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Inhibition of Synthesis of Lung Proteins by Halothane

SUE A. WARTELL, ROSE CHRISTOPHERSON, CLYDE A. WATKINS and D. EUGENE RANNELS
Molecular Pharmacology May 1981, 19 (3) 520-524;
SUE A. WARTELL
Departments of Physiology and Anesthesia, The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033
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ROSE CHRISTOPHERSON
Departments of Physiology and Anesthesia, The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033
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CLYDE A. WATKINS
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D. EUGENE RANNELS
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The effect of halothane exposure on synthesis of lung proteins was investigated. In rat lungs perfused in situ with Krebs-Henseleit bicarbonate buffer containing plasma levels of 19 amino acids, 690 µM [14C]phenylalanine, 5.6 mM glucose, and 4.5% bovine serum albumin, protein synthesis was linear for at least 4 hr. Halothane (1-4% equilibrated with O2/N2/CO2, 4:15:1) rapidly inhibited protein synthesis in a dose-dependent manner, with about a 10% depression of the rate for each 1% increment in halothane. The inhibition was rapidly and completely reversed when halothane delivery was stopped; it was not associated with depletion of tissue ATP or with nonspecific changes in cellular permeability. A similar reversible and dose-dependent inhibition of protein synthesis was observed in primary cultures of mixed lung cells incubated in Dulbecco’s minimal essential medium containing 10% donor calf serum. These results suggested a significant but reversible inhibition of protein synthesis, exerted at the cellular level, in lungs exposed to halothane.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors thank Ms. Patricia A. Gering for typing the manuscript.

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