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Compensatory parathyroid hypertrophy after hemiparathyroidectomy in rats feeding a low calcium diet

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The functional and anatomic compensatory response of the parathyroid gland was examined in hemiparathyroidectomized (HPTx) rats whose parathyroid hormone (PTH) secretion was stimulated by a low calcium diet. These responses were compared with those observed in the thyroid gland of hemithyroidectomized (HTx) rats. Rats kept on a low calcium diet for 10 days were subjected to HPTx, HTx, or sham operations. Throughout the experiment (up to 28 days after surgery), serum calcium levels of HPTx rats were lower than the basal, with Δ values (mg/dl, mean±SEM) of −0.66±0.17 and −0.84±0.17, (P<0.05) 3 and 28 days after surgery, respectively. Serum PTH decreased significantly from 7 to 21 days after HPTx, reaching normality at day 28 after surgery. In HTx rats, serum thyroxine (T4) levels diminished significantly 7 days after surgery, and attained normality thereafter. The mitotic index (number of metaphases/1,000 cells) in parathyroid glands of colchicine-treated HPTx rats increased significantly in comparison to sham-operated controls, when examined 2 or 40 days after surgery. The mitotic index of thyroid follicular cells was significantly higher than that of their respective controls, 2 but not 40 days after HTx. These results indicate that after HPTx, a delayed compensatory response is found when the animals are kept under a low calcium diet. Parathyroid response is both delayed and of a minor degree compared to that found in the thyroid gland after HTx.

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  1. Laboratorio de Osteopatías Médicas, Hospital de Clínicas, Argentina

    Marta Ladizesky, Susana Zeni & Carlos A. Mautalen

  2. Departamento de Fisiologia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

    María C. Diáz, Horacio E. Romeo & Daniel P. Cardinali

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Ladizesky, M., Diáz, M.C., Zeni, S. et al. Compensatory parathyroid hypertrophy after hemiparathyroidectomy in rats feeding a low calcium diet. Calcif Tissue Int 48, 63–67 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02555797

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