3-METHYLINDOLE-INDUCED PULMONARY INJURY IN GOATS
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 87 (3), 647-666
Abstract
Ruminal administration of 3-methylindole [tryptophan metabolite] in goats causes severe pulmonary edema and respiratory distress. EM studies of lungs reveal extensive degeneration and necrosis of alveolar membranous pneumocytes and bronchiolar epithelium. The necrosis of the pneumocytes is followed by proliferation of granular pneumocytes, which repopulate the alveolar basal lamina scaffold. 3-Methylindole may also induce proliferation of smooth endoplasmic reticulum in the remaining membranous pneumocytes and nonciliated columnar cells, indicating that these 2 cell types are involved in the xenobiotic function of the lung. The results suggest that 3-methylindole in cigarette smoke may play an important role in the pathogenesis of small airway disease and emphysema, and that patients with severe liver diseases or portocaval shunt may be predisposed to diffuse alveolar damage by 3-methylindole produced in the intestinal tract [by intestinal flora].This publication has 48 references indexed in Scilit:
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