double-Stranded,Deoxyribonucleic Acid,ds-DNA,DNA, Double Stranded,Double-Stranded DNA,ds DNA
D004261	DNA Replication	The process by which a DNA molecule is duplicated.	Autonomous Replication,Replication, Autonomous,Autonomous Replications,DNA Replications,Replication, DNA,Replications, Autonomous,Replications, DNA
D000375	Aging	The gradual irreversible changes in structure and function of an organism that occur as a result of the passage of time.	Senescence,Aging, Biological,Biological Aging
D000818	Animals	Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA.	Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D013942	Thymine Nucleotides	Phosphate esters of THYMIDINE in N-glycosidic linkage with ribose or deoxyribose, as occurs in nucleic acids. (From Dorland, 28th ed, p1154)	Thymidine Phosphates,Nucleotides, Thymine,Phosphates, Thymidine